Artículo
Observation of WWW Production in pp Collisions at s =13 TeV with the ATLAS Detector
Fecha
2022-08-05Registro en:
Physical Review Letters, Volume 129, Issue 6, 5 August 2022, Article number 061803
0031-9007
10.1103/PhysRevLett.129.061803
Autor
Aad, G.
Abbott, B.
Abbott, D.C.
Abed Abud, A.
Abeling, K.
Abhayasinghe, D.K.
Abidi, S.H.
Abramowicz, H.
Abreu, H.
Abulaiti, Y.
Abusleme Hoffman, A.C.
Acharya, B.S.
Achkar, B.
Adam, L.
Adam Bourdarios, C.
Adamczyk, L.
Adamek, L.
Addepalli, S.V.
Adelman, J.
Institución
Resumen
This Letter reports the observation of WWW production and a measurement of its cross section using 139 fb-1 of proton-proton collision data recorded at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV by the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. Events with two same-sign leptons (electrons or muons) and at least two jets, as well as events with three charged leptons, are selected. A multivariate technique is then used to discriminate between signal and background events. Events from WWW production are observed with a significance of 8.0 standard deviations, where the expectation is 5.4 standard deviations. The inclusive WWW production cross section is measured to be 820±100 (stat)±80 (syst) fb, approximately 2.6 standard deviations from the predicted cross section of 511±18 fb calculated at next-to-leading-order QCD and leading-order electroweak accuracy. © 2022 CERN.