@misc{10481/69267,
year = {2021},
month = {3},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10481/69267},
abstract = {This letter reports the observation of photon-induced production of W-boson pairs, gamma gamma -> WW. The analysis uses 139 fb(-1) of LHC proton-proton collision data taken at root s = 13 TeV recorded by the ATLAS experiment during the years 2015-2018. The measurement is performed selecting one electron and one muon, corresponding to the decay of the diboson system as WW -> e(+/-)nu mu(-/+)nu final state. The background-only hypothesis is rejected with a significance of well above 5 standard deviations consistent with the expectation from Monte Carlo simulation. A cross section for the gamma gamma -> WW process of 3.13 +/- 0.31(stat.) +/- 0.28(syst.) fb is measured in a fiducial volume close to the acceptance of the detector, by requiring an electron and a muon of opposite signs with large dilepton transverse momentum and exactly zero additional charged particles. This is found to be in agreement with the Standard Model prediction.},
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organization = {YerPhI, Armenia},
organization = {Australian Research Council},
organization = {BMWFW , Austria},
organization = {Austrian Science Fund (FWF)},
organization = {Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences (ANAS)},
organization = {SSTC, Belarus},
organization = {Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cientifico e Tecnologico (CNPQ)},
organization = {Fundacao de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado de Sao Paulo (FAPESP)},
organization = {Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)},
organization = {NRC, Canada},
organization = {Canada Foundation for Innovation},
organization = {CERN},
organization = {ANID, Chile},
organization = {Chinese Academy of Sciences},
organization = {Ministry of Science and Technology, China},
organization = {National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC)},
organization = {Departamento Administrativo de Ciencia, Tecnologia e Innovacion Colciencias},
organization = {Ministry of Education, Youth & Sports - Czech Republic

Czech Republic Government

 
Czech Republic Government

 
Czech Republic Government},
organization = {DNRF, Denmark},
organization = {Danish Natural Science Research Council},
organization = {Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)},
organization = {CEA-DRF/IRFU, France},
organization = {SRNSFG, Georgia},
organization = {Federal Ministry of Education & Research (BMBF)},
organization = {HGF, Germany},
organization = {Max Planck Society},
organization = {Greek Ministry of Development-GSRT},
organization = {RGC, China},
organization = {Hong Kong SAR, China},
organization = {Israel Science Foundation},
organization = {Benoziyo Center, Israel},
organization = {Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN)},
organization = {Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan (MEXT)

 
Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan (MEXT)},
organization = {Japan Society for the Promotion of Science},
organization = {CNRST, Morocco},
organization = {Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO)},
organization = {Netherlands Government},
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organization = {Ministry of Science and Higher Education, Poland},
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European Commission},
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organization = {NRC KI, Russia Federation},
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organization = {MESTD, Serbia},
organization = {MSSR, Slovakia},
organization = {Slovenian Research Agency - Slovenia},
organization = {MIZS, Slovenia},
organization = {DST/NRF, South Africa},
organization = {Spanish Government},
organization = {SRC, Sweden},
organization = {Wallenberg Foundation, Sweden},
organization = {SERI, Switzerland},
organization = {Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)},
organization = {Canton of Bern, Switzerland},
organization = {Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan},
organization = {Ministry of Energy & Natural Resources - Turkey},
organization = {UK Research & Innovation (UKRI)},
organization = {Science & Technology Facilities Council (STFC)},
organization = {United States Department of Energy (DOE)},
organization = {National Science Foundation (NSF)},
organization = {BCKDF, Canada},
organization = {CANARIE, Canada},
organization = {CRC, Canada},
organization = {European Research Council (ERC)},
organization = {ERDF, European Union},
organization = {Horizon 2020, European Union},
organization = {Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions, European Union},
organization = {COST, European Union},
organization = {French National Research Agency (ANR)},
organization = {French National Research Agency (ANR)},
organization = {German Research Foundation (DFG)},
organization = {Alexander von Humboldt Foundation},
organization = {Herakleitos programme},
organization = {Aristeia programme},
organization = {European Commission},
organization = {Greek NSRF, Greece},
organization = {BSF-NSF, Israel},
organization = {German-Israeli Foundation for Scientific Research and Development},
organization = {La Caixa Banking Foundation, Spain},
organization = {CERCA Programme Generalitat de Catalunya, Spain},
organization = {GenT Programme Generalitat Valenciana, Spain},
organization = {Goran Gustafssons Stiftelse, Sweden},
organization = {Royal Society of London},
organization = {Leverhulme Trust},
organization = {Canton of Geneva, Switzerland},
organization = {Compute Canada, Canada},
organization = {Thales programme},
organization = {PROMETEO Programme Generalitat Valenciana, Spain},
publisher = {Elsevier},
title = {Observation of photon-induced W+W−production in pp collisions at √s=13TeV using the ATLAS detector},
doi = {10.1016/j.physletb.2021.136190},
author = {Aad, G. and Aguilar Saavedra, Juan Antonio and Atlas Collaboration},
}