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Measurement of the W +W - cross section in pp collisions at √s= 8 TeVand limits on anomalous gauge couplings

par Khachatryan, Vardan;Barria, Patrizia ;Brun, Hugues ;Caillol, Cécile ;Clerbaux, Barbara ;De Lentdecker, Gilles ;Fasanella, Giuseppe ;Favart, Laurent ;Grebenyuk, Anastasia ;Karapostoli, Georgia ;Lenzi, Thomas ;Leonard, Alexandre ;Maerschalk, Thierry ;Marinov, Audrey ;Pernie, Luca ;Randle-Conde, Aidan Sean ;Reis, Thomas ;Seva, Tomislav ;Vander Velde, Catherine ;Vanlaer, Pascal ;Yonamine, Ryo ;Zenoni, Florian ;Zhang, Fengwangdong ; [et al.]
Référence European Physical Journal C. Particles and Fields, 76, 7, 401
Publication Publié, 2016-07

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A measurement of the W boson pair production cross section in proton-proton collisions at √s = 8 TeV is presented. The data collected with the CMS detector at the LHC correspond to an integrated luminosity of 19.4fb-1. The W +W - candidates are selected from events with two charged leptons, electrons or muons, and large missing transverse energy. The measured W +W - cross section is 60.1 ± 0.9 (stat) ± 3.2 (exp) ± 3.1 (theo) ± 1.6 (lumi) pb = 60.1±4.8 pb, consistent with the standard model prediction. The W +W - cross sections are also measured in two different fiducial phase space regions. The normalized differential cross section is measured as a function of kinematic variables of the final-state charged leptons and compared with several perturbative QCD predictions. Limits on anomalous gauge couplings associated with dimension-six operators are also given in the framework of an effective field theory. The corresponding 95 % confidence level intervals are -5.7