Measurement of hard double-parton interactions in W(->lv) plus 2-jet events at root s=7 TeV with the ATLAS detector

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Authors: G. Aad, T. Abajyan, B. Abbott, J. Abdallah, S. Abdel Khalek, A. A. Abdelalim, O. Abdinov, R. Aben, B. Abi, M. Abolins, O. S. AbouZeid, H. Abramowicz, H. Abreu, M. I. Ochoa, B. S. Acharya, L. Adamczyk, D. L. Adams, T. N. Addy, J. Adelman, S. Adomeit, P. Adragna, T. Adye, S. Aefsky, J. A. Aguilar-Saavedra, M. Agustoni, S. P. Ahlen, F. Ahles, A. Ahmad, M. Ahsan, G. Aielli, T. P. A. Akesson, G. Akimoto, A. V. Akimov, M. A. Alam, J. Albert, S. Albrand, M. Aleksa, I. N. Aleksandrov, F. Alessandria, C. Alexa, G. Alexander, G. Alexandre, T. Alexopoulos, M. Alhroob, M. Aliev, G. Alimonti, J. Alison, B. M. M. Allbrooke, L. J. Allison, P. P. Allport, S. E. Allwood-Spiers, J. Almond, A. Aloisio, R. Alon, A. Alonso, F. Alonso, A. Altheimer, B. Alvarez Gonzalez, M. G. Alviggi, K. Amako, C. Amelung, V. V. Ammosov, S. P. Amor Dos Santos, A. Amorim, S. Amoroso, N. Amram, C. Anastopoulos, L. S. Ancu, N. Andari, T. Andeen, C. F. Anders, G. Anders, K. J. Anderson, A. Andreazza, V. Andrei, X. S. Anduaga, S. Angelidakis, P. Anger, A. Angerami, F. Anghinolfi, A. Anisenkov, N. Anjos, A. Annovi, A. Antonaki, M. Antonelli, A. Antonov, J. Antos, F. Anulli, M. Aoki, S. Aoun, L. Aperio Bella, R. Apolle, G. Arabidze, I. Aracena, Y. Arai, A. T. H. Arce, S. Arfaoui, J-F Arguin, S. Argyropoulos, E. Arik, K. Augsten, M. Aurousseau, A. Bangert, D. Benchekroun, A. Bogouch, W. K. Brooks, T. Buanes, L. P. Caloba, L. Chikovani, M. L. Chu, Rena ÇİFTÇİ, V. Cindro, B. Epp, H. Hakobyan, M. Losada

NEW JOURNAL OF PHYSICS, Journal Indexed in SCI Expanded, International, 2013, vol 15

DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/15/3/033038

Summary

The production of W bosons in association with two jets in proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of root s = 7 TeV has been analysed for the presence of double-parton interactions using data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 36 pb(-1), collected with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. The fraction of events arising from double-parton interactions, f(DP)((D)), has been measured through the p(T) balance between the two jets and amounts to f(DP)((D)) = 0.08 +/- 0.01 (stat.) +/- 0.02 (sys.) for jets with transverse momentum p(T) > 20 GeV and rapidity vertical bar y vertical bar < 2.8. This corresponds to a measurement of the effective area parameter for hard double-parton interactions of sigma(eff) = 15 +/- 3 (stat.)(-3)(+5) (sys.) mb.

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