Evidence for Electroweak Production of <i>W</i><SUP>±</SUP><i>W</i><SUP>±</SUP><i>jj</i> in <i>pp</i> Collisions at √s=8 TeV with the ATLAS Detector


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Aad G., Abbott B., Abdallah J., Abdel Khalek S., Abdinov O., Aben R., ...More

PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS, no.14, 2014 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier identifier identifier

Abstract

This Letter presents the first study of W(+/-)W(+/-)jj, same-electric-charge diboson production in association with two jets, using 20.3 fb(-1) of proton-proton collision data at root s = 8 TeV recorded by the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. Events with two reconstructed same-charge leptons (e(+/-)e(+/-), e(+/-)mu(+/-), and mu(+/-)mu(+/-)) and two or more jets are analyzed. Production cross sections are measured in two fiducial regions, with different sensitivities to the electroweak and strong production mechanisms. First evidence for W(+/-)W(+/-)jj production and electroweak-only W(+/-)W(+/-)jj production is observed with a significance of 4.5 and 3.6 standard deviations, respectively. The measured production cross sections are in agreement with standard model predictions. Limits at 95% confidence level are set on anomalous quartic gauge couplings.