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.

Aad, G., Abbott, B., Abbott, D. ., Abed Abud, A., Abeling, K., Abhayasinghe, D. ., et al. (2022). Observation of WWW Production in pp Collisions at s =13 TeV with the ATLAS Detector. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS, 129(6) [10.1103/PhysRevLett.129.061803].

Observation of WWW Production in pp Collisions at s =13 TeV with the ATLAS Detector

I. Bashta;Camerlingo M. T.;V. D'Amico;B. Di Micco;R. Di Nardo;D. Orestano;G. Salamanna;M. Sessa;
2022-01-01

Abstract

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
Aad, G., Abbott, B., Abbott, D. ., Abed Abud, A., Abeling, K., Abhayasinghe, D. ., et al. (2022). Observation of WWW Production in pp Collisions at s =13 TeV with the ATLAS Detector. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS, 129(6) [10.1103/PhysRevLett.129.061803].
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