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Measurement of the polarisation of $W$ bosons produced with large transverse momentum in $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}=7$ TeV with the ATLAS experiment
| dc.contributor.author | ATLAS collaboration (3034 authors) | |
| dc.contributor.author | Aguilar-Saavedra, Juan Antonio | |
| dc.contributor.author | Amaral, Pedro | |
| dc.contributor.author | Anjos, Nuno | |
| dc.contributor.author | Carvalho, João | |
| dc.contributor.author | Castro, Nuno Filipe | |
| dc.contributor.author | Conde Muiño, Patricia | |
| dc.contributor.author | Do Valle Wemans, André | |
| dc.contributor.author | Fiolhais, Miguel | |
| dc.contributor.author | Gomes, Agostinho | |
| dc.contributor.author | Gonçalo, Ricardo | |
| dc.contributor.author | Jorge, Pedro | |
| dc.contributor.author | Lopes, Lourenco | |
| dc.contributor.author | Machado Miguens, Joana | |
| dc.contributor.author | Maio, Amélia | |
| dc.contributor.author | Maneira, José | |
| dc.contributor.author | Oliveira, Miguel Alfonso | |
| dc.contributor.author | Onofre, António | |
| dc.contributor.author | Palma, Alberto | |
| dc.contributor.author | Pina, João Antonio | |
| dc.contributor.author | Pinto, Belmiro | |
| dc.contributor.author | Santos, Helena | |
| dc.contributor.author | Saraiva, João | |
| dc.contributor.author | Silva, José | |
| dc.contributor.author | Soares, Mara | |
| dc.contributor.author | Veloso, Filipe | |
| dc.contributor.author | Wolters, Helmut | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2019-02-03T19:13:25Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2019-02-03T19:13:25Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2012-05-08 | |
| dc.date.updated | 2019-02-03T19:13:25Z | |
| dc.description.abstract | This paper describes an analysis of the angular distribution of W->enu and W->munu decays, using data from pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV recorded with the ATLAS detector at the LHC in 2010, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of about 35 pb^-1. Using the decay lepton transverse momentum and the missing transverse energy, the W decay angular distribution projected onto the transverse plane is obtained and analysed in terms of helicity fractions f0, fL and fR over two ranges of W transverse momentum (ptw): 35 < ptw < 50 GeV and ptw > 50 GeV. Good agreement is found with theoretical predictions. For ptw > 50 GeV, the values of f0 and fL-fR, averaged over charge and lepton flavour, are measured to be : f0 = 0.127 +/- 0.030 +/- 0.108 and fL-fR = 0.252 +/- 0.017 +/- 0.030, where the first uncertainties are statistical, and the second include all systematic effects. | |
| dc.description.version | Peer Reviewed | |
| dc.identifier | Eur.Phys.J. C72 (2012) 2001; DOI 10.1140/epjc/s10052-012-2001-6 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://dx.doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-012-2001-6 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10400.26/26122 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | |
| dc.title | Measurement of the polarisation of $W$ bosons produced with large transverse momentum in $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}=7$ TeV with the ATLAS experiment | |
| dc.type | journal article | |
| dspace.entity.type | Publication | |
| rcaap.rights | openAccess | pt |
| rcaap.type | article |