ATLAS collaboration (3034 authors)Aguilar-Saavedra, Juan AntonioAmaral, PedroAnjos, NunoCarvalho, JoãoCastro, Nuno FilipeConde Muiño, PatriciaDo Valle Wemans, AndréFiolhais, MiguelGomes, AgostinhoGonçalo, RicardoJorge, PedroLopes, LourencoMachado Miguens, JoanaMaio, AméliaManeira, JoséOliveira, Miguel AlfonsoOnofre, AntónioPalma, AlbertoPina, João AntonioPinto, BelmiroSantos, HelenaSaraiva, JoãoSilva, JoséSoares, MaraVeloso, FilipeWolters, Helmut2019-02-032019-02-032012-05-08http://dx.doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-012-2001-6http://hdl.handle.net/10400.26/26122This 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.engjournal article2019-02-03