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Measurements of differential cross-sections of W boson production in association with jets, and jets containing b hadrons are presented. The measurements are based on 35 pb − 1 of pp collisions at \(\sqrt{s}=7\) TeV collected with the ATLAS detector at the LHC, using the electron and muon decay channels of the W boson. The data are found to be compatible with next-to-leading order predictions. In addition, a study of the invariant mass distribution of jet pairs produced in association with a W boson is presented, based on an integrated luminosity of 1.02 \({\mbox{fb$^{-1}$}}\). The measured dijet mass shows no significant excess over the Standard Model expectation.
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ZEVI DELLA PORTA, G., on behalf of the ATLAS Collaboration. W+jets in pp collisions at 7 TeV with ATLAS. Pramana - J Phys 79, 907–910 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12043-012-0398-y
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