Observation of $WWW$ production in $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 13 TeV with 
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Observation of $WWW$ production in $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector

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The ATLAS Collaboration (2022). Observation of $WWW$ production in $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector. Physical Review Letters, 129, 061803. Retrieved from https://publications.mppmu.mpg.de/?action=search&mpi=MPP-2022-14.

Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-000C-B52D-6

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This Letter reports the observation of $WWW$ production and a measurement of its cross section using 139 $\text{fb}^{-1}$ 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 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 $820 \pm 100 \text{(stat.)} \pm 80 \text{(syst.)}$ fb, approximately 2.6 standard deviations from the predicted cross section of $511 \pm 18$ fb calculated at next-to-leading-order QCD and leading-order electroweak accuracy.