Khachatryan, V.Sirunyan, A.M.Tumasyan, A.Adam, W.Asilar, E.Bergauer, T.Brandstetter, J.2024-07-182024-07-1820161029-8479https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP11(2016)147https://hdl.handle.net/11411/6274A measurement is presented of the cross section for the electroweak production of a W boson in association with two jets in proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 8 TeV. The data set was collected with the CMS detector and corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 19.3 fb?1. The measured fiducial cross section for W bosons decaying to electrons or muons and for pT j1> 60 GeV, pT j2> 50 GeV, |?j| < 4.7, and mjj> 1000 GeV is 0.42 ± 0.04 (stat) ± 0.09 (syst) ± 0.01 (lumi) pb. This result is consistent with the standard model leading-order prediction of 0.50 ± 0.02 (scale) ± 0.02 (PDF) pb obtained with MadGraph5_amc@nlo 2.1 interfaced to pythia 6.4. This is the first cross section measurement for this process. © 2016, The Author(s).eninfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessElectroweak İnteractionHadron-Hadron Scattering (Experiments)Article2-s2.0-8500225131810.1007/JHEP11(2016)14711Q22016