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A measurement of the W W boson pair production cross section in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 13 TeV is presented. The data used in this study were collected with the CMS detector at the LHC and correspond to an integrated luminosity of 35.9 fb$^{−1}$. The W$^+$ W$^−$ candidate events are selected by first requiring two oppositely-charged leptons (electrons or muons). Two methods for reducing background contributions are employed. In the first one, a sequence of requirements on kinematic quantities is applied allowing a measurement of the total cross section: 117.6 ± 6.8 pb which agrees well with the theoretical cross section. Fiducial cross sections are also reported for events with zero jets or one jet, and the change in the zero-jet fiducial cross sec- tion with the jet $p_T$ threshold is measured. Normalized differential cross sections are reported within the fiducial region; these are compared to theoretical predictions based on quantum chromodynamics at next-to-next-to-leading-order accuracy. A second method for suppressing background contributions employs two random forest classifiers. The analysis based on this method includes a measurement of the total cross section and also a measurement of the normalized jet multiplicity distribution in $W$^+ W$^−$ events. Finally, a dilepton invariant mass distribution is used to probe for physics beyond the standard model in the context of an effective field theory and limits on the presence of dimension-6 operators are derived.

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Summary of cross sections obtained in the sequential cut analysis. The uncertainty listed is the total uncertainty obtained from the...
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Measured fraction of events after unfolding for $N_J = 0, 1, \geq 2$ jets. The first uncertainty is statistical and...
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Expected and observed 68% and 95% confidence intervals on the measurement of the Wilson coefficients associated with the three CP-preserving,...
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Measured normalized differential cross sections with respect to the dilepton invariant mass.
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Measured normalized differential cross sections with respect to the leading lepton $p_T$.
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Measured normalized differential cross sections with respect to the trailing lepton $p_T$.
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Measured normalized differential cross sections with respect to the dilepton azimuthal angular separation.
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Fiducial cross section for the production of $W^+W^−$ +0-jets as the $p_T$ threshold for jets is varied. The fiducial region...

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