Measurement of the fiducial cross section for $W^+ W^-$ production in proton proton collisions at a centre-of mass energy of 7 TeV, is presented, using data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 4.6/fb collected by the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider. The cross section is measured in the leptonic decay channels, using electron+MET and muon+MET $W$ decays. $W \to \tau$ processes with the tau decaying into electron + MET or muon + MET are also included in the measurement. The fiducial region contains dressed leptons in restricted $p_T$ and $\eta$ ranges. The selection has specific requirements for each production channel. A measurement of the normalized fiducial cross section as a function of the leading lepton transverse momentum is also presented.
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