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Because of inevitable blind spots at high rapidity and low transverse
momentum, the process (q) over bar q --> l(+)l(-) l(+)nu provides a su
rprisingly large background to the W+W+ --> l(+) nu l(+) nu signal ass
ociated with strong WW scattering. Previous calculations of the total
background are approximately doubled, and the estimate of the ''no-los
e'' luminosity at the LHC to observe manifestations of the electroweak
symmetry breaking mechanism is increased to between similar to 100 an
d similar to 140 fb(-1).