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Sten Åstrand

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Measurements and interpretations of W±Z production cross-sections in pp collisions at √s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector

Author

  • G. Aad
  • T.P.A. Åkesson
  • K.S.V. Astrand
  • L. Calic
  • C. Doglioni
  • P.A. Ekman
  • V. Hedberg
  • H. Herde
  • B. Konya
  • E. Lytken
  • R. Poettgen
  • O. Smirnova
  • N. Sur
  • E.J. Wallin
  • L. Zwalinski
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Summary, in English

Measurements of integrated and differential cross-sections for W±Z production in proton-proton collisions are presented. The data collected by the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider from 2015 to 2018 at a centre-of-mass energy of s=13 TeV are used, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 140 fb−1. The W±Z candidate events are reconstructed using leptonic decay modes of the gauge bosons into electrons or muons. The integrated cross-section per lepton flavour for the production of W±Z is measured in the detector fiducial region with a relative precision of 4%. The measured value is compared with the Standard Model prediction at a precision of up to next-to-next-to-leading-order in QCD and next-to-leading-order in electroweak. Cross-sections for W+Z and W−Z production and their ratio are presented. The W±Z production is also measured differentially as functions of various kinematic variables, including new observables sensitive to CP-violation effects. All measurements are compared with state-of-the-art Standard Model predictions from fixed-order calculations or Monte Carlo generators based on next-to-leading-order matrix elements interfaced with parton showers. An effective field theory interpretation of the measurements is performed, considering both CP-conserving and CP-violating dimension-6 operators modifying the W±Z production. In the absence of observed deviations from the Standard Model, limits on CP-conserving Wilson coefficients are extracted using the transverse mass of the W±Z system. For CP-violating coefficients a machine learning approach is used to construct an observable with enhanced sensitivity to CP-violation effects. © The Author(s) 2025.

Department/s

  • Particle and nuclear physics
  • eSSENCE: The e-Science Collaboration
  • Department of Physics

Publishing year

2025

Language

English

Publication/Series

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volume

2025

Issue

11

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Springer

Topic

  • Subatomic Physics

Keywords

  • Hadron-Hadron Scattering
  • Vector Boson Production

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1029-8479