Measurements of $W$ and $Z$ boson production in $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}=5.02$ TeV with the ATLAS detector

Abstract

Measurements of fiducial integrated and differential cross sections for inclusive $W^{+}$, $W^{-}$ and $Z$ boson production are reported. They are based on $25.0\pm 0.5$ pb${}^{-1}$ of $pp$ collision data at $\sqrt{s}=5.02$ TeV collected with the ATLAS detector at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. Electron and muon decay channels are analysed, and the combined $W^{+}$, $W^{-}$ and $Z$ integrated cross sections are found to be ${\sigma }_{W^{+}}$ = 2266 $\pm$ 9 (stat) $\pm$ 29 (syst) $\pm$ 43 (lumi) pb, ${\sigma }_{W^{-}}$ = 1401 $\pm$ 7 (stat) $\pm$ 18 (syst) $\pm$ 27 (lumi) pb, and ${\sigma }_Z$ = 374.5 $\pm$ 3.4 (stat) $\pm$ 3.6 (syst) $\pm$ 7.0 (lumi) pb, in good agreement with next-to-next-to-leading-order QCD cross-section calculations. These measurements serve as references for Pb+Pb interactions at the LHC at this nucleon--nucleon centre-of-mass energy.

44 pages in total, author list starting page 28, 13 figures, 10 tables, submitted to EPJC. All figures including auxiliary figures are available at https://atlas.web.cern.ch/Atlas/GROUPS/PHYSICS/PAPERS/HION-2018-02

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