Measurement of the $Z(\to {\ell }^{+}{\ell }^{-})\gamma$ production cross-section in $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}=13$ TeV with the ATLAS detector

Abstract

The production of a prompt photon in association with a $Z$ boson is studied in proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy $\sqrt{s}=$ 13 TeV. The analysis uses a data sample with an integrated luminosity of 139 fb${}^{-1}$ collected by the ATLAS detector at the LHC from 2015 to 2018. The production cross-section for the process $pp\to {\ell }^{+}{\ell }^{-}\gamma +X$ ($\ell =e,\mu$) is measured within a fiducial phase-space region defined by kinematic requirements on the photon and the leptons, and by isolation requirements on the photon. An experimental precision of 2.9% is achieved for the fiducial cross-section. Differential cross-sections are measured as a function of each of six kinematic variables characterising the ${\ell }^{+}{\ell }^{-}\gamma$ system. The data are compared with theoretical predictions based on next-to-leading-order and next-to-next-to-leading-order perturbative QCD calculations. The impact of next-to-leading-order electroweak corrections is also considered.

arXiv comment51 pages in total, author list starting page 35, 7 figures, 6 tables, published in JHEP. All figures including auxiliary figures are available at https://atlas.web.cern.ch/Atlas/GROUPS/PHYSICS/PAPERS/STDM-2018-04/

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