Measurement of the W -boson angular coefficients and transverse momentum in pp collisions at √s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector

ATLAS Collaboration; S. Alderweireldt; J.F. Allen; P. J.  Clark; J.R. Curran; D. Duda; S. M. Farrington; Y. Gao; R.Y. González Andana; C. Jiang; C. Leonidopoulos; V. J.  Martin; L. Mijović; M.F. Mohd Soberi; S.R. Paredes Saenz; T. Qiu; J.M. Silva; A.L. Sopio; F. Ustuner; A.G. Veltman; H. Watson; B.M. Wynne; Z. Xu

doi:10.1140/epjc/s10052-025-15264-w

Measurement of the W -boson angular coefficients and transverse momentum in pp collisions at √s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector

ATLAS Collaboration
, S. Alderweireldt
, J.F. Allen
, P. J. Clark
, J.R. Curran
, D. Duda
, S. M. Farrington
, Y. Gao
, R.Y. González Andana
, C. Jiang
, C. Leonidopoulos
, V. J. Martin
, L. Mijović
, M.F. Mohd Soberi
, S.R. Paredes Saenz
, T. Qiu
, J.M. Silva
, A.L. Sopio
, F. Ustuner
, A.G. Veltman

H. Watson, B.M. Wynne, Z. Xu

School of Physics and Astronomy

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Abstract

The angular distributions of Drell–Yan lepton pairs provide sensitive probes of the underlying dynamics of quantum chromodynamics (QCD) effects in vector-boson
production. This paper presents for the first time the measurement of the full set of angular coefficients together with the differential cross-section as a function of the transverse momentum of the W boson, in the full phase space of the decay leptons. The measurements are performed separately for the W − and W + channels. The analysis uses proton–proton collision data recorded by the ATLAS experiment at
the Large Hadron Collider in 2017 and 2018, during special low-luminosity runs with a reduced number of interactions per bunch crossings (pile-up). The data correspond
to an integrated luminosity of 338 pb−1 at a centre-of-mass energy of √s = 13 TeV. The low pile-up environment provides excellent experimental conditions for high-precision
measurements of W -boson production. All results agree with theoretical predictions incorporating finite-order QCD corrections up to order α2S .

Original language	English
Article number	483
Pages (from-to)	1-41
Number of pages	41
Journal	The European Physical Journal C
Volume	86
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-025-15264-w
Publication status	Published - 6 May 2026

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ATLAS Collaboration, Alderweireldt, S., Allen, J. F., Clark, P. J., Curran, J. R., Duda, D., Farrington, S. M., Gao, Y., González Andana, R. Y., Jiang, C., Leonidopoulos, C., Martin, V. J., Mijović, L., Mohd Soberi, M. F., Paredes Saenz, S. R., Qiu, T., Silva, J. M., Sopio, A. L., Ustuner, F., ... Xu, Z. (2026). Measurement of the W -boson angular coefficients and transverse momentum in pp collisions at √s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector. The European Physical Journal C, 86(5), 1-41. Article 483. https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-025-15264-w

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Measurement of the W -boson angular coefficients and transverse momentum in pp collisions at √s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector

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