Measurement of vector boson production cross sections and their ratios using pp collisions at s=13.6 TeV with the ATLAS detector

Fiducial and total W^± and Z boson cross sections, their ratios and the ratio of top-antitop-quark pair and W-boson fiducial cross sections are measured in proton–proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of s=13.6 TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 29 fb⁻¹ of data collected in 2022 by the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider. The measured fiducial cross-section values for W⁺→ℓ⁺ν, W⁻→ℓ⁻ν¯, and Z→ℓ⁺ℓ⁻ (ℓ=e or μ) boson productions are 4250±150 pb, 3310±120 pb, and 744±20 pb, respectively, where the uncertainty is the total uncertainty, including that arising from the luminosity of about 2.2%. The measurements are in agreement with Standard-Model predictions calculated at next-to-next-to-leading-order in α_s, next-to-next-to-leading logarithmic accuracy and next-to-leading-order electroweak accuracy.