Measurement of the Z and W production cross section in pp collisions at LHC using a bayesian approach

The aim of all my work has been to compute the fiducial production cross sections of W± and Z0 bosons in their leptonic (e, µ) decays using the data collected by the ATLAS detector at LHC with a center of mass energy of √s = 13 TeV during summer 2015. The selected events are exactly the same as the ones employed by the recently published article by the ATLAS Collaboration over the same topic, enabling us to compare the obtained results. Necessary comparison, if I may, for the results were obtained with two different procedures: baseline (classical) for the article, bayesian in this thesis. The bayesian approach allows for a natural combination among the many channels and a straightforward treatment of the systematic uncertainties. The obtained results are in excellent agreement with the Standard Model predictions and those published by ATLAS.