Measurements and interpretations of $\textit{W}$

Measurements of integrated and differential cross-sections for $\textit{W}$ $\textit{Z}$ production in proton-proton collisions are presented. The data collected by the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider from 2015 to 2018 at a centre-of-mass energy of TeV are used, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 140 fb . The $\textit{W}$ $\textit{Z}$ candidate events are reconstructed using leptonic decay modes of the gauge bosons into electrons or muons. The integrated cross-section per lepton flavour for the production of $\textit{W}$ $\textit{Z}$ is measured in the detector fiducial region with a relative precision of 4%. The measured value is compared with the Standard Model prediction at a precision of up to next-to-next-to-leading-order in QCD and next-to-leading-order in electroweak. Cross-sections for $\textit{W}$ $\textit{Z}$ and $\textit{W}$ $\textit{Z}$ production and their ratio are presented. The $\textit{W}$ $\textit{Z}$ production is also measured differentially as functions of various kinematic variables, including new observables sensitive to CP-violation effects. All measurements are compared with state-of-the-art Standard Model predictions from fixed-order calculations or Monte Carlo generators based on next-to-leading-order matrix elements interfaced with parton showers. An effective field theory interpretation of the measurements is performed, considering both CP-conserving and CP-violating dimension-6 operators modifying the $\textit{W}$ $\textit{Z}$ production. In the absence of observed deviations from the Standard Model, limits on CP-conserving Wilson coefficients are extracted using the transverse mass of the $\textit{W}$ $\textit{Z}$ system. For CP-violating coefficients a machine learning approach is used to construct an observable with enhanced sensitivity to CP-violation effects.