Aad, G.Abbott, B.Abbott, D. C.Abud, A. AbedAbeling, K.Abhayasinghe, D. K.Çetin, Serkant Ali2024-05-192024-05-1920231434-60441434-6052https://doi.org10.1140/epjc/s10052-023-11579-8https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12713/5895Cross-sections for the production of a Z boson in association with two photons are measured in proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV. The data used correspond to an integrated luminosity of 139 fb(-1) recorded by the ATLAS experiment during Run 2 of the LHC. The measurements use the electron and muon decay channels of the Z boson, and a fiducial phase-space region where the photons are not radiated from the leptons. The integrated Z(-> ll)gamma gamma cross-section is measured with a precision of 12% and differential cross-sections are measured as a function of six kinematic variables of the Z gamma gamma system. The data are compared with predictions from MC event generators which are accurate to up to next-to-leading order in QCD. The cross-section measurements are used to set limits on the coupling strengths of dimension-8 operators in the framework of an effective field theory.eninfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess[No Keywords]Article836WOS:0010681824000012-s2.0-85168597679N/A10.1140/epjc/s10052-023-11579-8Q1