Measurement of the W$\gamma$ production cross section in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s} =$ 13 TeV and constraints on effective field theory coefficients

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A fiducial cross section for W$\gamma$ production in proton-proton collisions is measured at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV in 137 fb$^{-1}$ of data collected using the CMS detector at the LHC.

• The W $\to$ e$\nu$ and $\mu\nu$ decay modes are used in a maximum-likelihood fit to the lepton-photon invariant mass distribution to extract the combined cross section.
• The measured cross section is compared with theoretical expectations at next-to-leading order in quantum chromodynamics.
• In addition, 95% confidence level intervals are reported for anomalous triple-gauge couplings within the framework of effective field theory.