PT Journal AU ATLAS Collaboration (Aaboud, Mea Alvarez Piqueras, D Barranco Navarro, L Cabrera Urban, S Castillo Gimenez, V Cerda Alberich, L Costa, MJ Fernandez Martinez, P Ferrer, A Fiorini, L Fuster, J Garcia, C Garcia Navarro, JE Gonzalez de la Hoz, S Higon-Rodriguez, E Jimenez Pena, J King, M Lacasta, C Lacuesta, VR Mamuzic, J Marti-Garcia, S Melini, D Mitsou, VA Pedraza Lopez, S Rodriguez Rodriguez, D Romero Adam, E Ros, E Salt, J Sanchez Martinez, V Soldevila, U Sanchez, J Valero, A Valls Ferrer, JA Vos, M TI Measurements of the production cross section of a Z boson in association with jets in pp collisions at root s=13 TeV with the ATLAS detector SO European Physical Journal C JI Eur. Phys. J. C PY 2017 BP 361 - 31pp VL 77 IS 6 DI 10.1140/epjc/s10052-017-4900-z LA English AB Measurements of the production cross section of a Z boson in association with jets in proton-proton collisions at root s = 13TeV are presented, using data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 3.16 fb(-1) collected by the ATLAS experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider in 2015. Inclusive and differential cross sections are measured for events containing a Z boson decaying to electrons or muons and produced in association with up to seven jets with p(T) > 30GeV and vertical bar y vertical bar < 2.5. Predictions from different Monte Carlo generators based on leading-order and nextto-leading-order matrix elements for up to two additional partons interfaced with parton shower and fixed-order predictions at next-to-leading order and next-to-next-to-leading order are compared with the measured cross sections. Good agreement within the uncertainties is observed for most of the modelled quantities, in particular with the generators which use next-to-leading-order matrix elements and the more recent next-to-next-to-leading-order fixed-order predictions. ER