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Review of single vector boson production in pp collisions at $$\sqrt{s} = 7$$ s = 7  TeV

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This review summarises the main results on the production of single vector bosons in the Standard Model, both inclusively and in association with light- and heavy-flavour jets, at the Large Hadron Collider in proton–proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of $$7\,{\mathrm {\ TeV}}$$ . The general purpose detectors at this collider, ATLAS and CMS, each recorded an integrated luminosity of $${\approx } 40\,\mathrm{pb^{-1}}$$ and $$5\,\mathrm{fb^{-1}}$$ in the years 2010 and 2011, respectively. The corresponding data offer the unique possibility to precisely study the properties of the production of heavy vector bosons in a new energy regime. The accurate understanding of the Standard Model is not only crucial for searches of unknown particles and phenomena but also to test predictions of perturbative Quantum-Chromodynamics calculations and for precision measurements of observables in the electroweak sector. Results from a variety of measurements in which single $$W$$  or $$Z$$  bosons are identified are reviewed. Special emphasis in this review is given to interpretations of the experimental results in the context of state-of-the-art predictions.