Aad, G.ATLAS Collaboration,2016-11-032016-11-032015European Physical Journal C, 2015; 75(1):23-1-23-301434-60441434-6052http://hdl.handle.net/2440/102173A measurement of W boson production in leadlead collisions at √sNN = 2.76 TeV is presented. It is based on the analysis of data collected with the ATLAS detector at the LHC in 2011 corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 0.14 nb⁻¹ and 0.15 nb⁻¹ in the muon and electron decay channels, respectively. The differential production yields and lepton charge asymmetry are each measured as a function of the average number of participating nucleons (Npart) and absolute pseudorapidity of the charged lepton. The results are compared to predictions based on next-to-leading-order QCD calculations. These measurements are, in principle, sensitive to possible nuclear modifications to the parton distribution functions and also provide information on scaling of W boson production in multi-nucleon systems.en© CERN for the benefit of the ATLAS collaboration 2015. This article is published with open access at Springerlink.com. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits any use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and the source are credited. Funded by SCOAP3 / License Version CC BY 4.0.ATLAS CollaborationJournal article003002164610.1140/epjc/s10052-014-3231-60003489926000022-s2.0-84921923478169000