Measurement of electroweak boson production in $pp$, $p$+Pb and Pb+Pb collisions with the ATLAS detector

Measurement of electroweak boson production in different collision systems are of great interest to understanding the partonic structure of heavy nuclei, and serve as a constraint on the initial state in larger collision systems. Their production yields in Pb+Pb with respect to $pp$ collisions provide direct tests of both binary collision scaling and possible modification of parton distribution functions (nPDF) due to nuclear effects. Further, the $p$+Pb collisions provide a relatively clean environment to study nPDFs in detail. The ATLAS detector has a broad acceptance with excellent performance even in the high occupancy environment of central heavy-ion collisions. In this report the latest ATLAS results on W and Z boson production at the center-of-mass energy of 5.02 TeV are presented, including updated precise result production in $pp$ collisions. Also photon yields are reported in 8.16 TeV $p$+Pb collision data, and the production rates are compared to an extrapolated $pp$ reference based on existing 8 TeV collision data.