  A measurement of the differential cross sections for a W boson produced in
association with jets in the muon decay channel is presented. The measurement
is based on 13 TeV proton-proton collision data corresponding to an integrated
luminosity of 2.2 inverse femtobarns, recorded by the CMS detector at the LHC.
The cross sections are reported as functions of jet multiplicity, jet
transverse momentum pT, jet rapidity, the scalar pT sum of the jets, and
angular correlations between the muon and the jet for different jet
multiplicities. The measured cross sections are in agreement with predictions
that include multileg leading-order (LO) and next-to-LO matrix element
calculations interfaced with parton showers, as well as a next-to-next-to-LO
calculation for the W boson and one jet production.
