# Combination of CMS searches for heavy resonances decaying to pairs of bosons or leptons

## TL;DR

This paper combines multiple CMS searches to set new exclusion limits on heavy resonances decaying into boson or lepton pairs, extending the mass reach up to 5.0 TeV, based on 2016 data at 13 TeV.

## Contribution

It presents a combined analysis of CMS data to improve exclusion limits on heavy resonances, surpassing previous individual channel constraints.

## Key findings

- Excluded heavy vector bosons up to 4.5 TeV for gauge boson couplings.
- Excluded resonances up to 5.0 TeV for fermion-dominant couplings.
- Data are consistent with the standard model background.

## Abstract

A statistical combination of searches for heavy resonances decaying to pairs of bosons or leptons is presented. The data correspond to an integrated luminosity of 35.9 fb$^{-1}$ collected during 2016 by the CMS experiment at the LHC in proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV. The data are found to be consistent with expectations from the standard model background. Exclusion limits are set in the context of models of spin-1 heavy vector triplets and of spin-2 bulk gravitons. For mass-degenerate W' and Z' resonances that predominantly couple to the standard model gauge bosons, the mass exclusion at 95% confidence level of heavy vector bosons is extended to 4.5 TeV as compared to 3.8 TeV determined from the best individual channel. This excluded mass increases to 5.0 TeV if the resonances couple predominantly to fermions.