Searches for New Physics at High Object Masses with CMS

TL;DR

This paper summarizes recent CMS searches for new physics at high masses, including heavy vector bosons and dijet resonances, with no significant deviations from the Standard Model observed.

Contribution

It reports new CMS results that extend sensitivity to multi-TeV scales in various search channels for new physics.

Findings

No significant deviation from the Standard Model observed.

Extended sensitivity to multi-TeV scales in several benchmark scenarios.

Combined results improve constraints on new physics models.

Abstract

Searches at high object masses probe both resonant production of new particles and nonresonant distortions of Standard Model spectra. This contribution follows the material presented in the Moriond Electroweak 2026 talk and summarizes recent CMS results in this regime: the Run~2 combination of heavy vector boson searches, the Run~3 search for $W^\prime \to \ell \nu$, the Run~2 dijet angular analysis, and searches for pair-produced dijet resonances in inclusive and $b$-tagged final states. No significant deviation from the SM expectation is observed, and the new results extend the sensitivity of CMS to multi-TeV scales in several benchmark scenarios.