Statistical combination of CMS searches for heavy resonances decaying to a pair of bosons or leptons at sqrt(s)=13 TeV

Collaboration
2019
Report number:
  • CMS-PAS-B2G-18-006
Experiments:

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Abstract:
The statistical combination of searches for heavy resonances decaying to a pair of bosons or leptons is presented. The data sample corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 35.9 fb135.9~\mathrm{fb}^{-1} collected in 2016 by the CMS experiment at the CERN LHC from proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV13~\mathrm{TeV}. The data are found to be consistent with background expectations. The exclusion limits set in the context of a spin-1 heavy vector triplet framework and spin-2 Bulk Graviton models are the most stringent to date presented by CMS. In a scenario with mass-degenerate W' and Z' resonances, heavy vector bosons with mass below 4.5 TeV4.5~\mathrm{TeV} are excluded at a 95%95\% confidence level if the dominant couplings are to the standard model gauge bosons, and 5.0 TeV5.0~\mathrm{TeV} if the resonances couple predominantly to fermions.
Note:
  • Preliminary results
  • Monte-Carlo
  • p p: colliding beams
  • resonance: production
  • resonance: heavy
  • vector boson: heavy
  • model: graviton
  • p p: scattering
  • CMS
  • statistical
  • lepton: pair production