Search for heavy Resonances in Two-Particle Final States with Leptons, Jets and Photons at CMS

At the LHC, the production of heavy resonances decaying into a pair of particles can be probed at unprecedented centre-of-mass energies. Two-particle resonances are predicted in a variety of BSM models and can be searched for in a largely model-independent fashion. Results from searches for resonances in final states with leptons, jets and photons based on the full dataset of 20 fb$^{-1}$ taken by the CMS detector in 2012 in proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 8 TeV are presented. They are interpreted in terms of various theories of BSM physics ranging from generic heavy resonances such as the $Z'$ to excited quarks or Randall-Sundrum gravitons. In the absence of a significant deviation from the expected SM background, 95% CL limits are set on model parameters of the theories under study