Hayrapetyan, A.Tumasyan, A.Adam, W.Andrejkovic, J. W.Bergauer, T.Chatterjee, S.Damanakis, K.2025-03-232025-03-2320241029-8479https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP09(2024)186https://hdl.handle.net/11486/7079A search for a new charged particle X with mass between 0.3 and 2.0TeV decaying to a W boson and a photon is presented, using proton-proton collision data at a center-of-mass energy of 13TeV, collected by the CMS experiment and corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 138 fb(-1). Particle X has electric charge +/- 1 and is assumed to have spin 0. The search is performed using the electron and muon decays of the W boson. No significant excess above the predicted background is observed. The upper limit at 95% confidence level on the product of the production cross section of the X and its branching fraction to a W boson and a photon is found to be 94 (137) fb for a 0.3TeV resonance and 0.75 (0.81) fb for a 2.0TeV resonance, for an X width-to-mass ratio of 0.01% (5%). This search presents the most stringent constraints to date on the existence of such resonances across the probed mass range. A statistical combination with an earlier study based on the hadronic decay mode of the W boson is also performed, and the upper limit at 95% confidence level for a 2.0TeV resonance is reduced to 0.50 (0.63) fb for an X width-to-mass ratio of 0.01% (5%).eninfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessBeyond Standard ModelHadron-Hadron ScatteringParticle and Resonance ProductionPhoton ProductionArticle910.1007/JHEP09(2024)1862-s2.0-85206069132Q1WOS:001394490600001Q1