CMS collaboration (2234 authors)Nayak, ArunaBargassa, PedrameBeirão Da Cruz E Silva, CristóvãoDi Francesco, AgostinoFaccioli, PietroGalinhas, BrunoGallinaro, MicheleHollar, JonathanLeonardo, NunoLloret Iglesias, LaraSeixas, JoaoStrong, GilesToldaiev, OleksiiVadruccio, DanieleVarela, JoaoVischia, PietroDavid Tinoco Mendes, AndreSilva, PedroMusella, Pasquale2019-02-042019-02-042018-02-10http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2017.12.006http://hdl.handle.net/10400.26/27427A search is presented for narrow heavy resonances decaying to a top quark and a bottom quark using data collected by the CMS experiment at s=13TeV in 2016. The data set analyzed corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 35.9 fb−1 . Final states that include a single lepton (e, μ ), multiple jets, and missing transverse momentum are analyzed. No evidence is found for the production of a W′ boson, and the production of right-handed W′ bosons is excluded at 95% confidence level for masses up to 3.6 TeV depending on the scenario considered. Exclusion limits for W′ bosons are also presented as a function of their coupling strength to left- and right-handed fermions. These limits on a W′ boson decaying via a top and a bottom quark are the most stringent published to date.engjournal article2019-02-04