Dylan Rankin, Boston University
Searches for heavy resonances decaying to a top and bottom quark with the 
CMS detector at the LHC


After a two year long shutdown at the CERN Large Hadron Collider, 
data-taking resumed in 2015 at a record-setting center of mass collision 
energy of 13 TeV. Data-taking has continued in 2016 at a rapid rate, 
allowing many searches for new physics beyond the Standard Model to probe 
unexplored regions of phase space.

I will present new results from searches for heavy resonances decaying to a 
top and bottom quark with the CMS detector at the LHC. These results use 
the 2016 dataset and focus on final states which include a lepton. I will 
also discuss some projections of this search relevant for the future 
High Luminosity LHC upgrade.