Combination of Run-1 Exotic Searches in Diboson Final States at the LHC

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We perform a statistical combination of the ATLAS and CMS results for the search of a heavy resonance decaying to a pair of vector bosons with the $\sqrt{s}=8$ TeV datasets collected at the LHC.

• We take into account six searches in hadronic and semileptonic final states carried out by the two collaborations.
• We consider only public information provided by ATLAS and CMS in the HEPDATA database and in papers published in refereed journals.
• We interpret the combined results within the context of a few benchmark new physics models, such as models predicting the existence of a {\ensuremath{\mathrm{W^\prime}}\xspace} or a bulk Randall-Sundrum spin--2 resonance, for which we present exclusion limits, significances, $p$-values and best-fit cross sections.