Recent CMS searches for prompt new physics decaying to top quarks or Higgs and gauge bosons

Many exciting avenues for new physics include particles that decay to massive standard model particles such as top quarks, gauge bosons, or Higgs bosons. This talk will highlight recent CMS searches for resonant production of a Higgs boson with an additional scalar, spin-1 resonances, vector-like quarks, etc. These searches are unified by the distinct detector signatures of high-momentum top quarks or massive bosons. Hadronic final states take advantage of novel machine learning techniques to identify these particles in jets, and mass-agnostic machine learning is often applied to enhance sensitivity to these rare signals across a broad particle mass range.