  A search for new exotic particles decaying to the VZ final state is
performed, where V is either a W or a Z boson decaying into two overlapping
jets and the Z decays into a pair of electrons, muons or neutrinos. The
analysis uses a data sample of pp collisions corresponding to an integrated
luminosity of 5 inverse femtobarns collected by the CMS experiment at the LHC
at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV in 2011. No significant excess is observed in the mass
distribution of the VZ candidates compared with the background expectation from
standard model processes. Model-dependent upper limits at the 95% confidence
level are set on the product of the cross section times the branching fraction
of hypothetical particles decaying to the VZ final state as a function of mass.
Sequential standard model W' bosons with masses between 700 and 940 GeV are
excluded. In the Randall-Sundrum model for graviton resonances with a coupling
parameter of 0.05, masses between 750 and 880 GeV are also excluded.
