  A search for new high-mass resonances in proton-proton collisions having
final states with an electron or muon and missing transverse momentum is
presented. The analysis uses proton-proton collision data collected in 2016
with the CMS detector at the LHC at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV,
corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 35.9 fb$^{-1}$. The transverse
mass distribution of the charged lepton-neutrino system is used as the
discriminating variable. No significant deviation from the standard model
prediction is found. The best limit, from the combination of electron and muon
channels, is 5.2 TeV at 95% confidence level for the mass of a W$'$ boson with
the same couplings as those of the standard model W boson. Exclusion limits of
2.9 TeV are set on the inverse radius of the extra dimension in the framework
of split universal extra dimensions. In addition, model-independent limits are
set on the production cross section and coupling strength of W$'$ bosons
decaying into this final state. An interpretation is also made in the context
of an R parity violating supersymmetric model with a slepton as a mediator and
flavor violating decay.
