LHC searches for physics beyond the Standard Model with top quarks

Abstract

Searches are presented for physics beyond the Standard Model involving top-quark and related signatures. The results are based on proton-proton collision data corresponding to integrated luminosities between 1 fb-1 and 5 fb-1 collected at a center-of-mass energy of 7 TeV with the ATLAS and CMS detectors at the Large Hadron Collider in 2011. The data are found to be consistent with the Standard Model. The non-observation of a signal is converted to limits at the 95% confidence level on the production cross section times branching ratio and on the masses of the hypothesized new particles for appropriate benchmark models.

6 pages, 6 figures, TOP 2012 (5th International Workshop on Top Quark Physics)

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