Six Top Messages of New Physics at the LHC

Abstract

Six top signatures provide a novel probe of new physics. We discuss production of six top quarks as the decay products of a pair of top partners in the setting of a composite Higgs model, and argue that the six top signal may generically provide one of the first final states to show a discrepancy. We construct an analysis based on quantities such as $H_T$ and the numbers of jets which are tagged as boosted tops, $W$s, or containing $b$-tags, and show that the LHC with 3~ab${}^{-1}$ can discover top partners with masses up to around 2.5 TeV in the six top signature.

arXiv comment15 pages, 6 figures, and 2 tables

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