In a simplified partial-compositeness model, energy-dependent gluon form factors suppress heavy top partner production by up to an order of magnitude and add a few-percent distortion to quark-initiated top pair production.
Non-standard top substructure
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The top quark, being the heaviest particle of the Standard Model, is a prime candidate of where physics beyond the SM might currently hide before our eyes. There are many natural extensions of the SM that rely on top compositeness, and the top quark could follow the paradigm of revealing a substructure when it is probed at high enough momentum transfers. Observing high $p_T$ top final states naturally drives us towards boosted hadronic analyses that can be tackled efficiently with jet substructure techniques. In this paper we analyse the prospects of constraining exemplary non-standard QCD top interactions in this kinematical regime. We correctly include QCD modifications to additional gluon emission off the boosted top quark and keep track of the modified top tagging efficiencies. We conclude that non-standard top QCD interactions can be formidably constrained at the LHC 14 TeV. Experimental systematic uncertainties are a major obstacle of the described measurement. Unless significantly improved for the 14 TeV run, they will saturate the direct sensitivity to non-resonant BSM top physics at luminosities of around 100/fb.
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Top-quark Partial Compositeness beyond the effective field theory paradigm
In a simplified partial-compositeness model, energy-dependent gluon form factors suppress heavy top partner production by up to an order of magnitude and add a few-percent distortion to quark-initiated top pair production.