A color-octet scalar Θ pair-produced via gluons and decaying to quark pairs can account for the CMS excess in equal-mass dijet pairs at 0.95 TeV with a 65 fb cross section for the real case.
Probing top-philic sgluons with LHC Run I data
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Many theories beyond the Standard Model predict the existence of colored scalar states, known as sgluons, lying in the adjoint representation of the QCD gauge group. In scenarios where they are top-philic, sgluons are expected to be copiously pair-produced at the LHC via strong interactions with decays into pairs of top quarks or gluons. Consequently, sgluons can be sought in multijet and multitop events at the LHC. We revisit two LHC Run I analyses in which events featuring either the same-sign dileptonic decay of a four-top-quark system or its single leptonic decay are probed. Adopting a simplified model approach, we show how this reinterpretation allows us to extract simultaneous bounds on the sgluon mass and couplings.
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CMS derives limits on six SMEFT Wilson coefficients, excludes topphilic resonances between 400-1600 GeV, and extracts the top Yukawa coupling from multi-lepton top events in 138 fb^{-1} of 13 TeV data.
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Octet scalars shaping LHC distributions in 4-jet final states
A color-octet scalar Θ pair-produced via gluons and decaying to quark pairs can account for the CMS excess in equal-mass dijet pairs at 0.95 TeV with a 65 fb cross section for the real case.
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Search for physics beyond the standard model in four and three top quark production events using proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 13 TeV
CMS derives limits on six SMEFT Wilson coefficients, excludes topphilic resonances between 400-1600 GeV, and extracts the top Yukawa coupling from multi-lepton top events in 138 fb^{-1} of 13 TeV data.