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We study the phenomenology of the pair-production of scalar color-octet electroweak singlet states at the LHC. Such states appear in many extensions of the Standard Model. They can be pair-produced copiously at the LHC and will signal themselves as resonances in multijet final states. Beyond the QCD pair-production process we consider a vectorlike confinement scenario with an additional color-octet vector state. These vector particles can be produced in the s-channel and through their decay contribute to the scalar pair production. We point out the differences between the two hypotheses and device a strategy to distinguish them.
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Schumann, S., Renaud, A. & Zerwas, D. Hadronically decaying color-adjoint scalars at the LHC. J. High Energ. Phys. 2011, 74 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP09(2011)074
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