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Colored resonant signals at the LHC: largest rate and simplest topology

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We study the colored resonance production at the LHC in a most general approach. We classify the possible colored resonances based on group theory decomposition, and construct their effective interactions with light partons. The production cross section from annihilation of valence quarks or gluons may be on the order of 400–1000 pb at LHC energies for a mass of 1 TeV with nominal couplings, leading to the largest production rates for new physics at the TeV scale, and simplest event topology with dijet final states. We apply the new dijet data from the LHC experiments to put bounds on various possible colored resonant states. The current bounds range from 0.9 to 2.7 TeV. The formulation is readily applicable for future searches including other decay modes.

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Han, T., Lewis, I. & Liu, Z. Colored resonant signals at the LHC: largest rate and simplest topology. J. High Energ. Phys. 2010, 85 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP12(2010)085

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