Speaker
Manuel Kunkel
(University of Würzburg)
Description
Several extensions of the Standard Model predict scalar states that are charged under QCD colour. Motivated by composite Higgs models, we study an electrically neutral colour octet and a colour sextet with charge 4/3. Both states couple to top quarks such that pair production leads to a four top quark signature. We train neural networks to separate these signal processes from their SM backgrounds and derive the discovery reach and expected exclusion limits at the HL-LHC. We also show that our networks can be used to efficiently identify which state is present.
Primary authors
Jeong Han Kim
(Chungbuk National University)
Jun Seung Pi
(Chungbuk National University)
Manuel Kunkel
(University of Würzburg)
Thomas Flacke
(KIAS)
Werner Porod
(Uni. Würzburg)
