A New Strategy to Discover Heavy Colored Vectors at the Early LHC

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We perform a study of the LHC discovery reach on a heavy gluon (G*) and heavy fermions (top and bottom excitations), coming from a new composite sector.

• We find that heavy fermion resonances have a great impact on the composite gluon phenomenology.
• If the composite gluon is heavier than composite fermions, as flavor observables seem to suggest, the search in the channel where G* decays into a heavy fermion plus its Standard Model partner is very promising, with the possibility for both the G* and heavy fermions to be discovered at the early stage of the LHC.
• The channel offers also the possibility to extract important information on model parameters, such as the top degree of compositeness.