Search for pair-produced resonances decaying to jet pairs in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s) = 8 TeV

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Results are reported of a general search for pair production of heavy resonances decaying to pairs of jets in events with at least four jets.

• The study is based on up to 19.4 inverse femtobarns of integrated luminosity from proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 8 TeV, recorded with the CMS detector at the LHC.
• Limits are determined on the production of scalar top quarks (top squarks) in the framework of R-parity violating supersymmetry and on the production of color-octet vector bosons (colorons).
• First limits at the LHC are placed on top squark production for two scenarios.