Top partners and vector-like quarks

by Mr Giacomo Cacciapaglia (IPNL)

Wednesday 8 Apr 2015, 14:00 → 15:00 Europe/Paris

Grande Salle du Conseil

In this talk I will review some recent work on both model building of top partners and on the model independence of LHC searches. Top partners are often claimed to be a necessary ingredient in composite Higgs models and are the main motivation for the searches of vector-like quarks. I will discuss the difficulties in generating them in fundamental models and how a sustainable flavour structure can be put in place. Finally, I will discuss a model independent way to study single production of vector-like quarks at the LHC.