Decoding Heavy Top-Philic Resonances at the HL-LHC: From Parton Kinematics to Deep Learning Signatures
The stabilization of the electroweak scale strongly motivates the search for new heavy resonances and top-partner states. We investigate the discovery potential of exotic resonances mediating the production of vector-like quarks at the High-Luminosity LHC ($\sqrt{s} = 13.6$ TeV), focusing on the $pp \to X \to t \bar{t}...