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.Comment: Presented at IFAE 2011, Incontri di Fisica delle Alte Energie,
Perugia, Italy, 27-29 April. 4 pages, 3 figures. References adde
