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Description
This talk will briefly explore effective operator models where new light exotic (LEX) states interact with the Standard Model (SM) through the W-gluon portal. This portal allows access to LEX states with non-trivial representations under the SM gauge groups, and introduces new single production collider modes and phenomenological signatures at both the LHC and ep colliders. The talk will then look at the implications of adding a single new dimension five BSM operator to the SM Lagrangian. This simple operator, which contains a bi-adjoint scalar state in the (8, 3, 0) representation of the SM gauge groups, would require a new search at the LHC in order to reach a fairly significant discovery potential. I will outline some details of a potential search, and comment on the discovery potential of such a state.