Abstract
In many models of beyond the Standard Model physics (BSM) the top quark plays a special role. The ATLAS and CMS experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have performed dedicated searches for resonances decaying into top quark pairs, which may occur in BSM models. Especially at high tt̄ masses the top quarks can have strongly boosted decay products. In recent years many new techniques have been developed to reconstruct and identify such decays. Both ATLAS and CMS use jet substructure to identify hadronic W boson and top quark decays. Some of those techniques are summarised in this article and the recent results of searches for tt̄ resonances are presented. In the lepton+jets channel a leptophobic top-colour Z' with a small width is excluded at the 95% CL in the range 0.5 T eV < mz' < 1.7 TeV as a benchmark scenario. Kaluza-Klein gluons and Z' bosons with larger widths are excluded in similar mass ranges.
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