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Description
This talk will explore effective operator models where new light exotic (LEX) states interact with the Standard Model (SM) through the W-gluon portal. Operators included in this talk will contain LEX states with non-trivial representations under the SM gauge groups that couple to at least one W boson and one gluon. The W-gluon portal introduces new single production collider modes and phenomenological signatures at both the LHC and ep colliders. The talk will conclude by looking at the implications of adding a single new BSM operator to the SM Lagrangian. This simple operator, which contains a 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.