  Many theories beyond the Standard Model predict the existence of colored
scalar states, known as sgluons, lying in the adjoint representation of the QCD
gauge group. In scenarios where they are top-philic, sgluons are expected to be
copiously pair-produced at the LHC via strong interactions with decays into
pairs of top quarks or gluons. Consequently, sgluons can be sought in multijet
and multitop events at the LHC. We revisit two LHC Run I analyses in which
events featuring either the same-sign dileptonic decay of a four-top-quark
system or its single leptonic decay are probed. Adopting a simplified model
approach, we show how this reinterpretation allows us to extract simultaneous
bounds on the sgluon mass and couplings.
