  We study the phenomenology of the pair-production of scalar color-octet
electroweak singlet states at the LHC. Such states appear in many extensions of
the Standard Model. They can be pair-produced copiously at the LHC and will
signal themselves as resonances in multijet final states. Beyond the QCD
pair-production process we consider a vectorlike confinement scenario with an
additional color-octet vector state. These vector particles can be produced in
the s-channel and through their decay contribute to the scalar pair production.
We point out the differences between the two hypotheses and device a strategy
to distinguish them.
