Top couplings and top partners Aguilar Saavedra, Juan Antonio Pérez-Victoria, Manuel Top quark Vector-like quarks LHC (Large Hadron Collider) Higgs 5th International Workshop on Top Quark Physics (TOP2012). Winchester (U.K.) september 16-21, 2012. We review the model-independent description of the couplings of the top quark to the Higgs and gauge bosons in theories beyond the Standard Model. Then we examine these couplings in the case of arbitrary heavy vector-like quarks mixing with the third family. We also discuss the couplings of these top partners, and comment on implications for LHC searches. 2014-02-17T11:52:42Z 2014-02-17T11:52:42Z 2013 journal article Aguilar-Saavedra, J.A.; Pérez-Victoria, M. Top couplings and top partners. Journal of Physics: conference series, 452: 012037 (2013). [http://hdl.handle.net/10481/30472] 1742-6588 1742-6596 doi:10.1088/1742-6596/452/1/012037 http://hdl.handle.net/10481/30472 eng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ open access Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 License IOP Publishing