I. INTRODUCTION II. STANDARD MODEL TOP PRODUCTION 1 The production of four-heavy-quark final states at hadron colliders, including t ¯ tt ¯ t at supercollider energies, was first calculated in [9]. 2 Unlike top-pair and even four-top production $^{1}$, which are dominated at the LHC by the strong coupling gg → t ¯ process, the production of an odd number of tops requires a W tb In the Standard Model, triple-top production, like single-top production, comes from three distinct processes at LO: pp → 3 t + W $^{±}$, 3 t + b, 3 t +jets, where t generically denotes top and anti-top quarks. The typically dominant diagram from each of these processes is given in Figures 1(a)-(c) and a summary of the total cross sections for each, calculated from all contributing diagrams, is given in Table I at three LHC center-of-mass energies, √ s = 7 , 10 , and 14 TeV. We calculate all cross sections to an accuracy of 1% using MadGraph/MadEvent version 4.4.24 [5, 6], allowing the renormalization and factorization scales to vary with the process and using the default values on all cuts except η$_{max}$ of the jets, which we set to 4.0, assuming forward-jet tagging at ATLAS and CMS [7, 8]. We choose m$_{t}$ = 171 . 4 GeV and a Higgs boson mass of m$_{h}$ = 130 GeV. In Section II, we evaluate the leading-order (LO) SM production cross sections at the LHC for up to four tops while highlighting the triple-top signal. We then describe two new physics models in Section III and discuss the results in Section IV. As a leading potential mode of new physics discovery, top-pair production has been studied extensively for both the Fermilab Tevatron and for the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) (see [2] and [3] and references therein for a thorough review of LHC top physics). Single top production is also of interest, particularly for the V$_{tb}$ mixing element of the SM, and was recently observed at the Tevatron [4]. In this paper, we discuss the observation of triple-top events at the LHC and how this channel can be significantly affected by new physics. The top quark, with a measured mass of m$_{t}$ = 171 . 3 ± 1 . 1 ± 1 . 2 GeV [1], is the most massive of the elementary particles. It is this distinction that makes the top quark so interesting to phenomenology as it is typically the most closely related to proposals of new physics beyond the Standard Model (SM).