Abstract
The results of a search for direct pair production of heavy top-quark partners in4.7 fb(-1) of integrated luminosity from p p collisions at root s = 7 TeV collected by the ATLAS detector at the LHC are reported. Heavy top-quark partners decaying into a topquark and a neutral non-interacting particle are searched for in events with two leptons inthe final state. No excess above the Standard Model expectation is observed. Limits are placed on the mass of a supersymmetric scalar top and of a spin-1/2 top-quark partner. Aspin-1/2 top-quark partner with a mass between 300 GeV and 480 GeV, decaying to a topquark and a neutral non-interacting particle lighter than 100 GeV, is excluded at 95% confidence level.