Madhab Neupane, Su-Yang Xu, Nasser Alidoust, Guang Bian, D J Kim, Chang Liu, I Belopolski, T-R Chang, H-T Jeng, T Durakiewicz, H Lin, A Bansil, Z Fisk, M Z Hasan

We present angle-resolved photoemission studies on the rare-earth-hexaboride YbB_{6}, which has recently been predicted to be a topological Kondo insulator. Our data do not agree with the prediction and instead show that YbB_{6} exhibits a novel topological insulator state in the absence of a Kondo mechanism. We find that the Fermi level electronic structure of YbB_{6} has three 2D Dirac cone like surface states enclosing the Kramers's points, while the f orbital that would be relevant for the Kondo mechanism is ∼1  eV below the Fermi level. Our first-principles calculation shows that the topological state that we observe in YbB_{6} is due to an inversion between Yb d and B p bands. These experimental and theoretical results provide a new approach for realizing novel correlated topological insulator states in rare-earth materials.