Consequences of the extra SM families on the Higgs boson production at Tevatron and LHC

E. Arik, O. Cakir, S. A. Cetin, S. Sultansoy

Published 2002-03-27, updated 2002-05-31Version 3

The latest electroweak precission data allow the existence of additional chiral generations in the standard model. We study the influence of extra generations on the production of SM Higgs boson at hadron colliders. Due to the enhancement of the gluon fusion channel, the ``golden mode'' becomes more promising even at upgraded Tevatron. Furthermore, the formation of the fourth family quarkonia with the subsequent $\eta_{4}\to ZH$ decay introduces additional tool for the investigation of the Higgs boson properties.