With four standard model families, the LHC could discover the Higgs boson with a few fb-1

The existence of a 4th SM family would produce a large enhancement of the gluon fusion channel of Higgs boson production at hadron colliders. In this case, the SM Higgs boson could be seen at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) via the golden mode (\(H^0 \rightarrow 4l\)) with an integral luminosity of only a few fb-1.