Does this new physics help explain the structure of electro-weak symmetry breaking?
As mentioned, SM higgs production will likely be obscured by backgrounds in early data. However, if third generation partners are light (as favored by naturalness), higgs particles can easily be produced in decay chains starting with ~t and ~b production, as well as in ~g decays. Also, if the higgs has a partner (~h) that is light, then the appearance of ~h in decay chains will also lead to higgs production. In SUSY for example, a light higgsino (~h) will increase the branching ratios of gluino decays into the third generation along with a ~h. In early data, this may in fact be the easiest way to discover the higgs. Does the physics that stabilize the hierarchy respect approximate SM flavor symmetries? Within SUSY, approximate SM flavor symmetries are usually assumed to hold in order to avoid conflict with precision electroweak and flavor data. However, third generation partners can consistently be split from the first two generations, and there is even reason to suspect this might hap
