Status of the Fourth Generation - A Brief Summary of B3SM-III Workshop in Four Parts

This summary of the 3rd “Beyond the 3 Generation Standard Model” workshop presents the following four statements (and their implications) for the ongoing and future searches of a fourth generation:

1. The enhancement of the Higgs gluon-gluon production cross-section times branching fraction for many of the search channels studied at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is not a flat factor of 9;
2. Electroweak precision data allows for not only a fourth generation, even more generations are allowed;
3. Consideration of mixing significantly changes the conclusions about the interpretation of experimental constraints, and even a fully-degenerate fourth generation becomes allowed;
4. The features that make a fourth generation of fermions attractive are still valid even under the light of initial LHC results.