Abstract
We consider the decay modes of the heavy [Formula: see text] bound states originating from Higgs boson exchange between quark–antiquark pair. In case of a small coupling between the fourth and lower generation the main decay mode is [Formula: see text] annihilation. We show that for a vector state the dominant decay modes are Higgs-gamma and Higgs-Z decays, while for a pseudoscalar state the strong two-gluon decay mode dominates. The bound states are very narrow. The ratio of the total width to the binding energy is less than 1% if we are not extremely close to the critical quark mass where the binding energy is very small. The discussed decay modes exist for any fermion–antifermion bound states including heavy leptons and heavy neutrinos if their masses are high enough to form a bound state due to attractive Higgs boson exchange potential.
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