Constraining extra fermion(s) from the Higgs boson data

First, we study the fit of the Higgs boson rates, based on all the latest collider data, in the effective framework for any extra fermion(s) (EF). The best-fit results are presented in a generic formalism allowing us to apply those for the test of any EF scenario under the assumption that the corrections to the Higgs couplings are coming exclusively from EF effects. The variations of the fit with each one of the five fundamental parameters are described, and the obtained fits can be better than in the Standard Model (SM). We show how the determination of the EF loop contributions to the Higgs couplings with photons and gluons is relying on the knowledge of the top and bottom Yukawa couplings (affected by EF mixings); for determining the latter coupling, the relevance of the investigation of the Higgs production in association with bottom quarks is emphasized. In the instructive approximation of a single EF, we find that the constraints from the fit already turn out to be quite predictive in both cases of an EF mixed or not with SM fermions, and especially when combined with the extra-quark (-lepton) mass bounds from direct EF searches at the LHC (LEP) collider. In the case of an unmixed extra quark (in the same color representation as SM quarks), nontrivial fit constraints are pointed out on the Yukawa couplings for masses up to ~200 TeV. In particular, we define the extra dysfermiophilia, which is predicted at 68.27% C.L. for any single extra quark (independently of its electric charge). Another result is that, among any components of SM multiplet extensions, the extra quark with a -7/3 electric charge is the one preferred by the present Higgs fit.