  Analyses of the vacuum stability of the electroweak theory indicate that new
physics occur at a scale of order of 1 TeV if a light Higgs is discovered at
LEP II. In this paper, we parameterize the effects of new physics in the
effective Lagrangian approach and examine its implication on the Higgs boson
production at LEP II. We consider the effect of higher dimension operator on
the Higgs potential and calculate the lower bound on the Higgs boson mass from
the requirement of vacuum stability. We show that if a Higgs boson is seen at
LEP II then under favourable conditions the deviation of the production cross
section from the standard model value could be significant and therefore the
presence of the new physics is detectable at LEP II.
