HiggsBounds-5: Testing Higgs Sectors in the LHC 13 TeV Era

TL;DR

HiggsBounds-5 is an updated public tool that tests Higgs sector models against 13 TeV LHC search results, incorporating improved theoretical predictions and new search channels.

Contribution

It introduces new functionalities, including the incorporation of Run 2 LHC data, improved theoretical inputs, and an advanced method for reconstructing exclusion likelihoods.

Findings

Incorporates LHC Run 2 Higgs search results at 13 TeV.

Extends framework for theoretical predictions of Higgs cross sections and decays.

Implements an improved method for likelihood reconstruction in non-standard Higgs searches.

Abstract

We describe recent developments of the public computer code HiggsBounds. In particular, these include the incorporation of LHC Higgs search results from Run 2 at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV, and an updated and extended framework for the theoretical input that accounts for improved Higgs cross section and branching ratio predictions and new search channels. We furthermore discuss an improved method used in HiggsBounds to approximately reconstruct the exclusion likelihood for LHC searches for non-standard Higgs bosons decaying to $\tau\tau$ final states. We describe in detail the new and updated functionalities of the new version HiggsBounds-5.