HiggsBounds-5: testing Higgs sectors in the LHC 13 TeV Era

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 ττ final states. We describe in detail the new and updated functionalities of the new version HiggsBounds-5. ; The work of S.H. is supported in part by the Spanish Agencia Estatal de Investigación (AEI) and the EU Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional (FEDER) through the project FPA2016-78645-P, in part by the MEINCOP Spain under contract FPA2016-78022-P, in part by the "Spanish Red Consolider MultiDark" FPA2017-90566-REDC and in part by the AEI through the grant IFT Centro de Excelencia Severo Ochoa SEV-2016-0597. T.S. and G.W. acknowledge support by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) under Germany's Excellence Strategy – EXC 2121 "Quantum Universe" – 390833306. J.W. has been funded by the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme, grant agreement No 668679. ; Funded by SCOAP3. ; Peer reviewed