HiggsBounds: Confronting arbitrary Higgs sectors with exclusion bounds from LEP and the Tevatron
By Philip Bechtle, O. Brein, Sven Heinemeyer, Georg Weiglein, K. Williams. Computer Physics Communications, 2008
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HiggsBounds is a computer code that tests theoretical predictions of models with arbitrary Higgs sectors against the exclusion bounds obtained from the Higgs searches at LEP and the Tevatron. The included experimental information comprises exclusion bounds at 95% C.L. on topological cross sections. In order to determine which search topology has the highest exclusion power, the program also includes, for each topology, information from the experiments on the expected exclusion bound, which would have been observed in case of a pure background distribution. Using the predictions of the desired model provided by the user as input, HiggsBounds determines the most sensitive channel and tests whether the considered parameter point is excluded at the 95% C.L. HiggsBounds is available as a Fortran 77 and Fortran 90 code. The code can be invoked as a command line version, a subroutine version and an online version. Examples of exclusion bounds obtained with HiggsBounds are discussed for the Standard Model, for a model with a fourth generation of quarks and leptons and for the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model with and without CP-violation. The experimental information on the exclusion bounds currently implemented in HiggsBounds will be updated as new results from the Higgs searches become available.
Subfields: Nuclear and High Energy Physics
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- Higgs Physics at the HL-LHC and HE-LHC (2019, methodology): “114] (solid pale/bright green contour and area), and LEP searches for the lighter Higgs boson h (orange contour and area), obtained via HiggsBounds [595, 596, 597].”
- Probing the Standard Model with Higgs signal rates from the Tevatron, the LHC and a future ILC (2014, methodology): “We use the public computer program HiggsSignals [27, 64], based on the HiggsBounds-4 library [71–74], which is a dedicated tool to test model predictions of arbitrary Higgs sectors against the mass and signal rate measurements from Higgs searches at the LHC and the Tevatron.”
- Handbook of LHC Higgs Cross Sections: 3. Higgs Properties (2013, methodology): “0-BETA [675,676] (linked to FEYNHIGGS) using a combined uncertainty on the SM-like Higgs mass of ∆Mh = 3 GeV (∆MH = 3 GeV in the last scenario) when evaluating the limits.”
- SARAH 4: A tool for (not only SUSY) model builders (2013, methodology): “Also precision observables are calculated and an easy link to HiggsBounds [34, 35] and HiggsSignals [36] exists.”
- Exploring New Models in All Detail with SARAH (2015, background): “We are going to make four plots again: (i,ii) the two lightest Higgs masses in the (tanβ′,MZ′) plane, and the results of (iii) HiggsBounds and (iv) HiggsSignals in the same plane: BLSSM TBpMZp.m 105 StyleDefault ={Frame ->True , Axes ->False , 106 FrameLabel ->{tan\[Beta],Subscript["M","Z’"]}, 107 F”