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HiggsBounds-4: Improved Tests of Extended Higgs Sectors against Exclusion Bounds from LEP, the Tevatron and the LHC

We describe the new developments in version 4 of the public computer code HiggsBounds. HiggsBounds is a tool to test models with arbitrary Higgs sectors, containing both neutral and charged Higgs bosons, against the published exclusion…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-03-07 Philip Bechtle , Oliver Brein , Sven Heinemeyer , Oscar Stål , Tim Stefaniak , Georg Weiglein , Karina E. Williams

Recent Developments in HiggsBounds and a Preview of HiggsSignals

We report on recent developments in the public computer code HiggsBounds, which confronts arbitrary Higgs sector predictions with 95% C.L. exclusion limits from Higgs searches at the LEP, Tevatron and LHC experiments. We discuss in detail…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-01-14 Philip Bechtle , Oliver Brein , Sven Heinemeyer , Oscar Stål , Tim Stefaniak , Georg Weiglein , Karina Williams

HiggsBounds: Confronting arbitrary Higgs sectors with exclusion bounds from LEP and Tevatron

HiggsBounds is a computer code which tests the Higgs sectors of new models against the current exclusion bounds from the Higgs searches at LEP and the Tevatron. As input, it requires a selection of model predictions, such as Higgs masses,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-05-15 P. Bechtle , O. Brein , S. Heinemeyer , G. Weiglein , K. E. Williams

Introducing HiggsBounds 2.0.0

We introduce version 2.0.0 of the computer program HiggsBounds. The program tests neutral and charged Higgs sectors of new models against the current exclusion bounds from LEP and the Tevatron. As input, it requires a selection of model…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-17 Philip Bechtle , Oliver Brein , Sven Heinemeyer , Georg Weiglein , Karina E. Williams

HiggsSignals-2: Probing new physics with precision Higgs measurements in the LHC 13 TeV era

The program HiggsSignals confronts the predictions of models with arbitrary Higgs sectors with the available Higgs signal rate and mass measurements, resulting in a likelihood estimate. A new version of the program, HiggsSignals-2, is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-02-24 Philip Bechtle , Sven Heinemeyer , Tobias Klingl , Tim Stefaniak , Georg Weiglein , Jonas Wittbrodt

HiggsBounds: Confronting Arbitrary Higgs Sectors with Exclusion Bounds from LEP and the Tevatron

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…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-05-12 Philip Bechtle , Oliver Brein , Sven Heinemeyer , Georg Weiglein , Karina E. Williams

New HiggsBounds from LEP and the Tevatron

We review the program HiggsBounds that tests theoretical predictions of models with arbitrary Higgs sectors against the exclusion bounds obtained from the Higgs searches at LEP and the Tevatron. We explicitly list the bounds that have been…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-14 P. Bechtle , O. Brein , S. Heinemeyer , G. Weiglein , K. Williams

HiggsBounds 2.0.0: Confronting Neutral and Charged Higgs Sector Predictions with Exclusion Bounds from LEP and the Tevatron

HiggsBounds 2.0.0 is a computer code which tests both neutral and charged Higgs sectors of arbitrary models against the current exclusion bounds from the Higgs searches at LEP and the Tevatron. As input, it requires a selection of model…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-18 Philip Bechtle , Oliver Brein , Sven Heinemeyer , Georg Weiglein , Karina E. Williams

HiggsTools: BSM scalar phenomenology with new versions of HiggsBounds and HiggsSignals

The codes HiggsBounds and HiggsSignals compare model predictions of BSM models with extended scalar sectors to searches for additional scalars and to measurements of the detected Higgs boson at 125 GeV. We present a unification and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-06-29 Henning Bahl , Thomas Biekötter , Sven Heinemeyer , Cheng Li , Steven Paasch , Georg Weiglein , Jonas Wittbrodt

Updated constraints on the Georgi-Machacek model from LHC Run 2

We study the experimental constraints on the Georgi-Machacek model from direct searches for the new Higgs bosons and measurements of the properties of the discovered 125 GeV Higgs boson. We apply these by interfacing the public codes…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-04-17 Ameen Ismail , Heather E. Logan , Yongcheng Wu

Testing Exotic Scalars with HiggsBounds

The program HiggsBounds is a well-established tool for testing Beyond-the-Standard Model (BSM) theories with an extended Higgs sector against experimental limits from collider searches at LEP, Tevatron and LHC. Thus far, it could be applied…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-07-18 Henning Bahl , Victor Martin Lozano , Tim Stefaniak , Jonas Wittbrodt

Current status of MSSM Higgs sector with LHC 13 TeV data

ATLAS and CMS collaborations have reported the results on the Higgs search analyzing $\sim 36$ fb$^{-1}$ data from Run-II of LHC at 13 TeV. In this work, we study the Higgs sector of the phenomenological Minimal Supersymmetric Standard…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-10-06 Rahool Kumar Barman , Biplob Bhattacherjee , Arghya Choudhury , Debtosh Chowdhury , Jayita Lahiri , Shamayita Ray

Higgs Physics at the HL-LHC and HE-LHC

The discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012, by the ATLAS and CMS experiments, was a success achieved with only a percent of the entire dataset foreseen for the LHC. It opened a landscape of possibilities in the study of Higgs boson…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-03-20 M. Cepeda , S. Gori , P. Ilten , M. Kado , F. Riva , R. Abdul Khalek , A. Aboubrahim , J. Alimena , S. Alioli , A. Alves , C. Asawatangtrakuldee , A. Azatov , P. Azzi , S. Bailey , S. Banerjee , E. L. Barberio , D. Barducci , G. Barone , M. Bauer , C. Bautista , P. Bechtle , K. Becker , A. Benaglia , M. Bengala , N. Berger , C. Bertella , A. Bethani , A. Betti , A. Biekotter , F. Bishara , D. Bloch , P. Bokan , O. Bondu , M. Bonvini , L. Borgonovi , M. Borsato , S. Boselli , S. Braibant-Giacomelli , G. Buchalla , L. Cadamuro , C. Caillol , A. Calandri , A. Calderon Tazon , J. M. Campbell , F. Caola , M. Capozi , M. Carena , C. M. Carloni Calame , A. Carmona , E. Carquin , A. Carvalho Antunes De Oliveira , A. Castaneda Hernandez , O. Cata , A. Celis , A. Cerri , F. Cerutti , G. S. Chahal , A. Chakraborty , G. Chaudhary , X. Chen , A. S. Chisholm , R. Contino , A. J. Costa , R. Covarelli , N. Craig , D. Curtin , L. D'Eramo , N. P. Dang , P. Das , S. Dawson , O. A. De Aguiar Francisco , J. de Blas , S. De Curtis , N. De Filippis , H. De la Torre , L. de Lima , A. De Wit , C. Delaere , M. Delcourt , M. Delmastro , S. Demers , N. Dev , R. Di Nardo , S. Di Vita , S. Dildick , L. A. F. do Prado , M. Donadelli , D. Du , G. Durieux , M. Dührssen , O. Eberhardt , K. El Morabit , J. Elias-Miro , J. Ellis , C. Englert , R. Essig , S. Falke , M. Farina , A. Ferrari , A. Ferroglia , M. C. N. Fiolhais , M. Flechl , S. Folgueras , E. Fontanesi , P. Francavilla , R. Franceschini , R. Frederix , S. Frixione , G. Gómez-Ceballos , A. Gabrielli , S. Gadatsch , M. Gallinaro , A. Gandrakota , J. Gao , F. M. Garay Walls , T. Gehrmann , Y. Gershtein , T. Ghosh , A. Gilbert , R. Glein , E. W. N. Glover , R. Gomez-Ambrosio , R. Gonçalo , D. Gonçalves , M. Gorbahn , E. Gouveia , M. Gouzevitch , P. Govoni , M. Grazzini , B. Greenberg , K. Grimm , A. V. Gritsan , A. Grohsjean , C. Grojean , J. Gu , R. Gugel , R. S. Gupta , C. B. Gwilliam , S. Höche , M. Haacke , Y. Haddad , U. Haisch , G. N. Hamity , T. Han , L. A. Harland-Lang , R. Harnik , S. Heinemeyer , G. Heinrich , B. Henning , V. Hirschi , K. Hoepfner , J. M. Hogan , S. Homiller , Y. Huang , A. Huss , S. Jézéquel , Sa. Jain , S. P. Jones , K. Köneke , J. Kalinowski , J. F. Kamenik , M. Kaplan , A. Karlberg , M. Kaur , P. Keicher , M. Kerner , A. Khanov , J. Kieseler , J. H. Kim , M. Kim , T. Klijnsma , F. Kling , M. Klute , J. R. Komaragiri , K. Kong , J. Kozaczuk , P Kozow , C. Krause , S. Lai , J. Langford , B. Le , L. Lechner , W. A. Leight , K. J. C. Leney , T. Lenz , C-Q. Li , H. Li , Q. Li , S. Liebler , J. Lindert , D. Liu , J. Liu , Y. Liu , Z. Liu , D. Lombardo , A. Long , K. Long , I. Low , G. Luisoni , L. L. Ma , A. -M. Magnan , D. Majumder , A. Malinauskas , F. Maltoni , M. L. Mangano , G. Marchiori , A. C. Marini , A. Martin , S. Marzani , A. Massironi , K. T. Matchev , R. D. Matheus , K. Mazumdar , J. Mazzitelli , A. E. Mcdougall , P. Meade , P. Meridiani , A. B. Meyer , E. Michielin , P. Milenovic , V. Milosevic , K. Mimasu , B. Mistlberger , M. Mlynarikova , M. Mondragon , P. F. Monni , G. Montagna , F. Monti , M. Moreno Llacer , A. Mueck , P. C. Muiño , C. Murphy , W. J. Murray , P. Musella , M. Narain , R. F. Naranjo Garcia , P. Nath , M. Neubert , O. Nicrosini , K. Nikolopoulos , A. Nisati , J. M. No , M. L. Ojeda , S. A. Olivares Pino , A. Onofre , G. Ortona , S. Pagan Griso , D. Pagani , E. Palencia Cortezon , C. Palmer , C. Pandini , G. Panico , L. Panwar , D. Pappadopulo , M. Park , R. Patel , F. Paucar-Velasquez , K. Pedro , L. Pernie , L. Perrozzi , B. A. Petersen , E. Petit , G. Petrucciani , G. Piacquadio , F. Piccinini , M. Pieri , T. Plehn , S. Pokorski , A. Pomarol , E. Ponton , S. Pozzorini , S. Prestel , K. Prokofiev , M. Ramsey-Musolf , E. Re , N. P. Readioff , D. Redigolo , L. Reina , E. Reynolds , M. Riembau , F. Rikkert , T. Robens , R. Roentsch , J. Rojo , N. Rompotis , J. Rorie , J. Rosiek , J. Roskes , J. T. Ruderman , N. Sahoo , S. Saito , R. Salerno , P. H. Sales De Bruin , A. Salvucci , K. Sandeep , J. Santiago , R. Santo , V. Sanz , U. Sarica , A. Savin , A. Savoy-Navarro , S. Sawant , A. C. Schaffer , M. Schlaffer , A. Schmidt , B. Schneider , R. Schoefbeck , M. Schröder , M. Scodeggio , E. Scott , L. Scyboz , M. Selvaggi , L. Sestini , H. -S. Shao , A. Shivaji , L. Silvestrini , L. Simon , K. Sinha , Y. Soreq , M. Spannowsky , M. Spira , D. Spitzbart , E. Stamou , J. Stark , T. Stefaniak , B. Stieger , G. Strong , M. Szleper , K. Tackmann , M. Takeuchi , S. Taroni , M. Testa , A. Thamm , V. Theeuwes , L. A. Thomsen , S. Tkaczyk , R. Torre , F. Tramontano , K. A. Ulmer , T. Vantalon , L. Vecchi , R. Vega-Morales , E. Venturini , M. Verducci , C. Vernieri , T. Vickey , M. Vidal Marono , P. Vischia , E. Vryonidou , P. Wagner , V. M. Walbrecht , L. -T. Wang , N. Wardle , D. R. Wardrope , G. Weiglein , S. Wertz , M. Wielers , J. M. Williams , R. Wolf , A. Wulzer , M. Xiao , H. T. Yang , E. Yazgan , Z. Yin , T. You , F. Yu , G. Zanderighi , D. Zanzi , M. Zaro , S. C. Zenz , D. Zerwas , M. Zgubič , J. Zhang , L. Zhang , W. Zhang , X. Zhao , Y. -M. Zhong

The study of the extended Higgs boson sector within 2HDM model

Consideration of the latest experimental data on the searches for extended sector of Higgs bosons produced at the LHC at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV, allows for computer modeling of the properties of supersymmetric particles within…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-04-24 T. V. Obikhod , E. A. Petrenko

Higgs boson measurements and extended scalar sector searches in fermionic final states

Since the discovery of the Higgs boson in the year 2012, the CMS experiment continuously makes use of a variety of final states to measure the properties of the Higgs boson, as well as to search for it in final states where the discovery…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2018-03-16 Teresa Lenz

Seeking Heavy Higgs Bosons through Cascade Decays

We investigate the LHC discovery prospects for a heavy Higgs boson decaying into the Standard Model Higgs boson and additional weak bosons. We consider a generic model-independent new physics configuration where this decay proceeds via a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-04-11 Baradhwaj Coleppa , Benjamin Fuks , P. Poulose , Shibananda Sahoo

Handbook of LHC Higgs Cross Sections: 4. Deciphering the Nature of the Higgs Sector

This Report summarizes the results of the activities of the LHC Higgs Cross Section Working Group in the period 2014-2016. The main goal of the working group was to present the state-of-the-art of Higgs physics at the LHC, integrating all…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-05-16 D. de Florian , C. Grojean , F. Maltoni , C. Mariotti , A. Nikitenko , M. Pieri , P. Savard , M. Schumacher , R. Tanaka , R. Aggleton , M. Ahmad , B. Allanach , C. Anastasiou , W. Astill , S. Badger , M. Badziak , J. Baglio , E. Bagnaschi , A. Ballestrero , A. Banfi , D. Barducci , M. Beckingham , C. Becot , G. Bélanger , J. Bellm , N. Belyaev , F. U. Bernlochner , C. Beskidt , A. Biekötter , F. Bishara , W. Bizon , N. E. Bomark , M. Bonvini , S. Borowka , V. Bortolotto , S. Boselli , F. J. Botella , R. Boughezal , G. C. Branco , J. Brehmer , L. Brenner , S. Bressler , I. Brivio , A. Broggio , H. Brun , G. Buchalla , C. D. Burgard , A. Calandri , L. Caminada , R. Caminal Armadans , F. Campanario , J. Campbell , F. Caola , C. M. Carloni Calame , S. Carrazza , A. Carvalho , M. Casolino , O. Cata , A. Celis , F. Cerutti , N. Chanon , M. Chen , X. Chen , B. Chokoufé Nejad , N. Christensen , M. Ciuchini , R. Contino , T. Corbett , R. Costa , D. Curtin , M. Dall'Osso , A. David , S. Dawson , J. de Blas , W. de Boer , P. de Castro Manzano , C. Degrande , R. L. Delgado , F. Demartin , A. Denner , B. Di Micco , R. Di Nardo , S. Dittmaier , A. Dobado , T. Dorigo , F. A. Dreyer , M. Dührssen , C. Duhr , F. Dulat , K. Ecker , K. Ellis , U. Ellwanger , C. Englert , D. Espriu , A. Falkowski , L. Fayard , R. Feger , G. Ferrera , A. Ferroglia , N. Fidanza , T. Figy , M. Flechl , D. Fontes , S. Forte , P. Francavilla , E. Franco , R. Frederix , A. Freitas , F. F. Freitas , F. Frensch , S. Frixione , B. Fuks , E. Furlan , S. Gadatsch , J. Gao , Y. Gao , M. V. Garzelli , T. Gehrmann , R. Gerosa , M. Ghezzi , D. Ghosh , S. Gieseke , D. Gillberg , G. F. Giudice , E. W. N. Glover , F. Goertz , D. Gonçalves , J. Gonzalez-Fraile , M. Gorbahn , S. Gori , C. A. Gottardo , M. Gouzevitch , P. Govoni , D. Gray , M. Grazzini , N. Greiner , A. Greljo , J. Grigo , A. V. Gritsan , R. Gröber , S. Guindon , H. E. Haber , C. Han , T. Han , R. Harlander , M. A. Harrendorf , H. B. Hartanto , C. Hays , S. Heinemeyer , G. Heinrich , M. Herrero , F. Herzog , B. Hespel , V. Hirschi , S. Hoeche , S. Honeywell , S. J. Huber , C. Hugonie , J. Huston , A. Ilnicka , G. Isidori , B. Jäger , M. Jaquier , S. P. Jones , A. Juste , S. Kallweit , A. Kaluza , A. Kardos , A. Karlberg , Z. Kassabov , N. Kauer , D. I. Kazakov , M. Kerner , W. Kilian , F. Kling , K. Köneke , R. Kogler , R. Konoplich , S. Kortner , S. Kraml , C. Krause , F. Krauss , M. Krawczyk , A. Kulesza , S. Kuttimalai , R. Lane , A. Lazopoulos , G. Lee , P. Lenzi , I. M. Lewis , Y. Li , S. Liebler , J. Lindert , X. Liu , Z. Liu , F. J. Llanes-Estrada , H. E. Logan , D. Lopez-Val , I. Low , G. Luisoni , P. Maierhöfer , E. Maina , B. Mansoulié , H. Mantler , M. Mantoani , A. C. Marini , V. I. Martinez Outschoorn , S. Marzani , D. Marzocca , A. Massironi , K. Mawatari , J. Mazzitelli , A. McCarn , B. Mellado , K. Melnikov , S. B. Menari , L. Merlo , C. Meyer , P. Milenovic , K. Mimasu , S. Mishima , B. Mistlberger , S. -O. Moch , A. Mohammadi , P. F. Monni , G. Montagna , M. Moreno Llácer , N. Moretti , S. Moretti , L. Motyka , A. Mück , M. Mühlleitner , S. Munir , P. Musella , P. Nadolsky , D. Napoletano , M. Nebot , C. Neu , M. Neubert , R. Nevzorov , O. Nicrosini , J. Nielsen , K. Nikolopoulos , J. M. No , C. O'Brien , T. Ohl , C. Oleari , T. Orimoto , D. Pagani , C. E. Pandini , A. Papaefstathiou , A. S. Papanastasiou , G. Passarino , B. D. Pecjak , M. Pelliccioni , G. Perez , L. Perrozzi , F. Petriello , G. Petrucciani , E. Pianori , F. Piccinini , M. Pierini , A. Pilkington , S. Plätzer , T. Plehn , R. Podskubka , C. T. Potter , S. Pozzorini , K. Prokofiev , A. Pukhov , I. Puljak , M. Queitsch-Maitland , J. Quevillon , D. Rathlev , M. Rauch , E. Re , M. N. Rebelo , D. Rebuzzi , L. Reina , C. Reuschle , J. Reuter , M. Riembau , F. Riva , A. Rizzi , T. Robens , R. Röntsch , J. Rojo , J. C. Romão , N. Rompotis , J. Roskes , R. Roth , G. P. Salam , R. Salerno , M. O. P. Sampaio , R. Santos , V. Sanz , J. J. Sanz-Cillero , H. Sargsyan , U. Sarica , P. Schichtel , J. Schlenk , T. Schmidt , C. Schmitt , M. Schönherr , U. Schubert , M. Schulze , S. Sekula , M. Sekulla , E. Shabalina , H. S. Shao , J. Shelton , C. H. Shepherd-Themistocleous , S. Y. Shim , F. Siegert , A. Signer , J. P. Silva , L. Silvestrini , M. Sjodahl , P. Slavich , M. Slawinska , L. Soffi , M. Spannowsky , C. Speckner , D. M. Sperka , M. Spira , O. Stål , F. Staub , T. Stebel , T. Stefaniak , M. Steinhauser , I. W. Stewart , M. J. Strassler , J. Streicher , D. M. Strom , S. Su , X. Sun , F. J. Tackmann , K. Tackmann , A. M. Teixeira , R. Teixeira de Lima , V. Theeuwes , R. Thorne , D. Tommasini , P. Torrielli , M. Tosi , F. Tramontano , Z. Trócsányi , M. Trott , I. Tsinikos , M. Ubiali , P. Vanlaer , W. Verkerke , A. Vicini , L. Viliani , E. Vryonidou , D. Wackeroth , C. E. M. Wagner , J. Wang , S. Wayand , G. Weiglein , C. Weiss , M. Wiesemann , C. Williams , J. Winter , D. Winterbottom , R. Wolf , M. Xiao , L. L. Yang , R. Yohay , S. P. Y. Yuen , G. Zanderighi , M. Zaro , D. Zeppenfeld , R. Ziegler , T. Zirke , J. Zupan

Collider Bounds on Lee-Wick Higgs Bosons

We study the constraints on the Lee-Wick Higgs sector arising from direct collider searches. We work in an effective-field theory framework, where all of the Lee-Wick partners are integrated out, with the sole exception of the Lee-Wick…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-07-26 Ezequiel Alvarez , Estefania Coluccio Leskow , José Zurita

The Hunt for the Rest of the Higgs Bosons

We assess the current state of searches at the LHC for additional Higgs bosons in light of both direct limits and indirect bounds coming from coupling measurements of the Standard Model-like Higgs boson. Given current constraints, we…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-04-21 Nathaniel Craig , Francesco D'Eramo , Patrick Draper , Scott Thomas , Hao Zhang

Applying Exclusion Likelihoods from LHC Searches to Extended Higgs Sectors

LHC searches for non-standard Higgs bosons decaying into tau lepton pairs constitute a sensitive experimental probe for physics beyond the Standard Model (BSM), such as Supersymmetry (SUSY). Recently, the limits obtained from these searches…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-09-30 Philip Bechtle , Sven Heinemeyer , Oscar Stal , Tim Stefaniak , Georg Weiglein