18–21 Jun 2012
Europe/Stockholm timezone

HiggsBounds and the HiggsSignals extension: status and prospects

19 Jun 2012, 16:20
40m
Oskar Klein Auditorium

Oskar Klein Auditorium

Talk Particle physics phenomenology Higgs physics

Speaker

Mr Tim Stefaniak (Bonn University)

Description

We present the current status of the public Fortran code HiggsBounds. The program confronts arbitrary Higgs sectors with the exclusion limits from direct Higgs searches at LEP, Tevatron and the LHC. We demonstrate a recent improvement of the model likeness criteria, which allows in particular Higgs searches combining different channels to be applied to a wider class of models. Furthermore, we shall discuss some ideas for a planned code extension (HiggsSignals), which tests the agreement of a model with possible future observations of a Higgs signal at the LHC.

Primary author

Mr Tim Stefaniak (Bonn University)

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