Pith. sign in

REVIEW 26 cited by

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

Not yet reviewed by Pith; the record is open.

This paper has not been read by Pith yet. Machine review is queued; the pith claim, tier, and objections will appear here once it completes.

SPECIMEN: schema-true, not a live event

T0 review · schema-true

One-sentence machine reading of the paper's core claim.

pith:XXXXXXXX · record.json · timestamp

arxiv 2210.09332 v2 pith:JXV43Q2M submitted 2022-10-17 hep-ph

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

classification hep-ph
keywords codeshiggsboundshiggssignalssearchesbeenbosondataexperimental
verification ladder T0 review T1 audit T2 compute T3 formal T4 reserved
0 comments
read the original abstract

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 extension of the functionalities provided by both codes into the new HiggsTools framework. The codes have been re-written in modern C++ with native Python and Mathematica interfaces for easy interactive use. We discuss the user interface for providing model predictions, now part of the new sub-library HiggsPredictions, which also provides access to many cross sections and branching ratios for reference models such as the SM. HiggsBounds now implements experimental limits purely through json data files, can better handle clusters of BSM particles of similar masses (even for complicated search topologies), and features an improved handling of mass uncertainties. Moreover, it now contains an extended list of Higgs-boson pair production searches and doubly-charged Higgs boson searches. In HiggsSignals, the treatment of different types of measurements has been unified, both in the $\chi^2$ computation and in the data file format used to implement experimental results.

discussion (0)

Sign in with ORCID, Apple, or X to comment. Anyone can read and Pith papers without signing in.

Forward citations

Cited by 26 Pith papers

Reviewed papers in the Pith corpus that reference this work. Sorted by Pith novelty score.

  1. The 95 GeV Excess in Models with Two Higgs Doublets plus One Singlet: Model Distinction via Four-top Final States and Triple Higgs Couplings

    hep-ph 2026-07 conditional novelty 6.0

    Using the 95 GeV excess benchmarks, four-top production at HL-LHC and di-Higgs production at ILC500 can distinguish the N2HDM from the 2HDMS for pseudoscalar-mixing angles beyond a computed 'α4 limit'.

  2. Full Next-To Leading-Order Electroweak and QCD Corrections to the Relic Density in the CxSM

    hep-ph 2026-07 conditional novelty 6.0

    NLO QCD and electroweak corrections to the CxSM dark-matter relic density are computed and released in the public code RelExt@NLO; the corrections shift the allowed parameter region in both directions.

  3. Search for new scalars via $X \rightarrow SH \rightarrow b\bar{b}b\bar{b}$ in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 13$ TeV with the ATLAS detector

    hep-ex 2026-07 accept novelty 6.0

    No excess over background is found in ATLAS's first search for X→SH→4b, which sets 95% CL upper limits of 0.7 fb–2.6 pb on the production cross-section times branching ratio.

  4. TRSMScans

    hep-ph 2026-07 accept novelty 6.0

    TRSMScans is an automated zoom-optimization scanner that computes maximal allowed rates for asymmetric scalar production and decay chains in the TRSM (and potentially other ScannerS models) under all theoretical and e...

  5. Strong First-Order Electroweak Phase Transitions and Gravitational Waves in the Normal Two-Higgs-Doublet Model: A Comparative Study of the Four Yukawa Types and Thermal Resummation Schemes

    hep-ph 2026-07 accept novelty 6.0

    In the Normal 2HDM, SFOEWPTs are single-step and alignment-favoring across all four Yukawa types, yet Parwani versus Arnold–Espinosa resummation changes the viable heavy-mass range from ~1.6 TeV to ≲800 GeV and leaves...

  6. Interpreting Light Scalar Excesses and Heavy Scalar Cascades in the $\mu$-Term Extended NMSSM

    hep-ph 2026-06 conditional novelty 6.0

    Viable μNMSSM regions can fit the 95 GeV diphoton/bb anomalies and produce H→hhs and A2→hA1→4b cascades near the 650 and (600,400) GeV CMS structures.

  7. Probing Doubly Charged Higgs Bosons with Three-Body Associated Production at Future $e^+e^-$ Colliders

    hep-ph 2026-02 conditional novelty 6.0

    Doubly charged Higgs bosons in the type-II seesaw 2HDM can be produced via 2-to-3 associated channels at e+e- colliders with cross sections up to ~10^2 fb and good 4-lepton discovery sensitivity.

  8. Towards a Unified Framework for Pseudo-Nambu-Goldstone Dark Matter and Electroweak Baryogenesis

    hep-ph 2025-09 unverdicted novelty 6.0

    The cS2HDM unifies a pseudo-Nambu-Goldstone dark matter candidate with electroweak baryogenesis in a two-Higgs-doublet plus complex singlet setup, featuring naturally suppressed DM-nucleon scattering and CP-violating ...

  9. Investigating a strong first-order electroweak phase transition in the RxSM at future linear $e^+e^-$ colliders and LISA

    hep-ph 2026-03 conditional novelty 5.5

    In the RxSM, singlet-driven SFOEWPTs yield strong LISA GW signals with SM-like Higgs couplings, while doublet-driven ones yield large κ_λ deviations visible at ILC1000 but weak GWs.

  10. Reheating the FCC: Probing Early Matter Domination with Long-Lived Particles

    hep-ph 2026-07 conditional novelty 5.0

    FCC-hh displaced-vertex searches could probe Higgs-portal scalars whose decays ended an early matter-dominated era at temperatures from ~1 GeV to the electroweak scale.

  11. Dark Matter in the General 2HDM with Extra Top Yukawa Couplings

    hep-ph 2026-07 conditional novelty 5.0

    G2HDM plus a Z2-odd real scalar singlet yields viable top-window dark matter and six LHC benchmarks, including flavor-violating mono-top production of invisible H→SS.

  12. The neutral scalars of type-II 2HDM+S under the LHC

    hep-ph 2026-04 unverdicted novelty 5.0

    Exotic decays A/H to Z h_S or Z A_S exclude large regions of the type-II 2HDM+S parameter space for moderate tan beta values where conventional 2HDM channels are weak.

  13. LHC signatures of a light pseudoscalar in a flipped two-Higgs scenario: the usefulness of boosted $b{\bar b}$ pairs

    hep-ph 2026-04 unverdicted novelty 5.0

    Boosted di-b-jet tagging plus BDT analysis yields 5-10 sigma significance for a light pseudoscalar in flipped 2HDM with 3 ab^{-1} including 10% systematics.

  14. Intrinsic Properties of Large CP Violation in the Complex Two-Higgs-Doublet Model

    hep-ph 2025-12 unverdicted novelty 5.0

    Global scans of complex 2HDM show Type-I models maximize gauge CPV near light-Higgs degeneracy with high eEDM, Type-II suppress gauge CPV but permit large Yukawa CPV and low eEDM via cancellations, plus hidden CPV in ...

  15. New features in the Z2xZ2 3HDM two component DM model

    hep-ph 2025-11 unverdicted novelty 5.0

    Explores vacuum structure and constraints in a Z2xZ2-symmetric 3HDM with two inert doublets, identifying new viable two-component DM regions with comparable relic contributions.

  16. Machine Learning in the 2HDM2S model for Dark Matter

    hep-ph 2025-09 unverdicted novelty 5.0

    A 2HDM extended by two real scalar singlets is scanned with evolutionary strategies to locate regions satisfying vacuum, unitarity, oblique-parameter, collider and dark-matter constraints.

  17. Global analysis of a minimally extended scotogenic model

    hep-ph 2026-06 unverdicted novelty 4.0

    Numerical scan of minimally extended scotogenic model constrains fermionic DM to 120-350 GeV and CP-odd scalar to 350-600 GeV while noting DESI BAO data may rule out inverted neutrino hierarchy.

  18. BSMArt 2: simpler and faster parameter space scans

    hep-ph 2026-06 unverdicted novelty 4.0

    BSMArt version 2 adds new scanning algorithms including Affine MC, MLScanner, and CMA-ES variants to simplify and accelerate parameter space exploration in new physics models, demonstrated on soft lepton excess search...

  19. Kinematic Riffs and Interference Effects in Triple Higgs Production in the N2HDM

    hep-ph 2026-06 unverdicted novelty 4.0

    Interference effects and extra decay channels in N2HDM resonant triple Higgs production significantly alter kinematic distributions, limiting simplified approximations.

  20. Impact of hidden heavy Higgs channels of VLB-Quarks below 1 TeV in 2HDM

    hep-ph 2026-04 unverdicted novelty 4.0

    Hidden BSM decays of vector-like bottom quarks in 2HDM-II relax LHC mass limits from ~1.5 TeV to 1.34 TeV for singlets and 0.98 TeV for doublets.

  21. Probing Heavy Neutral Higgs Bosons via Single Vector-Like Bottom Quark Production at the HL-LHC

    hep-ph 2026-03 unverdicted novelty 4.0

    XGBoost multivariate analysis extends the 5-sigma discovery reach for singly produced vector-like bottom quarks decaying via heavy neutral Higgs bosons to 1.6 TeV at the HL-LHC with 3 ab^{-1}.

  22. Current status and prospects of light bino-higgsino dark matter in natural SUSY

    hep-ph 2026-02 conditional novelty 4.0

    In natural SUSY with Δ_EW<30, light bino-higgsino neutralinos are always subdominant dark matter (f≤0.02), and HL-LHC can probe the surviving parameter space.

  23. Interpretation of LHC excesses at 95 GeV and 152 GeV in an extended Georgi-Machacek model

    hep-ph 2025-11 unverdicted novelty 4.0

    A minimally extended Georgi-Machacek model accommodates the LHC excesses at 95 GeV and 152 GeV while preserving the 125 GeV Higgs signal and the electroweak rho parameter near unity.

  24. Global analysis of a minimally extended scotogenic model

    hep-ph 2026-06 unverdicted novelty 3.0

    Global analysis constrains fermionic DM to 120-350 GeV and CP-odd scalar to 350-600 GeV in a scotogenic extension, with DESI potentially ruling out inverted neutrino hierarchy and Z invisible width compatible with dat...

  25. Interpreting Light Scalar Excesses and Heavy Scalar Cascades in the $\mu$-Term Extended NMSSM

    hep-ph 2026-06 unverdicted novelty 3.0

    Viable regions in the μNMSSM accommodate the 95 GeV excesses within 2σ and allow heavy CP-even and CP-odd scalars to produce cascades close to current CMS sensitivity.

  26. Search for Dark Matter in 2HDMS at LHC and future Lepton Colliders

    hep-ph 2025-04 unverdicted novelty 3.0

    Benchmarks in the 2HDMS model with light to heavy dark matter masses are identified under all constraints and shown to have better discovery prospects at future lepton colliders than at the HL-LHC via cut-and-count analyses.