Computer Code: Higgsbounds And Its Application

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, the Tevatron and LHC. 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. The code has both a Fortran 77 and Fortran 90 version. The code can be invoked as a command line version, a subroutine version and an online version. It can be operated in a command line mode that can process input files in a variety of formats, as a subroutine suitable for inclusion in user applications, and as an online version, available at the URL: http://www.ippp.dur.ac.uk/HiggsBounds.