Eur. Phys. J. C (2015) 75: 440
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-015-3645-9

Special Article - Tools for Experiment and Theory

Lilith: a tool for constraining new physics from Higgs measurements

¹ Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie, Université Grenoble-Alpes, CNRS/IN2P3, 53 Avenue des Martyrs, 38026, Grenoble, France
² Center for Theoretical Physics of the Universe, Institute for Basic Science (IBS), Daejeon, 305-811, Republic of Korea

^* e-mail: bernon@lpsc.in2p3.fr

Received: 6 March 2015
Accepted: 28 August 2015
Published online: 21 September 2015

Abstract

The properties of the observed Higgs boson with mass around 125 GeV can be affected in a variety of ways by new physics beyond the Standard Model (SM). The wealth of experimental results, targeting the different combinations for the production and decay of a Higgs boson, makes it a non-trivial task to assess the patibility of a non-SM-like Higgs boson with all available results. In this paper we present Lilith, a new public tool for constraining new physics from signal strength measurements performed at the LHC and the Tevatron. Lilith is a Python library that can also be used in C and C++/ROOT programs. The Higgs likelihood is based on experimental results stored in an easily extensible XML database, and is evaluated from the user input, given in XML format in terms of reduced couplings or signal strengths.The results of Lilith can be used to constrain a wide class of new physics scenarios.