ANR

HiggsAutomator

Tools for automatic calculations in general theories

 UPMC CNRS

HiggsAutomator is a jeune chercheur project funded by the Agence National de Recherche, which began on 1st October 2015.

The team is composed as follows:

The group also includes students Manuel Utsch and Sophie Williamson. Our former student student Johannes Braathen contributed to the project and still works on related topics.

The team is part of the Particle Physics and Cosmology group at the LPTHE.

Project description

Although there are many indirect signs of new physics, it is certain that current bounds on new physics that can couple significantly to the Higgs boson present new challenges for understanding the mass of the Higgs, whatever new discoveries may or may not be made. The aim of this project is to develop theory and automatic tools to understand the implications for generic new physics of this quantity, taken in combination with the (new) information about the Higgs production and decays. The idea is to be able to use these experimentally well-determined quantities to automatically determine the viability of any new physics model. Specifically this will involve performing calculations and writing codes which will in turn write bespoke code for any given model to calculate the properties of the Higgs: mass, production and decays. This will give quantitative answers to questions such as: should we still be searching for superpartners at the LHC?

Background reading

Some important results related to the project: There is a close connection with SARAH, the spectrum-generator-generator by F. Staub.

A full list of results is posted here as they are released!