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FlexibleDecay: An automated calculator of scalar decay widths

9 Jun 2021arXiv:2106.05038links table onlyarchive 2025-07-28

Peter Athron, Adam Büchner, Dylan Harries, Wojciech Kotlarski, Dominik Stöckinger, Alexander Voigt

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We present FlexibleDecay, a tool to calculate decays of scalars in a broad class of BSM models. The tool aims for high precision particularly in the case of Higgs boson decays. In the case of scalar and pseudoscalar Higgs boson decays the known higher order SM QED, QCD and EW effects are taken into account where possible. The program works in a modified M̅S̅ scheme that exhibits a decoupling property with respect to heavy BSM physics, with BSM parameters themselves treated in the M̅S̅/D̅R̅-scheme allowing for an easy connection to high scale tests for, e.g., perturbativity and vacuum stability, and the many observable calculations readily available in M̅S̅/D̅R̅ programs. Pure BSM effects are taken into account at the leading order, including all one-loop contributions to loop-induced processes. The program is implemented as an extension to FlexibleSUSY, which determines the mass spectrum for arbitrary BSM models, and does not require any extra configuration from the user. We compare our predictions for Higgs decays in the SM, singlet extended SM, type II THDM, CMSSM and MRSSM, as well as for squark decays in the CMSSM against a selection of publicly available tools. The numerical differences between our and other programs are explained. The release of FlexibleDecay officially deprecates the old effective couplings routines in FlexibleSUSY.

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