HiggsBounds-5: Testing Higgs Sectors in the LHC 13 TeV Era

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We describe recent developments of the public computer code HiggsBounds.

• In particular, these include the incorporation of LHC Higgs search results from Run 2 at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV, and an updated and extended framework for the theoretical input that accounts for improved Higgs cross section and branching ratio predictions and new search channels.
• We furthermore discuss an improved method used in HiggsBounds to approximately reconstruct the exclusion likelihood for LHC searches for non-standard Higgs bosons decaying to $\tau\tau$ final states.
• We describe in detail the new and updated functionalities of the new version HiggsBounds-5.