Effective Lagrangian for a light Higgs-like scalar

We reconsider the effective Lagrangian that describes a light Higgs-like boson and better clarify a few issues which were not exhaustively addressed in the previous literature. In particular we highlight the strategy to determine whether the dynamics responsible for the electroweak symmetry breaking is weakly or strongly interacting. We also discuss how the effective Lagrangian can be implemented into automatic tools for the calculation of Higgs decay rates and production cross sections. Finally, we present eHDECAY, a modified version of the program HDECAY which includes the full list of leading bosonic operators of the effective Lagrangian and implements two benchmark composite Higgs models.