A lot of money wasted to find such a small thing. Apparently these days a "bump" in some data is already enough to excite LHC-physicists...
Partly off-topic: Some comics about the Higgs boson (and there are more, e.g. if you search xkcd).
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May 16, 2011
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Nah, spot on target. We need more of that sort of stuff in this group, to stop people falling asleep.
May 22, 2011
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Good news, apparently they'll get the job done by next year. (Can you spot the two errors in the first 4 paragraphs of the article? Do they not have any scientists working for CBS?) Clearly the creator is not against the "God particle" being discovered, because he postponed the rapture for a while to give them time.
Dec 9, 2011
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Apparently a major announcement will be made very soon about the hunt for the Higgs. Quite exciting really!
Dec 13, 2011
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Quoting news:
Gianotti and Tonelli led two separate teams – one using Cern's Atlas detector, the other using the laboratory's Compact Muon Solenoid. At their seminar yesterday one team reported a 2.3 sigma bump in their data that could be a Higgs boson weighing 126GeV, while the other reported a 1.9 sigma Higgs signal at a mass of around 124GeV. There is a 1% chance that the Atlas result could be due to a random fluctuation in the data.
May 31, 2012
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Intriguingly, research looking for gamma ray signals that would be associated with the dark matter halo around our galaxy have found a statistically significant peak around 130 GeV.
These masses look awfully close together, but they are hypothesised to be entirely different particles. In a year the LHC will probably verify the Higgs discovery, and the other research may reach more conclusive results in a couple of years. Fascinating times for particle physics.
Have they detected one yet?
Having only just caught the news that the LHC might have detected a Higgs, I read that it probably has not. Oh well.