Well, it does go on to say:<p>> This observation, which has a significance of 5.9 standard deviations, corresponding to a background fluctuation probability of 1.7x10^-9, is compatible with the production and decay of the Standard Model Higgs boson.<p>Technically it could be another particle with a 126GeV mass, though that's hopefully something more experiments will show one way or the other.
"1 the western equivalent value is 1'390 kCHF. 2 the western equivalent value is 5'450 kCHF"<p><a href="http://lhcb.ecm.ub.es/spd/spd/General%20information/spd_cost_tdr.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://lhcb.ecm.ub.es/spd/spd/General%20information/spd_cost...</a>
The Higgs wasn't the only predicted particle that evidence has been found for recently. It looks like the Fermi gamma-ray telescope found some decent evidence that cosmological dark matter is composed of neutralinos, which have a rest mass, oddly, about half that of the Higgs:<p>Evidence for gamma-ray halos around galaxy clusters: <a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/1201.1003" rel="nofollow">http://arxiv.org/abs/1201.1003</a><p>Evidence for a 130 GeV spike in gamma-ray emissions in certain locales: <a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/1205.1045" rel="nofollow">http://arxiv.org/abs/1205.1045</a>