Observation of a new particle in the search for the Higgs boson

Well, it does go on to say:<p>&#62; 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>

That's a lot of researchers, 3 Zimmerman's alone! Which 3 get their name on the Nobel Prize when it comes out?

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>