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They have not declared it to be "Higgs boson" yet.


Correct. We've found something that could potentially be the Higgs, but we do not know with certainty that it is the Higgs.

Code_primate explained it succinctly: http://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/w0tty/higgs_boson_c...


They have indeed discovered a Higgs Boson they're just not sure if its "the Standard Model" Higgs Boson yet.


The have discovered a boson, but it's unknown what it is. There's just three things we know about the new particle. Its mass, its charge (0) and that it has integer spin (0 or 2).




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