http://blog.vixra.org/2012/06/24/higgs-discovery-on-the-brin...
There are some intriguing unexpected signals in the data that is public so far:
http://blog.vixra.org/2012/06/29/whats-the-deal-with-h-%E2%8...
http://blog.vixra.org/2012/06/24/higgs-discovery-on-the-brin...
There are some intriguing unexpected signals in the data that is public so far:
http://blog.vixra.org/2012/06/29/whats-the-deal-with-h-%E2%8...
Woit's comment is a pretty succinct explanation:
> The standard model gives very specific predictions for the behavior of the Higgs, which are fixed by the distinctive properties of the Higgs field (spontaneous breaking of the SU(2) gauge symmetry fixes how it interacts with gauge fields, giving mass to fermions fixes its interaction with them). These predictions have for a long long time shown that if the Higgs mass is 125 GeV, it could not be observed until the energies and luminosities of the LHC were available, and then it should be seen with certain specific signal sizes in certain specific decay channels.
> What the LHC experiments are seeing is, after decades of no such signal in these and similar channels, signals appearing in just the right channels, with roughly the right signal size. If this isn’t a Higgs, it’s something very like it.