Confirmed: Higgs Particle Discovered at CERN

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Why do you say that? Because now theorists say it is?

The paper says "if you assume a SM Higgs, and nothing else, there are no inconsistencies". The experiments have been saying that since...um...about July 4th.
 
"If you assume a SM W, and nothing else, there are no inconsistencies".
"If you assume a SM top, and nothing else, there are no inconsistencies". Well, the forward-backward asymmetry at Tevatron.

We have the same status for all known particles. Sure, the W-boson has more measured parameters, but that is just a quantitative difference, not a qualitative.
 

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