Is the Higgs Boson Discovery at CERN Just a Rumor?

[sanman]

The following rumor has been spreading around the internet quite rapidly:

http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2011/04/newsflash-rumor-in-worlds-physicis-community-that-cerns-lhc-has-detected-the-higgs-boson-the-god-par.html

Is there any truth to this rumor? Does anybody have any insider knowledge or insight on whether it's true or not?

 

[BlueShamrock]

Hi

This is an internal note that has not been reviewed by the ATLAS collaboration. If it's a good analyzis then it will be released publicly, if not...
I talked to people in ATLAS yesterday, they were kind of pissed by this coming out before validation. There are important discussion ongoing in ATLAS about the way the authors did the analysis. So wait and see

 

[Vanadium 50]

As pointed out, this is not an official result of the ATLAS collaboration.

Since "It is against our Posting Guidelines to discuss, in most of the PF forums or in blogs, new or non-mainstream theories or ideas that have not been published in professional peer-reviewed journals or are not part of current professional mainstream scientific discussion" we'll have to wait until there is more than gossip to discuss it here.