What was the rest mass of the ZZ pair found at the LHC?

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Nice.

Incidentally, if you follow the link at the bottom of the article and go to the original talk, near the end of the talk (~pg20), they note the rest mass of the ZZ pair to be 200 Gev, which is in the heart of an "excluded" Higgs mass region, so probably not a Higg's sighting yet.
 

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