The Higgs or not the Higgs?

The web site of the magazine "Science" of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) published on July 22, 2011, the article: "Particle Physicists Report Possible Hints of Long-Sought Higgs Boson" Read Article.

The article says: "Physicists working with the world's largest atom smasher may have spotted evidence of the long-sought Higgs boson. At least that's the unofficial result that has the 800 physicists here for the biannual Europhysics Conference on High-Energy Physics abuzz. Officially, experimenters working the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the European particle physics laboratory CERN, near Geneva, Switzerland, have merely ruled out vast ranges of potential masses for the Higgs, the particle key to physicists' explanation of how all other particles get their mass. But it's a slight excess in another region of mass that has people talking, especially as the LHC should be able to confirm or quash the putative signal within a year"...

The summary results for the Higgs particle searches by the 3600 physicists strong international CMS collaboration have been presented at the conference in Grenoble by professor Andrey Korytov (UF). The UF group is one of the largest US groups working at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN and it is among the leaders of the searches for the Higgs particle. The Higgs particle is hypothesized to be responsible for the existence of mass. Nearly 50 physicists from the UF Institute for High Energy Physics and Astrophysics and UF Instutute of Fundamental Theory are working in the CMS experiment at CERN, including professors Acosta, Avery, Field, Furic, Korytov, Konigsberg, Matchev, Mitselmakher and Yelton, as well as a number of postdocs, engineers, graduate and undergraduate students. The experiments at the Large Hadron Collider are expected to discover or rule out the existence of the Higgs particle in less than two years from now.