# Higgs at last

1. Mar 20, 2013

### Demystifier

http://arxiv.org/abs/1303.1812

It seems that the recently discovered particle is indeed Higgs, as has been suspected.

2. Mar 20, 2013

Staff Emeritus
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.

3. Mar 21, 2013

### Staff: Mentor

"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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