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Minimalism triumphant

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The discovery of a particle that looked like the Higgs boson marked a milestone for physics. Results reported since then are strikingly consistent with expectations for the Higgs particle of the minimal standard model of particle physics.

Since the announcement last July that a new kind of particle had been discovered at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, Europe's particle-physics laboratory near Geneva in Switzerland, a much fuller portrait of that particle has emerged. The two main experimental collaborations, ATLAS and CMS, reported a host of measurements in papers and presentations at last month's Moriond conference in La Thuile, Italy1,2. So far, all results remain consistent with the interpretation that the new particle is the Higgs boson anticipated in the minimal implementation of electroweak symmetry breaking in the standard model of particle physics.

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Figure 1: Decay modes of the Higgs particle.

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