The two CERN collaborations, ATLAS and CMS, are trying to independently find the Higgs and confirm each other’s results. Each excludes a standard-model Higgs above 135GeV at above 95% confidence (to about 450 GeV if I recall) and ATLAS finds an excess around 126 GeV consistent with a Higgs at this mass. CMS finds a very slight excess, slightly displaced from (around 124 GeV) though roughly consistent with the ATLAS result. It’s not a detection yet (ATLAS would need more statistical significance on their excess), but it’s tantalizing. They’ll continue running and analyzing data next year, and hopefully we’ll know for sure!
Here are some tweets/retweets from the live cast in chronological order:
https://twitter.com/#!/pixieza/status/146557677034684418
https://twitter.com/#!/corbett_inc/status/146576936154570752
https://twitter.com/#!/corbett_inc/status/146577288195088384
https://twitter.com/#!/corbett_inc/status/146579901825298432
https://twitter.com/#!/corbett_inc/status/146580173641355264
https://twitter.com/#!/corbett_inc/status/146582013527330816
https://twitter.com/#!/corbett_inc/status/146583032130842627
https://twitter.com/#!/corbett_inc/status/146583773155299330
https://twitter.com/#!/corbett_inc/status/146584471242674176
https://twitter.com/#!/corbett_inc/status/146585033849831424
https://twitter.com/#!/corbett_inc/status/146585386926350336
https://twitter.com/#!/corbett_inc/status/146586814130556928
https://twitter.com/#!/corbett_inc/status/146587547055833088
https://twitter.com/#!/corbett_inc/status/146587827365359616
https://twitter.com/#!/corbett_inc/status/146589088508690432
https://twitter.com/#!/corbett_inc/status/146590133657935874
https://twitter.com/#!/corbett_inc/status/146590619714859008
https://twitter.com/#!/CMSexperiment/status/146589749526806528
https://twitter.com/#!/pioutreach/status/146589256922570752
https://twitter.com/#!/corbett_inc/status/146591430855499776
https://twitter.com/#!/ladyisilien/status/146587907015192576
https://twitter.com/#!/corbett_inc/status/146592103609282560
https://twitter.com/#!/FQXi/status/146590982165643264
https://twitter.com/#!/corbett_inc/status/146593368644923392
https://twitter.com/#!/corbett_inc/status/146593720899346433
https://twitter.com/#!/lirarandall/status/146593756500590592
https://twitter.com/#!/corbett_inc/status/146594517888417792
https://twitter.com/#!/corbett_inc/status/146594973515657217
https://twitter.com/#!/corbett_inc/status/146595642402275329
https://twitter.com/#!/sc_k/status/146596067406917634
https://twitter.com/#!/CMSexperiment/status/146595470091886592
https://twitter.com/#!/aaronsw/status/146589926161530880
https://twitter.com/#!/corbett_inc/status/146598299489673216
https://twitter.com/#!/chrisenorth/status/146593351242743809
https://twitter.com/#!/corbett_inc/status/146602331897741312
https://twitter.com/#!/corbett_inc/status/146602331897741312
https://twitter.com/#!/corbett_inc/status/146602646143377408
https://twitter.com/#!/corbett_inc/status/146602901404524545
https://twitter.com/#!/corbett_inc/status/146603195005808641
https://twitter.com/#!/corbett_inc/status/146604450348404736