14 DAY TRIAL // According to a number of physicists, the results recently produced by the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) and its Large Hadron Collider (LHC), which seem to reveal the Higgs boson, may in fact point to two other particles.
In other words, beside the fifth boson, there are two more particles that may have produced readings similar to the ones observed at the LHC. Physicists at the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory, in Illinois, say that a Higgs doublet or a Higgs triplet may yield similar readings.
At this point, no one knows for sure whether the LHC results pinpoint the Higgs with accuracy. When CERN officials made the announcement, they formulated the statement to read that the newly-found particle is “consistent with the long-sought Higgs boson.”
This means that the experiments, although a significant step forward, do not yet reveal the Higgs without a doubt, Technology Review reports.