The Higgs boson is now even more of a sure thing. ATLAS, one of two experiments behind last month's discovery of the elusive particle, has carried out a more complete analysis of its original result. This boosts the statistical significance of ATLAS's observed Higgs signal from 5 sigma to nearly 6 sigma, meaning the chance of it being due to background processes has sunk to 2 in a billion.
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