Recently, I published a letter in this journal concerning an upper bound to the Higgs boson mass. This is an application of the so-called Standard Model.1 In deriving this bound, the assumption was made that perturbation theory was valid and that the coupling constant of the Higgs was less than one. In this model, the coupling constant is proportional to the mass, which explains the bound that turned out to be about 240 GeV. This was a very crude calculation. Now a particle has been identified that has a mass of about 126 GeV and appears to have at least some of the properties of the Higgs boson. The purpose of this note is to describe what is presently known experimentally and to signal what further experiments are necessary. There is nothing original in what I am going to say, but it may be of some pedagogical service.
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