The Tau Neutrino Has Finally Been Seen. Has the Higgs also been Seen?

Twenty‐five years after the discovery of the tau lepton $(τ±),$ its neutrino $(ντ)$ has at long last been detected. At a Fermilab seminar in July, Byron Lundberg of the international DONUT (Direct Observation of Nu Tau) collaboration reported that five months of exposing a photographic‐emulsion target to an intense neutrino beam from the Tevatron had netted four identifiable $ντ$ interactions.