New
Scientist: Peter Higgs, whose name is attached to the
particle he helped predict, didn't know that CERN's ATLAS and
CMS experiments had seen the particle until the night before
the
4 July announcement. Although he never doubted the
correctness of his prediction, he didn't expect that CERN would
achieve the 99.99994% level of certainty so quickly. He is also
amazed by the attention and requests he's been getting; for
example, he's been asked to endorse a board game and to let a
microbrewery make a beer in his honor. Higgs tells
New Scientist's Jessica Griggs that he will probably
"get jittery" around the time of the announcement of the 2012
Nobel Prize in Physics. And because others also predicted the
particle's existence, he prefers to call the particle the "H
boson".
