New results to be presented this week at a conference in India all but eliminate the mid-range where the Higgs – if it exists – might be found.
Physicists will now search for the boson at lower and higher energy ranges.
It is much more difficult to detect new particles in these ranges, however.
Nonetheless, LHC researchers still believe they will either have found the Higgs by the end of next year or confirmed that it does not exist in the form proposed by the current theory of subatomic particles and their interactions, called the Standard Model.
vía BBC News – Higgs boson range narrows at European collider.