I (and most of my co-workers) found the report and plots a bit underwhelming. The most definitive piece of information is that they ruled it out from 127-600 GeV. They see an excess between 115-127 GeV, on multiple channels, but combined it's only about 3 sigma. Some of the channels show more than a 2 sigma
deficit at various energies, which must be due to statistics or analysis error. So I don't see any reason to get excited yet. (But as an accelerator physicist, I certainly hope that this will help to justify the next accelerator!)
"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind." — Albert Einstein
I am very astonished that the scientific picture of the real world around me is very deficient. It gives us a lot of factual information, puts all of our experience in a magnificently consistent order, but it is ghastly silent about all and sundry that is really near to our heart, that really matters to us. It cannot tell us a word about red and blue, bitter and sweet, physical pain and physical delight; it knows nothing of beautiful and ugly, good or bad, God and eternity. Science sometimes pretends to answer questions in these domains, but the answers are very often so silly that we are not inclined to take them seriously. — Erwin Schroedinger
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