Searching for the Higgs Boson

Cosmic Variance finally got themselves an experimentalist, John Conway of CDF, and he hits the ground running with a nice post about the search for the Higgs boson:

I've been looking for the Higgs boson for almost 20 years.

So there I was, on a Saturday morning in December, at CERN as it so happened, when I saw the graph we'd been working towards all year. At first I thought it was some mistake - the hair literally rose up on the back of my neck, and I said: "Holy crap! What's that?"

This is only part one of the description, and like a good author, he leaves the reader in suspense. It's a promising start, though.

(Also, I'd like credit for not using a post title like "Who Put the Bump..." Thank you.)

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Did I miss something? Did Joanne leave CV? I seem to recall her poking fun at her blog mates from time to time about acting like there wasn't a house experimentalist. Did I misunderstood her specialty perhaps?