First, there are no new data in there — the LHC stopped
colliding protons back in November, and these latest results are
just rehashes of that earlier run. In the case of the Compact
Muon Solenoid (CMS), physicists have been able to look at
another possible kind of Higgs decay, and that allows them to
boost their Higgs signal from 2.5 sigma to 3.1 sigma. Taken
together with data from the other detector, ATLAS, Higgs’
overall signal now unofficially stands at about 4.3 sigma. In
other words, if statistics are to be believed, then this signal
has about a 99.996% chance of being right.Of course, no one is
declaring a discovery yet, and they shouldn't. Everyone is
waiting for the LHC to get back online with, hopefully, a higher
energy that will generate more data and more statistics. It has
to be at least 5-sigma from both CMS and ATLAS, together and
separately, I would think, for most high energy physicists to
consider the Higgs as being discovered.