There were several "bogey Higgs" at different energies during earlier Tevatron and LHC runs. Maybe these were 3-5 events which hinted at a signal. Then they dis

There were several "bogey Higgs" at different energies during earlier Tevatron and LHC runs. Maybe these were 3-5 events which hinted at a signal. Then they disappeared. But the real Higgs was not confirmed until there were 40 events of two different decay paths at two different detectors, i.e. 5-sigma significance. Different runs and decay paths are like multiple replications.