You're misunderstanding the quoted passage. In either case it would be the Higgs that they were searching for.
The uncertainty is about the structure that exists beyond the standard model. Some sort of Higgs is still necessary in almost any extension to this model, which is why everyone was so damn certain it would be found.
The uncertainty is about the structure that exists beyond the standard model. Some sort of Higgs is still necessary in almost any extension to this model, which is why everyone was so damn certain it would be found.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higgs_boson#Alternative_models