  A new particle - discovered recently with the Atlas and CMS detectors at LHC
- has been interpreted as the long sought Higgs-boson. A corresponding scalar
field is needed to make the weak interaction gauge invariant and to understand
the quark masses in the Standard Model.
  However, the Standard Model is an effective theory with quark masses, which
can be understood only in a fundamental theory. Such a theory has been
constructed, based on a generalised second order extension of QED, in which the
quarks can be understood as effective fermions with masses given by binding
energies in a boson-exchange potential. In the present approach the
Higgs-mechanism is not needed.
  In this framework a good understanding of particles in the "top" regime is
obtained. Two J^\pi=1^- q-qbar states are predicted, identified with Z(91.2
GeV) and the t-tbar state at about 350 GeV. Further, two 0^+ q-qbar states are
obtained, one with a mass consistent with that of the new particle, the other
with a mass of about 41 GeV. A detection of the second scalar state will serve
as a crucial test of the present model.
