I say as a U.S. citizen that stumbling accross the Higgs Boson at FNALs Tevatron would be great news. However, if CERN's LHC beats us to it, More power to them!

If the Higgs Boson exists, then perhaps the supersymmetric fermionic partner to the Higgs Boson called the Higgsino exists, in then in both matter and antimatter forms. The possibility that analogues within the still very theoretical extended supersymmetry theories may exist as well.

Either way, there is very much physics to explore, and much to learn.

The potential technological applications of the discovery of the Higgs Boson, and any super symmetric partners, and even extended super symmetric partners is equal to science fiction in profoundity and would seem to even surpass such.

The current particle physics community rests on the shoulders of giants like Fermi, Bohr, Dirac, Shroedinger, and the like. No doubt, these accelerators, the Tevatron, the LHC, the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider, and the Rare Isotope Accelerator may produce more intellectual giants by confirmation of the existence of new particles.