The Higgs boson or Higgs particle is a proposed elementary particle in the Stand ard Model of particle physics.

The Higgs boson is named after Peter Higgs who, a long with others, proposed the mechanism that suggested such a particle in 1964. [4][5][6] The existence of the Higgs boson and the associated Higgs field would be the simplest known method to explain why certain other elementary particles h ave mass. In this theory, an unseen field permeates all of space; this field has a non-zero value everywhere, even in its lowest energy state, and various other elementary particles obtain mass when they interact with it. The Higgs boson the smallest possible excitation of this field is predicted to exist by the same theor y, and as this would be detectable, it has been the target of a long search in p article physics. One of the primary goals of the Large Hadron Collider ("LHC") a t CERN in Geneva, Switzerland one of the most complicated scientific instruments e ver built was to test the existence of the Higgs boson and measure its properties which would allow physicists to confirm this cornerstone of modern theory. Because of its role in producing a fundamental property of elementary particles, the Higgs boson has been referred to as the "God particle" in popular culture, although virtually all scientists regard this as a hyperbole. According to the S tandard Model, the Higgs particle is a boson, a type of particle that allows mul tiple identical particles to exist in the same place in the same quantum state. It has no intrinsic spin, no electric charge, and no colour charge. It is also v ery unstable, decaying into other particles almost immediately after its creatio n. If the Higgs boson were shown not to exist, other "Higgsless" models would be considered. In some variants of the Standard Model there can be multiple Higgs bosons. By late 2011 a number of these experiments had gradually and consistently highli ghted a range of energies around 125 GeV (a unit of mass for particles). On 4 Ju ly 2012, the CMS and the ATLAS experimental teams at the Large Hadron Collider i ndependently announced that they each confirmed the formal discovery of a previo usly unknown boson of mass between 125 127 GeV, whose behaviour so far was "consis tent with" a Higgs boson, while adding a cautious note that further data and ana lysis were needed before positively identifying the new boson beyond doubt as be ing a Higgs boson of some type.