Scientists from CERN claim to have found God particle

The European Commission confirmed that 30 scientists supported by the EU funding were involved in the discovery of the Higgs Boson or so-called 'God Particle'. The sub-atomic particle, which experts believe is the basis for all matter in the Universe, was identified at CERN, the European nuclear research facility in Geneva, Switzerland.

The Higgs boson, often referred to as the 'God particle', has been found according to what it was reported by scientists from the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva, Switzerland on 4 of July. The latest preliminary results from two experiments involved in the search for the long sought Higgs particle. In particular, the 30 scientists that are part of the two teams of scientists who claim to have discovered a new particle consistent with the Higgs boson particle, after a 45-year hunt to explain how matter attains its mass, have been supported by the European Union's Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, such as the ones opened in 2012.

The 'God particle' first appeared in a theory detailed in 1964 by a team of physicists led by Peter Higgs at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. Finding the particle proves that there is an energy field that fills the vacuum of the observable universe. It plays the crucial role of giving mass to certain subatomic particles that are the building blocks of matter. The Higgs field is thought to have switched on a trillionth of a second after the big bang that blasted the Universe into existence. Without it, or something to do its job, the structure of the Universe would be radically different to what it is today.

According to the two teams of scientists, the results presented in Geneva are labelled as preliminary. They are based on data collected in 2011 and 2012, with the 2012 data still under analysis. Publication of the analyses revealed this week should appear around the end of July with a more complete picture of the observations expected later this year. The next step will then be to determine the precise nature of the particle and its significance for our understanding of the Universe.