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John Ellis,theoretical physicist, answers the question "What is the Higgs boson?" in preparation for the press conference following the seminar on LHC 2012 results on the Higgs boson search, due on July 4 2012 at CERN. For more details: http://cern.ch/press/PressReleases/Releases2012/PR16.12E.html

Scientists hunting the elusive subatomic "Higgs" particle will unveil findings on Wednesday that take them nearer to understanding how the Big Bang at the dawn of time gave rise to stars, planets and even life.

Physicists who have been smashing particles together at near light-speed at the CERN laboratory near Geneva have already seen tantalizing glimpses of the "Higgs boson", the missing piece of the fundamental theory of physics known as the Standard Model.

The world of science now awaits a mass of evidence big enough to be deemed a formal discovery. The secrecy surrounding Wednesday's announcement has fuelled speculation that nearly 40 years of research have reached a climax.

CERN accidentally released a video on its website briefly overnight announcing a "new particle" had been observed, but CERN representatives declined to comment on whether that was what would be announced later in the day.

"This video was released due to a technical glitch on our side here at CERN. The final results have not yet been released," CERN press officer Renilde Vanden Broeck said in Melbourne.

She said the organization had prepared several videos for a range of outcomes for Wednesday's announcement.

A CERN physicist who knows what will be announced said the discovery was not necessarily definitive.

"This is not a black and white answer which you should expect. This is an important stepping stone," Peter Jenni, former spokesman for the ATLAS collaboration, one part of the CERN research organization, told Reuters on Wednesday.
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