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When was the first evidence of the Higgs boson announced?
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Quick Answer
On 4 July 2012, CERN announced the discovery of a new particle consistent with the Higgs boson.
The Full Story
On 4 July 2012, CERN announced the discovery of a new particle consistent with the Higgs boson, based on experiments at the Large Hadron Collider. The particle had a mass of about 125 gigaelectronvolts. The Higgs field helps explain why many fundamental particles have mass. The discovery completed the Standard Model of particle physics and led to the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics for François Englert and Peter Higgs.
Key Facts
1.Announcement date: 4 July 2012
2.Mass: about 125 GeV
3.Confirmed at the Large Hadron Collider
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