CERN announced on 4 July 2012 that they had experimentally established the existence of a Higgs-like boson , but further work is needed to analyze its properties and see if it has the properties expected from the Standard Model Higgs boson .
On 4 July 2012 , CERN announced they had found a new particle much like the Higgs boson in experiments , but that more work was necessary to analyze its properties and see if it had the properties expected from the Standard Model Higgs boson .