Scientists at CERN, the European Laboratory for Particle Physics, will make an announcement regarding the status of their searches for Higgs boson this week.
The elusive Higgs boson, dubbed 'the God particle', is a subatomic particle, which if found, could explain how particles acquire their mass.
According to Big Bang theory, the theory which describes the evolution of the universe over time, our universe is thought to have begun as infinitely small and searingly hot fundamental particles, which over the course of time cooled to 1000 billion degrees, resulting in the combination of those minute particles into composite particles like protons and neutrons.
The CERN is where the world's most powerful particle accelerator LHC, or Large Hadron Collider, is located. LHC is an atom smasher designed to unravel the deepest secrets of particle physics and pave way for a new understanding of the universe.
The LHC recreates a "Big Bang", namely the conditions that existed early in the evolution of the universe, on a microscale.
Two large experiments - ATLAS and CMS, are being conducted at the LHC to analyse the myriad of particles produced by the collisions in the accelerator.
According to a press release from the CERN, an update on the search for the Higgs boson by the ATLAS and CMS experiments will be presented at a seminar to be held on December 13. The results, which will be based on the analysis of considerably more data, are believed to be sufficient to make significant progress in the search for the God particle.
However, CERN has also warned that there may not be enough data to make any conclusive statement on the existence or non-existence of the Higgs.
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