A new year with new energy and new luminosities: 2012 holds the promise to close the question on the existence (or absence) of a Standard Model Higgs boson.

CMS has presented a rich variety of results at the Electroweak Interactions and Unified Theories sessions of the Rencontres de Moriond conference in La Thuile, Italy.

CERN, 13th December 2011

Science is closing in on the most elusive thing in the Universe.

Why would I care about the Higgs boson?

By combining their data ATLAS and CMS increase their sensitivity in the Higgs boson search

The hunt for the Higgs particle is well ahead of schedule, say researchers at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Earlier this year they said they would either discover the Higgs or confirm it does not exist by the end of 2012.

The CMS Collaboration at CERN released a paper today entitled "First Measurement of W⁺W⁻ Production and Search for Higgs Boson in pp Collisions at √s = 7 TeV". The paper is the first produced by CMS that includes searches for the Higgs boson at the LHC.