The Higgs Boson, nicknamed the God particle is the quantum of the theoretical Higgs field expected to have a non-zero vacuum expectation value thus, as the theory goes giving mass to every elementary particle that couples with the Higgs field, including the Higgs boson itself.
Experiments attempting to find the particle are currently being performed using the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. Now, CERN may have confirmed this theory. Scientists hunting for Higgs boson say they've found "intriguing hints" but not definitive proof that it exists, narrowing down the search and hope to reach a conclusion on whether the particle exists by next year. So if it does exist, it can help explain why there is mass in the universe.
It seems the data indicates the particle itself may have a mass of between roughly 114 and 130 billion electron volts. One billion electron volts is roughly the mass of a proton. The most likely mass of the Higgs boson is around 124 to 126 billion electron volts.
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