Deep under the French-Swiss border, particle physicists at CERN's Large Hadron Collider have been looking for the Higgs boson - a subatomic particle which may or may not exist.

If they find the Higgs, then the Standard Model of physics is correct. But if they don't find it, or if they find something they didn't expect... it's back to the drawing board.

We'll find out on Wednesday 4 July when physicists gather in Melbourne for the 36th International Conference for High Energy Physics.

At 5 pm AEST on 4 July CERN will deliver the latest update in the search for the Higgs at a seminar and press conference held jointly in Geneva and Melbourne via a live two-way link.

At the Melbourne end, we'll be holding a series of briefings in the lead-up to the announcement.

Posted on behalf of CERN

Geneva, 22 June 2012. CERN* will hold a scientific seminar at 9:00CEST on 4 July to deliver the latest update in the search for the Higgs boson. At this seminar, coming on the eve of this year’s major particle physics conference, ICHEP, in Melbourne, the ATLAS and CMS experiments will deliver the preliminary results of their 2012 data analysis. 

• Where is the Higgs boson?
• Is supersymmetry dead?
• Do we need an even Larger Hadron Collider?
• What is dark energy and the new cosmology?
• And the latest on baryons, gluons, muons, kaons and other subatomic particles from the early universe.

The world’s high energy physics leaders meet in Melbourne in July to unveil the latest results in particle physics.