The Higgs boson is a particle that experts in Physics expected to find since about the 1960's. In July 2012 scientists at CERN said they had found something like the Higgs Boson and in 2013 CERN confirmed that the boson in question is some type of Higgs boson. The Higgs boson gives mass to most of the other Standard Model particles. It has a nonzero ground-state field value, and particles that can interact with it thus continuously feel its effects. The stronger the interaction, their greater their mass becomes.