Press Conference: Update on the search for the Higgs boson at CERN on 4 July 2012

<!--HTML--><div style="text-align: center;"> <br /> <span id="inPlaceEditTitle"><span><span><strong>PRESS CONFERENCE<br /> Update on the search for the Higgs boson at CERN </strong></span></span></span><strong>on the eve of</strong><span id="inPlaceEditTitle"><span><span><strong> the ICHEP 2012 Conference</strong></span></span></span></div> <div style="text-align: left; "> Geneva, 22 June 2012.&nbsp;</div> <div style="text-align: left; "> Dear Journalists,</div> <div style="text-align: justify; "> CERN will hold a scientific seminar at 9:00 CEST on 4 July to deliver the latest update in the search for the Higgs boson. At this seminar, coming on the eve of the year&rsquo;s major particle physics conference, ICHEP, in Melbourne, the ATLAS and CMS experiments will deliver the preliminary results of their 2012 data analysis.</div> <div style="text-align: justify; "> <span>The seminar begins at </span>9:00 CEST<span>. The auditorium in which the seminar will be held is reserved for CERN personnel and researchers from the laboratory&rsquo;s user community, but a video stream will be relayed to another auditorium.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify; "> <span>A press conference will follow the seminar in presence of CERN Director General, Rolf Heuer, ATLAS spokesperson, Fabiola Gianotti and CMS spokesperson, Joe Incandela.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify; "> <span>Media wishing to <strong>attend</strong> the press conference on CERN site should fill in the registration form</span>.<br /> <span>Both the seminar and the following Q&amp;A will be webcast.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify; "> <strong><span>Webcast DOES NOT need registration. </span></strong><span>Journalists following the webcast may submit questions through Twitter using the hashtag #ICHEP2012.</span><br /> <br /> &nbsp;</div>