SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) offers its congratulations to the team at the European Organization for Nuclear Research, more commonly known as CERN, for discovering—at 99.9999 percent confidence—what is almost certainly the long-sought Higgs boson, an elementary particle that had been predicted to exist for theoretical reasons. Agilent is proud to have provided technology that played a part in this landmark discovery.
