On December 13, at the end of the 2011 running year, both
the ATLAS and the CMS collaborations made their Higgs search results
public in a single joint seminar. The two collaborations laid out their
multichannel analyses in what seemed like an endless set of statistical
statements. Furthermore, the reluctance to provide a"yes-or-no" answer
fueled some journalists to report the discovery of the "god particle"
while other decided that the LHC has rejected the Higgs mechanism. In
view of this confusion, I will discuss the results shown at CERN but
not before an introduction to the topic will be presented. A
description of the Higgs mechanism and the Standard Model need
for it will be followed by an explanation of the search for the Higgs
particle and the statistical statements made.