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CERN may not have discovered the elusive Higgs Boson in 2012, an international team of scientists has claimed.

In July 2012, observations made at CERN"s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) indicated the creation of Higgs Boson from collision of two accelerated protons. While subsequent analysis of data showed consistency with Higgs Boson, a recent study of the same data by a team of physicists, contends it is not an exclusive fit for Higgs Boson but could actually represent several other known particles, IB Times reported.

"The CERN data is generally taken as evidence that the particle is the Higgs particle. It is true that the Higgs particle can explain the data but there can be other explanations, we would also get this data from other particles," said a team member Mads Toudal Frandsen from University of Southern Denmark, in a press release.

The new study does not rule out Higgs Boson which may have been created in the collider. It claims that other particles, including what is a Techni-Higgs, could cause similar readings.

"The current data is not precise enough to determine exactly what the particle is. It could be a number of other known particles. We believe that it may be a so-called techni-higgs particle. This particle is in some ways similar to the Higgs particle - hence half of the name" Frandsen said.

The Higgs Boson creates the Higgs field, crucial for according mass to other elementary particles. While Higgs Boson is an elementary particle in the Standard Model, the Techni-Higgs is made of quarks which are bound by forces other than those described as four fundamental forces by the standard model, The Huffington Post explained.

"Techni-quarks may bind together in various ways to form for instance techni-higgs particles, while other combinations may form dark matter. We therefore expect to find several different particles at the LHC, all built by techni-quarks," Frandsen said.

The new study has been published in the journal Physical Review D.