{"id":25825,"date":"2025-04-07T16:18:11","date_gmt":"2025-04-07T10:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/?p=25825"},"modified":"2025-04-07T16:18:13","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T10:33:13","slug":"the-lhc-experiment-collaborations-at-cern-receive-breakthrough-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/the-lhc-experiment-collaborations-at-cern-receive-breakthrough-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"The LHC experiment collaborations at CERN receive Breakthrough Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics was awarded to the ALICE, ATLAS, CMS and LHCb collaborations during a ceremony held in Los Angeles on 5 April<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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SANTA MONICA, CALIFORNIA (L-R) Andreas Hoecker, Patricia McBride, Marco van Leeuwen, and Vincenzo Vagnoni accept onstage during the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics the 11th Breakthrough Prize Ceremony at Barker Hangar on April 05, 2025 in Santa Monica, California. PHOTO: <\/strong>Lester Cohen\/Getty Images for Breakthrough Prize<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n

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Geneva, 7 April 2025. <\/strong>This weekend, theALICE<\/a>,\u00a0ATLAS<\/a>,\u00a0CMS<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0LHCb<\/a>\u00a0collaborations at\u00a0the\u00a0Large Hadron Collider<\/a>\u00a0at CERN were honoured with the\u00a0Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics<\/a>\u00a0by the Breakthrough Prize Foundation. The prize is awarded to the four collaborations, which unite thousands of researchers from more than 70 countries, and concerns the papers authored based on LHC Run-2 data up to July 2024. It was received by the spokespersons who led the collaborations during that time.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The prize was awarded to the collaborations for their \u201cdetailed measurements of Higgs boson properties confirming the symmetry-breaking mechanism of mass generation, the discovery of new strongly interacting particles, the study of rare processes and matter-antimatter asymmetry, and the exploration of nature at the shortest distances and most extreme conditions at CERN\u2019s Large Hadron Collider\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI am extremely proud to see the extraordinary accomplishments of the LHC collaborations honoured with this prestigious Prize,\u201d said Fabiola Gianotti, Director-General of CERN. \u201cIt is a beautiful recognition of the collective efforts, dedication, competence and hard work of thousands of people from all over the world who contribute daily to pushing the boundaries of human knowledge.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Following consultation with the experiments\u2019 management teams, the Breakthrough Prize Foundation will donate the $3 million Prize to the CERN & Society Foundation<\/a>. The Prize money will be used to offer grants for doctoral students from the collaborations\u2019 member institutes to spend research time at CERN, giving them experience in working at the forefront of science and new expertise to bring back to their home countries and regions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ATLAS and CMS are general-purpose experiments, which pursue the full programme of exploration offered by the LHC\u2019s high-energy and high-intensity proton and ion beams. They jointly announced the discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012 and continue to investigate its properties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“This prize recognises the collective vision and monumental effort of thousands of ATLAS collaborators worldwide”, says ATLAS spokesperson Stephane Willocq. “Their talent and dedication, and the support of our public funding agencies, enabled the scientific breakthroughs that are being celebrated today. These results have transformed our understanding of the Universe at the most fundamental level.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“CMS is deeply honoured to receive this prestigious prize,\u201d said CMS spokesperson Gautier Hamel de Monchenault. \u201cThrough continuous innovation in exploiting the data from the Large Hadron Collider over the past fifteen years, the CMS collaboration is conducting a thorough characterisation of the Higgs boson, exploring the electroweak scale and beyond and probing the hot, dense state of nuclear matter that prevailed in the early Universe.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ALICE studies quark-gluon plasma, a state of extremely hot and dense matter that existed in the first microseconds after the Big Bang, while LHCb explores minute differences between matter and antimatter, violation of fundamental symmetries and the complex spectra of composite particles (\u201chadrons\u201d) made of heavy and light quarks, among other things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe ALICE collaboration is honoured to receive the Breakthrough Prize for the investigation of the properties of the hottest and densest matter available in a laboratory, quark-gluon plasma\u201d, says ALICE spokesperson Marco Van Leeuwen. \u201cThe new grants funded through this prize will contribute to training the next generation of ALICE scientists.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The award of the 2025 Breakthrough Prize is a great honour for the LHCb collaboration. It underlines the importance of the many measurements made by the LHCb experiment in flavour physics and spectroscopy through the exploration of subtle differences between matter and antimatter and the discovery of several new heavy quark hadrons\u201d, says LHCb spokesperson Vincenzo Vagnoni.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By performing these extraordinarily precise and delicate tests, the LHC experiments have pushed the boundaries of knowledge of fundamental physics to unprecedented limits. They will continue to do so with the upcoming upgrade of the Large Hadron Collider, the High-Luminosity LHC, which aims to ramp up the performance of the LHC, starting in 2030, in order to increase the potential for discoveries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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