(GIST OF SCIENCE REPORTER) BREAKTHROUGH PRIZE IN FUNDAMENTAL PHYSICS

(JULY-2025)

India Celebrates Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics Awarded to Large Hadron Collider Experiments

The 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics is awarded to co-authors of publications based on CERN’s Large Hadron Collider Run-2 data released between 2015 and July 15, 2024, at the experimental collaborations ATLAS, CMS, ALICE and LHCb.
This prestigious award honours the collaborative and transformative research efforts that deepened our understanding of the Higgs boson, the quark-gluon plasma, matter-antimatter asymmetry, and physics beyond the Standard Model.
Scientific teams belonging to several institutes from across the world have been working in a collaborative manner to achieve the objectives of the CERN experiments.
India, a committed and active partner in the LHC program, proudly acknowledges this international recognition and celebrates its significant contributions to the experiments and the LHC infrastructure.

Operated by CERN, the Large Hadron Collider is the world’s most powerful particle accelerator, enabling high-energy proton and heavy-ion collisions to explore the structure of matter at the smallest scales.
It enables high-energy proton and heavy-ion collisions to probe the structure of matter.

CERN was founded in 1954 and based in Geneva, Switzerland, this organization is one of the world’s foremost centres for research in particle physics.
With 23 European countries as its members, its mission is to understand the fundamental structure of the universe by studying particles, the building blocks of matter.
India is an associate member.