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. It was out at the experimental collaborations ATLAS, CMS, ALICE, and LHCb. The $3 million prize is for these four experiments at CERN. The collaborations will use this to offer grants for doctoral students from member institutes to spend research time at CERN. This gives the students experience of working at the forefront of science. They bring back this expertise to their home countries and regions. 5,345 researchers were part of it in ATLAS, while 4,550 researchers in CMS; 1,869 researchers were in ALICE, and 1,744 researchers were in LHC.
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India Celebrates Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics
Indian scientists and researchers have played a significant role in the international collaboration. It was for the ALICE (A Large Ion Collider Experiment) and the CMS (Compact Muon Solenoid) experiments. Several Indian institutes, universities, and scientists have contributed both intellectually and technically to the experiment’s success. From detector development to data analysis, various teams of Indian researchers were a part of every stage of the experiments. These contributions underscore India’s commitment to global scientific collaboration and its pivotal role in the success of the LHC experiments.
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. We celebrate its significant contributions to the experiments and the LHC infrastructure.
