The 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Physics has been awarded to thousands of researchers from more than 70 countries representing four experimental collaborations, ATLAS, CMS, ALICE and LHCb, at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider. The citation on the website of the Breakthrough Prize reads:
“For detailed 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’s Large Hadron Collider.”
The $3 million prize will be used to fund PhD scholarships to support the next generation of ATLAS scientists through the CERN & Society Foundation.
The ATLAS-Canada team, which comprises 160 Canadian researchers, including 41 faculty members, from 10 Canadian institutions, have contributed to all aspects of the ATLAS project. Click here to read more about ATLAS-Canada.
Photo: Part of the ATLAS-Canada team, taken at a workshop at TRIUMF in July 2023.
The Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics was founded in 2012 by Yuri Milner to recognize those individuals who have made profound contributions to human knowledge. It is open to all physicists – theoretical, mathematical, experimental – working on the deepest mysteries of the Universe. For more information, please check out the website of the organization.