… goes to the LHC experimental collaborations among which of course CMS. The website announces
The 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics is awarded 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. (ATLAS – 5,345 researchers; CMS – 4,550; ALICE – 1,869; LHCb – 1,744).
This prize is awarded to scientists from 70 countries that together have produced the important scientific publications based on the LHC Run-2 data up to July 2024 and the prize was received by the spokespersons who head the collaborations at that time. The explicit text was, that the prize was awarded for the
“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”.
It is a proud moment for the PPC, who has been part of this endeavor since the beginning of the data taking and we are glad to share it with all of our colleagues at the LHC. On to the Run-3 and the HL-LHC afterwards.