The 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics was awarded to international researchers from ATLAS, CMS, ALICE, and LHCb, at the CERN Large Hadron Collider for their “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 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. Among them there are our colleagues from Department of Nuclear and Subnuclear Physics (Institute of Physics) who are active within the ALICE Collaboration.
Names of winners from Department of Nuclear and Subnuclear Physics
Ishaan Ahuja, Veronika Barbasová, Marek Bombara, Zuzana Jakubčinová, Adela Kravčáková, Lucia Anna Tarasovičová, Klaudia Tropp, Lukáš Tropp, Martin Vaľa, Janka Vrlakova
The prize was officially announced by Jeff Bezos and Yuri Milner at the gala evening in Los Angeles on 5th of April in front of many scientific and Hollywood celebrities. It was received by the spokespersons who led the collaborations during 2024. The Prize money ($3 million) will be used to offer grants for doctoral students from the collaborations’ member institutes to spend research time at CERN.
We are happy that due to the collaboration of UPJŠ and CERN, our colleagues and students can contribute to crucial discoveries in physics.
Congrats to the laureates!
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