The LHCb collaboration has been awarded yesterday the 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics, together with the three other CERN’s Large Hadron Collider collaborations: ALICE, ATLAS and CMS, “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 prize has been awarded to all current and former members of the four collaborations who have authored Run-2 data papers by 15 July 2024.
The Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics is one of the Breakthrough Prizes awarded annually to physicists who have made significant contributions to the advancement of fundamental physics. The Breakthrough Prize was established in 2012 to celebrate the most impactful scientific work and to promote the importance of fundamental research to humanity.
The 2025 Laureates were unveiled today at a ceremony in Los Angeles, where the spokespersons of the four collaborations accepted the prize on behalf of all the winning scientists.
The Breakthrough Prize Foundation will donate 100% of the prize money of $3,000,000 to the CERN & Society Foundation. The prize money will be used by the collaborations to provide fellowships for PhD students from member institutes to spend research time at CERN, giving them experience of working at the forefront of science and new expertise to take back to their home countries and regions.
The images show artist’s views of members of the LHCb collaboration in front of the LHCb detector and an artist view CP violation effects.
Read more in the prize announcement and in the CERN press release in English and French.