University of Arizona physicists among winners of prestigious Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics
Members of the ATLAS research collaborative stand in front of completed calorimeters. (Source: CERN)
Researchers from the University of Arizona are among the thousands worldwide honored with the 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics, awarded to the ATLAS Collaboration at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) Large Hadron Collider (LHC) alongside its sister experiments ALICE, CMS and LHCb.
ATLAS is one of the largest and most complex scientific instruments ever built, designed to investigate the fundamental building blocks of matter and the forces governing our universe. Its cutting-edge systems record particles produced in particle collisions at unprecedented energies, enabling discoveries like the Higgs boson and efforts to uncover new physics beyond the Standard Model.
The Breakthrough Prize specifically highlights the ATLAS Collaboration’s significant contributions to particle physics, including detailed measurements of Higgs boson properties, studies of rare processes and matter-antimatter asymmetry, and the exploration of nature under the most extreme conditions.