https://breakthroughprize.org/Laureates/1/L3992
The ALICE Collaboration is deeply honored to receive the 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics, awarded to international researchers from ATLAS, CMS, ALICE, and LHCb, at the CERN Large Hadron Collider!
Details at: https://breakthroughprize.org/Laureates/1
and ALICE details are in: https://breakthroughprize.org/Laureates/1/L3992
CERN Press Release: The LHC experiment collaborations at CERN receive Breakthrough Prize
The Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics is awarded to thousands of international researchers from the experimental collaborations ATLAS, CMS, ALICE, and LHCb at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider. The four experiments are recognised for testing the modern theory of particle physics — the Standard Model — and other theories describing physics that might lie beyond it to high precision using data from the LHC Run 2. This includes precisely measuring properties of the Higgs boson and elucidating the mechanism by which the Higgs field gives mass to elementary particles; probing extremely rare particle interactions, and exotic states of matter that existed in the first moments of the Universe; discovering more than 72 new hadrons; and setting strong bounds on possibilities for new physics beyond the Standard Model, including dark matter, supersymmetry and hidden extra dimensions. ATLAS and CMS are general-purpose experiments, which pursue the full program of exploration offered by the LHC’s high-energy and high-intensity proton and ion beams. They synchronously announced the discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012 and continue to investigate its properties. ALICE studies the quark-gluon plasma, a state of extremely hot and dense matter that existed in the first microseconds after the Big Bang. And LHCb explores minute differences between matter and antimatter, violation of fundamental symmetries, and the complex spectra of composite particles (“hadrons”) made of heavy and light quarks. By performing these extraordinarily precise and delicate tests, the LHC experiments have pushed the boundaries of fundamental physics to unprecedented limits.
