The 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics has been awarded to 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.
The prize has been awarded 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.
Patricia McBride (Spokesperson of the CMS collaboration from 2022 to 2024) accepted the prize on behalf of the collaboration. The prize money allocated to CMS (1 million USD) was donated to the CERN & Society Foundation for grants to doctoral students from member institutes to spend research time at CERN.
The current and former members of the PSI High-Energy Physics group who have been recognized as awardees are (in alphabetical order): Willi Bertl, Tiziano Bevilacqua, Lea Caminada, Konrad Deiters, Aliakbar Ebrahimi, Lars Edelmann, Wolfram Erdmann, Abderrahmane Ghimouz, Roland Horisberger, Quentin Ingram, Hans-Christian Kästli, Danek Kotlinski, Clemens Lange, Urs Langenegger, Beat Meier, Frank Meier, Marino Missiroli, Ennio Monteil, Aliya Nigamova, Jennifer Poehlsen, Dieter Renker, Tilman Rohe, Amrutha Samalan, Andrei Starodumov, Silvan Streuli and Stephan Wiederkehr.