Experimental High Energy Physics group of Bose Institute (BI) has been awarded the Breakthrough Prize 2025 in Fundamental Physics as a part of ALICE at CERN.
About the Breakthrough Prize 2025
About CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research)
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- Prize for 2025 is awarded to researchers from more than 70 countries representing four experimental collaborations at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) – ATLAS, CMS, ALICE and LHCb.
- It 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 (LHC).
Four experimental collaborations at CERN’s LHC
- A Toroidal LHC Apparatus (ATLAS): Largest detector ever constructed for a particle collider.
- Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS): It is a general-purpose detector with programme ranging from studying Standard Model (including Higgs boson) to searching for extra dimensions and particles that could make up dark matter.
- A Large Ion Collider Experiment (ALICE): It studies the Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP), a state of extremely hot and dense matter that existed in the first microseconds after the Big Bang.
- Large Hadron Collider beauty (LHCb): Specializes in investigating slight differences between matter and antimatter by studying a type of particle called the "beauty quark" or "b quark".
- b Quark is the second-heaviest known quark with a negative one-third electric charge of the elementary charge of electron.
