- The so-called “Science Oscars” recognized this award to thousands of researchers who work on these collaborative projects with CERN.
- Members of the Nuclear and High Energy Physics and Technology group (FiTNAE) of CITENI of the Industrial Campus of the University of A Coruña participate in these collaborations.
A Coruña, April 7, 2025.- The collaborative projects ALICE, ATLAS, CMS and LHCb of the CERN Large Hadron Collider have just been recognized with the prestigious Breakthrough medal in Fundamental Physics, awards granted annually by the Breakthrough Prize Foundation, whose gala has just been held in Los Angeles.
On this occasion, the so-called “Science Oscars” in the Fundamental Physics category are awarded to thousands of researchers from more than 70 countries, who are part of these four collaborations.
This recognition of his scientific achievements is determined by the “detailed measurements of the properties of the Higgs Boson, which confirm the symmetry breaking mechanism in mass generation, the discovery of new particles with strong interaction, the study of rare processes and the matter-antimatter asymmetry, and the exploration of nature at the smallest distances and under the most extreme conditions at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider”
Some projects in which staff from the FiTNAE group of the Naval and Industrial Technologies Research Center of the Ferrol Industrial Campus of the UDC collaborate, coordinated by the Oportunius researcher Diego Martínez Santos, joined in these projects by Veronika Chobanova and Carlos Vázquez Sierra (researchers Ramón y Cajal and InTalent); Claire Prouvé (researcher Juan de la Cierva) and Jeremy Dalseno and PhD student John Wendel.
Some projects in which staff from the FiTNAE group of the Naval and Industrial Technologies Research Center of the Ferrol Industrial Campus of the UDC collaborate, coordinated by the Oportunius researcher Diego Martínez Santos, joined in these projects by Veronika Chobanova and Carlos Vázquez Sierra (researchers Ramón y Cajal and InTalent); Claire Prouvé (researcher Juan de la Cierva) and Jeremy Dalseno and PhD student John Wendel.
“From the UDC, the LHCb collaborators are proud to contribute from Galicia to this global achievement in Flavor Physics. This award highlights the value of public research, international collaboration and scientific training. We especially celebrate that the funds support doctoral students, strengthening the impact of CERN in our communities”, highlights Veronika Chobanova, co-coordinator of the LHCb group together with Diego Martínez and Jeremy Dalseno.
Fabiola Gianotti, Director General of CERN, described the award as “a beautiful recognition of the collective effort, dedication, competence and hard work of thousands of people from all over the world who contribute every day to expanding the boundaries of human knowledge.”
The Breakthrough Prize Foundation will donate the $3 million prize money to the CERN & Society Foundation. The prize money will be used to provide scholarships for doctoral students from the member institutes of the collaborations, with the aim of enabling them to undertake research stays at CERN, gaining experience working at the frontier of science and knowledge that they can take back to their home countries and regions.
By performing these extraordinarily precise and delicate tests, the LHC experiments have pushed the boundaries of our understanding of fundamental physics to unprecedented levels. They will continue to do so with the next upgrade of the Large Hadron Collider, the High Luminosity LHC, scheduled to start in 2030 and which aims to increase the LHC’s performance to increase the potential for new discoveries.
More information:
https://home.cern/news/press-release/knowledge-sharing/lhc-experiment-collaborations-cern-receive-breakthrough-prize
https://lhcb-outreach.web.cern.ch/
https://lhcb-outreach.web.cern.ch/2025/04/07/the-2025-breakthrough-prize-in-fundamental-physics-awarded-to-the-lhcb-collaboration/
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