Breakthrough Prize 2025 awarded to CMS collaboration featuring IIT Hyderabad physicists
The 2025 Breakthrough Prize has been awarded to the co-authors of publications from the large experimental collaborations based at the Large Hadron Collider at European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), which has the four major experiments of CMS, ATLAS, ALICE and LHCb.
According to IIT-H, researchers, including faculty members and students, from the Department of Physics at IIT Hyderabad have been actively working on the CMS experiment, on research areas such as studies of the Higgs boson, search for new fundamental particles and forces, and particle reconstruction at detectors among others.
The Breakthrough Prize 2025 lists Assistant Professor at IIT-H Saranya Ghosh, a member of the CMS collaboration, as one of the laureates, according to IITH.
Mr. Ghosh, elated at the achievement, said the prize recognises years of dedicated effort and stressed that scientific progress that can be achieved through collaborative efforts. He hoped that young researchers and students will be further motivated to pursue fundamental research.
IITH Director B.S. Murty, recognising the collective efforts and dedication of thousands of scientists, said it was an honour to be part of a global collaboration that is expanding the frontiers of understanding the universe. He expressed satisfaction that the role of India and IITH in high-energy physics research was growing.
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