Scientists from UMass Amherst are among the thousands of researchers worldwide honored with the 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics, awarded to the ATLAS Collaboration at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) alongside its sister experiments ALICE, CMS and LHCb. Among the laureates are 36 scientists from the UMass Amherst research team, including 14 PhD students, who produced were part of the UMass Amherst research team for the awarded results based on the data collected at the LHC from 2015 to 2018.

More information in the Breakthrough Prize webpage and on the ATLAS webpage

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