Breakthrough Prize 2025 Awarded to CMS Collaboration Featuring #IITHyderabad Physicists. The most prestigious Fundamental Physics Breakthrough Prize awarded to the CMS experimental collaboration, including researchers from IIT Hyderabad.
Highlights:
- CMS Collaboration Wins 2025 Fundamental Physics Breakthrough Prize for transformative contributions to particle physics at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider
- IIT Hyderabad Researchers from the Department of Physics actively participated in the award-winning CMS experiment
- Dr Saranya Ghosh, Assistant Professor at IIT Hyderabad, is listed as one of the laureates on the official Breakthrough Prize webpage
- Contributions include studies on the Higgs boson, search for new fundamental particles, and novel particle reconstruction techniques.
- IIT Hyderabad continues to lead cutting-edge research in experimental and theoretical particle physics, integrating advanced computational and machine learning tools