LHCb Collaboration
2025 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics
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.
Vincenzo Vagnoni (INFN, Bologna, spokesperson 2023 to 2026) accepted the prize on behalf of the collaboration. The $500,000 (of the $3 million prize) allocated to LHCb was donated to the CERN & Society Foundation for grants to doctoral students from member institutes to spend research time at CERN.
Names of the LHCb prizewinners are listed below.