We were recently awarded the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics as members of the CMS Collaboration, for our work in the Run 2 campaign of the Large Hadron Collider! This award recognizes the immense effort by many people over the last several years to keep expanding our understanding of the universe and of fundamental physics.
The citation for the CMS award reads:
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.
The prize ($1M) was donated to the CERN & Society Foundation for grants to doctoral students from the CMS member institutes to spend research time at CERN.
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