The ATLAS detector being installed at CERN. The silver ring resembling a sunflower is one of the two, three-story-tall detectors built by UTA faculty and students and shipped in pieces to Switzerland. (IMAGE)
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Scientists from The University of Texas at Arlington are among the researchers worldwide recognized with the 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics for their contributions to the ATLAS Experiment.
The $1 million award honors the team’s groundbreaking work at the Large Hadron Collider at the European Organization of Nuclear Research, known as CERN—the world’s largest particle physics laboratory—which led to the discovery of the Higgs boson, often called the “God particle” for its key role in explaining the existence of mass in the universe.
“For more than 20 years, hundreds of UTA faculty and students have contributed to a long list of discoveries and thousands of publications on fundamental physics emanating from the ATLAS collaboration, most notably the discovery of the Higgs boson particle that led to a Noble Prize in 2013,” said Kaushik De, professor of physics who has led the ATLAS project at UTA since 1995. “We are humbled and proud to see our hard work recognized by the Breakthrough Prize.”
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