CMS experimental collaboration featuring IIT-H physicists bags Breakthrough Prize

The recognition reflects the collective efforts and dedication of thousands of scientists, says IIT-H Director Prof BS Murty

Sangareddy: The Fundamental Physics Breakthrough Prize, a prestigious global award in the field of Physics, has been awarded to Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experimental collaboration that had active participation of researchers from Department of Physics at the Indian Institute of Technology-Hyderabad (IIT-H).

Also known as the Fundamental Physics Prize, it is awarded to physicists from theoretical, mathematical, or experimental physics who have made “transformative contributions to fundamental physics and specifically for recent advances”.

The 2025 Breakthrough Prize has been awarded to the co-authors of publications from the large experimental collaborations based at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, that is the CMS, ATLAS, ALICE and LHCb experimental collaborations. The prize was awarded to the collaborations for their “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.

Dr Saranya Ghosh, Assistant Professor with the Department of Physics at IIT-H, is listed as one of the laureates of the Fundamental Physics Breakthrough Prize 2025 on their webpage as a member of the CMS collaboration.

Elated on the achievement, Dr Saranya Ghosh said it is indeed a proud moment for her and all the members of the experimental collaborations to have received this recognition following years of dedicated effort. IIT-H Director Prof BS Murty said that the recognition reflects the collective efforts and dedication of thousands of scientists, and “I’m especially proud of the growing role India and IIT-H are playing in high-energy physics research”.