2025 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics
The CMS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. (Photo: CERN)Three academics from University of Colombo are among the researchers honoured with the 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics, awarded to the collaborators of ATLAS, CMS, ALICE, and LHCb. This prize recognizes detailed measurements of Higgs boson properties confirming the symmetry-breaking mechanism of mass generation, the…