UST researchers honored with 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics

Scientists from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) are among the researchers worldwide honored with the 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics.

A team from HKUST has been a member of the European Organization for Nuclear Research's ATLAS collaboration since 2014, participating in the discovery of the Higgs boson, commonly known as the "God Particle", and searches for new physics beyond the Standard Model of Particle Physics.

Recently, they celebrated a significant achievement as the university's researchers, along with colleagues from around the world, were awarded the 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics, often referred to as the "Oscars of Science."

The university spokesman stated that this award not only recognizes the ATLAS collaboration for its groundbreaking studies on high-energy collisions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) but also validates the contributions of the university's researchers over the past decade.

The ATLAS Collaboration brings together over 6,000 scientists, students, engineers, and technicians from more than 243 institutes worldwide.

Since joining the collaboration in 2014, the Hong Kong research team, which consists of dozens of researchers, has been making significant contributions to the global scientific community's efforts to unravel the universe's most fundamental mysteries.