The CERN collaboration at the Large Hadron Collider has been awarded the 2024 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics for their pivotal role in advancing particle physics. The Cornell team is leading a significant upgrade of the CMS detector to support future discoveries as part of the High-Luminosity LHC project, slated to start in 2030. This upgrade aims to enhance data production and precision measurements of phenomena like Higgs boson properties, alongside exploring new exotic particles and matter-antimatter asymmetry.
The scale of the LHC physics program is huge. So many world-leading results have come out of these experiments, and we're just getting started.
The Breakthrough Prize recognizes these experiments for their "detailed measurements of Higgs boson properties confirming the symmetry-breaking mechanism of mass generation."
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