College of Hyderabad crew basks in world glory as Giant Hadron Collider wins 2025 Breakthrough Prize

A scientist strolling in a tunnel contained in the European Organisation for Nuclear Analysis (CERN) Giant Hadron Collider, throughout upkeep works on July 19, 2013, in Meyrin, close to Geneva. File
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The Giant Hadron Collider (LHC) experiment at CERN — Europe’s premier analysis centre for particle physics and residential to the world’s largest particle accelerator — that received the 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Basic Physics has an Indian connection. A crew led by Bhawna Gomber on the Centre for Superior Examine in Electronics, Science and Know-how (CASEST), Faculty of Physics, College of Hyderabad (UoH), performed a key function within the experiment, the college stated on Tuesday.

The Breakthrough Prize honours the work of worldwide scientists at CERN who’ve expanded understanding of the universe’s elementary nature. The LHC experiment, which incorporates the groundbreaking 2012 discovery of the Higgs boson, has been central to those efforts.

Gomber’s crew on the UoH has contributed to the CMS (Compact Muon Solenoid) experiment at CERN by means of knowledge evaluation, set off electronics, and analysis in high-energy particle interactions. Their work focuses on exploring physics past the Customary Mannequin, significantly within the seek for darkish matter particles, giant additional dimensions and anomalous trilinear gauge couplings.

“We’re thrilled to see our years of effort recognised as a part of this world milestone. It’s a proud second not only for our crew, however for the Indian scientific group as a complete,” stated Gomber.

The experimental excessive vitality physics group at UoH was began by professors Bindu Bambah and Rukmani Mohanta by becoming a member of the NOVA collaboration and Indian institutes at Fermilab collaboration within the USA, a launch from UoH knowledgeable.