Bose Institute, Kolkata, team shares 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics through ALICE at CERN
The Experimental High Energy Physics group of Bose Institute, Kolkata, has been awarded the Breakthrough Prize 2025 in Fundamental Physics as part of the ALICE collaboration at CERN, the Science Ministry said on 17 April 2025.
Summary
The Experimental High Energy Physics group of Bose Institute, Kolkata, has been awarded the Breakthrough Prize 2025 in Fundamental Physics as part of the ALICE (A Large Ion Collider Experiment) collaboration at CERN, the Ministry of Science & Technology said on 17 April 2025. The $3 million prize is shared by thousands of researchers from more than 70 countries in four experimental collaborations at CERN's Large Hadron Collider: ATLAS, CMS, ALICE and LHCb. ALICE studies the quark-gluon plasma, the hot and dense matter that existed in the first microseconds after the Big Bang. Bose Institute, the only DST autonomous institute working in ALICE, built the Photon Multiplicity Detector, which was commissioned in ALICE in 2008 and took data until 2018.
Key facts
- Award
- Breakthrough Prize 2025 in Fundamental Physics ($3 million)
- Indian recipient
- Experimental HEP group, Bose Institute, Kolkata
- Collaborations honoured
- ATLAS, CMS, ALICE and LHCb at CERN's LHC
- ALICE studies
- Quark-gluon plasma
- Bose Institute's detector
- Photon Multiplicity Detector (2008–2018)
Practice MCQs 2 questions
Bose Institute, Kolkata, scientists received the 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics as part of which CERN collaboration?
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Correct answer: C — ALICE
ALICE (A Large Ion Collider Experiment); Bose Institute is the only DST autonomous institute working in ALICE.
Consider the following statements about the 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics: 1. The $3 million prize was awarded to researchers of four experimental collaborations at CERN's Large Hadron Collider. 2. The ALICE experiment primarily studies dark matter particles. Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
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Correct answer: A — 1 only
Only 1 is correct. The prize went to ATLAS, CMS, ALICE and LHCb; ALICE studies the quark-gluon plasma, not dark matter.