Scientists from the University of Victoria are among global researchers honoured with the 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics for their work with the ATLAS Collaboration at CERN, an intergovernmental organization鈥痶hat operates the largest鈥痯article physics鈥痩aboratory in the world鈥攖he Large Hadron Collider (LHC).
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Mark Hartz and Dean Karlen receive a second round of CFI funding ($6.3M) for constructing and installing precision calibration systems in the Hyper-K particle detector under construction near Kamioka, Japan and to ensure the accuracy of the measurements performed by the Hyper-K instruments.
The Higgs boson, ten years after its discovery
Made-in-Canada laser first in world to manipulate antimatter
Successful laser cooling of antihydrogen by the ALPHA collaboration.
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