Professors Alexander Belyaev and Stefano Moretti have been honoured with the prestigious 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics

Many congratulations to Professors Alexander Belyaev and Stefano Moretti from our School of Physics and Astronomy who have been honoured with the prestigious 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics as members of the CMS collaboration.

The award celebrates landmark contributions to our understanding of the universe, specifically for detailed measurements of Higgs boson properties. The CMS (Compact Muon Solenoid) collaboration is one of four major experimental teams at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland recognised this year.

Professors Belyaev and Moretti contribute to the CMS experiment through their long-standing collaboration with the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, advancing particle physics at the interface of theory and experiment. The work has been enabled by the NExT Institute, co-founded by the University of Southampton and RAL, which supports pioneering research in theoretical and experimental particle physics.

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