VISPA news

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 that operates the largest particle physics laboratory in the world—the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).

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

Successful laser cooling of antihydrogen by the ALPHA collaboration.