High Energy and Particle Physics Prize

The High Energy and Particle Physics Prize of the European Physical Society (EPS). It was donated in 1989 and is awarded every two years at the International Europhysics Conferences on High Energy Physics.

Award winners

• 1989 Georges Charpak for the development of detectors (including multi-wire proportional chamber and other wire chambers )
• 1991 Nicola Cabibbo for contributions to the theory of weak interaction , which led to the concept of quark mixing
• 1993 Martinus Veltman , for the role of massive Yang-Mills theories in weak interaction
• 1995 Paul Söding , Bjørn Wiik , Günter Wolf , Sau Lan Wu for first indications of 3- jet events in electron-positron collisions at Petra at DESY
• 1997 Robert Brout , François Englert , Peter Higgs for the first formulation of a self-consistent theory of charged massive vector bosons , which formed the basis of the unified theory of the electroweak interaction of elementary particles
• 1999 Gerardus' t Hooft for pioneering work on the renormalization of non-Abelian gauge theories including their non-perturbation theoretical aspects
• 2001 Don Perkins for outstanding contributions to neutrino physics and for the use of neutrinos to elucidate the quark structure of nucleons
• 2003 David Gross , David Politzer , Frank Wilczek for fundamental contributions to quantum chromodynamics and the discovery of asymptotic freedom
• 2005 Heinrich Wahl for his leading role in experiments on CP violation and the NA31 collaboration which showed for the first time direct CP violation in the decay of neutral K mesons
• 2007 Makoto Kobayashi , Toshihide Maskawa for suggesting an experimentally successfully confirmed mechanism of CP violation in the Standard Model , which also predicted a third quark family
• 2009 Gargamelle collaboration at CERN for the observation of weak neutral currents
• 2011 Sheldon Lee Glashow , John Iliopoulos , Luciano Maiani for essential contributions to the flavor concept in the standard model
• 2013 Michel Della Negra , Peter Jenni , Tejinder Virdee and the Atlas and CMS collaboration at the Large Hadron Collider for the discovery of the Higgs boson .
• 2015 James D. Bjorken for his prediction of the scaling behavior in the structure of the proton, which led to a new understanding of the strong interaction; and Guido Altarelli , Yuri L. Dokshitzer , Lev Lipatov and Giorgio Parisi for the development of a probability-based field theory for the dynamics of quarks and gluons, which enabled a quantitative understanding of high-energy collisions involving hadrons.
• 2017 Erik HM Heijne , Robert Klanner , Gerhard Lutz for their contributions to the development of silicon microstrip detectors , which have revolutionized the measurement methods in high-energy experiments.
• 2019 Collider Detector at Fermilab and D0 collaboration for the discovery of the top quark and the determination of its properties.

Web links

• The High Energy and Particle Physics Prize regulations
• The High Energy and Particle Physics Prizes (Winner)

1. ↑ 2019 Awards. In: cern.ch. EPS High Energy and Particle Physics Division, May 20, 2019, accessed May 20, 2019 .