ATLAS experiment

The awardees of this year’s ATLAS Outstanding Achievement Award included also a Czech scientist. Michal Svatoš, a researcher at the Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, was honoured for his fundamental contribution to the effective integration of supercomputers into the computing infrastructure of one of the largest physics experiments of our time – the ATLAS detector at the LHC accelerator at CERN.

Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics was awarded to CERN collaborations during a ceremony on 5 April in Los Angeles.  The prize goes to the ALICE, ATLAS, CMS and LHCb collaborations, which bring together scientists from more than 70 countries. 

During the International Conference on High-Energy Physics (ICHEP 2020), the ATLAS collaboration presented the first observation of photon collisions producing pairs of W bosons, elementary particles that carry the weak force, one of the four fundamental forces. 

At the end of the last year, postgraduate student Miroslav Myška from the Department of Particle Theory and Phenomenology was awarded the Prize of the Rector of the Czech Technical University in Prague for an outstanding PhD thesis of the II. Degree.