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Left: One of the early collision events with stable beams recorded by ATLAS on April 23, 2016, with two reconstructed muon candidates (Image: CERN). Right: Lead-lead collisions at the Large Hadron Collider at 5.02TeV per nucleon pair in the center of mass, recorded by the ALICE detector in 2018 (Image: David Dobrigkeit Chinellato and Tapan Nayak). Background: Breakthrough Prize logo (Image: Breakthrough Prize Foundation). Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille (Credit: APS TV) Caption: DESI observes the sky from the Mayall Telescope, shown here beneath the Milky Way. Credit: KPNO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/R.T. Sparks Alt text: A white structure with a domed top on a rocky outcrop below a star-filled night sky. The Milky Way stretches vertically in a luminous band. Faint green glow tints the curved horizon. Alt text: A long-exposure image captures circular star trails above telescope domes illuminated in red light on a dark mountain. A golden glow on the horizon marks distant city lights. Caption: DESI maps distant objects to study dark energy. The instrument is installed on the Mayall Telescope, shown here beneath star trails. Two people stand in a lab room with a rack of electronics and a metal frame suspending equipment. One person holds a small hexagonal detector. Herbert Steiner. Credit: UC Berkeley Physics Department A recipe for energy efficiency: an optical sensor that also processes data. The transparent dome represents interactions between photons (red and green) and the nanoscale elements on the substrate. Carbon nanotubes with quantum dots (small spheres) are shown connected to CMOS circuitry below. (Credit: François Léonard/Sandia National Laboratories) Andromeda Galaxy, like our own and many other galaxies, has a supermassive black hole at the center. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Participants working in the lab. Credit: Maurice Garcia-Scivares, Berkeley Lab Berkeley Lab News Center feature image montage. Credit: Jenny Nuss, Berkeley Lab 2024's Biggest Breakthroughs in Physics - Quanta Magazine Hitoshi Murayama speaks at the Particle Physics Project Prioritization Panel (P5) Town Hall Meeting at Berkeley Lab in February 2023. Photo credit: Paul Mueller, Berkeley Lab

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