- Dennis Sperlich (University of Freiburg) for identifying the failure mode of the bPOL12V6 chip at cold temperature after irradiation, which posed a significant risk to ITk Strips and several other LHC subsystems.
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Gabriele D'Amen (Brookhaven National Laboratory), Valerio Dao (Stony Brook University), Debra Dewhurst (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory), Yajun He (DESY), Timon Heim (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), Cole Helling (University of British Columbia), Jaya John John (University of Oxford), Matthew Kurth (Brookhaven National Laboratory), Madison Levagood (University of British Columbia), Botho Paschen (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), Peter Phillips (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory), Stefania Stucci (Brookhaven National Laboratory) for studying the failure mode of the bPOL12V6 chip at cold temperature after irradiation and validating its mitigation, which enabled its implementation in ITk Strips with minimal impact on detector delivery.
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Martin Doubek (CERN), Mykyta Kravtsov (CERN) for the April 2025 emergency intervention that diagnosed and repaired critical ATLAS cooling-manifold leaks, preventing serious water damage and several weeks of disruption to beam operations.
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Tiesheng Dai (University of Michigan), Edward Diehl (University of Michigan), Philipp Fleischmann (University of Michigan), Jiajin Ge (University of Michigan), Pierre-François Giraud (IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay), Hui-Chi Lin (University of Michigan), Zhen Yan (University of Massachusetts) for outstanding contributions to the operation, calibration and alignment of the ATLAS Muon Spectrometer during Run 3, achieving exceptional detector performance through precise alignment, sustained MDT operation and maintenance, and effective coordination of the teams.
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Baida Achkar (Georg-August-Universität Goettingen), Antonio Jacques Costa (University of Manchester), Miguel Angel Garcia Ruiz (Universidad Nacional de Colombia), Eirik Gramstad (University of Oslo), Giovanni Guerrieri (CERN), Zach Marshall (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), Ioannis Papadopoulos (University of Athens), Mariana Vivas Albornoz (DESY), Caley Yardley (University of Sussex) for transforming ATLAS Open Data in 2025 through a major new data release, AtlasOpenMagic, the first tutorial for external users, and new public ntuple-making infrastructure.
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Krzysztof Cieśla (AGH University of Krakow), Mateusz Dyndał (AGH University of Krakow), Ralf Gugel (Universitaet Mainz), Stephen Hillier (University of Birmingham), Rhys Owen (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory), Simone Sottocornola (Indiana University / CERN), Paul Thompson (University of Birmingham), Daniel Ulmes (Indiana University) for creative and engaged commissioning of a robust solution for calorimetric Ultra Peripheral Collision signature triggers and mitigation of their adverse impact on the Phase-I L1 calorimeter system. For prompt implementation of numerous trigger variants to fuel the Heavy Ion Ultra Peripheral Collision programme in the trigger menu.
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Haider Abidi (Brookhaven National Laboratory), Jahred Adelman (Northern Illinois University), Tim Adye (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory), Marco Aparo (Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology), Veronique Boisvert (Royal Holloway, University of London), Mark Brettell (University College London and Rutherford Appleton Laboratory), Jared Burleson (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Pierfrancesco Butti (CERN), Alessandra Camplani (University of Copenhagen), Viviana Cavaliere (Brookhaven National Laboratory), Sebastian Dittmeier (Heidelberg University), Dmitry Emeliyanov (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory), Paul Gessinger (CERN), Attila Krasznahorkay (University of Massachusetts), Fabrice Le Goff (University of Oregon), Elliot Lipeles (University of Pennsylvania), Stephanie Majewski (University of Oregon), Ioannis Maznas (Northern Illinois University), Joana Niermann (CERN), Federica Piazza (University of Oregon), Neza Ribaric (Duke University), Ben Rosser (University of Chicago), Andreas Stefl (CERN), Priya Sundararajan (University of California, Irvine), Stephen Nicholas Swatman (CERN), Benjamin Michael Wynne (University of Edinburgh) for four years of innovation in CPU-, GPU- and FPGA-based tracking, culminating in the December 2025 reports that enabled ATLAS’s Event Filter technology choice.
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Alaettin Serhan Mete (Argonne National Laboratory), Marcin Nowak (Brookhaven National Laboratory), Maciej Szymanski (Argonne National Laboratory), Peter Van Gemmeren (Argonne National Laboratory) for deploying RNTuple in ATLAS, achieving a significant reduction in disk usage for analysis data and placing ATLAS at the forefront of this migration among the LHC experiments.
