Chinese Physics C is pleased to announce the 2026 CPC Best Paper Awards, recognizing outstanding contributions to particle physics, nuclear physics, and astrophysics.
The annual awards honor articles published in CPC that demonstrate exceptional scientific significance, originality, and impact within the global research community. The winning papers were selected on the basis of citation performance, community influence, and editorial assessment. We extend our warmest congratulations to all awarded authors.
The winning papers for 2026 are:
Potential to identify neutrino mass ordering with reactor antineutrinos at JUNO by JUNO Collaboration (Chinese Physics C, 49, 033104, 2025)
Flavor Physics at the CEPC: a General Perspective by Xiaocong Ai, Wolfgang Altmannshofer, Peter Athron et al. (Chinese Physics C, 49, 103003, 2025)
CP violation of baryon decays with N π rescatterings by Jian-Peng Wang and Fu-Sheng Yu (Chinese Physics C, 48, 101002, 2024)
Phase transitions in dimensional reduction up to three loops by Mikael Chala, Luis Gil and Zhe Ren (Chinese Physics C, 49, 123105, 2025)
Measurement of yields and angular distributions of γ-quanta from the interaction of 14.1 MeV neutrons with oxygen, phosphorus, and sulfur* by D. N. Grozdanov, N. A. Fedorov, S. B. Dabylova et al. (Chinese Physics C, 48, 034003, 2025)
Further investigation on the fusion of 6Li with 209Bi target at near-barrier energies by G. L. Zhang, Z. W. Jiao, G. X. Zhang et al. (Chinese Physics C, 48, 074001, 2024)
A novel approach for the anomalous collectivity in neutron-deficient Os isotopes by Wei Teng, Yu Zhang and Chong Qi (Chinese Physics C, 49, 014102, 2025)
Bayesian inference of nuclear incompressibility from collective flow in mid-central Au+Au collisions at 400–1500 MeV/nucleon by J. M. Wang, X. G. Deng, W. J. Xie (Chinese Physics C, 49, 124105, 2025)
Optimization of performance of the KM2A full array using the Crab Nebula by LHAASO Collaboration (Chinese Physics C, 48, 065001, 2024)
Constraints on axion-like particles from the observation of Galactic sources by the LHAASO* by Jun Li, Xiao-Jun Bi, Lin-Qing Gao et al. (Chinese Physics C, 48, 065107, 2024)
Constraining polymerized black holes with quasi-circular extreme mass-ratio inspirals by Sen Yang, Yu-Peng Zhang, Tao Zhu et al. (Chinese Physics C, 49, 115107, 2025)
We sincerely thank all the authors who have chosen CPCas a venue for their excellent research. Our gratitude also goes to the dedicated reviewers and editorial board members whose efforts are vital in maintaining the journal's high standards.
We encourage all researchers in the field to submit your high-quality work to CPCand look forward to sharing more groundbreaking discoveries with our readers.
