10–12 Jun 2024
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  1. Brendon Bullard (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US)), Daniel Britzger (Max-Planck-Institut für Physik München), Dr Hannah Wakeling (John Adams Institute, Oxford University), Juliette Alimena (DESY), Shreya Saha (University of Adelaide (AU)), Shreyasi Acharya (Universita e INFN, Bari (IT))
    10/06/2024, 13:00

    In this informal session all speakers are invited to meet the organizing committee and other speakers of the Sustainable HEP 2024 workshop. This session also serves to test your connection to the zoom room, your microphone, camera and speaker and your ability to share your slides. We hope to see many of you there...

    You can also connect at any other time to the zoom rooms and test your...

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  2. Prof. Jyoti Parikh (IRADe)
    10/06/2024, 14:15

    Global climate change has shaken up our energy and economic systems. The fossil fuels, which helped us through the last century , starting with coal and followed by oil and gas have led to accumulation of 1500 billion tons of CO2 in the atmosphere and disturbed the earth's ecosystem balance significantly. It includes hydro cycle, temperature rise, oceans warming and hence ocean currents,...

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  3. Prof. Veronique Boisvert (Royal Holloway, University of London)
    10/06/2024, 14:45

    We live in a climate emergency and consequently all countries are putting in place measures to reduce their carbon emissions in order to reach a so-called “net zero emissions” by 2050. All aspects of economic life will be affected by such measures, including particle physics research. I will present some examples of sources of carbon emissions within the field of particle physics. This will...

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  4. Dr Loïc Lannelongue (University of Cambridge)
    10/06/2024, 15:25

    From genetic studies and astrophysics simulations to AI, scientific computing has enabled amazing discoveries and there is no doubt it will continue to do so. However, the corresponding environmental impact is a growing concern in light of the urgency of the climate crisis, so what can we all do about it? Tackling this issue and making it easier for scientists to engage with sustainable...

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  7. Sophie Alice Renner (University of Glasgow (GB))
    10/06/2024, 15:56

    The HEP community's exciting plans for the physics we will do over the next decades stand in stark contrast to the reality of what the world will look like if action is not taken against disastrous climate change. No matter what we do within our own community, if our governments allow the fossil fuel era to continue, then within our lifetimes fundamental science will become a luxury that a...

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  8. Arantza De Oyanguren Campos (Univ. of Valencia and CSIC (ES))
    10/06/2024, 15:56

    The LHCb collaboration is currently using a pioneer system of data filtering in the trigger system, based on real time particle reconstruction in Graphics Processing Units (GPUs). This corresponds to processing 5 TB/s of information and has required a huge amount of hardware and software developments. Among them, the corresponding power consumption and sustainability is an imperative matter in...

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  9. Dr Kate Shaw (University of Sussex (GB))
    10/06/2024, 16:11

    Physics brings technological, economic and educational development, and investment is necessary to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). An key ingredient needed to build a more peaceful and sustainable future is from the soft diplomacy achieved through international scientific cooperation. Important pathways towards the SDGs must embrace Open Science and Open Data, expanding...

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  10. Ben Bruers (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))
    10/06/2024, 16:11

    Given the urgency to reduce fossil fuel energy production to make cli-
    mate tipping points less likely, we call for resource-aware knowledge
    gain in the research areas on Universe and Matter with emphasis on
    the digital transformation. A portfolio of measures is described in de-
    tail and then summarized according to the timescales required for their
    implementation. The measures will both...

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  11. Oleg Brandt (University of Cambridge (GB))
    10/06/2024, 16:35

    Global warming is one of the biggest challenges of mankind due to non-linear, self-enhancing (exponential) dependencies of the climate on human-made factors. The production of concrete for the construction industry is responsible for 5-8% of the global carbon footprint. A solution could be extending the lifetime of buildings and civil infrastructure. A key requirement for this is the ability...

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  13. Thomas Kuhr (Ludwig Maximilians Universitat (DE))
    10/06/2024, 16:36

    In the Belle II collaboration, a discussion of the sustainability topic began in 2023. A survey showed that many Belle II members care about the topic. We will report about the status of a grassroots initiative to address the sustainability challenge of research at Belle II.

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  14. Deirdre HORAN (Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet, CNRS/IN2P3, École polytechnique, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, 91120 Palaiseau, France)
    10/06/2024, 16:50

    A recent survey within the particle astrophysics community suggests that reducing the number of meetings and conferences is a viable way to address concerns about the effectiveness of the modern scientific collaboration process, its effects on the environment and the well-being of researchers. The results of the survey were published in a Comment in Nature Astronomy. In this presentation we...

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  15. Gregory Hallewell (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))
    10/06/2024, 16:51

    Saturated fluorocarbons (SFCs: CnF(2n+2) ) are chosen for their optical properties as Cherenkov radiators, with C4F10 and CF4 used at CERN in the COMPASS and LHCb RICH detectors. Non-conductivity, non-flammability and radiation resistance also make SFCs ideal coolants: C6F14 liquid cooling is used in all LHC experiments, while C3F8 is used for the evaporative cooling of TOTEM and the ATLAS...

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  16. Yann Coadou (CPPM, Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS/IN2P3 (FR))
    10/06/2024, 17:05

    Scientists are becoming more aware of the impact of their activities on the environment. They also want to base their analysis of the situation on measurements, leading to decisions to minimise their contribution to climate change and pollution. With this in mind, scientists in French labs started the Labos 1point5 initiative in 2019, to collect what is already being done, study how research...

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  17. Luca Quaglia (Universita e INFN Torino (IT))
    10/06/2024, 17:06

    Resistive Plate Chamber (RPC) are gaseous detectors widely employed in High Energy Physics experiments. Thanks to their comparatively low cost and excellent timing and positioning performance, they are used to cover large detection areas, such as those needed by the muon trigger systems of the LHC experiments (RPCs are currently employed in ALICE, ATLAS and CMS and they are also being...

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  18. Amy Bender (Argonne National Laboratory)
    10/06/2024, 17:20

    Renewable energy sources are widely recognized for their ability to provide affordable, reliable energy with reduced environmental impact. The South Pole is the site of the both current and future HEP experiments and presents singular conditions for a transition to renewables. South Pole power is currently supplied by diesel generators and the associated complex and costly transport of...

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  19. Aashaq Shah (University of Cambridge (GB)), Oleg Brandt (University of Cambridge (GB))
    10/06/2024, 17:21

    Gaseous detectors are indispensable as they serve a multitude of diverse applications in particle and nuclear physics, but also in industry, e.g., in the national security domain. To stay at the forefront of rapidly changing particle detector technologies for future detector applications, gaseous detectors must face a critical global challenge: sustainability. Today’s RPC detectors utilise...

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  20. Sarah Wagner
    10/06/2024, 17:35

    Founded in 2019, Astronomers for Planet Earth (A4E) is a volunteer, global network of nearly 2000 astronomers, with a common goal: addressing the climate crisis from an astronomical perspective. In the last year we registered an official NGO for this organization in Germany such that we will be able to receive financial support in the future. In this presentation, I want to illustrate how we...

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  21. Prof. Masakazu Yoshioka (K)
    11/06/2024, 14:10

    Future accelerators must be assessed for sustainability during their life cycle, including construction, operation, and decommissioning, to meet the global goal of carbon neutrality by 2050. Accelerator scientists should strive to achieve performance with less electric power in the optical design phase of accelerators, and to improve power efficiency during the design and manufacture of...

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  22. Mr Ben Shepherd
    11/06/2024, 14:40

    This talk describes some of the work on sustainable accelerators carried out within the ASTeC department of STFC. We are developing a portfolio of sustainable accelerator technologies, including permanent magnets and thin film superconducting cavities. We have carried out a carbon inventory of RUEDI, a future electron diffraction facility to be built at the Daresbury site, and we plan to...

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  23. Dr Thijs Bouman (University of Groningen)
    11/06/2024, 15:15

    Whereas Energy and Energy Transitions are typically approached from a Technological Science and Physics perspective, it is increasingly acknowledged that these topics have a very strong Social Science component as well. For instance, in many cases developments in energy and energy transitions have consequences for people and society, and people's perceptions of these developments have a...

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  26. Dr Hannah Wakeling (John Adams Institute, Oxford University)
    11/06/2024, 15:51

    The ISIS-II Neutron and Muon source is the proposed next generation of, and successor to, the ISIS Neutron and Muon Source based at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in the United Kingdom. Anticipated to start construction in 2032, the ISIS-II project presents a unique opportunity to incorporate environmental sustainability practices from its inception.
    As part of the optioneering and design...

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  27. Dimitris Ntounis (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))
    11/06/2024, 15:51

    In this talk, we will discuss the studies presented in PRX ENERGY 2, 047001, where the carbon impact of the Cool Copper Collider (C$^3$), a proposed $e^{+}e^{-}$ linear collider operated at 250 and 550 GeV center-of-mass energies, is evaluated. We will introduce several strategies that could be utilized to reduce the power needs for C$^3$ without modifications in the ultimate physics reach. We...

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  28. Jorgen D'Hondt (Vrije Universiteit Brussel (BE))
    11/06/2024, 16:06

    With the ambition to maintain competitiveness of European accelerator-based research infrastructures, the Horizon Europe project Innovate for Sustainable Accelerating Systems (iSAS) has been approved. Within total 17 academic and industrial partners, the objective of iSAS is to develop, prototype and validate new impactful energy-saving technologies so that SRF accelerators use significantly...

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  29. Graeme Campbell Burt (Lancaster University (GB))
    11/06/2024, 16:06

    The largest power demands of most future colliders, particularly Higgs factories and muon colliders, is dominated by the wall-plug-power required to run the RF systems and its cooling. Most of this power does not end up in the beam but is power lost as heat in the RF amplifiers, cavities and RF loads. This power lost is not a fundamental limit and there has been recent progress in addressing...

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  30. yuhui li (Institute of High Energy Physics)
    11/06/2024, 16:30

    The Circular Electron-Positron Collider (CEPC) aims to construct a top-performing Higgs factory to tackle pressing issues in particle physics. The baseline design includes three operation modes: Higgs, W, and Z, followed by an energy upgrade plan for ttbar collision. The operations plan adheres to a "10-2-1-5" scheme: 10 years as a Higgs factory, 2 years as a Z factory, 1 year as a W factory,...

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  32. Thomas Roser (BNL)
    11/06/2024, 16:31

    The ICFA Panel on Sustainable Accelerators and Colliders assesses and promotes developments on energy efficient and sustainable accelerator concepts, technologies, and strategies for operation, and assesses and promotes the use of accelerators for the development of Carbon-neutral energy sources. In this talk I will start with describing why energy efficiency and reduced energy consumption are...

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  33. Diogo Monteiro (CERN), Nikolina Bunijevac
    11/06/2024, 16:45

    Following global sustainability concerns, “pursuing actions and technologies aiming at energy savings and reuse” is listed as one of the main objectives for 2021-2025 at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN). This objective extends to the Cooling and Ventilation group, within the Engineering department, who oversees the operation of CERN's cooling infrastructure. This large,...

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  34. Dr Andrea Klumpp
    11/06/2024, 16:46

    DESY is an accelerator facility with an evolving history. Having started as a collider, we now provide the platform for a wide range of applications. Our expertise ranges from detector development and testing to dark matter experiments and photon science.
    As a large research institute with an enormous consumption of resources, we also have a great responsibility to use these resources...

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  35. Rui Ge
    11/06/2024, 17:00

    Large particle accelerators, such as the LHC, ILC, and proposed CEPC, face significant challenges, including the massive energy consumption due to their high energy demands, while China strives to reduce energy pollution and promote the carbon neutrality by 2060. In this study, we conducted extensive research on waste heat recovery and reuse for CEPC. The first step is to comprehend the...

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  36. Dr Benno List (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))
    11/06/2024, 17:01

    Sustainability has become a prioritized goal in the design, planning and implementation of future accelerators; approaches to improved sustainability include overall system design, optimization of subsystems, and operational concepts. A direct quantification of the ecological footprint, is currently performed only sporadically, with Lifecycle Assessments (LCA) emerging as a more comprehensive...

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  37. Suzanne Evans
    12/06/2024, 14:10

    Arup worked with CERN and KEK to evaluate and understand the environmental and embodied carbon impact of three linear collider options, the Compact Linear Collider (CLIC) Drive Beam and Klystron, and the International Linear Collider (ILC). Suzanne will present the results of the Life Cycle Assessment and the embodied carbon reduction opportunities identified. She will also highlight next...

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  38. Dr Ayan Paul (DESY, Hamburg and Humboldt Universität zu Berlin)
    12/06/2024, 14:40

    Since the dawn of human social organization, the practice of science and engineering has been the primary defense against the forces of Nature that has allowed for the progress of civilizations. Yet the same progress has allowed for the unchecked growth of the burden on natural resources and the destabilization of the fragile balance on which the continuation of living forms, as we know them...

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  39. Naman Kumar Bhalla (Albert Ludwigs Universitaet Freiburg (DE))
    12/06/2024, 15:20

    With the ever-increasing requirement for sustainability in the modern age, it is crucial to understand the environmental impact of High Energy Physics (HEP) and related fields, especially considering the field's high resource consumption. This workshop provides details on the quantification made to estimate the carbon footprints associated with four categories: Experiment, corresponding to the...

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