Conveners
Parallel Session B: Climate crisis mititgation efforts in non-HEP fields
- Daniel Britzger (Max-Planck-Institut für Physik München)
- Brendon Bullard (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))
Parallel Session B: Climate crisis mititgation efforts in non-HEP fields
- Daniel Britzger (Max-Planck-Institut für Physik München)
- Brendon Bullard (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))
Parallel Session B: Large scale facilities in HEP
- Hannah Wakeling (John Adams Institute, Oxford University)
Parallel Session B: Large scale facilities in HEP
- Hannah Wakeling (John Adams Institute, Oxford University)
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
