Strategies for reducing the use of greenhouse gases from particle detectors operation at the CERN LHC Experiments

• Published in: Journal of physics. Conference series Vol. 2374; no. 1; pp. 12159 - 12163
• Main Authors: Mandelli, Beatrice, Corbetta, Mara, Guida, Roberto, Rigoletti, Gianluca
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Bristol IOP Publishing 01.11.2022
• Subjects: CERN; Gas detectors; Gas mixtures; Greenhouse effect; Greenhouse gases; Large Hadron Collider; Optimization; Physics; R&D; Radiation counters; Research & development

A wide range of gas mixtures is used for the operation of the gaseous detectors at the CERN LHC experiments. Some gases, as C 2 H 2 F 4 , CF 4 , C 4 F 10 and SF 6 , are greenhouse gases (GHG) with high global warming potential and therefore subject to a phase down policy. The reduction of GHG emissi...