Banerjee, S. orcid.org/0000-0002-6493-7295, Chen, T.Y. orcid.org/0000-0002-0294-3614, David, C. orcid.org/0000-0002-1794-1443 et al. (24 more authors) (2025) Environmental sustainability in basic research. A perspective from HECAP+. Journal of Instrumentation, 20 (March 2025). P03012. ISSN 1748-0221
Abstract
The climate crisis and the degradation of the world's ecosystems require humanity to take immediate action. The international scientific community has a responsibility to limit the negative environmental impacts of basic research. The HECAP+ communities (High Energy Physics, Cosmology, Astroparticle Physics, and Hadron and Nuclear Physics) make use of common and similar experimental infrastructure, such as accelerators and observatories, and rely similarly on the processing of big data. Our communities therefore face similar challenges to improving the sustainability of our research. This document aims to reflect on the environmental impacts of our work practices and research infrastructure, to highlight best practice, to make recommendations for positive changes, and to identify the opportunities and challenges that such changes present for wider aspects of social responsibility.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2025 The Author(s). Published by IOP Publishing Ltd on behalf of Sissa Medialab. Original content from this work may be used under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Any further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the title of the work, journal citation and DOI. |
Keywords: | Computing (architecture, farms, GRID for recording, storage, archiving, and distribution of data); Large detector-systems performance; Performance of High Energy Physics Detectors; Software architectures (event data models, frameworks and databases) |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Science (Sheffield) > School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 17 Mar 2025 14:48 |
Last Modified: | 17 Mar 2025 14:48 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | IOP Publishing |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1088/1748-0221/20/03/p03012 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:224518 |