Sustainability Assessment of Accelerators

The Large Particle Physics Laboratory Directors Group (LDG) established the Working Group on the Sustainability Assessment of Accelerators in 2024 with the mandate to develop guidelines and a list of key parameters for the assessment of the sustainability of future accelerators in particle physics - though much of the work will be of relevance for other current or future Research Infrastructures (RIs).

Developing and maintaining such a reference framework is intended as a driver to promote transparent and open discussions within the scientific communities and to adequately convey the information to a broader set of stakeholders. The deliberations of the working group meetings are available on Indico at https://indico.cern.ch/category/18210/ .

The 10-page submission to the Update of the European Strategy for Particle Physics can be found here. The full report from the working group will be available in June 2025.

Membership

The Working Group on the Sustainability Assessment of Accelerators comprises researchers working on new accelerator-based RIs, members of sustainability panels at CERN and other laboratories worldwide and representatives of initiatives with a focus on the sustainability of accelerators, funded by the European Commission (iFAST, iSAS, EAJADE).

Panel Composition:

Members of the Editorial Board also include:

• Enrico Cennini (CERN), Luisa Ulric (CERN).
• Beatrice Mandelli (CERN), Niko Neufeld (CERN)
• Thomas Schoerner (DESY)