CERN’s Large Hadron Collider adopts CO2 refrigeration

2021-09-10T14:26:00+01:00By Anthony Wright

Following the EU’s crackdown on fluorinated greenhouse gas (F-gas) use, CERN, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research, has moved towards carbon dioxide (CO2) refrigeration technology for its ATLAS and CMS tracking detector experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).