Particle Physics Grid Computing at Lancaster
Lead Research Organisation:
Lancaster University
Department Name: Physics
Abstract
Particle physics is about to receive huge amounts of data from the Large Hadron Collider. In order to process it and do the physics analysis, you need a lot of computing power and disk to store the data on. This can only be done by spreading the job over many sites aorund the world and linking them with cleaver software ('middleware') to make them all seem as if they were almost local. The resulting system is called a Grid. This proposal is to provide the some of the required Grid reosurces at Lancaster, and to fuind people to commission and operate the system, and to complete work on providing interfaces and programmes to use the Grid effectively.
Publications
Aad G
(2015)
Observation and measurement of Higgs boson decays to W W * with the ATLAS detector
in Physical Review D
Aad G
(2015)
Search for s-channel single top-quark production in proton-proton collisions at s = 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Physics Letters B
Aad G
(2015)
Z boson production in p + Pb collisions at s NN = 5.02 TeV measured with the ATLAS detector
in Physical Review C
Aad G
(2011)
Measurement of W? and Z? production in proton-proton collisions at $ \sqrt {s} = 7 $ TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aad G
(2015)
Searches for heavy long-lived charged particles with the ATLAS detector in proton-proton collisions at s = 8 $$ \sqrt{s}=8 $$ TeV
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aad G
(2015)
Search for heavy long-lived multi-charged particles in pp collisions at [Formula: see text] TeV using the ATLAS detector.
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
Aad G
(2013)
Observation of associated near-side and away-side long-range correlations in sqrt[s(NN)]=5.02 TeV proton-lead collisions with the ATLAS detector.
in Physical review letters
Aad G
(2013)
Search for nonpointing photons in the diphoton and E T miss final state in s = 7 TeV proton-proton collisions using the ATLAS detector
in Physical Review D
Aad G
(2012)
Search for new phenomena in tt events with large missing transverse momentum in proton-proton collisions at sqrt[s] = 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector.
in Physical review letters
Aad G
(2015)
Search for new phenomena in events with a photon and missing transverse momentum in p p collisions at s = 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Physical Review D
Aad G
(2015)
Search for flavour-changing neutral current top quark decays t ? Hq in pp collisions at s = 8 $$ \sqrt{s}=8 $$ TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aad G
(2015)
Search for the b b ¯ $$ b\overline{b} $$ decay of the Standard Model Higgs boson in associated (W/Z)H production with the ATLAS detector
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aad G
(2015)
Measurement of the inclusive jet cross-section in proton-proton collisions at s = 7 $$ \sqrt{s}=7 $$ TeV using 4.5 fb-1 of data with the ATLAS detector
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aad G
(2015)
Search for Higgs boson pair production in the ??bb[over ¯] final state using pp collision data at sqrt[s]=8 TeV from the ATLAS detector.
in Physical review letters
Aad G
(2012)
K s 0 and ? production in p p interactions at s = 0.9 and 7 TeV measured with the ATLAS detector at the LHC
in Physical Review D
Aad G
(2012)
Search for contact interactions in dilepton events from pp collisions at s = 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Physics Letters B
Aad G
(2016)
Search for flavour-changing neutral current top-quark decays to [Formula: see text] in [Formula: see text] collision data collected with the ATLAS detector at [Formula: see text] TeV.
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
Aad G
(2012)
Measurement of the WW cross section in s = 7 TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS detector and limits on anomalous gauge couplings
in Physics Letters B
Aad G
(2011)
Search for stable hadronising squarks and gluinos with the ATLAS experiment at the LHC
in Physics Letters B
Aad G
(2010)
Readiness of the ATLAS Tile Calorimeter for LHC collisions
in The European Physical Journal C
Aad G
(2014)
Search for direct top-squark pair production in final states with two leptons in pp collisions at $ \sqrt{s} $ = 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aad G
(2013)
Measurements of W ? and Z ? production in p p collisions at s = 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector at the LHC
in Physical Review D
Description | That building a sustainable distributed computing and storage architecture is difficult be achievable; but a collaborative organisational and operational structure is required |
Exploitation Route | Commercialization of the technologies has already occurred, including work with hardware and cloud providers |
Sectors | Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software) |
URL | http://www.gridpp.ac.uk |
Description | Supported academics, medical and some commercial start-ups with distributed computing and storage |
First Year Of Impact | 2004 |
Sector | Other |
Impact Types | Cultural,Economic |
Description | ATLAS |
Organisation | European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) |
Department | CERN LHC ATLAS |
Country | Switzerland |
Sector | Public |
PI Contribution | Tracking R&D and construction, software, distributed computing systems, detector operations, trigger performance and design, Standard Model, B-physics, Onium, Higgs, Top and SUSY studies; ran UK software and computing |
Collaborator Contribution | Detector operations, computing operations, software, shared physics tools |
Impact | currently O(200) papers in press (Feb 2013) |
Description | GridPP |
Organisation | European Grid Infrastructure (EGI) |
Country | Netherlands |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
PI Contribution | Middleware, hardware, operations; ATLAS Member of the PMB, formerly Applications Co-ordinator, Deputy Chair of Users Board. Provide Deployment Team member. |
Collaborator Contribution | Middleware, operations, co-ordination |
Impact | some papers, enabled many physics papers. |
Description | GridPP |
Organisation | Queen Mary University of London |
Department | GRIDPP3 |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Middleware, hardware, operations; ATLAS Member of the PMB, formerly Applications Co-ordinator, Deputy Chair of Users Board. Provide Deployment Team member. |
Collaborator Contribution | Middleware, operations, co-ordination |
Impact | some papers, enabled many physics papers. |
Description | T2K |
Organisation | T2K Collaboration |
Country | Global |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Collaborators, detector builders (ND280), operators |
Collaborator Contribution | Collaborators |
Impact | Papers, detector R&D |
Description | WLCG |
Organisation | European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) |
Department | Worldwide LHC Computing Grid (WLCG) |
Country | Switzerland |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Hardware, middleware, operations; Collaboration Board Member and Chair |
Collaborator Contribution | Hardware, middleware, operations, co-ordination |
Impact | All LHC and Tevatron papers |
Description | 5 Particle Physics Masterclasses/Residentials |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | Increases interest in science and particle physics Increased applications to Lancaster, citing particle phsyics interest |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
Description | Big bang fair |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Big Bang Fair, general science exhibition at the NEC |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014,2015 |
Description | Royal Society Summer Exhibition |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | many thousands saw stands on the Grid/Higgs physics/Beyond the Higgs |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2008,2011,2014 |