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
(2010)
Commissioning of the ATLAS Muon Spectrometer with cosmic rays
in The European Physical Journal C
Aad G
(2014)
Measurement of the inclusive isolated prompt photons cross section in
collisions at
with the ATLAS detector using
in Physical Review D
Aad G
(2013)
Observation of Associated Near-Side and Away-Side Long-Range Correlations insNN=5.02 TeVProton-Lead Collisions with the ATLAS Detector
in Physical Review Letters
Aad G
(2013)
Search for single b ? -quark production with the ATLAS detector at s = 7 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Aad G
(2011)
Search for diphoton events with large missing transverse energy with 36 pb-1 of 7 TeV proton-proton collision data with the ATLAS detector
in The European Physical Journal C
Aad G
(2013)
A search for prompt lepton-jets in pp collisions at s = 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Physics Letters B
Aad G
(2012)
Measurement of inclusive jet and dijet production in p p collisions at s = 7 TeV using the ATLAS detector
in Physical Review D
Aad G
(2014)
Search for quantum black hole production in high-invariant-mass lepton+jet final states using pp collisions at vs=8 TeV and the ATLAS detector.
in Physical review letters
Aad G
(2014)
Search for a multi-Higgs-boson cascade in
events with the ATLAS detector in
collisions at
in Physical Review D
Aad G
(2012)
Search for the Higgs boson in the H ? W W ? l ? j j decay channel at s = 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Physics Letters B
Aad G
(2014)
Search for WZ resonances in the fully leptonic channel using pp collisions at s = 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Physics Letters B
Aad G
(2013)
Dynamics of isolated-photon plus jet production in pp collisions at s = 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Nuclear Physics B
Aad G
(2013)
Search for a heavy narrow resonance decaying to eµ, et, or µt with the ATLAS detector in s = 7 TeV pp collisions at the LHC
in Physics Letters B
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
| Description | Supported pilot commercial use (e.g. Cambridge Ontology) |
| First Year Of Impact | 2007 |
| Impact Types | 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 |