GridPP hardware 2010 tranche
Lead Research Organisation:
Lancaster University
Department Name: Physics
Abstract
This grant is for equipment only, and has been agreed related to the previously issued grant PP/E003087/1. The total amount received should be £126,200.
Publications
Aad G
(2013)
Measurement of isolated-photon pair production in pp collisions at $ \sqrt{s}=7\;TeV $ with the ATLAS detector
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aad G
(2015)
Search for new phenomena in events with three or more charged leptons in pp collisions at s = 8 $$ \sqrt{s}=8 $$ TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aad G
(2012)
Search for new physics in the dijet mass distribution using 1 fb-1 of pp collision data at s = 7 TeV collected by the ATLAS detector
in Physics Letters B
Aad G
(2014)
Search for squarks and gluinos with the ATLAS detector in final states with jets and missing transverse momentum using s = 8 $$ \sqrt{s}=8 $$ TeV proton-proton collision data
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aad G
(2013)
Search for long-lived, heavy particles in final states with a muon and multi-track displaced vertex in proton-proton collisions at
in Physics Letters B
Aad G
(2011)
Search for the Standard Model Higgs boson in the two photon decay channel with the ATLAS detector at the LHC
in Physics Letters B
Aad G
(2015)
Search for lepton-flavour-violating H ? µt decays of the Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aad G
(2013)
Search for microscopic black holes in a like-sign dimuon final state using large track multiplicity with the ATLAS detector
in Physical Review D
Aad G
(2015)
Search for high-mass diphoton resonances in p p collisions at s = 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Physical Review D
Aad G
(2013)
Search for long-lived, multi-charged particles in pp collisions at
in Physics Letters B
Aad G
(2012)
Measurement of the transverse momentum distribution of W bosons in p p collisions at s = 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Physical Review D
Aad G
(2015)
Search for a Charged Higgs Boson Produced in the Vector-Boson Fusion Mode with Decay H(±)?W(±)Z using pp Collisions at vs=8 TeV with the ATLAS Experiment.
in Physical review letters
Aad G
(2014)
Search for Higgs boson decays to a photon and a Z boson in pp collisions at s = 7 and 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Physics Letters B
Aad G
(2014)
Measurement of the production cross section of prompt J/? mesons in association with a W ± boson in pp collisions at $ \sqrt{s} $ = 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Abdallah J
(2013)
Mechanical construction and installation of the ATLAS tile calorimeter
in Journal of Instrumentation
Abe K
(2014)
Measurement of the neutrino-oxygen neutral-current interaction cross section by observing nuclear deexcitation ? rays
in Physical Review D
Abe K
(2014)
Measurement of the inclusive ? µ charged current cross section on iron and hydrocarbon in the T2K on-axis neutrino beam
in Physical Review D
Abe K
(2016)
Upper bound on neutrino mass based on T2K neutrino timing measurements
in Physical Review D
Abe K
(2014)
Precise measurement of the neutrino mixing parameter ?23 from muon neutrino disappearance in an off-axis beam.
in Physical review letters
Abe K
(2014)
Observation of electron neutrino appearance in a muon neutrino beam.
in Physical review letters
Abe K
(2015)
Measurement of the ? µ charged-current quasielastic cross section on carbon with the ND280 detector at T2K
in Physical Review D
Abe K
(2013)
Measurement of neutrino oscillation parameters from muon neutrino disappearance with an off-axis beam.
in Physical review letters
Abe K
(2013)
Measurement of the inclusive ? µ charged current cross section on carbon in the near detector of the T2K experiment
in Physical Review D
Abe K
(2013)
Evidence of electron neutrino appearance in a muon neutrino beam
in Physical Review D
| Description | A broad range of particle physics and other science results were enabled by this award; the discovery of the Higgs boson is the most notable |
| Exploitation Route | open ended |
| Sectors | Other |
| 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 |