GridPP4: The UK Grid for Particle Physics
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Liverpool
Department Name: Physics
Abstract
This proposal, submitted in response to the 2009 invitation from STFC, aims to provide and operate a computing Grid for the exploitation of LHC data in the UK. The success of the current GridPP Collaboration will be built upon, and the UK's response to production of LHC data in the period April 2011 to March 2015 will be to ensure that there is a sustainable infrastructure providing 'Computing in the LHC era' We propose to operate a Grid as the main mechanism for delivering very large-scale computational resources to the UK particle physics community. This foundation will underpin the success and increase the discovery potential of UK physicists. We will operate a production-quality Grid, delivering robustness, scale and functionality. The proposal is fully integrated with international projects and we must exploit the opportunity to capitalise on the UK leadership already established in several areas. The Particle Physics Grid will form a central part of the UK National Grid Infrastructure (NGI) that will be integrated with the European Grid Initiative (EGI) and which will inter-operate with Grids in the United States and elsewhere. The project will be managed across various domains and will deliver the UK's commitment to the worldwide LHC Computing Grid (wLCG) and ensure that worldwide activities directly benefit the UK. By 2015, the UK Grid infrastructure will have expanded in size to 40,000 cores, with more than 60 PetaBytes of storage. This will enable the UK to exploit, in an internationally competitive way, the unique physics potential of the LHC. A total request is made for £27.8m for a four year GridPP4 project starting in April 2011.
Organisations
Publications
Aaij R
(2015)
First observation of top quark production in the forward region.
in Physical review letters
Aaij R
(2014)
Observation of the B s 0 ? J/?K S 0 K ± p ± decay
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aaij R
(2014)
Performance of the LHCb Vertex Locator
in Journal of Instrumentation
Aaij R
(2014)
Measurement of C P violation parameters in B 0 ? D K * 0 decays
in Physical Review D
Aaij R
(2016)
Angular analysis of the B 0 ? K *0 µ + µ - decay using 3 fb-1 of integrated luminosity
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aaij R
(2014)
Measurement of the ? b - and O b - baryon lifetimes
in Physics Letters B
Aaij R
(2014)
Measurement of CP asymmetries in the decays B 0 ? K *0 µ + µ - and B + ? K + µ + µ -
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aaij R
(2014)
Measurement of the resonant and C P components in B ¯ 0 ? J / ? p + p - decays
in Physical Review D
Aaij R
(2014)
Measurement of the B¯s° meson lifetime in Ds?p? decays.
in Physical review letters
Aaij R
(2014)
Observation of photon polarization in the b?s? transition.
in Physical review letters
Aaij R
(2015)
First measurement of the differential branching fraction and CP asymmetry of the B ± ? p ± µ + µ - decay
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aaij R
(2015)
Measurement of the forward-backward asymmetry in Z/?* ? µ + µ - decays and determination of the effective weak mixing angle
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aaij R
(2015)
Measurement of forward J/? production cross-sections in pp collisions at s = 13 $$ \sqrt{s}=13 $$ TeV
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aaij R
(2014)
Measurement of the CP -violating phase ? s in B ¯ s 0 ? J / ? p + p - decays
in Physics Letters B
Aaij R
(2014)
Precision measurement of the mass and lifetime of the ?(b)(0) baryon.
in Physical review letters
Aaij R
(2015)
Dalitz plot analysis of B 0 ? D ¯ 0 p + p - decays
in Physical Review D
Aaij R
(2014)
Observation of the ? b 0 ? J/? pp - decay
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aaij R
(2014)
Observation of the resonant character of the Z(4430)(-) state.
in Physical review letters
Aaij R
(2014)
First measurement of the charge asymmetry in beauty-quark pair production.
in Physical review letters
Aaij R
(2016)
Study of the production of and hadrons in pp collisions and first measurement of the branching fraction
in Chinese Physics C
Aaij R
(2015)
Search for the ? b 0 ? ?? ' and ? b 0 ? ?? decays with the LHCb detector
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aaij R
(2014)
Search for CP violation in D ± ? K S 0 K ± and D s ± ? K S 0 p ± decays
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aaij R
(2015)
Measurement of the ratio of branching fractions B(B[over ¯]^{0}?D^{*+}t^{-}?[over ¯]_{t})/B(B[over ¯]^{0}?D^{*+}µ^{-}?[over ¯]_{µ}).
in Physical review letters
Aaij R
(2014)
Addendum: Observation of double charm production involving open charm in pp collisions at $ \sqrt{s} $ = 7 TeV
in Journal of High Energy Physics