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
(2012)
Search for excited leptons in proton-proton collisions at s = 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Physical Review D
Aad G
(2012)
Measurement of the W ? t ? t cross section in pp collisions at s = 7 TeV with the ATLAS experiment
in Physics Letters B
Aad G
(2012)
Observation of a new particle in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC
in Physics Letters B
Aad G
(2012)
Measurement of the cross-section for b-jets produced in association with a Z boson at s = 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Physics Letters B
Collaboration T
(2012)
A study of the material in the ATLAS inner detector using secondary hadronic interactions
in Journal of Instrumentation
Aad G
(2012)
Search for anomaly-mediated supersymmetry breaking with the ATLAS detector based on a disappearing-track signature in pp collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 7~\mathrm{TeV}$
in The European Physical Journal C
Aad G
(2012)
Search for heavy vector-like quarks coupling to light quarks in proton-proton collisions at s = 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Physics Letters B
Aad G
(2012)
A measurement of the ratio of the W and Z cross sections with exactly one associated jet in pp collisions at s = 7 TeV with ATLAS
in Physics Letters B
Aad G
(2012)
Search for a fermiophobic Higgs boson in the diphoton decay channel with the ATLAS detector
in The European Physical Journal C
Aad G
(2012)
Search for resonant W Z production in the W Z ? l ? l ' l ' channel in ( s ) = 7 TeV p p collisions with 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
(2012)
Search for extra dimensions using diphoton events in 7 TeV proton-proton collisions with the ATLAS detector
in Physics Letters B
Aad G
(2012)
Search for a heavy Standard Model Higgs boson in the channel H ? Z Z ? l + l - q q ¯ using the ATLAS detector
in Physics Letters B
Aad G
(2012)
Search for top and bottom squarks from gluino pair production in final states with missing transverse energy and at least three b-jets with the ATLAS detector
in The European Physical Journal C
The ATLAS Collaboration
(2012)
ATLAS search for a heavy gauge boson decaying to a charged lepton and a neutrino in pp collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 7\ \mathrm{TeV}$
in The European Physical Journal C
Aad G
(2012)
Search for gluinos in events with two same-sign leptons, jets, and missing transverse momentum with the ATLAS detector in pp collisions at sqrt[s]=7 TeV.
in Physical review letters
Aad G
(2012)
Measurement of the top quark pair production cross section in pp collisions at s = 7 TeV in dilepton final states with ATLAS
in Physics Letters B
Aad G
(2012)
Performance of the ATLAS Trigger System in 2010
in The European Physical Journal C
Aad G
(2012)
Determination of the strange-quark density of the proton from ATLAS measurements of the W?l? and Z?ll cross sections.
in Physical review letters
| 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 |