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
(2013)
Measurement with the ATLAS detector of multi-particle azimuthal correlations in p + Pb collisions at s NN = 5.02 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Aad G
(2013)
Search for t t ¯ resonances in the lepton plus jets final state with ATLAS using 4.7 fb - 1 of p p collisions at s = 7 TeV
in Physical Review D
Aad G
(2013)
A search for prompt lepton-jets in pp collisions at
in Physics Letters B
Abdallah J
(2013)
Mechanical construction and installation of the ATLAS tile calorimeter
in Journal of Instrumentation
Aad G
(2013)
Measurements of Higgs boson production and couplings in diboson final states with the ATLAS detector at the LHC
in Physics Letters B
Aad G
(2013)
Search for nonpointing photons in the diphoton and
final state in
proton-proton collisions using the ATLAS detector
in Physical Review D
ATLAS Collaboration
(2013)
Measurement of kT splitting scales in W?l? events at [Formula: see text] with the ATLAS detector.
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
Abe K
(2013)
Evidence of electron neutrino appearance in a muon neutrino beam
in Physical Review D
Aad G
(2013)
Search for pair-produced massive coloured scalars in four-jet final states with the ATLAS detector in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 7\ \mbox{TeV}$
in The European Physical Journal C
Pralavorio P
(2013)
SUSY searches at ATLAS
in Frontiers of Physics
Aad G
(2013)
Measurement of angular correlations in Drell-Yan lepton pairs to probe
in Physics Letters B
Aad G
(2013)
Search for new phenomena in events with three charged leptons at
with the ATLAS detector
in Physical Review D
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
ATLAS Collaboration
(2013)
Jet energy resolution in proton-proton collisions at [Formula: see text] recorded in 2010 with the ATLAS detector.
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
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
(2014)
Search for the lepton flavor violating decay Z ? e µ in p p collisions at s = 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Physical Review D
Aad G
(2014)
Search for dark matter in events with a hadronically decaying W or Z boson and missing transverse momentum in pp collisions at vs=8 TeV with the ATLAS detector.
in Physical review letters
Aad G
(2014)
Measurements of normalized differential cross sections for t t ¯ production in p p collisions at ( s ) = 7 TeV using the ATLAS detector
in Physical Review D
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
| 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 |