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
(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)
Measurement of the branching ratio G ( ? b 0 ? ? ( 2 S ) ? 0 ) / G ( ? b 0 ? J / ? ? 0 ) with the ATLAS detector
in Physics Letters B
Aad G
(2011)
Measurement of the W charge asymmetry in the W ? µ ? decay mode in pp collisions at s = 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Physics Letters B
Aad G
(2013)
Search for displaced muonic lepton jets from light Higgs boson decay in proton-proton collisions at s = 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Physics Letters B
Aad G
(2012)
Search for the standard model Higgs boson in the diphoton decay channel with 4.9 fb(-1) of pp collision data at vs=7 TeV with ATLAS.
in Physical review letters
Aad G
(2015)
Measurements of the top quark branching ratios into channels with leptons and quarks with the ATLAS detector
in Physical Review D
Aad G
(2014)
Search for direct pair production of the top squark in all-hadronic final states in proton-proton collisions at s $$ \sqrt{s} $$ = 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aad G
(2015)
Search for invisible decays of the Higgs boson produced in association with a hadronically decaying vector boson in pp collisions at [Formula: see text] TeV with the ATLAS detector.
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
Aad G
(2015)
Search for a Heavy Neutral Particle Decaying to eµ, et, or µt in pp Collisions at sqrt[s]=8 TeV with the ATLAS Detector.
in Physical review letters
Aad G
(2014)
Measurements of spin correlation in top-antitop quark events from proton-proton collisions at s = 7 TeV using the ATLAS detector
in Physical Review D
Aad G
(2011)
Search for heavy long-lived charged particles with the ATLAS detector in pp collisions at s = 7 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Aad G
(2011)
Search for supersymmetric particles in events with lepton pairs and large missing transverse momentum in $\sqrt{s}=7~\mbox{TeV}$ proton-proton collisions with the ATLAS experiment
in The European Physical Journal C
Aad G
(2013)
Search for light top squark pair production in final states with leptons and b-jets with the ATLAS detector in
in Physics Letters B
Aad G
(2013)
A search for high-mass resonances decaying to t + t - in pp collisions at s = 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Physics Letters B
Aad G
(2012)
Search for diphoton events with large missing transverse momentum in 7 TeV proton-proton collision data with the ATLAS detector
in Physics Letters B
Aad G
(2011)
Measurement of the top quark-pair production cross section with ATLAS in pp collisions at $\sqrt{s}=7$ TeV
in The European Physical Journal C
Aad G
(2011)
A search for new physics in dijet mass and angular distributions in pp collisions at \sqrt{s}=7 TeV measured with the ATLAS detector
in New Journal of Physics
Aad G
(2015)
Search for charged Higgs bosons decaying via H ± ? t ± ? in fully hadronic final states using pp collision data at s $$ \sqrt{s} $$ = 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aad G
(2013)
Search for long-lived, multi-charged particles in pp collisions at
in Physics Letters B
Aad G
(2014)
Search for the Standard Model Higgs boson decay to µ + µ - with the ATLAS detector
in Physics Letters B
Aad G
(2013)
Search for contact interactions and large extra dimensions in dilepton events from p p collisions at s = 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Physical Review D
Aad G
(2015)
Measurement of spin correlation in top-antitop quark events and search for top squark pair production in pp collisions at vs=8 TeV using the ATLAS detector.
in Physical review letters
Aad G
(2014)
Flavor tagged time-dependent angular analysis of the B s 0 ? J / ? ? decay and extraction of ? G s and the weak phase ? s in ATLAS
in Physical Review D
Aad G
(2015)
Measurement of the t t ¯ W $$ t\overline{t}W $$ and t t ¯ Z $$ t\overline{t}Z $$ production cross sections in pp collisions at s = 8 $$ \sqrt{s}=8 $$ TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aad G
(2010)
Performance of the ATLAS detector using first collision data
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aad G
(2011)
Study of jet shapes in inclusive jet production in p p collisions at s = 7 TeV using the ATLAS detector
in Physical Review D
Aad G
(2011)
Limits on the production of the standard model Higgs boson in pp collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 7$ TeV with the ATLAS detector
in The European Physical Journal C
Aad G
(2013)
Search for third generation scalar leptoquarks in pp collisions at $ \sqrt{s}=7 $ TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aad G
(2014)
Evidence for electroweak production of W±W±jj in pp collisions at sqrt[s] = 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector.
in Physical review letters
Aad G
(2015)
Search for a new resonance decaying to a W or Z boson and a Higgs boson in the [Formula: see text] final states with the ATLAS detector.
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
Aad G
(2011)
Measurement of the inclusive isolated prompt photon cross-section in pp collisions at s = 7 TeV using 35 pb - 1 of ATLAS data
in Physics Letters B
Aad G
(2012)
Electron performance measurements with the ATLAS detector using the 2010 LHC proton-proton collision data
in The European Physical Journal C
Aad G
(2013)
Search for displaced muonic lepton jets from light Higgs boson decay in proton-proton collisions at
in Physics Letters B
Aad G
(2015)
Combined Measurement of the Higgs Boson Mass in pp Collisions at sqrt[s]=7 and 8 TeV with the ATLAS and CMS Experiments.
in Physical review letters
Aad G
(2011)
Search for stable hadronising squarks and gluinos with the ATLAS experiment at the LHC
in Physics Letters B
Aad G
(2015)
Centrality and rapidity dependence of inclusive jet production in s NN = 5.02 TeV proton-lead collisions with the ATLAS detector
in Physics Letters B
Aad G
(2012)
Search for the Higgs boson in the H?WW(*)?l(+)?l(-)? decay channel in pp collisions at vs=7 TeV with the ATLAS detector.
in Physical review letters
Aad G
(2010)
Measurement of the W ? l? and Z/? * ? ll production cross sections in proton-proton collisions at $ \sqrt {s} = 7\;{\text{TeV}} $ with the ATLAS detector
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aad G
(2011)
Studies of the performance of the ATLAS detector using cosmic-ray muons
in The European Physical Journal C
Aad G
(2011)
Measurement of inclusive jet and dijet cross sections in proton-proton collisions at 7 TeV centre-of-mass energy with the ATLAS detector
in The European Physical Journal C
Aad G
(2012)
Measurement of the azimuthal ordering of charged hadrons with the ATLAS detector
in Physical Review D
Aad G
(2011)
Search for quark contact interactions in dijet angular distributions in pp collisions at s = 7 TeV measured with the ATLAS detector
in Physics Letters B
Aad G
(2014)
Observation of an excited Bc(±) meson state with the ATLAS detector.
in Physical review letters
| 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 |