GridPP5 Brunel University London Staff Grant
Lead Research Organisation:
Brunel University London
Department Name: Electronic and Electrical Engineering
Abstract
This proposal, submitted in response to the 2014 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 2016 to March 2020 will be to ensure that there is a sustainable infrastructure providing "Distributed Computing for Particle Physics"
We propose to operate a distributed high throughput computational service 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 service, 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 distributed computing service will increasingly be integrated with national and international initiatives.
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 50,000 cores, with more than 35 PetaBytes of storage. This will enable the UK to exploit, in an internationally competitive way, the unique physics potential of the LHC.
We propose to operate a distributed high throughput computational service 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 service, 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 distributed computing service will increasingly be integrated with national and international initiatives.
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 50,000 cores, with more than 35 PetaBytes of storage. This will enable the UK to exploit, in an internationally competitive way, the unique physics potential of the LHC.
Planned Impact
GridPP's knowledge exchange activities fall into two main areas: firstly, those aimed at other academic disciplines, and secondly, business and industry. GridPP has a strong outreach programme to a public and academic audience, and intends to continue this in GridPP5. The Dissemination Officer will organise GridPP's presence at conferences and events. This includes booking and manning booths, arranging backdrops, material, posters, screens, and rotas where appropriate. Examples of events that we have attended include The British Science Festival, The Royal Society Summer Exhibition, the British Science Association Science Communication Conference and Meet The Scientist at the Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester.
GridPP has developed an extensive website that is central to project communications. The Dissemination Officer will be responsible for producing news items for the website and drafting GridPP press releases. We have had broad coverage from these in the past, including many national newspapers and online publications.
Additional activities will include producing GridPP material, such as leaflets, posters, t-shirts, bags and magic cubes. We have found these very valuable in raising GridPP's and LHC's profile at minimal cost. The Dissemination Officer will also promote outreach training for members of the collaboration, will identify GridPP staff who have specific expertise in this area and will arrange occasional GridPP events, such as the Tier-1 open day.
On KE, our initial work has proved that GridPP's technology can be of use across a range of disciplines and sectors, and we plan to continue this work during GridPP5. The objectives of this program will be to improve awareness of the technologies developed by GridPP and its partners in academia and industry, and hence facilitate the increase in use of these technologies within new areas.
GridPP has developed an extensive website that is central to project communications. The Dissemination Officer will be responsible for producing news items for the website and drafting GridPP press releases. We have had broad coverage from these in the past, including many national newspapers and online publications.
Additional activities will include producing GridPP material, such as leaflets, posters, t-shirts, bags and magic cubes. We have found these very valuable in raising GridPP's and LHC's profile at minimal cost. The Dissemination Officer will also promote outreach training for members of the collaboration, will identify GridPP staff who have specific expertise in this area and will arrange occasional GridPP events, such as the Tier-1 open day.
On KE, our initial work has proved that GridPP's technology can be of use across a range of disciplines and sectors, and we plan to continue this work during GridPP5. The objectives of this program will be to improve awareness of the technologies developed by GridPP and its partners in academia and industry, and hence facilitate the increase in use of these technologies within new areas.
Publications
Khachatryan V
(2017)
Measurement of the [Formula: see text] production cross section using events in the [Formula: see text] final state in pp collisions at [Formula: see text].
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
Sirunyan A
(2017)
Search for electroweak production of a vector-like quark decaying to a top quark and a Higgs boson using boosted topologies in fully hadronic final states
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Khachatryan V
(2017)
Measurements of differential cross sections for associated production of a W boson and jets in proton-proton collisions at s = 8 TeV
in Physical Review D
Khachatryan V
(2017)
Measurement and QCD analysis of double-differential inclusive jet cross sections in pp collisions at s = 8 $$ \sqrt{s}=8 $$ TeV and cross section ratios to 2.76 and 7 TeV
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Sirunyan AM
(2017)
Relative Modification of Prompt ?(2S) and J/? Yields from pp to PbPb Collisions at sqrt[s_{NN}]=5.02 TeV.
in Physical review letters
Khachatryan V
(2017)
Search for heavy neutrinos or third-generation leptoquarks in final states with two hadronically decaying t leptons and two jets in proton-proton collisions at s = 13 $$ \sqrt{s}=13 $$ TeV
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Khachatryan V
(2017)
Search for high-mass diphoton resonances in proton-proton collisions at 13 TeV and combination with 8 TeV search
in Physics Letters B
Khachatryan V
(2017)
Searches for invisible decays of the Higgs boson in pp collisions at s $$ \sqrt{s} $$ = 7, 8, and 13 TeV
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Khachatryan V
(2017)
Search for CP violation in t t ¯ $$ t\overline{t} $$ production and decay in proton-proton collisions at s = 8 $$ \sqrt{s}=8 $$ TeV
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Khachatryan V
(2017)
Observation of the decay B+??(2S)?(1020)K+ in pp collisions at s = 8 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Maqbool W
(2017)
Supercritical Carbon Dioxide Separation of Carboxylic Acids and Phenolics from Bio-Oil of Lignocellulosic Origin: Understanding Bio-Oil Compositions, Compound Solubilities, and Their Fractionation
in Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research
Khachatryan V
(2017)
Measurements of differential production cross sections for a Z boson in association with jets in pp collisions at s = 8 $$ \sqrt{s}=8 $$ TeV
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Khachatryan V
(2017)
Search for top squark pair production in compressed-mass-spectrum scenarios in proton-proton collisions at s = 8 TeV using the aT variable
in Physics Letters B
Khachatryan V
(2017)
Charged-particle nuclear modification factors in PbPb and pPb collisions at s N N = 5.02 $$ \sqrt{s_{\mathrm{N}\;\mathrm{N}}}=5.02 $$ TeV
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Sirunyan A
(2017)
Search for massive resonances decaying into WW, WZ or ZZ bosons in proton-proton collisions at s = 13 $$ \sqrt{s}=13 $$ TeV
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Strong A
(2017)
An evaluation of physical activity training in Australian medical school curricula.
in Journal of science and medicine in sport
Khachatryan V
(2017)
Jet energy scale and resolution in the CMS experiment in pp collisions at 8 TeV
in Journal of Instrumentation
Sirunyan A
(2017)
Search for dark matter and unparticles in events with a Z boson and missing transverse momentum in proton-proton collisions at $$ \sqrt{s}=13 $$ TeV
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Khachatryan V
(2016)
Inclusive and differential measurements of the t t ¯ charge asymmetry in pp collisions at s = 8 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Khachatryan V
(2016)
Erratum to: Search for third-generation scalar leptoquarks in the tt channel in proton-proton collisions at s = 8 $$ \sqrt{s}=8 $$ TeV
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Khachatryan V
(2016)
Forward-backward asymmetry of Drell-Yan lepton pairs in pp collisions at [Formula: see text][Formula: see text].
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
Khachatryan V
(2016)
Search for supersymmetry in pp collisions at s = 13 $$ \sqrt{s}=13 $$ TeV in the single-lepton final state using the sum of masses of large-radius jets
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Khachatryan V
(2016)
Measurement of transverse momentum relative to dijet systems in PbPb and pp collisions at s N N = 2.76 $$ \sqrt{s_{\mathrm{NN}}}=2.76 $$ TeV
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Khachatryan V
(2016)
Searches for a heavy scalar boson H decaying to a pair of 125 GeV Higgs bosons hh or for a heavy pseudoscalar boson A decaying to Zh, in the final states with h ?tt
in Physics Letters B
Khachatryan V
(2016)
Search for single production of scalar leptoquarks in proton-proton collisions at s = 8 TeV
in Physical Review D
Khachatryan V
(2016)
Search for s channel single top quark production in pp collisions at s = 7 $$ \sqrt{s}=7 $$ and 8 TeV
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Khachatryan V
(2016)
Measurement of the inelastic cross section in proton-lead collisions at s NN = 5.02 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Khachatryan V
(2016)
Measurement of the Z ? ? ? ? ? ? production cross section in pp collisions at s = 8 TeV and limits on anomalous ZZ? and Z?? trilinear gauge boson couplings
in Physics Letters B
Khachatryan V
(2016)
Erratum to: Comparison of the Z/?* + jets to ? + jets cross sections in pp collisions at s = 8 $$ \sqrt{s}=8 $$
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Khachatryan V
(2016)
Measurement of dijet azimuthal decorrelation in pp collisions at [Formula: see text].
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
Waters R
(2016)
Templated assembly of metal nanoparticle films on polymer substrates
in Applied Physics Letters
Khachatryan V
(2016)
Search for lepton flavour violating decays of heavy resonances and quantum black holes to an [Formula: see text] pair in proton-proton collisions at [Formula: see text].
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
Khachatryan V
(2016)
Measurement of spin correlations in t t ? production using the matrix element method in the muon+jets final state in pp collisions at s = 8 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Khachatryan V
(2016)
Phenomenological MSSM interpretation of CMS searches in pp collisions at s = 7 $$ \sqrt{s}=7 $$ and 8 TeV
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Khachatryan V
(2016)
Search for Resonant Production of High-Mass Photon Pairs in Proton-Proton Collisions at sqrt[s]=8 and 13 TeV.
in Physical review letters
Khachatryan V
(2016)
Search for supersymmetry in electroweak production with photons and large missing transverse energy in pp collisions at s = 8 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Khachatryan V
(2016)
Search for supersymmetry in events with soft leptons, low jet multiplicity, and missing transverse energy in proton-proton collisions at s = 8 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Khachatryan V
(2016)
Combined search for anomalous pseudoscalar HVV couplings in VH ( H ? b b ? ) production and H ? VV decay
in Physics Letters B
Khachatryan V
(2016)
Search for W' decaying to tau lepton and neutrino in proton-proton collisions at s = 8 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Khachatryan V
(2016)
Search for two Higgs bosons in final states containing two photons and two bottom quarks in proton-proton collisions at 8 TeV
in Physical Review D
Khachatryan V
(2016)
Search for new phenomena in monophoton final states in proton-proton collisions at s = 8 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Khachatryan V
(2016)
Decomposing transverse momentum balance contributions for quenched jets in PbPb collisions at s N N = 2.76 $$ \sqrt{s_{\mathrm{N}\;\mathrm{N}}}=2.76 $$ TeV
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Khachatryan V
(2016)
Azimuthal decorrelation of jets widely separated in rapidity in pp collisions at s = 7 $$ \sqrt{s}=7 $$ TeV
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Khachatryan V
(2016)
Measurement of the differential cross section and charge asymmetry for inclusive [Formula: see text] production at [Formula: see text] TeV.
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
Khachatryan V
(2016)
Search for massive WH resonances decaying into the [Formula: see text] final state at [Formula: see text][Formula: see text].
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
Khachatryan V
(2016)
Measurement of the ratio B ( B s 0 ? J / ? f 0 ( 980 ) ) / B ( B s 0 ? J / ? ? ( 1020 ) ) in pp collisions at s = 7 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Khachatryan V
(2016)
Search for Higgs boson off-shell production in proton-proton collisions at 7 and 8 TeV and derivation of constraints on its total decay width
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Khachatryan V
(2016)
Measurement of the differential cross sections for top quark pair production as a function of kinematic event variables in p p collisions at s = 7 and 8 TeV
in Physical Review D
Khachatryan V
(2016)
Measurement of the charge asymmetry in top quark pair production in p p collisions at s = 8 TeV using a template method
in Physical Review D
Khachatryan V
(2016)
Erratum to: Search for direct pair production of scalar top quarks in the single- and dilepton channels in proton-proton collisions at s = 8 $$ \sqrt{s}=8 $$ TeV
in Journal of High Energy Physics
| Description | GridPP6 Brunel Staff Grant |
| Amount | £112,482 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | ST/T001291/1 |
| Organisation | Science and Technologies Facilities Council (STFC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 03/2020 |
| End | 03/2024 |
| Description | CMS |
| Organisation | European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) |
| Department | Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) |
| Country | Switzerland |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Construction, comissioning and operation of the CMS experiment. Data analysis in top-quark physics studies. Provision (via GridPP London Tier-2) of computing resources. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Data acquistion, computing resources (Tier 0), co-authorship of publications, access to data, scientific leadership and support |
| Impact | Over 200 refereed journal publications in experimental particle physics. Along with LHC data analysed by the ATLAS collaboration CMS determined the existence of the Higgs boson which was the subject of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics. Several STFC funded doctoral students have been trained in data analysis, computer programming and large-scale distributed Grid computing techniques. |
| Description | CMS |
| Organisation | Imperial College London |
| Department | Department of Physics |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Construction, comissioning and operation of the CMS experiment. Data analysis in top-quark physics studies. Provision (via GridPP London Tier-2) of computing resources. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Data acquistion, computing resources (Tier 0), co-authorship of publications, access to data, scientific leadership and support |
| Impact | Over 200 refereed journal publications in experimental particle physics. Along with LHC data analysed by the ATLAS collaboration CMS determined the existence of the Higgs boson which was the subject of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics. Several STFC funded doctoral students have been trained in data analysis, computer programming and large-scale distributed Grid computing techniques. |
| Description | CMS |
| Organisation | Rutherford Appleton Laboratory |
| Department | Particle Physics Department |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Construction, comissioning and operation of the CMS experiment. Data analysis in top-quark physics studies. Provision (via GridPP London Tier-2) of computing resources. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Data acquistion, computing resources (Tier 0), co-authorship of publications, access to data, scientific leadership and support |
| Impact | Over 200 refereed journal publications in experimental particle physics. Along with LHC data analysed by the ATLAS collaboration CMS determined the existence of the Higgs boson which was the subject of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics. Several STFC funded doctoral students have been trained in data analysis, computer programming and large-scale distributed Grid computing techniques. |
| Description | CMS |
| Organisation | University of Bristol |
| Department | School of Physics |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Construction, comissioning and operation of the CMS experiment. Data analysis in top-quark physics studies. Provision (via GridPP London Tier-2) of computing resources. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Data acquistion, computing resources (Tier 0), co-authorship of publications, access to data, scientific leadership and support |
| Impact | Over 200 refereed journal publications in experimental particle physics. Along with LHC data analysed by the ATLAS collaboration CMS determined the existence of the Higgs boson which was the subject of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics. Several STFC funded doctoral students have been trained in data analysis, computer programming and large-scale distributed Grid computing techniques. |