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
Cortina Gil E
(2023)
A search for the K+ ? µ-?e+e+ decay
in Physics Letters B
Madigozhin D
(2022)
New measurement of the K+ ? p+µ+µ- decay
in International Journal of Modern Physics A
Cortina Gil E
(2022)
Searches for lepton number violating K+ ? p-(p0)e+e+ decays
in Physics Letters B
Abe K
(2016)
Upper bound on neutrino mass based on T2K neutrino timing measurements
in Physical Review D
Andringa S
(2016)
Current Status and Future Prospects of the SNO+ Experiment
in Advances in High Energy Physics
Adamson P
(2016)
The NuMI neutrino beam
in Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
Aad G
(2016)
Search for flavour-changing neutral current top-quark decays to [Formula: see text] in [Formula: see text] collision data collected with the ATLAS detector at [Formula: see text] TeV.
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
Aad G
(2015)
Search for New Phenomena in Dijet Angular Distributions in Proton-Proton Collisions at sqrt[s]=8 TeV Measured with the ATLAS Detector.
in Physical review letters
Aad G
(2015)
Search for new phenomena in the dijet mass distribution using p p collision data at s = 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Physical Review D
Aad G
(2015)
Measurement of the charge asymmetry in dileptonic decays of top quark pairs in pp collisions at s = 7 $$ \sqrt{s}=7 $$ TeV using the ATLAS detector
in Journal of High Energy Physics
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
(2015)
Search for Higgs bosons decaying to a a in the µ µ t t final state in p p collisions at s = 8 TeV with the ATLAS experiment
in Physical Review D
Aad G
(2015)
Determination of the top-quark pole mass using t t ¯ $$ t\overline{t} $$ + 1-jet events collected with the ATLAS experiment in 7 TeV pp collisions
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aad G
(2015)
A search for t t ¯ $$ t\overline{t} $$ resonances using lepton-plus-jets events in proton-proton collisions at s = 8 $$ \sqrt{s}=8 $$ TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aad G
(2015)
Search for production of [Formula: see text] resonances decaying to a lepton, neutrino and jets in [Formula: see text] 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 CP-odd Higgs boson decaying to Zh in pp collisions at s = 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Physics Letters B
Aad G
(2015)
Search for supersymmetry in events containing a same-flavour opposite-sign dilepton pair, jets, and large missing transverse momentum in [Formula: see text] TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS detector.
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
Aad G
(2015)
Determination of the Ratio of b-Quark Fragmentation Fractions f(s)/f(d) in pp Collisions at vs=7 TeV with the ATLAS Detector.
in Physical review letters
Aad G
(2015)
Measurements of the Nuclear Modification Factor for Jets in Pb+Pb Collisions at v(s)NN]=2.76 TeV with the ATLAS detector.
in Physical review letters
ATLAS Collaboration
(2015)
Performance of the ATLAS muon trigger in pp collisions at [Formula: see text] TeV.
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
Aad G
(2015)
Measurement of differential J / ? production cross sections and forward-backward ratios in p + Pb collisions with the ATLAS detector
in Physical Review C
Aad G
(2015)
Evidence for the Higgs-boson Yukawa coupling to tau leptons with the ATLAS detector
in Journal of High Energy Physics
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
(2015)
Search for the associated production of the Higgs boson with a top quark pair in multilepton final states with the ATLAS detector
in Physics Letters B
Aad G
(2015)
Observation and measurements of the production of prompt and non-prompt [Formula: see text] mesons in association with a [Formula: see text] boson in [Formula: see text] collisions at [Formula: see text] with the ATLAS detector.
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
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
(2015)
Study of (W/Z)H production and Higgs boson couplings using H? W W * decays with the ATLAS detector
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aad G
(2015)
Search for new phenomena in final states with an energetic jet and large missing transverse momentum 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 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
(2015)
Search for photonic signatures of gauge-mediated supersymmetry in 8 TeV p p collisions with the ATLAS detector
in Physical Review D
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
(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
ATLAS Collaboration
(2015)
Measurement of the top-quark mass in the fully hadronic decay channel from ATLAS data at [Formula: see text].
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
Aad G
(2015)
Constraints on new phenomena via Higgs boson couplings and invisible decays with the ATLAS detector
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aad G
(2015)
Search for type-III seesaw heavy leptons in p p collisions at s = 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Physical Review D
Abe K
(2015)
Measurement of the ? µ charged-current quasielastic cross section on carbon with the ND280 detector at T2K
in Physical Review D
Aad G
(2015)
Search for a Charged Higgs Boson Produced in the Vector-Boson Fusion Mode with Decay H(±)?W(±)Z using pp Collisions at vs=8 TeV with the ATLAS Experiment.
in Physical review letters
Aad G
(2015)
Search for new phenomena in events with three or more charged leptons in pp collisions at s = 8 $$ \sqrt{s}=8 $$ TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Atlas Collaboration
(2015)
Jet energy measurement and its systematic uncertainty in proton-proton 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
(2015)
Search for Higgs and Z Boson Decays to J/?? and ?(nS)? with the ATLAS Detector.
in Physical review letters
Aad G
(2015)
Evidence of W?? Production in pp Collisions at sqrt[s]=8 TeV and Limits on Anomalous Quartic Gauge Couplings with the ATLAS Detector.
in Physical review letters
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
Description | That building a sustainable distributed computing and storage architecture is difficult be achievable; but a collaborative organisational and operational structure is required |
Exploitation Route | Commercialization of the technologies has already occurred, including work with hardware and cloud providers |
Sectors | Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software) |
URL | http://www.gridpp.ac.uk |
Description | Supported academics, medical and some commercial start-ups with distributed computing and storage |
First Year Of Impact | 2004 |
Sector | Other |
Impact Types | Cultural,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 |