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)
Combined search for the Standard Model Higgs boson in p p collisions at s = 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Physical Review D
Aad G
(2014)
Search for the Standard Model Higgs boson decay to µ + µ - with the ATLAS detector
in Physics Letters B
Aad G
(2012)
Search for new physics in the dijet mass distribution using 1 fb-1 of pp collision data at s = 7 TeV collected by the ATLAS detector
in Physics Letters B
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)
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
(2012)
Measurement of D * ± meson production in jets from p p collisions at s = 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Physical Review D
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 WZ resonances in the fully leptonic channel using pp collisions at s = 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Physics Letters B
Aad G
(2014)
Measurement of the mass difference between top and anti-top quarks in pp collisions at s = 7 TeV using the ATLAS detector
in Physics Letters B
Aad G
(2010)
Observation of a centrality-dependent dijet asymmetry in lead-lead collisions at sqrt[S(NN)] =2.76 TeV with the ATLAS detector at the LHC.
in Physical review letters
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
(2012)
Search for first generation scalar leptoquarks in pp collisions at s = 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Physics Letters B
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
Aad G
(2015)
Search for production of vector-like quark pairs and of four top quarks in the lepton-plus-jets final state in pp collisions at s = 8 $$ \sqrt{s}=8 $$ TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Journal of High Energy Physics
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)
Search for the Standard Model Higgs boson in the H ? W W ( ? ) ? l ? l ? decay mode with 4.7 fb - 1 of ATLAS data at s = 7 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Aad G
(2011)
Measurement of multi-jet cross sections in proton-proton collisions at a 7 TeV center-of-mass energy
in The European Physical Journal C
Aad G
(2012)
Search for a light Higgs boson decaying to long-lived weakly interacting particles in proton-proton collisions at sqrt[s] = 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector.
in Physical review letters
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
Aad G
(2015)
Measurement of the production of neighbouring jets in lead-lead collisions at s NN = 2.76 TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Physics Letters B
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)
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
Aad G
(2013)
Search for a heavy narrow resonance decaying to eµ, et, or µt with the ATLAS detector in s = 7 TeV pp collisions at the LHC
in Physics Letters B
Aad G
(2015)
Search for the Standard Model Higgs boson produced in association with top quarks and decaying into [Formula: see text] in [Formula: see text] collisions at [Formula: see text] with the ATLAS detector.
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
Aad G
(2012)
Measurement of the top quark pair production cross-section with ATLAS in the single lepton channel
in Physics Letters B
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 spin correlation in tt¯ events from pp collisions at vs=7 TeV using the ATLAS detector.
in Physical review letters
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
Aad G
(2014)
Search for supersymmetry in events with four or more leptons in s = 8 TeV p p collisions with the ATLAS detector
in Physical Review D
Aad G
(2014)
Measurement of the total cross section from elastic scattering in pp collisions at s = 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Nuclear Physics B
Aad G
(2011)
Search for diphoton events with large missing transverse energy with 36 pb-1 of 7 TeV proton-proton collision data with the ATLAS detector
in The European Physical Journal C
Aad G
(2012)
Measurement of the azimuthal anisotropy for charged particle production in s N N = 2.76 TeV lead-lead collisions with the ATLAS detector
in Physical Review C
Aad G
(2012)
Measurement of inclusive jet and dijet production in p p collisions at s = 7 TeV using the ATLAS detector
in Physical Review D
Aad G
(2015)
Search for high-mass diphoton resonances in p p collisions at s = 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Physical Review D
Aad G
(2015)
Search for massive supersymmetric particles decaying to many jets using the ATLAS detector in p p collisions at s = 8 TeV
in Physical Review D
Aad G
(2011)
Measurement of dijet azimuthal decorrelations in pp collisions at sqrt(s)=7 TeV.
in Physical review letters
Aad G
(2015)
Study of the spin and parity of the Higgs boson in diboson decays with the ATLAS detector.
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
Aad G
(2015)
Search for squarks and gluinos in events with isolated leptons, jets and missing transverse momentum at s = 8 $$ \sqrt{s}=8 $$ TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aad G
(2012)
Measurement of the polarisation of W bosons produced with large transverse momentum in pp collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 7\ \mbox{TeV}$ with the ATLAS experiment
in The European Physical Journal C
Aad G
(2015)
Search for low-scale gravity signatures in multi-jet final states with the ATLAS detector at s = 8 $$ \sqrt{s}=8 $$ TeV
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aad G
(2014)
Light-quark and gluon jet discrimination in [Formula: see text] collisions at [Formula: see text] with the ATLAS detector.
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
Aad G
(2014)
Study of heavy-flavor quarks produced in association with top-quark pairs at s = 7 TeV using the ATLAS detector
in Physical Review D
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 |