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
(2014)
Measurements of fiducial and differential cross sections for Higgs boson production in the diphoton decay channel at s = 8 $$ \sqrt{s}=8 $$ TeV with ATLAS
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aad G
(2012)
Search for a heavy Standard Model Higgs boson in the channel H ? Z Z ? l + l - q q ¯ using the ATLAS detector
in Physics Letters B
Aad G
(2013)
Measurement of the flavour composition of dijet events in pp collisions at $\sqrt{s}=7\ \mbox{TeV}$ with the ATLAS detector
in The European Physical Journal C
Aad G
(2012)
Search for supersymmetry in events with three leptons and missing transverse momentum in v[s]=7 TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS detector.
in Physical review letters
Aad G
(2015)
Search for Higgs boson pair production in the [Formula: see text] final state from pp collisions at [Formula: see text] TeVwith the ATLAS detector.
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
Aad G
(2015)
Summary of the searches for squarks and gluinos using s = 8 $$ \sqrt{s}=8 $$ TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS experiment at the LHC
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aad G
(2014)
Measurement of ? c1 and ? c2 production with s $$ \sqrt{s} $$ = 7 TeV pp collisions at ATLAS
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aad G
(2013)
Search for resonant diboson production in the W W / W Z ? l ? j j decay channels with the ATLAS detector at s = 7 TeV
in Physical Review D
Aad G
(2012)
Search for tb resonances in proton-proton collisions at vs=7 TeV with the ATLAS detector.
in Physical review letters
Aad G
(2014)
Measurement of the Z/? * boson transverse momentum distribution in pp collisions at s = 7 $$ \sqrt{s}=7 $$ TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aad G
(2012)
Search for pair production of a heavy up-type quark decaying to a W boson and a b quark in the lepton + jets channel with the ATLAS detector.
in Physical review letters
Aad G
(2012)
Search for pair-produced heavy quarks decaying to W q in the two-lepton channel at ( s ) = 7 TeV with 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
(2014)
Search for supersymmetry at $\sqrt{s}$ = 8 TeV in final states with jets and two same-sign leptons or three leptons with the ATLAS detector
in Journal of High Energy Physics
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
(2015)
Search for lepton-flavour-violating H ? µt decays of the Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aad G
(2011)
Measurement of dijet production with a veto on additional central jet activity in pp collisions at $ \sqrt {s} = 7 $ TeV using the ATLAS detector
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aad G
(2015)
Search for heavy lepton resonances decaying to a Z boson and a lepton in pp collisions at s = 8 $$ \sqrt{s}=8 $$ TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aad G
(2012)
ATLAS measurements of the properties of jets for boosted particle searches
in Physical Review D
Aad G
(2014)
Search for high-mass dilepton resonances in p p collisions at s = 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Physical Review D
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)
Search for Invisible Decays of a Higgs Boson Produced in Association with a Z Boson in ATLAS
in Physical Review Letters
Aad G
(2015)
Measurement of the forward-backward asymmetry of electron and muon pair-production in pp collisions at s = 7 $$ \sqrt{s}=7 $$ TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aad G
(2012)
Measurement of the production cross section for Z / ? * in association with jets in p p collisions at s = 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Physical Review D
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)
Measurement of the top quark pair production cross section in pp collisions at s = 7 TeV in dilepton final states with ATLAS
in Physics Letters B
Aad G
(2013)
Measurement of upsilon production in 7 TeV p p collisions at ATLAS
in Physical Review D
Aad G
(2014)
Measurement of event-plane correlations in s NN = 2.76 TeV lead-lead collisions with the ATLAS detector
in Physical Review C
Aad G
(2012)
Search for a supersymmetric partner to the top quark in final states with jets and missing transverse momentum at sqrt[s] = 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector.
in Physical review letters
Aad G
(2012)
Search for production of resonant states in the photon-jet mass distribution using pp collisions at vs=7 TeV collected by the ATLAS detector.
in Physical review letters
Aad G
(2015)
Search for anomalous production of prompt same-sign lepton pairs and pair-produced doubly charged Higgs bosons with s = 8 $$ \sqrt{s}=8 $$ TeV pp collisions using the ATLAS detector
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aad G
(2013)
Searches for heavy long-lived sleptons and R-hadrons with the ATLAS detector in pp collisions at s = 7 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Aad G
(2013)
Measurement of k T splitting scales in W?l? events at $\sqrt{s} = 7\ \mathrm{TeV}$ with the ATLAS detector
in The European Physical Journal C
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
(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)
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
(2014)
Search for new resonances in W? and Z? final states in pp collisions at s = 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Physics Letters B
Aad G
(2012)
Search for extra dimensions using diphoton events in 7 TeV proton-proton collisions with the ATLAS detector
in Physics Letters B
Aad G
(2015)
Search for pair-produced long-lived neutral particles decaying to jets in the ATLAS hadronic calorimeter in pp collisions at s = 8 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Aad G
(2014)
Measurement of the low-mass Drell-Yan differential cross section at s $$ \sqrt{s} $$ = 7 TeV using the ATLAS detector
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aad G
(2011)
Measurement of the inclusive isolated prompt photon cross section in p p collisions at s = 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Physical Review D
Aad G
(2015)
Summary of the ATLAS experiment's sensitivity to supersymmetry after LHC Run 1 - interpreted in the phenomenological MSSM
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Abdallah J
(2013)
Mechanical construction and installation of the ATLAS tile calorimeter
in Journal of Instrumentation
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 |