GridPP4+ Cambridge Staff Grant
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Cambridge
Department Name: Physics
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 2015 to March 2016 will be to ensure that there is a sustainable infrastructure providing "Computing in the LHC era"
We propose to operate a Grid 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 Grid, 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 Grid 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 30 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 Grid 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 Grid, 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 Grid 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 30 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 GridPP4+. 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 GridPP4+. 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 GridPP4+. 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.
Organisations
Publications
Aaboud M
(2017)
Measurement of the cross section for inclusive isolated-photon production in pp collisions at s = 13 TeV using the ATLAS detector
in Physics Letters B
Aaboud M
(2018)
Observation of Centrality-Dependent Acoplanarity for Muon Pairs Produced via Two-Photon Scattering in Pb+Pb Collisions at sqrt[s_{NN}]=5.02 TeV with the ATLAS Detector.
in Physical review letters
Aaboud M
(2018)
Search for lepton-flavor-violating decays of the Z boson into a t lepton and a light lepton with the ATLAS detector
in Physical Review D
Aaboud M
(2017)
Measurements of the production cross section of a [Formula: see text] boson in association with jets in pp collisions at [Formula: see text] TeV with the ATLAS detector.
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
Aaboud M
(2017)
Search for new phenomena in a lepton plus high jet multiplicity final state with the ATLAS experiment using s = 13 $$ \sqrt{s}=13 $$ TeV proton-proton collision data
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aaboud M
(2017)
Fiducial, total and differential cross-section measurements of t-channel single top-quark production in pp collisions at 8 TeV using data collected by the ATLAS detector
in The European Physical Journal C
Aaboud M
(2018)
Search for pair production of Higgsinos in final states with at least three b -tagged jets in s = 13 TeV p p collisions using the ATLAS detector
in Physical Review D
Aaboud M
(2017)
Search for pair production of vector-like top quarks in events with one lepton, jets, and missing transverse momentum in s = 13 $$ \sqrt{s}=13 $$ TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS detector
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aaboud M
(2017)
Measurement of the W+W- production cross section in pp collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS experiment
in Physics Letters B
Aaboud M
(2018)
Search for heavy ZZ resonances in the l + l - l + l - and l + l - ? ? ¯ final states using proton-proton collisions at s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector.
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
Aaboud M
(2017)
Measurement of jet activity produced in top-quark events with an electron, a muon and two b-tagged jets in the final state in pp collisions at $$\sqrt{s}=13$$ s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector
in The European Physical Journal C
Aaboud M
(2017)
Search for triboson [Formula: see text] production in pp collisions at [Formula: see text] [Formula: see text] with the ATLAS detector.
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
Aaboud M
(2017)
Measurement of jet fragmentation in Pb+Pb and pp collisions at sNN=2.76 TeV with the ATLAS detector at the LHC.
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
Aaboud M
(2017)
Measurement of forward-backward multiplicity correlations in lead-lead, proton-lead, and proton-proton collisions with the ATLAS detector
in Physical Review C
Aaboud M
(2018)
Search for additional heavy neutral Higgs and gauge bosons in the ditau final state produced in 36 fb-1 of pp collisions at s = 13 $$ \sqrt{s}=13 $$ TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aaboud M
(2017)
Measurement of the inclusive cross-sections of single top-quark and top-antiquark t-channel production in pp collisions at s = 13 $$ \sqrt{s}=13 $$ TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aaboud M
(2018)
A search for resonances decaying into a Higgs boson and a new particle X in the XH?qqbb final state with the ATLAS detector
in Physics Letters B
| Description | GridPP underpins LHC science and many other distributed computing projects. |
| First Year Of Impact | 2005 |
| Sector | Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software),Healthcare |
| Impact Types | Societal Economic |
| Description | Clinical and Translational Research Committee Programme award |
| Amount | £1,226,417 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | C8857/A13405 |
| Organisation | Cancer Research UK |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 03/2012 |
| End | 02/2017 |