GridPP5 Brunel University London Staff Grant
Lead Research Organisation:
Brunel University
Department Name: Electronic and Computer 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
Waters R
(2016)
Templated assembly of metal nanoparticle films on polymer substrates
in Applied Physics Letters
Huang B
(2016)
Genetic Characterization of Archived Bunyaviruses and their Potential for Emergence in Australia.
in Emerging infectious diseases
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
Sirunyan A
(2018)
Measurement of the cross section for top quark pair production in association with a W or Z boson in proton-proton collisions at s = 13 $$ \sqrt{s}=13 $$ TeV
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Sirunyan A
(2018)
Charged-particle nuclear modification factors in XeXe collisions at s N N = 5.44 $$ \sqrt{s_{\mathrm{NN}}} = 5.44 $$ TeV
in Journal of High Energy Physics
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
(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
Sirunyan A
(2018)
Measurement of the production cross section for single top quarks in association with W bosons in proton-proton collisions at s = 13 $$ \sqrt{s}=13 $$ TeV
in Journal of High Energy Physics
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
Sirunyan A
(2018)
Search for a heavy resonance decaying into a Z boson and a vector boson in the ? ? ¯ q q ¯ $$ \nu \overline{\nu}\mathrm{q}\overline{\mathrm{q}} $$ final state
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Khachatryan V
(2016)
Correlations between jets and charged particles 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)
Search for excited leptons in proton-proton collisions at s = 8 $$ \sqrt{s}=8 $$ TeV
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
Sirunyan A
(2018)
Search for supersymmetry in events with a t lepton pair and missing transverse momentum in proton-proton collisions at s = 13 $$ \sqrt{s}=13 $$ TeV
in Journal of High Energy Physics
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
Sirunyan A
(2018)
Search for a heavy right-handed W boson and a heavy neutrino in events with two same-flavor leptons and two jets at s = 13 $$ \sqrt{s}=13 $$ TeV
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Sirunyan A
(2018)
Event shape variables measured using multijet final states in proton-proton collisions at s=13$$ \sqrt{s}=13 $$ TeV
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Sirunyan A
(2018)
Search for decays of stopped exotic long-lived particles produced in proton-proton collisions at s = 13 $$ \sqrt{s}=13 $$ TeV
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Khachatryan V
(2016)
Search for new physics in final states with two opposite-sign, same-flavor leptons, jets, and missing transverse momentum in pp collisions at s = 13 $$ \sqrt{s}=13 $$ TeV
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Sirunyan A
(2018)
Search for a heavy resonance decaying into a Z boson and a Z or W boson in 2l2q final states at s = 13 $$ \sqrt{s}=13 $$ TeV
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Khachatryan V
(2016)
Measurement of top quark polarisation in t-channel single top quark production
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Khachatryan V
(2016)
Measurement of differential and integrated fiducial cross sections for Higgs boson production in the four-lepton decay channel in pp collisions at s = 7 $$ \sqrt{s}=7 $$ and 8 TeV
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Khachatryan V
(2017)
Measurement of the transverse momentum spectra of weak vector bosons produced in proton-proton collisions at s = 8 $$ \sqrt{s}=8 $$ TeV
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Khachatryan V
(2016)
Evidence for exclusive ?? ? W + W - production and constraints on anomalous quartic gauge couplings in pp collisions at s = 7 $$ \sqrt{s}=7 $$ and 8 TeV
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Sirunyan A
(2019)
Search for supersymmetry in events with a photon, a lepton, and missing transverse momentum in proton-proton collisions at s = 13 $$ \sqrt{s} = 13 $$ TeV
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Sirunyan A
(2018)
Search for additional neutral MSSM Higgs bosons in the t t final state in proton-proton collisions at s = 13 $$ \sqrt{s}=13 $$ TeV
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Khachatryan V
(2016)
Observation of top quark pairs produced in association with a vector boson in pp collisions at s = 8 $$ \sqrt{s}=8 $$ TeV
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Sirunyan A
(2018)
Search for narrow and broad dijet resonances in proton-proton collisions at s = 13 $$ \sqrt{s}=13 $$ TeV and constraints on dark matter mediators and other new particles
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Sirunyan A
(2018)
Search for a heavy resonance decaying to a pair of vector bosons in the lepton plus merged jet final state at s = 13 $$ \sqrt{s}=13 $$ TeV
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Sirunyan A
(2018)
Search for Z? resonances using leptonic and hadronic final states in proton-proton collisions at s = 13 $$ \sqrt{s}=13 $$ TeV
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Khachatryan V
(2017)
Search for top quark decays via Higgs-boson-mediated flavor-changing neutral currents in pp collisions at s = 8 $$ \sqrt{s}=8 $$ TeV
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Khachatryan V
(2016)
Search for a massive resonance decaying into a Higgs boson and a W or Z boson in hadronic final states in proton-proton collisions at s = 8 $$ \sqrt{s}=8 $$ TeV
in Journal of High Energy Physics
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
Sirunyan A
(2018)
Search for dark matter produced in association with a Higgs boson decaying to ?? or t +t - at s = 13 $$ \sqrt{s}=13 $$ TeV
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Sirunyan A
(2018)
Measurements of the differential jet cross section as a function of the jet mass in dijet events from proton-proton collisions at s = 13 $$ \sqrt{s}=13 $$ TeV
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Sirunyan A
(2018)
Search for the flavor-changing neutral current interactions of the top quark and the Higgs boson which decays into a pair of b quarks at s = 13 $$ \sqrt{s}=13 $$ TeV
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Sirunyan A
(2018)
Measurements of Higgs boson properties in the diphoton decay channel in proton-proton collisions at s = 13 $$ \sqrt{s}=13 $$ TeV
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Sirunyan A
(2019)
Search for heavy resonances decaying into two Higgs bosons or into a Higgs boson and a W or Z boson in proton-proton collisions at 13 TeV
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Sirunyan A
(2017)
Search for dark matter and unparticles in events with a Z boson and missing transverse momentum in proton-proton collisions at s = 13 $$ \sqrt{s}=13 $$ TeV
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Sirunyan A
(2018)
Measurement of the underlying event activity in inclusive Z boson production in proton-proton collisions at s = 13 $$ \sqrt{s}=13 $$ TeV
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Sirunyan A
(2019)
Search for heavy Majorana neutrinos in same-sign dilepton channels in proton-proton collisions at s = 13 $$ \sqrt{s}=13 $$ TeV
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Sirunyan A
(2018)
Search for a singly produced third-generation scalar leptoquark decaying to a t lepton and a bottom quark in proton-proton collisions at s = 13 $$ \sqrt{s}=13 $$ TeV
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Sirunyan A
(2018)
Measurements of differential cross sections of top quark pair production as a function of kinematic event variables in proton-proton collisions at s = 13 $$ \sqrt{s}=13 $$ TeV
in Journal of High Energy Physics
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
Sirunyan A
(2018)
Search for high-mass resonances in final states with a lepton and missing transverse momentum at s = 13 $$ \sqrt{s}=13 $$ TeV
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Sirunyan A
(2019)
Search for production of Higgs boson pairs in the four b quark final state using large-area jets in proton-proton collisions at s = 13 $$ \sqrt{s}=13 $$ TeV
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Sirunyan A
(2018)
Measurement of the groomed jet mass in PbPb and pp collisions at s N N = 5.02 $$ \sqrt{s_{\mathrm{NN}}}=5.02 $$ TeV
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Sirunyan A
(2018)
Search for resonant pair production of Higgs bosons decaying to bottom quark-antiquark pairs in proton-proton collisions at 13 TeV
in Journal of High Energy Physics
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
Sirunyan A
(2018)
Search for lepton flavour violating decays of the Higgs boson to µt and et in proton-proton collisions at s = 13 $$ \sqrt{s}=13 $$ TeV
in Journal of High Energy Physics
| 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. |