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
Khachatryan V
(2017)
Observation of Charge-Dependent Azimuthal Correlations in p-Pb Collisions and Its Implication for the Search for the Chiral Magnetic Effect.
in Physical review letters
Khachatryan V
(2017)
Searches for invisible decays of the Higgs boson in pp collisions at s $$ \sqrt{s} $$ = 7, 8, and 13 TeV
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Sirunyan AM
(2017)
Relative Modification of Prompt ?(2S) and J/? Yields from pp to PbPb Collisions at sqrt[s_{NN}]=5.02 TeV.
in Physical review letters
Strong A
(2017)
An evaluation of physical activity training in Australian medical school curricula.
in Journal of science and medicine in sport
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
Sirunyan A
(2018)
Search for an exotic decay of the Higgs boson to a pair of light pseudoscalars in the final state of two muons and two t leptons in proton-proton collisions at s = 13 $$ \sqrt{s}=13 $$ TeV
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Sirunyan AM
(2018)
Search for Pair-Produced Resonances Each Decaying into at Least Four Quarks in Proton-Proton Collisions at sqrt[s]=13 TeV.
in Physical review letters
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 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)
Search for pair-produced resonances decaying to quark pairs in proton-proton collisions at s = 13 TeV
in Physical Review D
Sirunyan A
(2018)
Search for new long-lived particles at s = 13 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Sirunyan AM
(2018)
Observation of tt[over ¯]H Production.
in Physical review letters
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 vector-like T and B quark pairs in final states with leptons at s = 13 $$ \sqrt{s}=13 $$ TeV
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Sirunyan AM
(2018)
Search for third-generation scalar leptoquarks decaying to a top quark and a lepton at .
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
Sirunyan A
(2018)
Performance of reconstruction and identification of t leptons decaying to hadrons and v t in pp collisions at v s =13 TeV
in Journal of Instrumentation
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
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
Sirunyan AM
(2018)
Observation of Higgs Boson Decay to Bottom Quarks.
in Physical review letters
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 dark matter in events with energetic, hadronically decaying top quarks and missing transverse momentum at s = 13 $$ \sqrt{s}=13 $$ TeV
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Sirunyan AM
(2018)
Search for Physics Beyond the Standard Model in Events with High-Momentum Higgs Bosons and Missing Transverse Momentum in Proton-Proton Collisions at 13 TeV.
in Physical review letters
Sirunyan A
(2018)
Observation of proton-tagged, central (semi)exclusive production of high-mass lepton pairs in pp collisions at 13 TeV with the CMS-TOTEM precision proton spectrometer
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 AM
(2018)
Measurement of the top quark mass with lepton+jets final states using collisions at .
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
Sirunyan AM
(2018)
Observation of the Z??l^{+}l^{-} Decay in pp Collisions at sqrt[s]=13 TeV.
in Physical review letters
Sirunyan A
(2018)
Measurement of quarkonium production cross sections in pp collisions at s = 13 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Sirunyan A
(2018)
Bose-Einstein correlations in p p , p Pb , and PbPb collisions at s N N = 0.9 - 7 TeV
in Physical Review C
Sirunyan A
(2018)
Search for single production of a vector-like T quark decaying to a Z boson and a top quark in proton-proton collisions at s = 13 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Sirunyan AM
(2018)
Measurement of Prompt D^{0} Meson Azimuthal Anisotropy in Pb-Pb Collisions at sqrt[s_{NN}]=5.02 TeV.
in Physical review letters
Sirunyan A
(2018)
Measurement of the inelastic proton-proton cross section at s = 13 $$ \sqrt{s}=13 $$ TeV
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Sirunyan A
(2018)
Erratum to: Measurements of the $$\hbox {pp}\rightarrow \hbox {ZZ}$$ pp ? ZZ production cross section and the $$\hbox {Z} \rightarrow 4\ell $$ Z ? 4 l branching fraction, and constraints on anomalous triple gauge couplings at $$\sqrt{s} = 13\,\hbox {TeV}$$ s = 13 TeV
in The European Physical Journal C
Sirunyan A
(2018)
Angular analysis of the decay B + ? K + µ + µ - in proton-proton collisions at s = 8 TeV
in Physical Review D
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)
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
(2018)
Pseudorapidity and transverse momentum dependence of flow harmonics in p Pb and PbPb collisions
in Physical Review C
Sirunyan AM
(2018)
Observation of Medium-Induced Modifications of Jet Fragmentation in Pb-Pb Collisions at sqrt[s_{NN}]=5.02 TeV Using Isolated Photon-Tagged Jets.
in Physical review letters
Sirunyan AM
(2018)
Measurement of b hadron lifetimes in pp collisions at .
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
Sirunyan AM
(2018)
Evidence for the Associated Production of a Single Top Quark and a Photon in Proton-Proton Collisions at sqrt[s]=13 TeV.
in Physical review letters
Sirunyan A
(2018)
Measurement of jet substructure observables in t t ¯ events from proton-proton collisions at s = 13 TeV
in Physical Review D
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
(2018)
Measurement of angular parameters from the decay B0 ? K?0µ+µ- in proton-proton collisions at s = 8 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Sirunyan AM
(2018)
Search for Leptoquarks Coupled to Third-Generation Quarks in Proton-Proton Collisions at sqrt[s]=13 TeV.
in Physical review letters
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
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 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 AM
(2018)
Search for Heavy Neutral Leptons in Events with Three Charged Leptons in Proton-Proton Collisions at sqrt[s]=13 TeV.
in Physical review letters
Sirunyan AM
(2018)
Observation of the ?_{b1}(3P) and ?_{b2}(3P) and Measurement of their Masses.
in Physical review letters
| 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. |