GridPP5 Brunel University London Staff Grant
Lead Research Organisation:
Brunel University
Department Name: Electronic and Electrical 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.
Organisations
Publications
Oh G
(2019)
Beyond nPDFs effects: Prompt J/? and ?(2S) production in pPb and pp collisions
in Nuclear Physics A
Shi Z
(2019)
D0-Meson R in PbPb Collisions at s N N = 5.02 TeV and Elliptic Flow in pPb Collisions at s N N = 8.16 TeV with CMS
in Nuclear Physics A
Sirunyan A
(2018)
Electroweak production of two jets in association with a Z boson in proton-proton collisions at $$\sqrt{s}= $$ s = 13 $$\,\text {TeV}$$ TeV
in The European Physical Journal C
Sirunyan A
(2019)
Measurement of prompt ?(2S) production cross sections in proton-lead and proton-proton collisions at s NN = 5.02 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Sirunyan A
(2018)
Search for a charged Higgs boson decaying to charm and bottom quarks in proton-proton collisions at s = 8 $$ \sqrt{s}=8 $$ TeV
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Sirunyan A
(2018)
Search for new physics in events with two soft oppositely charged leptons and missing transverse momentum in proton-proton collisions at s = 13 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Sirunyan A
(2018)
Searches for pair production of charginos and top squarks in final states with two oppositely charged leptons in proton-proton collisions 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
(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)
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
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
Sirunyan A
(2019)
Search for low-mass resonances decaying into bottom quark-antiquark pairs in proton-proton collisions at s = 13 TeV
in Physical Review D
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
Sirunyan A
(2018)
Constraints on models of scalar and vector leptoquarks decaying to a quark and a neutrino at s = 13 TeV
in Physical Review D
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 A
(2018)
Search for natural and split supersymmetry in proton-proton collisions at s = 13 $$ \sqrt{s}=13 $$ TeV in final states with jets and missing transverse momentum
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Sirunyan A
(2019)
A search for pair production of new light bosons decaying into muons in proton-proton collisions at 13 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Sirunyan A
(2017)
Mechanical stability of the CMS strip tracker measured with a laser alignment system
in Journal of Instrumentation
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 A
(2019)
Search for an L - L gauge boson using Z ? 4µ events in proton-proton collisions at s = 13 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Sirunyan A
(2018)
Measurement of quarkonium production cross sections in pp collisions at s = 13 TeV
in Physics Letters B
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
(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
(2020)
Observation of nuclear modifications in W± boson production in pPb collisions at s NN = 8.16 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Sirunyan A
(2017)
Search for massive resonances decaying into WW, WZ or ZZ bosons in proton-proton collisions at s = 13 $$ \sqrt{s}=13 $$ TeV
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Sirunyan A
(2019)
Search for pair-produced three-jet resonances in proton-proton collisions at s = 13 TeV
in Physical Review D
Sirunyan A
(2018)
Performance of the CMS muon detector and muon reconstruction with proton-proton collisions at v s =13 TeV
in Journal of Instrumentation
Sirunyan A
(2019)
Non-Gaussian elliptic-flow fluctuations in PbPb collisions at s NN = 5.02 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Sirunyan A
(2019)
Search for Higgs boson pair production in the ? ? b b ? final state in pp collisions at s = 13 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Sirunyan A
(2018)
Search for long-lived particles with displaced vertices in multijet events in proton-proton collisions at s = 13 TeV
in Physical Review D
Sirunyan A
(2018)
Search for excited quarks of light and heavy flavor in ? + jet final states in proton-proton collisions at s = 13 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Sirunyan A
(2019)
Search for the Higgs Boson Decaying to Two Muons in Proton-Proton Collisions at s = 13 TeV
in Physical Review Letters
Sirunyan A
(2019)
Search for invisible decays of a Higgs boson produced through vector boson fusion in proton-proton collisions at s = 13 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Sirunyan A
(2018)
Search for disappearing tracks as a signature of new long-lived particles in proton-proton collisions at s = 13 $$ \sqrt{s}=13 $$ TeV
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Sirunyan A
(2018)
Search for high-mass resonances in dilepton final states in proton-proton collisions at s = 13 $$ \sqrt{s}=13 $$ TeV
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Sirunyan A
(2019)
Search for new physics in final states with a single photon and missing transverse momentum in proton-proton collisions at s=13$$ \sqrt{s}=13 $$ TeV
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Sirunyan A
(2018)
Study of jet quenching with isolated-photon+jet correlations in PbPb and pp collisions at s NN = 5.02 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Sirunyan A
(2018)
Search for t t ¯ H $$ \mathrm{t}\overline{\mathrm{t}}\mathrm{H} $$ production in the all-jet final state in 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 A
(2019)
Evidence for light-by-light scattering and searches for axion-like particles in ultraperipheral PbPb collisions at s NN = 5.02 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Sirunyan A
(2019)
Search for Higgs and Z boson decays to J/? or Y pairs in the four-muon final state in proton-proton collisions at s = 13 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Sirunyan A
(2018)
Search for single production of vector-like quarks decaying to a b quark and a Higgs boson
in Journal of High Energy Physics
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
(2019)
Combination of CMS searches for heavy resonances decaying to pairs of bosons or leptons
in Physics Letters B
Sirunyan A
(2018)
Erratum to: Measurement of b hadron lifetimes in pp collisions at $$\sqrt{s} = 8$$ s = 8 $$\,\text {Te}\text {V}$$ Te
in The European Physical Journal C
Sirunyan A
(2019)
Search for anomalous electroweak production of vector boson pairs in association with two jets in proton-proton collisions at 13 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Sirunyan A
(2018)
Search for beyond the standard model Higgs bosons decaying into a b b ¯ $$ \mathrm{b}\overline{\mathrm{b}} $$ pair in pp 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. |