GridPP5 Brunel University London Staff Grant
Lead Research Organisation:
Brunel University London
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.
Publications
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)
Search for gauge-mediated supersymmetry in events with at least one photon and missing transverse momentum in pp collisions at s = 13 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
(2020)
A measurement of the Higgs boson mass in the diphoton decay channel
in Physics Letters B
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
(2020)
Investigation into the event-activity dependence of ?(nS) relative production in proton-proton collisions at $$ \sqrt{s} $$ = 7 TeV
in Journal of High Energy Physics
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
(2020)
Search for resonant pair production of Higgs bosons in the b b Z Z channel in proton-proton collisions at s = 13 TeV
in Physical Review D
Sirunyan A
(2019)
Search for a W' boson decaying to a t lepton and a neutrino in proton-proton collisions at s = 13 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Sirunyan A
(2019)
Observation of prompt J/? meson elliptic flow in high-multiplicity pPb collisions at s NN = 8.16 TeV
in Physics Letters B
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
(2019)
Measurement of differential cross sections for Z boson pair production in association with jets at s = 8 and 13 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Sirunyan A
(2020)
Measurement of the Y(1S) pair production cross section and search for resonances decaying to Y(1S)µ+µ- in proton-proton collisions at s = 13 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Sirunyan A
(2018)
Search for new long-lived particles at s = 13 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Sirunyan A
(2018)
Search for new physics in final states with an energetic jet or a hadronically decaying W or Z boson and transverse momentum imbalance at s = 13 TeV
in Physical Review D
Sirunyan A
(2019)
Erratum to: Search for a new scalar resonance decaying to a pair of Z bosons in proton-proton collisions at s = 13 $$ \sqrt{s}=13 $$ TeV
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Sirunyan A
(2019)
Pseudorapidity distributions of charged hadrons in xenon-xenon collisions at s NN = 5.44 TeV
in Physics Letters B
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
(2020)
Measurement of B c ( 2 S ) + and B c * ( 2 S ) + cross section ratios in proton-proton collisions at s = 13 TeV
in Physical Review D
Sirunyan A
(2020)
Measurements of the W boson rapidity, helicity, double-differential cross sections, and charge asymmetry in p p collisions at s = 13 TeV
in Physical Review D
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
(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
(2019)
Search for long-lived particles decaying into displaced jets in proton-proton collisions at s = 13 TeV
in Physical Review D
Sirunyan A
(2020)
Reconstruction of signal amplitudes in the CMS electromagnetic calorimeter in the presence of overlapping proton-proton interactions
in Journal of Instrumentation
Sirunyan A
(2018)
Precision measurement of the structure of the CMS inner tracking system using nuclear interactions
in Journal of Instrumentation
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)
Evidence for the Higgs boson decay to a bottom quark-antiquark pair
in Physics Letters B
Sirunyan A
(2020)
Measurement of $$\hbox {t}{\bar{\hbox {t}}}$$ normalised multi-differential cross sections in $${\text {p}}{\text {p}} $$ collisions at $$\sqrt{s}=13\,{\text {TeV}} $$, and simultaneous determination of the strong coupling strength, top quark pole mass, and parton distribution functions
in The European Physical Journal C
Sirunyan A
(2020)
Erratum to: Study of dijet events with a large rapidity gap between the two leading jets in pp collisions at $$\sqrt{s}=7\,\text {Te}\text {V} $$
in The European Physical Journal C
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)
Evidence for the Associated Production of a Single Top Quark and a Photon in Proton-Proton Collisions at s = 13 TeV
in Physical Review Letters
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
(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
(2020)
Inclusive search for highly boosted Higgs bosons decaying to bottom quark-antiquark pairs in proton-proton collisions at $$ \sqrt{s} $$ = 13 TeV
in Journal of High Energy Physics
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)
Performance of the CMS muon detector and muon reconstruction with proton-proton collisions at v s =13 TeV
in Journal of Instrumentation
Sirunyan A
(2020)
Search for decays of the 125 GeV Higgs boson into a Z boson and a ? or ? meson
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Sirunyan A
(2020)
Identification of heavy, energetic, hadronically decaying particles using machine-learning techniques
in Journal of Instrumentation
Sirunyan A
(2020)
Search for dijet resonances using events with three jets in proton-proton collisions at s = 13 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Sirunyan A
(2020)
Observation of electroweak production of W? with two jets in proton-proton collisions at s = 13 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Sirunyan A
(2020)
Pileup mitigation at CMS in 13 TeV data
in Journal of Instrumentation
Sirunyan A
(2018)
Measurement of quarkonium production cross sections in pp collisions at s = 13 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Sirunyan A
(2018)
Nuclear modification factor of D0 mesons in PbPb collisions at s NN = 5.02 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
(2019)
Search for an exotic decay of the Higgs boson to a pair of light pseudoscalars in the final state with two muons and two b quarks in pp collisions at 13 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Sirunyan A
(2020)
Search for a light charged Higgs boson in the H ± ? c s channel in proton-proton collisions at s = 13 TeV
in Physical Review D
| Description | GridPP6 Brunel Staff Grant |
| Amount | £112,482 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | ST/T001291/1 |
| Organisation | Science and Technologies Facilities Council (STFC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 03/2020 |
| End | 03/2024 |
| 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. |