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
Sirunyan A
(2019)
Non-Gaussian elliptic-flow fluctuations in PbPb collisions at s NN = 5.02 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
(2019)
Search for supersymmetric partners of electrons and muons in proton-proton collisions at s = 13 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Sirunyan A
(2019)
Search for pair-produced three-jet resonances in 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
Tu Z
(2019)
Search for the chiral magnetic effect at the LHC with the CMS experiment
in Nuclear Physics A
Sirunyan A
(2019)
Pseudorapidity distributions of charged hadrons in xenon-xenon collisions at s NN = 5.44 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Sirunyan AM
(2019)
Measurement of exclusive ? photoproduction from protons in p Pb collisions at s NN = 5.02 TeV.
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
Wang Q
(2019)
Multiparticle correlations and higher order harmonics in pPb collisions at s NN = 8.16 TeV
in Nuclear Physics A
Sirunyan AM
(2019)
Search for Dark Matter Particles Produced in Association with a Top Quark Pair at sqrt[s]=13 TeV.
in Physical review letters
Sirunyan AM
(2019)
Search for the Higgs Boson Decaying to Two Muons in Proton-Proton Collisions at sqrt[s]=13 TeV.
in Physical review letters
Sirunyan A
(2019)
Combination of CMS searches for heavy resonances decaying to pairs of bosons or leptons
in Physics Letters B
Sirunyan AM
(2018)
Search for third-generation scalar leptoquarks decaying to a top quark and a t lepton at s = 13 Te .
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
Sirunyan AM
(2018)
Search for Narrow Resonances in the b-Tagged Dijet Mass Spectrum in Proton-Proton Collisions at sqrt[s]=8 TeV.
in Physical review letters
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
(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)
Measurement of jet substructure observables in t t ¯ events from proton-proton collisions at s = 13 TeV
in Physical Review D
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)
Nuclear modification factor of D0 mesons in PbPb collisions at s NN = 5.02 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Sirunyan AM
(2018)
Elliptic Flow of Charm and Strange Hadrons in High-Multiplicity p+Pb Collisions at sqrt[s_{NN}]=8.16 TeV.
in Physical review letters
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 AM
(2018)
Search for the X(5568) State Decaying into B_{s}^{0}p^{±} in Proton-Proton Collisions at sqrt[s]=8 TeV.
in Physical review letters
Sirunyan AM
(2018)
Measurement of differential cross sections for Z boson production in association with jets in proton-proton collisions at s = 13 TeV.
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
Sirunyan AM
(2018)
Measurement of b hadron lifetimes in pp collisions at s = 8 TeV.
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
Sirunyan A
(2018)
Search for a massive resonance decaying to a pair of Higgs bosons in the four b quark final state in proton-proton collisions at s = 13 TeV
in Physics Letters B
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. |