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 AM
(2020)
Search for physics beyond the standard model in events with jets and two same-sign or at least three charged leptons in proton-proton collisions at s = 13 TeV.
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields

Sirunyan A
(2018)
Search for physics beyond the standard model in high-mass diphoton events from proton-proton collisions at s = 13 TeV
in Physical Review D

Khachatryan V
(2016)
Search for R-parity violating decays of a top squark in proton-proton collisions at s = 8 TeV
in Physics Letters B


Sirunyan AM
(2019)
Search for rare decays of Z and Higgs bosons to J / ? and a photon in proton-proton collisions at s = 13 TeV.
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields

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

Khachatryan V
(2016)
Search for Resonant Production of High-Mass Photon Pairs in Proton-Proton Collisions at sqrt[s]=8 and 13 TeV.
in Physical review letters

Khachatryan V
(2016)
Search for s channel single top quark production in pp collisions at s = 7 $$ \sqrt{s}=7 $$ and 8 TeV
in Journal of High Energy Physics

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

Khachatryan V
(2016)
Search for single production of scalar leptoquarks in proton-proton collisions at s = 8 TeV
in Physical Review D

Sirunyan AM
(2019)
Search for single production of vector-like quarks decaying to a top quark and a W boson in proton-proton collisions at s = 13 TeV.
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields

Sirunyan A
(2019)
Search for supersymmetric partners of electrons and muons in proton-proton collisions at s = 13 TeV
in Physics Letters B

Khachatryan V
(2016)
Search for supersymmetry in electroweak production with photons and large missing transverse energy in pp collisions at s = 8 TeV
in Physics Letters B

Khachatryan V
(2016)
Search for supersymmetry in events with a photon, a lepton, and missing transverse momentum in pp collisions at s = 8 TeV
in Physics Letters B

Khachatryan V
(2016)
Search for supersymmetry in events with soft leptons, low jet multiplicity, and missing transverse energy in proton-proton collisions at s = 8 TeV
in Physics Letters B

Khachatryan V
(2016)
Search for supersymmetry in p p collisions at s = 8 TeV in final states with boosted W bosons and b jets using razor variables
in Physical Review D

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
(2016)
Search for supersymmetry in the multijet and missing transverse momentum final state in pp collisions at 13 TeV
in Physics Letters B

Khachatryan V
(2016)
Search for the associated production of a Higgs boson with a single top quark in proton-proton collisions at s = 8 $$ \sqrt{s}=8 $$ TeV
in Journal of High Energy Physics

Tu Z
(2019)
Search for the chiral magnetic effect at the LHC with the CMS experiment
in Nuclear Physics A

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 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)
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

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
(2017)
Search for top squark pair production in compressed-mass-spectrum scenarios in proton-proton collisions at s = 8 TeV using the aT variable
in Physics Letters B

Khachatryan V
(2016)
Search for two Higgs bosons in final states containing two photons and two bottom quarks in proton-proton collisions at 8 TeV
in Physical Review D

Khachatryan V
(2016)
Search for W' ? tb in proton-proton collisions at s = 8 $$ \sqrt{s}=8 $$ TeV
in Journal of High Energy Physics

Khachatryan V
(2016)
Search for W' decaying to tau lepton and neutrino in proton-proton collisions at s = 8 TeV
in Physics Letters B

Khachatryan V
(2016)
Searches for a heavy scalar boson H decaying to a pair of 125 GeV Higgs bosons hh or for a heavy pseudoscalar boson A decaying to Zh, in the final states with h ?tt
in Physics Letters B

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

Khachatryan V
(2016)
Searches for R -parity-violating supersymmetry in p p collisions at s = 8 TeV in final states with 0-4 leptons
in Physical Review D

Sirunyan A
(2020)
Strange hadron production in pp and p Pb collisions at s N N = 5.02 TeV
in Physical Review C

Sirunyan AM
(2018)
Studies of B s 2 * ( 5840 ) 0 and B s 1 ( 5830 ) 0 mesons including the observation of the B s 2 * ( 5840 ) 0 ? B 0 K S 0 decay in proton-proton collisions at s = 8 TeV.
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields

Sirunyan AM
(2020)
Studies of Charm Quark Diffusion inside Jets Using Pb-Pb and pp Collisions at sqrt[s_{NN}]=5.02 TeV.
in Physical review letters

Khachatryan V
(2016)
Studies of inclusive four-jet production with two b -tagged jets in proton-proton collisions at 7 TeV
in Physical Review D

Sirunyan AM
(2020)
Study of central exclusive production in proton-proton collisions at s = 5.02 and 13TeV.
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields

Sirunyan A
(2020)
Study of J / ? meson production inside jets in pp collisions at s = 8 TeV
in Physics Letters B

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 AM
(2019)
Study of the underlying event in top quark pair production in p p collisions at 13 Te .
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields

Khachatryan V
(2016)
Study of Z boson production in pPb collisions at s N N = 5.02 TeV
in Physics Letters B

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

Waters R
(2016)
Templated assembly of metal nanoparticle films on polymer substrates
in Applied Physics Letters

Khachatryan V
(2016)
Transverse momentum spectra of inclusive b jets in pPb collisions at s NN = 5.02 TeV
in Physics Letters B

Adam W
(2016)
Trapping in proton irradiated p + -n-n + silicon sensors at fluences anticipated at the HL-LHC outer tracker
in Journal of Instrumentation

Sirunyan A
(2020)
W + W - boson pair production 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. |