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
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
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)
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)
Dependence of inclusive jet production on the anti-kT distance parameter in pp collisions at $$ \sqrt{\mathrm{s}} $$ = 13 TeV
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Sirunyan A
(2020)
Combined search for supersymmetry with photons 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
(2017)
Search for electroweak production of a vector-like quark decaying to a top quark and a Higgs boson using boosted topologies in fully hadronic final states
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Sirunyan A
(2018)
Search for the X ( 5568 ) State Decaying into B s 0 p ± in Proton-Proton Collisions at s = 8 TeV
in Physical Review Letters
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 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)
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)
Search for dijet resonances using events with three jets in proton-proton collisions at s = 13 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Sirunyan A
(2020)
Measurements of production cross sections of WZ and same-sign WW boson pairs in association with two jets in proton-proton collisions at s = 13 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Sirunyan A
(2018)
Pseudorapidity and transverse momentum dependence of flow harmonics in p Pb and PbPb collisions
in Physical Review C
Sirunyan A
(2020)
Determination of the strong coupling constant aS(mZ) from measurements of inclusive W± and Z boson production cross sections in proton-proton collisions at $$ \sqrt{\mathrm{s}} $$ = 7 and 8 TeV
in Journal of High Energy Physics
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
(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
(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)
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)
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
(2020)
Search for bottom-type, vectorlike quark pair production in a fully hadronic final state in proton-proton collisions at s = 13 TeV
in Physical Review D
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
(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
(2019)
Pseudorapidity distributions of charged hadrons in xenon-xenon collisions at s NN = 5.44 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. |