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. M.
(2019)
Search for long-lived particles decaying into displaced jets in proton-proton collisions at root s=13 TeV
in PHYSICAL REVIEW D
Sirunyan A. M.
(2018)
Search for the flavor-changing neutral current interactions of the top quark and the Higgs boson which decays into a pair of b quarks at root s=13 TeV
in JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
Sirunyan A. M.
(2018)
Search for dark matter produced in association with a Higgs boson decaying to gamma gamma or tau(+)tau(-) at root s=13 TeV
in JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
Sirunyan A. M.
(2018)
Search for a heavy resonance decaying into a Z boson and a Z or W boson in 2l2q final states at root s=13 TeV
in JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
Sirunyan A. M.
(2018)
Angular analysis of the decay B+ -> K+mu(+)mu(-) in proton-proton collisions at root s=8 TeV
in PHYSICAL REVIEW D
Sirunyan A. M.
(2018)
Search for resonances in the mass spectrum of muon pairs produced in association with b quark jets in proton-proton collisions at root 8 and 13 TeV
in JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
Sirunyan A. M.
(2018)
Search for beyond the standard model Higgs bosons decaying into a b(b)over-bar pair in pp collisions at root s=13 TeV
in JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
Sirunyan A. M.
(2019)
Search for low-mass resonances decaying into bottom quark-antiquark pairs in proton-proton collisions at root s=13 TeV
in PHYSICAL REVIEW D
Sirunyan A. M.
(2018)
Performance of reconstruction and identification of tau leptons decaying to hadrons and nu(tau) in pp collisions at root s=13 TeV
in JOURNAL OF INSTRUMENTATION
Sirunyan A. M.
(2018)
Bose-Einstein correlations in pp, pPb, and PbPb collisions at root s(NN)=0.9-7 TeV
in PHYSICAL REVIEW C
Sirunyan A. M.
(2018)
Search for disappearing tracks as a signature of new long-lived particles in proton-proton collisions at root s=13 TeV
in JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
Sirunyan A. M.
(2019)
Search for pair-produced three-jet resonances in proton-proton collisions at root s=13 TeV
in PHYSICAL REVIEW D
Sirunyan A. M.
(2018)
Precision measurement of the structure of the CMS inner tracking system using nuclear interactions
in JOURNAL OF INSTRUMENTATION
Sirunyan A. M.
(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 tau leptons in proton-proton collisions at TeV
in JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
Sirunyan A. M.
(2018)
Search for decays of stopped exotic long-lived particles produced in proton-proton collisions at root s=13 TeV
in JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
Sirunyan A. M.
(2018)
Search for Z gamma resonances using leptonic and hadronic final states in proton-proton collisions at root s=13 TeV
in JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
Sirunyan A. M.
(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. M.
(2018)
Search for natural and split supersymmetry in proton-proton collisions at root s=13 TeV in final states with jets and missing transverse momentum
in JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
Sirunyan A. M.
(2018)
Search for a singly produced third-generation scalar leptoquark decaying to a tau lepton and a bottom quark in proton-proton collisions at root s=13 TeV
in JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
Sirunyan A. M.
(2018)
Search for t(t)over-barH production in the all-jet final state in proton-proton collisions root s=13 TeV
in JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
Sirunyan A. M.
(2018)
Measurement of the cross section for top quark pair production in association with a W or Z boson in proton-proton collisions at root s=13 TeV
in JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
Sirunyan A. M.
(2018)
Search for a heavy right-handed W boson and a heavy neutrino in events with two same-flavor leptons and two jets root s at=13 TeV
in JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
Sirunyan A. M.
(2018)
Search for additional neutral MSSM Higgs bosons in the tau tau final state in proton-proton collisions at root s=13 TeV
in JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
Sirunyan A. M.
(2018)
Performance of the CMS muon detector and muon reconstruction with proton-proton collisions at root s=13 TeV
in JOURNAL OF INSTRUMENTATION
Sirunyan A. M.
(2018)
Search for dark matter in events with energetic, hadronically decaying top quarks and missing transverse momentum at root 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. |