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
Ruiz Vargas J. C.
(2016)
Decomposing transverse momentum balance contributions for quenched jets in PbPb collisions at root s(NN)=2.76 TeV
in JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
Oh G
(2019)
Beyond nPDFs effects: Prompt J/? and ?(2S) production in pPb and pp collisions
in Nuclear Physics A
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
Lucchini M. T.
(2016)
Double side read-out technique for mitigation of radiation damage effects in PbWO4 crystals
in JOURNAL OF INSTRUMENTATION
Khachatryan V.
(2016)
Search for anomalous single top quark production in association with a photon in pp collisions at root s=8 TeV
in JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
Khachatryan V.
(2017)
Search for electroweak production of charginos in final states with two T leptons in pp collisions at root s=8 TeV
in JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
Khachatryan V.
(2016)
Measurement of transverse momentum relative to dijet systems in PbPb and pp collisions at root s(NN)=2.76 TeV
in JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
Khachatryan V.
(2016)
Measurement of differential and integrated fiducial cross sections for Higgs boson production in the four-lepton decay channel in pp collisions at root s=7 and 8 TeV
in JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
Khachatryan V.
(2016)
Phenomenological MSSM interpretation of CMS searches in pp collisions at root s=7 and 8 TeV
in JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
Khachatryan V.
(2016)
Measurement of top quark polarisation in t-channel single top quark production
in JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
Khachatryan V.
(2016)
Search for the associated production of a Higgs boson with a single top quark in proton-proton collisions at root s=8 TeV
in JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
Khachatryan V.
(2016)
Search for new physics in final states with two opposite-sign, same-flavor leptons, jets, and missing transverse momentum in pp collisions at TeV
in JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
Khachatryan V.
(2016)
Search for a massive resonance decaying into a Higgs boson and a W or Z boson in hadronic final states in proton-proton collisions at root s=8 TeV
in JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
Khachatryan V.
(2017)
Measurements of differential production cross sections for a Z boson in association with jets in pp collisions at root s=8 TeV
in JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
Khachatryan V.
(2016)
Azimuthal decorrelation of jets widely separated in rapidity in pp collisions at root s=7 TeV
in JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
Khachatryan V.
(2016)
Search for direct pair production of scalar top quarks in the single- and dilepton channels in proton-proton collisions at root S = 8 TeV (vol 07, 027, 2016)
in JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
Khachatryan V.
(2017)
Inclusive search for supersymmetry using razor variables in pp collisions at root s=13 TeV
in PHYSICAL REVIEW D
Khachatryan V.
(2016)
Search for new physics with the M-T2 variable in all-jets final states produced in pp collisions at root s=13 Tev
in JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
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)
Searches for R-parity-violating supersymmetry in pp collisions at root s=8 TeV in final states with 0-4 leptons
in PHYSICAL REVIEW D
Khachatryan V.
(2016)
Correlations between jets and charged particles in PbPb and pp collisions at root s(NN)=2.76 TeV
in JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
Khachatryan V.
(2016)
Search for pair production of first and second generation leptoquarks in proton-proton collisions at root s=8 TeV
in PHYSICAL REVIEW D
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
Khachatryan V.
(2016)
Search for W ' -> tb in proton-proton collisions at root s=8 TeV
in JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
Khachatryan V.
(2016)
Measurement of the top quark mass using proton-proton data at root(s)=7
in PHYSICAL REVIEW D
| 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. |