GridPP6 Brunel Staff Grant
Lead Research Organisation:
Brunel University
Department Name: Electronic and Electrical Engineering
Abstract
This proposal, submitted in response to the 2018 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 2020 to March 2024 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 2020, the UK Grid infrastructure will have expanded in size to 77,000 cores, with more than 54 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 2020, the UK Grid infrastructure will have expanded in size to 77,000 cores, with more than 54 PetaBytes of storage. This will enable the UK to exploit, in an internationally competitive way, the unique physics potential of the LHC.
Publications

Sirunyan A
(2020)
Search for direct top squark pair production in events with one lepton, jets, and missing transverse momentum at 13 TeV with the CMS experiment
in Journal of High Energy Physics

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)
Observation of nuclear modifications in W± boson production in pPb collisions at s NN = 8.16 TeV
in Physics Letters B

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
(2020)
Combined search for supersymmetry with photons in proton-proton collisions at s = 13 TeV
in Physics Letters B

Sirunyan A
(2020)
Measurement of the single top quark and antiquark production cross sections in the t channel and their ratio in proton-proton collisions at s = 13 TeV
in Physics Letters B

Sirunyan A
(2020)
Calibration of the CMS hadron calorimeters using proton-proton collision data at v s = 13 TeV
in Journal of Instrumentation

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
(2020)
Search for decays of the 125 GeV Higgs boson into a Z boson and a ? or ? meson
in Journal of High Energy Physics