Particle Physics Grid Computing at Lancaster
Lead Research Organisation:
Lancaster University
Department Name: Physics
Abstract
Particle physics is about to receive huge amounts of data from the Large Hadron Collider. In order to process it and do the physics analysis, you need a lot of computing power and disk to store the data on. This can only be done by spreading the job over many sites aorund the world and linking them with cleaver software ('middleware') to make them all seem as if they were almost local. The resulting system is called a Grid. This proposal is to provide the some of the required Grid reosurces at Lancaster, and to fuind people to commission and operate the system, and to complete work on providing interfaces and programmes to use the Grid effectively.
Publications
Aad G
(2011)
A search for new physics in dijet mass and angular distributions in pp collisions at \sqrt{s}=7 TeV measured with the ATLAS detector
in New Journal of Physics
Aad G
(2011)
Study of jet shapes in inclusive jet production in p p collisions at s = 7 TeV using the ATLAS detector
in Physical Review D
Aad G
(2011)
Search for heavy long-lived charged particles with the ATLAS detector in pp collisions at s = 7 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Aad G
(2011)
Search for the Standard Model Higgs boson in the two photon decay channel with the ATLAS detector at the LHC
in Physics Letters B
Aad G
(2011)
Measurement of the transverse momentum distribution of Z / ? ? bosons in proton-proton collisions at s = 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Physics Letters B
Aad G
(2011)
Measurement of dijet production with a veto on additional central jet activity in pp collisions at $ \sqrt {s} = 7 $ TeV using the ATLAS detector
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aad G
(2011)
Search for dilepton resonances in pp collisions at vs=7 TeV with the ATLAS detector.
in Physical review letters
Aad G
(2011)
Search for massive long-lived highly ionising particles with the ATLAS detector at the LHC
in Physics Letters B
Aad G
(2011)
Measurements of underlying-event properties using neutral and charged particles in pp collisions at $\sqrt{s}=900$ GeV and $\sqrt{s}=7$ TeV with the ATLAS detector at the LHC
in The European Physical Journal C
Aad G
(2011)
Charged-particle multiplicities in pp interactions measured with the ATLAS detector at the LHC
in New Journal of Physics
Aad G
(2011)
Search for supersymmetric particles in events with lepton pairs and large missing transverse momentum in $\sqrt{s}=7~\mbox{TeV}$ proton-proton collisions with the ATLAS experiment
in The European Physical Journal C
Aad G
(2011)
Search for the Standard Model Higgs boson in the decay channel H ? Z Z ( ? ) ? 4 l with the ATLAS detector
in Physics Letters B
Aad G
(2011)
Search for a standard model Higgs boson in the H?ZZ?l(+)l(-)?? decay channel with the ATLAS detector.
in Physical review letters
Aad G
(2012)
Search for a fermiophobic Higgs boson in the diphoton decay channel with the ATLAS detector
in The European Physical Journal C
Aad G
(2012)
Search for decays of stopped, long-lived particles from 7 TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS detector
in The European Physical Journal C
ATLAS Collaboration
(2012)
Search for lepton flavour violation in the eµ continuum with the ATLAS detector in [Formula: see text]pp collisions at the LHC.
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
Aad G
(2012)
Search for first generation scalar leptoquarks in pp collisions at s = 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Physics Letters B
Aad G
(2012)
Search for extra dimensions using diphoton events in 7 TeV proton-proton collisions with the ATLAS detector
in Physics Letters B
Aad G
(2012)
Search for displaced vertices arising from decays of new heavy particles in 7 TeV pp collisions at ATLAS
in Physics Letters B
Description | Supported pilot commercial use (e.g. Cambridge Ontology) |
First Year Of Impact | 2007 |
Impact Types | Economic |
Description | ATLAS |
Organisation | European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) |
Department | CERN LHC ATLAS |
Country | Switzerland |
Sector | Public |
PI Contribution | Tracking R&D and construction, software, distributed computing systems, detector operations, trigger performance and design, Standard Model, B-physics, Onium, Higgs, Top and SUSY studies; ran UK software and computing |
Collaborator Contribution | Detector operations, computing operations, software, shared physics tools |
Impact | currently O(200) papers in press (Feb 2013) |
Description | GridPP |
Organisation | European Grid Infrastructure (EGI) |
Country | Netherlands |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
PI Contribution | Middleware, hardware, operations; ATLAS Member of the PMB, formerly Applications Co-ordinator, Deputy Chair of Users Board. Provide Deployment Team member. |
Collaborator Contribution | Middleware, operations, co-ordination |
Impact | some papers, enabled many physics papers. |
Description | GridPP |
Organisation | Queen Mary University of London |
Department | GRIDPP3 |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Middleware, hardware, operations; ATLAS Member of the PMB, formerly Applications Co-ordinator, Deputy Chair of Users Board. Provide Deployment Team member. |
Collaborator Contribution | Middleware, operations, co-ordination |
Impact | some papers, enabled many physics papers. |
Description | T2K |
Organisation | T2K Collaboration |
Country | Global |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Collaborators, detector builders (ND280), operators |
Collaborator Contribution | Collaborators |
Impact | Papers, detector R&D |
Description | WLCG |
Organisation | European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) |
Department | Worldwide LHC Computing Grid (WLCG) |
Country | Switzerland |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Hardware, middleware, operations; Collaboration Board Member and Chair |
Collaborator Contribution | Hardware, middleware, operations, co-ordination |
Impact | All LHC and Tevatron papers |
Description | 5 Particle Physics Masterclasses/Residentials |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | Increases interest in science and particle physics Increased applications to Lancaster, citing particle phsyics interest |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
Description | Big bang fair |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Big Bang Fair, general science exhibition at the NEC |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014,2015 |
Description | Royal Society Summer Exhibition |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | many thousands saw stands on the Grid/Higgs physics/Beyond the Higgs |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2008,2011,2014 |