GridPP4: The UK Grid for Particle Physics
Lead Research Organisation:
Queen Mary University of London
Department Name: Physics
Abstract
This proposal, submitted in response to the 2009 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 2011 to March 2015 will be to ensure that there is a sustainable infrastructure providing 'Computing in the LHC era' We propose to operate a Grid 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 Grid, 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 Grid will form a central part of the UK National Grid Infrastructure (NGI) that will be integrated with the European Grid Initiative (EGI) and which will inter-operate with Grids in the United States and elsewhere. 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 40,000 cores, with more than 60 PetaBytes of storage. This will enable the UK to exploit, in an internationally competitive way, the unique physics potential of the LHC. A total request is made for £27.8m for a four year GridPP4 project starting in April 2011.
Publications
Aad G
(2014)
Flavor tagged time-dependent angular analysis of the B s 0 ? J / ? ? decay and extraction of ? G s and the weak phase ? s in ATLAS
in Physical Review D
Collaboration T
(2014)
Monitoring and data quality assessment of the ATLAS liquid argon calorimeter
in Journal of Instrumentation
Aad G
(2014)
Measurements of four-lepton production at the Z resonance in pp collisions at sqrt[s] = 7 and 8 TeV with ATLAS.
in Physical review letters
Aad G
(2014)
Search for dark matter in events with a Z boson and missing transverse momentum in p p collisions at s = 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Physical Review D
Aad G
(2014)
Search for top quark decays t ? qH with H ? ?? using the ATLAS detector
in Journal of High Energy Physics
ATLAS Collaboration
(2014)
Electron reconstruction and identification efficiency measurements with the ATLAS detector using the 2011 LHC proton-proton collision data.
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
Aad G
(2014)
Search for dark matter in events with a hadronically decaying W or Z boson and missing transverse momentum in pp collisions at vs=8 TeV with the ATLAS detector.
in Physical review letters
Aad G
(2014)
Search for scalar diphoton resonances in the mass range 65-600 GeV with the ATLAS detector in pp collision data at vs=8 TeV.
in Physical review letters
Aad G
(2014)
Search for Invisible Decays of a Higgs Boson Produced in Association with a Z Boson in ATLAS
in Physical Review Letters
Aad G
(2014)
Measurement of the production cross-section of ?(2S) ? J/?(?µ + µ - )p + p - in pp collisions at s $$ \sqrt{s} $$ = 7 TeV at ATLAS
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Collaboration T
(2014)
Operation and performance of the ATLAS semiconductor tracker
in Journal of Instrumentation
Aad G
(2014)
Evidence for electroweak production of W±W±jj in pp collisions at sqrt[s] = 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector.
in Physical review letters
Aad G
(2014)
Measurement of the low-mass Drell-Yan differential cross section at s $$ \sqrt{s} $$ = 7 TeV using the ATLAS detector
in Journal of High Energy Physics
ATLAS Collaboration
(2014)
The differential production cross section of the [Formula: see text](1020) meson in [Formula: see text] = 7 TeV [Formula: see text] collisions measured with the ATLAS detector.
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
Aad G
(2014)
Measurement of dijet cross-sections in pp collisions at 7 TeV centre-of-mass energy using the ATLAS detector
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aad G
(2014)
Measurement of the underlying event in jet events from 7 $$\text {TeV}$$ TeV proton-proton collisions with the ATLAS detector
in The European Physical Journal C
Aad G
(2014)
Measurement of ? c1 and ? c2 production with s $$ \sqrt{s} $$ = 7 TeV pp collisions at ATLAS
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aad G
(2014)
Light-quark and gluon jet discrimination in [Formula: see text] collisions at [Formula: see text] with the ATLAS detector.
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
Aad G
(2014)
Search for new particles in events with one lepton and missing transverse momentum in pp collisions at s $$ \sqrt{s} $$ = 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Journal of High Energy Physics
ATLAS Collaboration
(2014)
Muon reconstruction efficiency and momentum resolution of the ATLAS experiment in proton-proton collisions at [Formula: see text] TeV in 2010.
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
Aad G
(2014)
Measurement of the mass difference between top and anti-top quarks in pp collisions at s = 7 TeV using the ATLAS detector
in Physics Letters B
Description | We have built a Grid to analyse data from the LHC at CERN and elsewhere. This enabled the discovery of the Higgs Boson, the fundamental scalar boson that is predicted to give mass to all other particles. |
Exploitation Route | Other disciplines can use our facilities or work with us to develop their own. |
Sectors | Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software) |
URL | http://www.gridpp.ac.uk |
Description | Other disciplines have used our Grid for their own purposes. |
First Year Of Impact | 2008 |
Sector | Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software),Education,Pharmaceuticals and Medical Biotechnology |
Impact Types | Societal |