Network Uplift for GridPP Computing
Lead Research Organisation:
Lancaster University
Department Name: Physics
Abstract
Equipment only, agreed in relation to the network infrastructure for robust and resilient computing and storage services for the LHC Grant (DRI -bid).
Planned Impact
Equipment only, agreed in relation to the network infrastructure for robust and resilient computing and storage services for the LHC Grant (DRI -bid).
Publications
Aad G
(2015)
Search for new phenomena in events with a photon 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 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
(2012)
Measurement of the polarisation of W bosons produced with large transverse momentum in pp collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 7\ \mbox{TeV}$ with the ATLAS experiment
in The European Physical Journal C
Aad G
(2012)
Observation of a new particle in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC
in Physics Letters B
Aad G
(2014)
Search for squarks and gluinos with the ATLAS detector in final states with jets and missing transverse momentum using s = 8 $$ \sqrt{s}=8 $$ TeV proton-proton collision data
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aad G
(2012)
Electron performance measurements with the ATLAS detector using the 2010 LHC proton-proton collision data
in The European Physical Journal C
Aad G
(2013)
Measurement of the cross-section for W boson production in association with b-jets in pp collisions at $ \sqrt{s}=7 $ TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aad G
(2015)
Search for squarks and gluinos in events with isolated leptons, jets and missing transverse momentum at s = 8 $$ \sqrt{s}=8 $$ TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Description | Supported a wide range of academic, cultural and some commercial applications (as pilots for start-ups); this is an enabling technology |
First Year Of Impact | 2010 |
Sector | Other |
Impact Types | Cultural,Societal,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 |