GridPP4 Tranche-II LondonGrid-Brunel Staff Grant
Lead Research Organisation:
Brunel University London
Department Name: Electronic and Computer Engineering
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.
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.
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 GridPP4. 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.
In the last 8 years GridPP has developed an extensive website that is central to project communications and won 'Best e-Science project website' at the 2004 All Hands Meeting. 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 QMUL opening and 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 GridPP4. 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.
In the last 8 years GridPP has developed an extensive website that is central to project communications and won 'Best e-Science project website' at the 2004 All Hands Meeting. 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 QMUL opening and 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 GridPP4. 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.
People |
ORCID iD |
Peter Hobson (Principal Investigator) | |
Paul Kyberd (Co-Investigator) |
Publications
Sirunyan A
(2020)
Pileup mitigation at CMS in 13 TeV data
in Journal of Instrumentation
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)
Measurement of single-diffractive dijet production in proton-proton collisions at $$\sqrt{s} = 8\,\text {Te}\text {V} $$ with the CMS and TOTEM experiments
in The European Physical Journal C
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 $$\hbox {t}{\bar{\hbox {t}}}$$ normalised multi-differential cross sections in $${\text {p}}{\text {p}} $$ collisions at $$\sqrt{s}=13\,{\text {TeV}} $$, and simultaneous determination of the strong coupling strength, top quark pole mass, and parton distribution functions
in The European Physical Journal C
Sirunyan A
(2019)
Search for dark matter in events with a leptoquark and missing transverse momentum in proton-proton collisions at 13 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Sirunyan A
(2020)
Measurements of production cross sections of WZ and same-sign WW boson pairs in association with two jets in proton-proton collisions at s = 13 TeV
in Physics Letters B
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)
Search for high mass dijet resonances with a new background prediction method in proton-proton collisions at $$ \sqrt{s} $$ = 13 TeV
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Sirunyan A
(2019)
Search for long-lived particles decaying into displaced jets in proton-proton collisions at s = 13 TeV
in Physical Review D
Sirunyan A
(2018)
Bose-Einstein correlations in p p , p Pb , and PbPb collisions at s N N = 0.9 - 7 TeV
in Physical Review C
Sirunyan A
(2019)
A search for pair production of new light bosons decaying into muons in proton-proton collisions at 13 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Sirunyan A
(2018)
Performance of the CMS muon detector and muon reconstruction with proton-proton collisions at v s =13 TeV
in Journal of Instrumentation
Sirunyan A
(2018)
Nuclear modification factor of D0 mesons in PbPb collisions at s NN = 5.02 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Sirunyan A
(2020)
Search for dijet resonances using events with three jets in proton-proton collisions at s = 13 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Sirunyan A
(2018)
Erratum to: Measurements of the $$\hbox {pp}\rightarrow \hbox {ZZ}$$ pp ? ZZ production cross section and the $$\hbox {Z} \rightarrow 4\ell $$ Z ? 4 l branching fraction, and constraints on anomalous triple gauge couplings at $$\sqrt{s} = 13\,\hbox {TeV}$$ s = 13 TeV
in The European Physical Journal C
Sirunyan A
(2020)
A measurement of the Higgs boson mass in the diphoton decay channel
in Physics Letters B
Sirunyan A
(2018)
Measurement of angular parameters from the decay B0 ? K?0µ+µ- in proton-proton collisions at s = 8 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Sirunyan A
(2019)
Search for supersymmetric partners of electrons and muons in proton-proton collisions at s = 13 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Sirunyan A
(2019)
Search for a W' boson decaying to a t lepton and a neutrino in proton-proton collisions at s = 13 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Sirunyan A
(2020)
Measurement of CKM matrix elements in single top quark t-channel production in proton-proton collisions at s = 13 TeV
in Physics Letters B
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
(2019)
Measurement of electroweak WZ boson production and search for new physics in WZ + two jets events in pp collisions at s = 13 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Sirunyan A
(2020)
Measurement of the Y(1S) pair production cross section and search for resonances decaying to Y(1S)µ+µ- in proton-proton collisions at s = 13 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Sirunyan A
(2019)
Search for an L - L gauge boson using Z ? 4µ events in proton-proton collisions at s = 13 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Sirunyan A
(2018)
Search for new physics in final states with an energetic jet or a hadronically decaying W or Z boson and transverse momentum imbalance at s = 13 TeV
in Physical Review D
Sirunyan A
(2018)
Study of jet quenching with isolated-photon+jet correlations in PbPb and pp collisions at s NN = 5.02 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Sirunyan A
(2018)
Search for new long-lived particles at s = 13 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Sirunyan A
(2019)
Measurement of differential cross sections for Z boson pair production in association with jets at s = 8 and 13 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Sirunyan A
(2020)
Performance of the CMS Level-1 trigger in proton-proton collisions at v s = 13 TeV
in Journal of Instrumentation
Sirunyan A
(2019)
Search for an exotic decay of the Higgs boson to a pair of light pseudoscalars in the final state with two muons and two b quarks in pp collisions at 13 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Sirunyan A
(2020)
Search for a light charged Higgs boson in the H ± ? c s channel in proton-proton collisions at s = 13 TeV
in Physical Review D
Sirunyan A
(2018)
Electroweak production of two jets in association with a Z boson in proton-proton collisions at $$\sqrt{s}= $$ s = 13 $$\,\text {TeV}$$ TeV
in The European Physical Journal C
Sirunyan A
(2019)
Search for Higgs boson pair production in the ? ? b b ? final state in pp collisions at s = 13 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Sirunyan A
(2020)
Study of J / ? meson production inside jets in pp collisions at s = 8 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Sirunyan A
(2020)
Strange hadron production in pp and p Pb collisions at s N N = 5.02 TeV
in Physical Review C
Sirunyan A
(2018)
Search for gauge-mediated supersymmetry in events with at least one photon and missing transverse momentum in pp collisions at s = 13 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Sirunyan A
(2019)
Measurement of nuclear modification factors of ?(1S), ?(2S), and ?(3S) mesons in PbPb collisions at s NN = 5.02 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Sirunyan A
(2018)
Precision measurement of the structure of the CMS inner tracking system using nuclear interactions
in Journal of Instrumentation
Sirunyan A
(2018)
Pseudorapidity and transverse momentum dependence of flow harmonics in p Pb and PbPb collisions
in Physical Review C
Sirunyan A
(2018)
Performance of reconstruction and identification of t leptons decaying to hadrons and v t in pp collisions at v s =13 TeV
in Journal of Instrumentation
Sirunyan A
(2018)
Azimuthal correlations for inclusive 2-jet, 3-jet, and 4-jet events in pp collisions at $$\sqrt{s}= 13~\hbox {TeV}$$ s = 13 TeV
in The European Physical Journal C
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
(2018)
Measurement of jet substructure observables in t t ¯ events from proton-proton collisions at s = 13 TeV
in Physical Review D
Sirunyan A
(2018)
Erratum to: Measurement of b hadron lifetimes in pp collisions at $$\sqrt{s} = 8$$ s = 8 $$\,\text {Te}\text {V}$$ Te
in The European Physical Journal C
Sirunyan A
(2020)
W + W - boson pair production in proton-proton collisions at s = 13 TeV
in Physical Review D
Sirunyan A
(2018)
Search for single production of a vector-like T quark decaying to a Z boson and a top quark in proton-proton collisions at s = 13 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Description | Measuring the properties of fundamental particles and their interactions enabling tests of the current "Standard Model" of particle physics and tests of new models that extend the "Standard Model" |
Exploitation Route | Will be used by the world-wide community of particle physics theorists and phenomenologists. |
Sectors | Education |
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. |
Description | Big Bang Fair NEC 2014 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | This exhibit showed the ideas behind the Higgs boson, and guided visitors through the physics, engineering and computing developments that have led to its discovery. Activities included: mass generation using magnets; operation of a table-top accelerator; handling of components from LHC detectors; and dice games that simulate particle-physics experiments. From badges given away to individual visitors we estimate about 5000 people (pre-booked school groups and 7-18 year-old children with parents/carers) came to the stand. Not yet known, activity took place last week. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
URL | http://www.thebigbangfair.co.uk/View/?con_id=3108 |
Description | Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition 2014 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Talks and presentations generated discussion and engagement with Nobel Prize winning physics. Generated a great deal of interest in the Higgs Boson, Dark Matter and Supersymmetry amongst a diverse audience. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
URL | http://sse.royalsociety.org/2014/higgs-boson/ |