GridPP4+ Brunel Tier2 One year staff extension
Lead Research Organisation:
Brunel University London
Department Name: Electronic and Computer Engineering
Abstract
This proposal, submitted in response to the 2014 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 2015 to March 2016 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 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 2015, the UK Grid infrastructure will have expanded in size to 50,000 cores, with more than 30 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 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 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 2015, the UK Grid infrastructure will have expanded in size to 50,000 cores, with more than 30 PetaBytes of storage. This will enable the UK to exploit, in an internationally competitive way, the unique physics potential of the LHC.
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.
GridPP has developed an extensive website that is central to project communications. 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 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.
GridPP has developed an extensive website that is central to project communications. 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 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
Khachatryan V
(2017)
Measurement of the [Formula: see text] production cross section using events in the [Formula: see text] final state in pp collisions at [Formula: see text].
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
Sirunyan A
(2020)
Measurement of the associated production of a Z boson with charm or bottom quark jets in proton-proton collisions at s = 13 TeV
in Physical Review D
Khachatryan V
(2016)
Measurement of the charge asymmetry in top quark pair production in p p collisions at s = 8 TeV using a template method
in Physical Review D
Khachatryan V
(2016)
Measurement of the CP-violating weak phase ?s and the decay width difference ?Gs using the B s 0 ? J / ? ? ( 1020 ) decay channel in pp collisions at s = 8 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Khachatryan V
(2015)
Measurement of the cross section ratio s t t ¯ b b ¯ / s t t ¯ jj in p p collisions at s = 8 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Khachatryan V
(2016)
Measurement of the differential cross section and charge asymmetry for inclusive [Formula: see text] production at [Formula: see text] TeV.
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
Khachatryan V
(2015)
Measurement of the differential cross section for top quark pair production in pp collisions at [Formula: see text].
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
Khachatryan V
(2016)
Measurement of the differential cross sections for top quark pair production as a function of kinematic event variables in p p collisions at s = 7 and 8 TeV
in Physical Review D
Khachatryan V
(2015)
Measurement of the inclusive 3-jet production differential cross section in proton-proton collisions at 7 TeV and determination of the strong coupling constant in the TeV range.
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
Khachatryan V
(2016)
Measurement of the inelastic cross section in proton-lead collisions at s NN = 5.02 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Khachatryan V
(2016)
Measurement of the integrated and differential t t ¯ production cross sections for high- p T top quarks in p p collisions at s = 8 TeV
in Physical Review D
Sirunyan AM
(2020)
Measurement of the Jet Mass Distribution and Top Quark Mass in Hadronic Decays of Boosted Top Quarks in pp Collisions at sqrt[s]=13 TeV.
in Physical review letters
Khachatryan V
(2015)
Measurement of the pp ? ZZ production cross section and constraints on anomalous triple gauge couplings in four-lepton final states at s = 8 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Khachatryan V
(2017)
Measurement of the production cross section of a W boson in association with two b jets in pp collisions at [Formula: see text].
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
Khachatryan V
(2015)
Measurement of the production cross section ratio s(?b2(1P))/s(?b1(1P)) in pp collisions at s = 8 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Khachatryan V
(2016)
Measurement of the ratio B ( B s 0 ? J / ? f 0 ( 980 ) ) / B ( B s 0 ? J / ? ? ( 1020 ) ) in pp collisions at s = 7 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Khachatryan V
(2015)
Measurement of the ratio of the production cross sections times branching fractions of B c ± ? J/?p ± and B± ? J/?K ± and B B c ± ? J / ? p ± p ± p ± / B B c ± ? J / ? p ± $$ \mathrm{\mathcal{B}}\left({\mathrm{B}}_{\mathrm{c}}^{\pm}\to \mathrm{J}/\psi {\pi}^{\pm }{\pi}^{\pm }{\pi}^{\mp}\right)/\mathrm{\mathcal{B}}\left({\mathrm{B}}_{\mathrm{c}}^{\pm}\to \mathrm{J}/\psi {\pi}^{\pm}\right) $$ in pp collisions at s = 7 $$ \
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Sirunyan A
(2020)
Measurement of the single top quark and antiquark production cross sections in the t channel and their ratio in proton-proton collisions at s = 13 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Khachatryan V
(2016)
Measurement of the top quark mass using charged particles in p p collisions at s = 8 TeV
in Physical Review D
Khachatryan V
(2016)
Measurement of the top quark mass using proton-proton data at ( s ) = 7 and 8 TeV
in Physical Review D
Sirunyan AM
(2018)
Measurement of the top quark mass with lepton+jets final states using p p collisions at s = 13 TeV.
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
Khachatryan V
(2016)
Measurement of the Top Quark Pair Production Cross Section in Proton-Proton Collisions at v[s]=13 TeV.
in Physical review letters
Sirunyan A
(2020)
Measurement of the top quark Yukawa coupling from t t ¯ kinematic distributions in the dilepton final state in proton-proton collisions at s = 13 TeV
in Physical Review D
Khachatryan V
(2017)
Measurement of the transverse momentum spectra of weak vector bosons produced in proton-proton collisions at s = 8 $$ \sqrt{s}=8 $$ TeV
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Khachatryan V
(2015)
Measurement of the underlying event activity using charged-particle jets in proton-proton collisions at s = 2.76 $$ \sqrt{s}=2.76 $$ TeV
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Khachatryan V
(2015)
Measurement of the W boson helicity in events with a single reconstructed top quark in pp collisions at s = 8 $$ \sqrt{s}=8 $$ TeV
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Sirunyan AM
(2018)
Measurement of the weak mixing angle using the forward-backward asymmetry of Drell-Yan events in p p collisions at 8 TeV.
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
Sirunyan A
(2020)
Measurement of the Y(1S) pair production cross section and search for resonances decaying to Y(1S)µ+µ- in proton-proton collisions at s = 13 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Sirunyan AM
(2018)
Measurement of the Z / ? * ? t t cross section in pp collisions at s = 13 TeV and validation of t lepton analysis techniques.
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
Khachatryan V
(2016)
Measurement of the Z ? ? ? ? ? ? production cross section in pp collisions at s = 8 TeV and limits on anomalous ZZ? and Z?? trilinear gauge boson couplings
in Physics Letters B
Khachatryan V
(2015)
Measurement of the Z boson differential cross section in transverse momentum and rapidity in proton-proton collisions at 8 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Khachatryan V
(2015)
Measurement of the Z? production cross section in pp collisions at 8 TeV and search for anomalous triple gauge boson couplings
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Khachatryan V
(2016)
Measurement of top quark polarisation in t-channel single top quark production
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Khachatryan V
(2016)
Measurement of transverse momentum relative to dijet systems in PbPb and pp collisions at s N N = 2.76 $$ \sqrt{s_{\mathrm{NN}}}=2.76 $$ TeV
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Khachatryan V
(2015)
Measurements of differential and double-differential Drell-Yan cross sections in proton-proton collisions at [Formula: see text][Formula: see text].
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
Khachatryan V
(2017)
Measurements of differential cross sections for associated production of a W boson and jets in proton-proton collisions at s = 8 TeV
in Physical Review D
Khachatryan V
(2017)
Measurements of differential production cross sections for a Z boson in association with jets in pp collisions at s = 8 $$ \sqrt{s}=8 $$ TeV
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Khachatryan V
(2015)
Measurements of jet multiplicity and differential production cross sections of Z + jets events in proton-proton collisions at s = 7 TeV
in Physical Review D
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
Khachatryan V
(2016)
Measurements of t t ¯ spin correlations and top quark polarization using dilepton final states in p p collisions at s = 8 TeV
in Physical Review D
Khachatryan V
(2016)
Measurements of t t ? charge asymmetry using dilepton final states in pp collisions at s = 8 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Khachatryan V
(2015)
Measurements of the ? ( 1 S ) , ? ( 2 S ) , and ? ( 3 S ) differential cross sections in pp collisions at s = 7 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Sirunyan A
(2020)
Measurements of the W boson rapidity, helicity, double-differential cross sections, and charge asymmetry in p p collisions at s = 13 TeV
in Physical Review D
Sirunyan AM
(2020)
Measurements of tt[over ¯]H Production and the CP Structure of the Yukawa Interaction between the Higgs Boson and Top Quark in the Diphoton Decay Channel.
in Physical review letters
Sirunyan A
(2020)
Measurements with silicon photomultipliers of dose-rate effects in the radiation damage of plastic scintillator tiles in the CMS hadron endcap calorimeter
in Journal of Instrumentation
Sirunyan A
(2017)
Mechanical stability of the CMS strip tracker measured with a laser alignment system
in Journal of Instrumentation
Sirunyan AM
(2020)
Mixed higher-order anisotropic flow and nonlinear response coefficients of charged particles in PbPb collisions at s NN = 2.76 and 5.02 TeV.
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
Wang Q
(2019)
Multiparticle correlations and higher order harmonics in pPb collisions at s NN = 8.16 TeV
in Nuclear Physics A
Sirunyan A
(2019)
Non-Gaussian elliptic-flow fluctuations in PbPb collisions at s NN = 5.02 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Khachatryan V
(2015)
Nuclear effects on the transverse momentum spectra of charged particles in pPb collisions at [Formula: see text][Formula: see text].
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
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 | GridPP5 Brunel University London Staff Grant |
Amount | £366,525 (GBP) |
Funding ID | ST/N001273/1 |
Organisation | Science and Technologies Facilities Council (STFC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 04/2016 |
End | 03/2020 |
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. |