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
Sirunyan A
(2018)
Nuclear modification factor of D0 mesons in PbPb collisions at s NN = 5.02 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Khachatryan V
(2017)
Observation of Charge-Dependent Azimuthal Correlations in p-Pb Collisions and Its Implication for the Search for the Chiral Magnetic Effect.
in Physical review letters
Sirunyan A
(2020)
Observation of electroweak production of W? with two jets in proton-proton collisions at s = 13 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Sirunyan AM
(2018)
Observation of Higgs Boson Decay to Bottom Quarks.
in Physical review letters
Sirunyan AM
(2018)
Observation of Medium-Induced Modifications of Jet Fragmentation in Pb-Pb Collisions at sqrt[s_{NN}]=5.02 TeV Using Isolated Photon-Tagged Jets.
in Physical review letters
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
(2019)
Observation of prompt J/? meson elliptic flow in high-multiplicity pPb collisions at s NN = 8.16 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Sirunyan AM
(2018)
Observation of the ?_{b1}(3P) and ?_{b2}(3P) and Measurement of their Masses.
in Physical review letters
Sirunyan AM
(2020)
Observation of the B_{s}^{0}?X(3872)? Decay.
in Physical review letters
Khachatryan V
(2017)
Observation of the decay B+??(2S)?(1020)K+ in pp collisions at s = 8 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Sirunyan AM
(2020)
Observation of the Production of Three Massive Gauge Bosons at sqrt[s]=13 TeV.
in Physical review letters
CMS And LHCb Collaborations
(2015)
Observation of the rare B(s)(0) ?µ+µ- decay from the combined analysis of CMS and LHCb data.
in Nature
Sirunyan AM
(2018)
Observation of the Z??l^{+}l^{-} Decay in pp Collisions at sqrt[s]=13 TeV.
in Physical review letters
Khachatryan V
(2016)
Observation of top quark pairs produced in association with a vector boson in pp collisions at s = 8 $$ \sqrt{s}=8 $$ TeV
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Sirunyan AM
(2018)
Observation of tt[over ¯]H Production.
in Physical review letters
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
(2020)
Performance of the CMS Level-1 trigger in proton-proton collisions at v s = 13 TeV
in Journal of Instrumentation
Collaboration T
(2015)
Performance of the CMS missing transverse momentum reconstruction in pp data at v s = 8 TeV
in Journal of Instrumentation
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
Khachatryan V
(2016)
Phenomenological MSSM interpretation of CMS searches in pp collisions at s = 7 $$ \sqrt{s}=7 $$ and 8 TeV
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Sirunyan A
(2020)
Pileup mitigation at CMS in 13 TeV data
in Journal of Instrumentation
Khachatryan V
(2015)
Precise determination of the mass of the Higgs boson and tests of compatibility of its couplings with the standard model predictions using proton collisions at 7 and 8[Formula: see text].
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
Sirunyan A
(2018)
Precision measurement of the structure of the CMS inner tracking system using nuclear interactions
in Journal of Instrumentation
Khachatryan V
(2015)
Production of leading charged particles and leading charged-particle jets at small transverse momenta in p p collisions at s = 8 TeV
in Physical Review D
Sirunyan A
(2018)
Pseudorapidity and transverse momentum dependence of flow harmonics in p Pb and PbPb collisions
in Physical Review C
Khachatryan V
(2015)
Pseudorapidity distribution of charged hadrons in proton-proton collisions at s = 13 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Sirunyan A
(2019)
Pseudorapidity distributions of charged hadrons in xenon-xenon collisions at s NN = 5.44 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Sirunyan A
(2020)
Reconstruction of signal amplitudes in the CMS electromagnetic calorimeter in the presence of overlapping proton-proton interactions
in Journal of Instrumentation
Sirunyan AM
(2017)
Relative Modification of Prompt ?(2S) and J/? Yields from pp to PbPb Collisions at sqrt[s_{NN}]=5.02 TeV.
in Physical review letters
Khachatryan V
(2015)
Search for a charged Higgs boson in pp collisions at s = 8 $$ \sqrt{s}=8 $$ TeV
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Khachatryan V
(2016)
Search for a Higgs boson decaying into ????ll? with low dilepton mass in pp collisions at s = 8 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Khachatryan V
(2015)
Search for a Higgs boson in the mass range from 145 to 1000 GeV decaying to a pair of W or Z bosons
in Journal of High Energy Physics
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
Khachatryan V
(2016)
Search for a low-mass pseudoscalar Higgs boson produced in association with a b b ? pair in pp collisions at s = 8 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Khachatryan V
(2016)
Search for a massive resonance decaying into a Higgs boson and a W or Z boson in hadronic final states in proton-proton collisions at s = 8 $$ \sqrt{s}=8 $$ TeV
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Sirunyan A
(2018)
Search for a massive resonance decaying to a pair of Higgs bosons in the four b quark final state in proton-proton collisions at s = 13 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Khachatryan V
(2015)
Search for a pseudoscalar boson decaying into a Z boson and the 125 GeV Higgs boson in l + l - b b ? final states
in Physics Letters B
Khachatryan V
(2015)
Search for a standard model Higgs boson produced in association with a top-quark pair and decaying to bottom quarks using a matrix element method.
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
Khachatryan V
(2015)
Search for a standard model-like Higgs boson in the µ + µ - and e + e - decay channels at the LHC
in Physics Letters B
Khachatryan V
(2016)
Search for a very light NMSSM Higgs boson produced in decays of the 125 GeV scalar boson and decaying into t leptons in pp collisions at s = 8 $$ \sqrt{s}=8 $$ TeV
in Journal of High Energy Physics
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
(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
(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
(2019)
Search for anomalous electroweak production of vector boson pairs in association with two jets in proton-proton collisions at 13 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Khachatryan V
(2016)
Search for anomalous single top quark production in association with a photon in pp collisions at s = 8 $$ \sqrt{s}=8 $$ TeV
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Sirunyan A
(2020)
Search for bottom-type, vectorlike quark pair production in a fully hadronic final state in proton-proton collisions at s = 13 TeV
in Physical Review D
Khachatryan V
(2017)
Search for CP violation in t t ¯ $$ t\overline{t} $$ production and decay in proton-proton collisions at s = 8 $$ \sqrt{s}=8 $$ TeV
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Khachatryan V
(2017)
Search for Dark Matter and Supersymmetry with a Compressed Mass Spectrum in the Vector Boson Fusion Topology in Proton-Proton Collisions at sqrt[s]=8 TeV.
in Physical review letters
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. |