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
(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
(2017)
Search for electroweak production of a vector-like quark decaying to a top quark and a Higgs boson using boosted topologies in fully hadronic final states
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Sirunyan A
(2018)
Search for long-lived particles with displaced vertices in multijet events in proton-proton collisions at s = 13 TeV
in Physical Review D
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
Sirunyan A
(2019)
Search for Higgs and Z boson decays to J/? or Y pairs in the four-muon final state in proton-proton collisions at s = 13 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Sirunyan A
(2018)
Search for new long-lived particles at s = 13 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Sirunyan A
(2020)
Investigation into the event-activity dependence of ?(nS) relative production in proton-proton collisions at $$ \sqrt{s} $$ = 7 TeV
in Journal of High Energy Physics
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)
Performance of the CMS muon detector and muon reconstruction with proton-proton collisions at v s =13 TeV
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
(2019)
Measurement of prompt ?(2S) production cross sections in proton-lead and proton-proton collisions at s NN = 5.02 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Sirunyan A
(2017)
Search for dark matter and unparticles in events with a Z boson and missing transverse momentum in proton-proton collisions at $$ \sqrt{s}=13 $$ TeV
in Journal of High Energy Physics
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
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
(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)
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)
Search for dark matter in events with a leptoquark and missing transverse momentum in proton-proton collisions at 13 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Shi Z
(2019)
D0-Meson R in PbPb Collisions at s N N = 5.02 TeV and Elliptic Flow in pPb Collisions at s N N = 8.16 TeV with CMS
in Nuclear Physics A
Pisica I
(2014)
A multi-agent model for assessing electricity tariffs
Oh G
(2019)
Beyond nPDFs effects: Prompt J/? and ?(2S) production in pPb and pp collisions
in Nuclear Physics A
Maqbool W
(2017)
Supercritical Carbon Dioxide Separation of Carboxylic Acids and Phenolics from Bio-Oil of Lignocellulosic Origin: Understanding Bio-Oil Compositions, Compound Solubilities, and Their Fractionation
in Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research
Lucchini M
(2016)
Double side read-out technique for mitigation of radiation damage effects in PbWO 4 crystals
in Journal of Instrumentation
Khachatryan V
(2016)
Transverse momentum spectra of inclusive b jets in pPb collisions at s NN = 5.02 TeV
in Physics Letters B
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
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 | 03/2016 |
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. |