SoftWare InFrastructure and Technology for High Energy Physics experiments (SWIFT-HEP)
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Sheffield
Department Name: Physics and Astronomy
Abstract
The computing requirements of the highest priority projects within the HEP programme are posing significant challenges which must be addressed head-on. The four LHC experiments (ATLAS, CMS, LHCb and ALICE) recorded almost 1 exabyte of data to make groundbreaking discoveries, from the Higgs Boson to pentaquarks. Major upgrades of the LHC experiments are due to take place in the 2020s which will greatly augment their datasets, while in parallel we will see the build-up to operation of the next generation of neutrino experiments (DUNE and HyperK) with LHC-scale volumes of highly granular data.
Software development is recognised by the international community as an essential aspect to achieve the physics goals. The recent update of the European Strategy for particle physics points out that professional software engineers are needed for the future of the field and an international community is emerging around this research support area.
The goal of this proposal is two-fold. (i) The funding sought will provide a direct contribution to the international effort and allow us to shape the future direction of computing and software development in the field of particle physics. (ii) A new cross-experiment collaborative environment will be established in the UK to create a framework to address common problems in software development which will serve us for the next decade and beyond.
Software development is recognised by the international community as an essential aspect to achieve the physics goals. The recent update of the European Strategy for particle physics points out that professional software engineers are needed for the future of the field and an international community is emerging around this research support area.
The goal of this proposal is two-fold. (i) The funding sought will provide a direct contribution to the international effort and allow us to shape the future direction of computing and software development in the field of particle physics. (ii) A new cross-experiment collaborative environment will be established in the UK to create a framework to address common problems in software development which will serve us for the next decade and beyond.
Publications
Aad G
(2021)
Search for dark matter produced in association with a single top quark in $$\sqrt{s}=13$$ TeV $$pp$$ collisions with the ATLAS detector
in The European Physical Journal C
Aad G
(2022)
Emulating the impact of additional proton-proton interactions in the ATLAS simulation by presampling sets of inelastic Monte Carlo events
in Computing and Software for Big Science
Aad G
(2021)
Search for R-parity-violating supersymmetry in a final state containing leptons and many jets with the ATLAS experiment using $$\sqrt{s} = 13\hbox { TeV}$$ proton-proton collision data
in The European Physical Journal C
Aad G
(2022)
The ATLAS inner detector trigger performance in pp collisions at 13 TeV during LHC Run 2
in The European Physical Journal C
Aad G
(2022)
Performance of the ATLAS Level-1 topological trigger in Run 2
in The European Physical Journal C
Aad G
(2021)
Search for resonances decaying into photon pairs in 139 fb-1 of pp collisions at s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Physics Letters B
Description | ATLAS Collaboration |
Organisation | ATLAS Experiment |
Country | Switzerland |
Sector | Public |
PI Contribution | The Sheffield team is a founder of the ATLAS experiment at CERN and contributes to its construction, development and exploitation |
Collaborator Contribution | Construction of the Semiconductor tracker, development of the software and computing of the experiment. Physics analysis, Higgs, Standard Model, Supersymmetry, top |
Impact | Discovery of the Higgs boson and many others |
Description | Hep Software foundation |
Organisation | European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) |
Department | CERN - Other |
Country | Switzerland |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | The SWIFT-HEP team participates to the collaboration by providing leadership roles as well as contributing to the software development |
Collaborator Contribution | Simulation software, development of the AdePT code which allows simulation of particle interaction on GPU Event generations. Improvement of the software used to describe the W/Z + jet process resulting in a factor x10 improvement in compute performance. |
Impact | See publication list |
Start Year | 2019 |