Particle Physics Grid Computing at Lancaster
Lead Research Organisation:
Lancaster University
Department Name: Physics
Abstract
Particle physics is about to receive huge amounts of data from the Large Hadron Collider. In order to process it and do the physics analysis, you need a lot of computing power and disk to store the data on. This can only be done by spreading the job over many sites aorund the world and linking them with cleaver software ('middleware') to make them all seem as if they were almost local. The resulting system is called a Grid. This proposal is to provide the some of the required Grid reosurces at Lancaster, and to fuind people to commission and operate the system, and to complete work on providing interfaces and programmes to use the Grid effectively.
Publications
Aad G
(2015)
Measurement of differential J / ? production cross sections and forward-backward ratios in p + Pb collisions with the ATLAS detector
in Physical Review C
Aad G
(2011)
Measurement of the W charge asymmetry in the W ? µ ? decay mode in pp collisions at s = 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Physics Letters B
Aad G
(2011)
Measurement of inclusive jet and dijet cross sections in proton-proton collisions at 7 TeV centre-of-mass energy with the ATLAS detector
in The European Physical Journal C
Aad G
(2015)
Search for type-III seesaw heavy leptons in p p collisions at s = 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Physical Review D
Aad G
(2013)
Search for pair-produced massive coloured scalars in four-jet final states with the ATLAS detector in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 7\ \mbox{TeV}$
in The European Physical Journal C
Aad G
(2015)
Search for new phenomena in the dijet mass distribution using p p collision data at s = 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Physical Review D
Aad G
(2014)
Measurement of differential production cross-sections for a Z boson in association with b-jets in 7 TeV proton-proton collisions with the ATLAS detector
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aad G
(2015)
Search for squarks and gluinos in events with isolated leptons, jets and missing transverse momentum at s = 8 $$ \sqrt{s}=8 $$ TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aad G
(2013)
Search for the neutral Higgs bosons of the minimal supersymmetric standard model in pp collisions at $ \sqrt{s}=7 $ TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aad G
(2012)
Measurement of W ± Z production in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}=7~\mbox{TeV}$ with the ATLAS detector
in The European Physical Journal C
Aad G
(2012)
Evidence for the associated production of a W boson and a top quark in ATLAS at s = 7 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Aad G
(2015)
Summary of the ATLAS experiment's sensitivity to supersymmetry after LHC Run 1 - interpreted in the phenomenological MSSM
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aad G
(2014)
Measurement of the low-mass Drell-Yan differential cross section at s $$ \sqrt{s} $$ = 7 TeV using the ATLAS detector
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aad G
(2015)
Z boson production in p + Pb collisions at s NN = 5.02 TeV measured with the ATLAS detector
in Physical Review C
Aad G
(2014)
Evidence for electroweak production of W±W±jj in pp collisions at sqrt[s] = 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector.
in Physical review letters
Aad G
(2014)
Search for high-mass dilepton resonances in p p collisions at s = 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Physical Review D
Aad G
(2013)
Measurement of the cross-section for W boson production in association with b-jets in pp collisions at $ \sqrt{s}=7 $ TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aad G
(2013)
Observation of Associated Near-Side and Away-Side Long-Range Correlations insNN=5.02 TeVProton-Lead Collisions with the ATLAS Detector
in Physical Review Letters
Aad G
(2011)
Studies of the performance of the ATLAS detector using cosmic-ray muons
in The European Physical Journal C
Aad G
(2016)
Search for flavour-changing neutral current top-quark decays to [Formula: see text] in [Formula: see text] collision data collected with the ATLAS detector at [Formula: see text] TeV.
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
Aad G
(2011)
Search for high mass dilepton resonances in pp collisions at s = 7 TeV with the ATLAS experiment
in Physics Letters B
Aad G
(2012)
Search for excited leptons in proton-proton collisions at s = 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Physical Review D
Aad G
(2012)
Search for resonant W Z production in the W Z ? l ? l ' l ' channel in ( s ) = 7 TeV p p collisions with the ATLAS detector
in Physical Review D
Aad G
(2012)
Search for a light Higgs boson decaying to long-lived weakly interacting particles in proton-proton collisions at sqrt[s] = 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector.
in Physical review letters
Aad G
(2011)
Search for supersymmetry using final states with one lepton, jets, and missing transverse momentum with the ATLAS detector in vs=7 TeV pp collisions.
in Physical review letters
Aad G
(2011)
Measurement of the inclusive isolated prompt photon cross section in p p collisions at s = 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Physical Review D
Aad G
(2015)
Search for high-mass diphoton resonances in p p collisions at s = 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Physical Review D
Aad G
(2015)
Study of the spin and parity of the Higgs boson in diboson decays with the ATLAS detector.
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
Aad G
(2015)
Search for a Heavy Neutral Particle Decaying to eµ, et, or µt in pp Collisions at sqrt[s]=8 TeV with the ATLAS Detector.
in Physical review letters
Aad G
(2011)
A search for new physics in dijet mass and angular distributions in pp collisions at \sqrt{s}=7 TeV measured with the ATLAS detector
in New Journal of Physics
Aad G
(2015)
Searches for heavy long-lived charged particles with the ATLAS detector in proton-proton collisions at s = 8 $$ \sqrt{s}=8 $$ TeV
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aad G
(2013)
Search for long-lived, multi-charged particles in pp collisions at s = 7 TeV using the ATLAS detector
in Physics Letters B
Aad G
(2012)
Performance of the ATLAS Trigger System in 2010
in The European Physical Journal C
Aad G
(2012)
Observation of spin correlation in tt¯ events from pp collisions at vs=7 TeV using the ATLAS detector.
in Physical review letters
Aad G
(2012)
Measurement of the WW cross section in s = 7 TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS detector and limits on anomalous gauge couplings
in Physics Letters B
Aad G
(2014)
Observation of an excited Bc(±) meson state with the ATLAS detector.
in Physical review letters
Aad G
(2012)
Search for gluinos in events with two same-sign leptons, jets, and missing transverse momentum with the ATLAS detector in pp collisions at sqrt[s]=7 TeV.
in Physical review letters
Aad G
(2012)
Search for tb resonances in proton-proton collisions at vs=7 TeV with the ATLAS detector.
in Physical review letters
Aad G
(2015)
Search for direct pair production of a chargino and a neutralino decaying to the 125 GeV Higgs boson in [Formula: see text] TeV [Formula: see text] collisions with the ATLAS detector.
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
Aad G
(2012)
Measurement of the isolated diphoton cross section in p p collisions at s = 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Physical Review D
Aad G
(2015)
Search for low-scale gravity signatures in multi-jet final states with the ATLAS detector at s = 8 $$ \sqrt{s}=8 $$ TeV
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aad G
(2014)
Search for direct top-squark pair production in final states with two leptons in pp collisions at $ \sqrt{s} $ = 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Description | Supported pilot commercial use (e.g. Cambridge Ontology) |
First Year Of Impact | 2007 |
Impact Types | Economic |
Description | ATLAS |
Organisation | European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) |
Department | CERN LHC ATLAS |
Country | Switzerland |
Sector | Public |
PI Contribution | Tracking R&D and construction, software, distributed computing systems, detector operations, trigger performance and design, Standard Model, B-physics, Onium, Higgs, Top and SUSY studies; ran UK software and computing |
Collaborator Contribution | Detector operations, computing operations, software, shared physics tools |
Impact | currently O(200) papers in press (Feb 2013) |
Description | GridPP |
Organisation | European Grid Infrastructure (EGI) |
Country | Netherlands |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
PI Contribution | Middleware, hardware, operations; ATLAS Member of the PMB, formerly Applications Co-ordinator, Deputy Chair of Users Board. Provide Deployment Team member. |
Collaborator Contribution | Middleware, operations, co-ordination |
Impact | some papers, enabled many physics papers. |
Description | GridPP |
Organisation | Queen Mary University of London |
Department | GRIDPP3 |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Middleware, hardware, operations; ATLAS Member of the PMB, formerly Applications Co-ordinator, Deputy Chair of Users Board. Provide Deployment Team member. |
Collaborator Contribution | Middleware, operations, co-ordination |
Impact | some papers, enabled many physics papers. |
Description | T2K |
Organisation | T2K Collaboration |
Country | Global |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Collaborators, detector builders (ND280), operators |
Collaborator Contribution | Collaborators |
Impact | Papers, detector R&D |
Description | WLCG |
Organisation | European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) |
Department | Worldwide LHC Computing Grid (WLCG) |
Country | Switzerland |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Hardware, middleware, operations; Collaboration Board Member and Chair |
Collaborator Contribution | Hardware, middleware, operations, co-ordination |
Impact | All LHC and Tevatron papers |
Description | 5 Particle Physics Masterclasses/Residentials |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | Increases interest in science and particle physics Increased applications to Lancaster, citing particle phsyics interest |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
Description | Big bang fair |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Big Bang Fair, general science exhibition at the NEC |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014,2015 |
Description | Royal Society Summer Exhibition |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | many thousands saw stands on the Grid/Higgs physics/Beyond the Higgs |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2008,2011,2014 |