GridPP4: The UK Grid for Particle Physics
Lead Research Organisation:
Imperial College London
Department Name: Physics
Abstract
This proposal, submitted in response to the 2009 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 2011 to March 2015 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 form a central part of the UK National Grid Infrastructure (NGI) that will be integrated with the European Grid Initiative (EGI) and which will inter-operate with Grids in the United States and elsewhere. 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 40,000 cores, with more than 60 PetaBytes of storage. This will enable the UK to exploit, in an internationally competitive way, the unique physics potential of the LHC. A total request is made for £27.8m for a four year GridPP4 project starting in April 2011.
Organisations
People |
ORCID iD |
David Colling (Principal Investigator) | |
Ulrik Egede (Co-Investigator) |
Publications
Khachatryan V
(2015)
Search for heavy Majorana neutrinos in µ ± µ ± + jets events in proton-proton collisions at s = 8 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Khachatryan V
(2015)
Search for physics beyond the standard model in events with two leptons, jets, and missing transverse momentum in pp collisions at s $$ \sqrt{s} $$ = 8 TeV
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Khachatryan V
(2014)
Constraints on the Higgs boson width from off-shell production and decay to Z-boson pairs
in Physics Letters B
Khachatryan V
(2014)
Measurement of the ratio B ( t ? W b ) / B ( t ? W q ) in pp collisions at s = 8 TeV
in Physics Letters B
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
(2015)
Search for the standard model Higgs boson produced through vector boson fusion and decaying to b b ¯
in Physical Review D
Khachatryan V
(2016)
Search for direct pair production of scalar top quarks in the single- and dilepton channels in proton-proton collisions at s = 8 $$ \sqrt{s}=8 $$ TeV
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Khachatryan V
(2015)
Measurements of the [Formula: see text][Formula: see text] production cross sections in the [Formula: see text] channel in proton-proton collisions at [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] and combined constraints on triple gauge couplings.
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
Khachatryan V
(2015)
Measurement of diffractive dissociation cross sections in p p collisions at s = 7 TeV
in Physical Review D
Khachatryan V
(2015)
Search for decays of stopped long-lived particles produced in proton-proton collisions at [Formula: see text].
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields