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
Chatrchyan S
(2011)
Search for B(s)(0) ? µ+ µ- and B(0) ? µ+ µ- decays in pp collisions at sqrt[s] = 7 TeV.
in Physical review letters
Chatrchyan S
(2011)
Measurement of the differential cross section for isolated prompt photon production in p p collisions at 7 TeV
in Physical Review D
Chatrchyan S
(2011)
Search for resonances in the dijet mass spectrum from 7 TeV pp collisions at CMS
in Physics Letters B
Chatrchyan S
(2013)
Measurement of the elliptic anisotropy of charged particles produced in PbPb collisions at s N N = 2.76 TeV
in Physical Review C
Chatrchyan S
(2012)
A search for a doubly-charged Higgs boson in pp collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 7 \ \mbox{TeV}$
in The European Physical Journal C
Chatrchyan S
(2013)
Search for narrow resonances using the dijet mass spectrum in p p collisions at s = 8 TeV
in Physical Review D
Chatrchyan S
(2012)
Study of high-p T charged particle suppression in PbPb compared to pp collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\mathrm{NN}}}=2.76~\mathrm{TeV}$
in The European Physical Journal C
Chatrchyan S
(2013)
Study of the mass and spin-parity of the Higgs boson candidate via its decays to Z boson pairs.
in Physical review letters
Chatrchyan S
(2011)
Measurement of the weak mixing angle with the Drell-Yan process in proton-proton collisions at the LHC
in Physical Review D
Chatrchyan S
(2014)
Evidence of b-jet quenching in PbPb collisions at v(s(NN))=2.76 TeV.
in Physical review letters