ATLAS Upgrade Computing Phase 2
Lead Research Organisation:
Lancaster University
Department Name: Physics
Abstract
This is the final year of the effort on the current ATLAS Upgrade project and is already pre-approved by the PPRP
Planned Impact
This is the final year of the effort on the current ATLAS Upgrade project and is already pre-approved by the PPRP
Publications
Wosiek B
(2015)
Azimuthal anisotropies in Pb + Pb and p + Pb collisions with the ATLAS detector
in Annals of Physics
The ATLAS Collaboration
(2013)
Search for a light charged Higgs boson in the decay channel [Formula: see text] in [Formula: see text] events using pp collisions at [Formula: see text] with the ATLAS detector.
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
The ATLAS Collaboration
(2012)
Search for heavy neutrinos and right-handed W bosons in events with two leptons and jets in pp collisions at [Formula: see text] with the ATLAS detector.
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
The ATLAS Collaboration
(2012)
Search for doubly charged Higgs bosons in like-sign dilepton final states at $\sqrt{s} = 7\ \mathrm{TeV}$ with the ATLAS detector
in The European Physical Journal C
The ATLAS Collaboration
(2012)
ATLAS search for a heavy gauge boson decaying to a charged lepton and a neutrino in pp collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 7\ \mathrm{TeV}$
in The European Physical Journal C
Rybar M
(2014)
Angular correlations of jets in lead-lead collisions at 2.76 TeV using the ATLAS detector at the LHC
in Nuclear Physics A
Pralavorio P
(2013)
SUSY searches at ATLAS
in Frontiers of Physics
Colling D
(2013)
Processing LHC data in the UK.
in Philosophical transactions. Series A, Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences
Collaboration T
(2012)
A study of the material in the ATLAS inner detector using secondary hadronic interactions
in Journal of Instrumentation
Collaboration T
(2015)
Modelling Z ? tt processes in ATLAS with t-embedded Z ? µµ data
in Journal of Instrumentation
Collaboration T
(2014)
Operation and performance of the ATLAS semiconductor tracker
in Journal of Instrumentation
Collaboration T
(2012)
Prototype ATLAS IBL modules using the FE-I4A front-end readout chip
in Journal of Instrumentation
Collaboration T
(2014)
A neural network clustering algorithm for the ATLAS silicon pixel detector
in Journal of Instrumentation
Collaboration T
(2014)
Monitoring and data quality assessment of the ATLAS liquid argon calorimeter
in Journal of Instrumentation
ATLAS Collaboration
(2015)
Search for dark matter in events with heavy quarks and missing transverse momentum in [Formula: see text] collisions with the ATLAS detector.
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
ATLAS Collaboration
(2012)
A search for [Formula: see text] resonances with the ATLAS detector in 2.05 fb-1 of proton-proton collisions at [Formula: see text].
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
ATLAS Collaboration
(2014)
Measurement of the centrality and pseudorapidity dependence of the integrated elliptic flow in lead-lead collisions at [Formula: see text] TeV with the ATLAS detector.
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
ATLAS Collaboration
(2012)
Measurement of the top quark mass with the template method in the [Formula: see text] channel using ATLAS data.
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
ATLAS Collaboration
(2012)
Search for lepton flavour violation in the eµ continuum with the ATLAS detector in [Formula: see text]pp collisions at the LHC.
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
ATLAS Collaboration
(2015)
Measurement of the top-quark mass in the fully hadronic decay channel from ATLAS data at [Formula: see text].
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
ATLAS Collaboration
(2013)
Multi-channel search for squarks and gluinos in [Formula: see text]pp collisions with the ATLAS detector at the LHC.
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
ATLAS Collaboration
(2014)
The differential production cross section of the [Formula: see text](1020) meson in [Formula: see text] = 7 TeV [Formula: see text] collisions measured with the ATLAS detector.
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
ATLAS Collaboration
(2012)
Measurement of the charge asymmetry in top quark pair production in pp collisions at [Formula: see text] using the ATLAS detector.
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
ATLAS Collaboration
(2015)
Measurement of the production and lepton charge asymmetry of [Formula: see text] bosons in Pb+Pb collisions at [Formula: see text] with the ATLAS detector.
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
Description | The computing design work can be used by other experiments but is immature on this grant; the tracking development can be used by other experiments and potentially by users like medical physics |
Exploitation Route | The tracking can be reused for medical and other HEP applications when complete - this is a multistage project |
Sectors | Healthcare |
Description | The technologies are under development for medical applications and beyond |
First Year Of Impact | 2016 |
Sector | Healthcare |
Impact Types | Societal |
Description | STFC Spark Public Engagement Awards |
Amount | £6,400 (GBP) |
Funding ID | ST/R001596/1 |
Organisation | Science and Technologies Facilities Council (STFC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 08/2017 |
End | 08/2018 |
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 | 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 | Lancaster particle physics masterclasses |
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 | Three days of masterclasses held at Lancaster with Y12/Y13 pupils. The event influences both pupils and teachers. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
URL | http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/physics/outreach/masterclasses/ |
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 |
Description | WOMAD 2016 Physics Pavilion |
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 | Curated the first phsycis pavilion at the WOMAD festival 2016 in Wiltshire. Totoal attendence over 40,000, through the tent 4000 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |