Projects / Programmes
Development and Implementation of Tools for the Physics Research with the ATLAS Detector in the Grid Environment
| Code |
Science |
Field |
Subfield |
| 7.00.00 |
Interdisciplinary research |
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| Code |
Science |
Field |
| P211 |
Natural sciences and mathematics |
High energy interactions, cosmic rays |
| P170 |
Natural sciences and mathematics |
Computer science, numerical analysis, systems, control |
ATLAS, LHC, CERN, elementary particles, data analysis, simulacija of physiscs processes, Grid technologies, EGEE , 7th EU framework programme, computationally intensive methods, joint European research area, E-science
Researchers (6)
Organisations (1)
| no. |
Code |
Research organisation |
City |
Registration number |
No. of publicationsNo. of publications |
| 1. |
0106 |
Jožef Stefan Institute |
Ljubljana |
5051606000 |
90,753 |
Abstract
The ATLAS experiment, one of the fundamental physics experiments of our time, designed to probe into the basic laws of particle physics, will begin its data taking at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the European Laboratory for Particle Physics (CERN) in Geneva in 2007. Due to the large quantity of collected data and the necessity of extremely advanced computing and physical approaches, new methods for data storage and processing as well as new tools for data simulation and analysis are being developed, implemented and tested in production environments.
In the project framework we will participate in the implementation and testing of existing and development of new tools and procedures for data analysis and simulation as well as data storage and manipulation for the data which will be collected with the ATLAS detector. Research and testing is conducted on the basis of infrastructure and technology of Gird networks in collaboration with the LCG/EGEE IIz (LHC Computing Grid) international project, common European Research Area and wider international collaborations.
The project is of fundamental importance for our continued participation in the ATLAS collaboration and better access to the latest experimental data. Four our institution and Slovenian research community in general it represents an opportunity to work with the latest findings and it will give us the key for further participations in European and international scientific and research collaborations.
Significance for science
The foreseen research and participation in the development of new methods will provide the means for data analysis at the ATLAS detector, which belongs to the technologicaly and scientificaly most demanding projects of the decade. This will in turn enable the science to verify the existence of the Higgs boson (and with this the source of the elementary particle masses, as they appear in nature) and possibly the existence of new particles and processes and will thus lead the science to new discoveries and findings about the basic laws of the universe. Participation in the development of the cutting-edge computing methods in an experiment of such an importance as ATLAS certainly also facilitates the transfer and propagation of the latest scientific knowledge to Slovenia.
Significance for the country
We were the first to implement a working Grid environment in the Republic of Slovenia and used it successfully to simulate physics processes and use them for analysis within the ATLAS international collaboration. The Grid environment can well be called the next generation "internet", with the transfer of it and related knowledge and skills to Republic of Slovenia we follow the world technological development; the Grid technology will deifinetely contribute to a better quality of livind as did the World Wide Web (cpmmonly refered to as "internet"). The development of new computational methods in combination with the distributed data processing is expected to stimulate the developmnent of other branches of science where large computing capacities and/or computing simulations are needed (computing, informatics, meteorology, statistics) and in the final instance also significantly contribute to the development of the informatic infrastructure. As an example one can stress, that the world wide web (WWW) was developed at the European Laboratory for Particle Physics (CERN) for the needs of the LHC project; to the present day it has become a totally new branch of the information technology. Similar predictions are also being made for the development of the distributed computing (Grid) which is being developed for the needs of the LHC project.
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