Startupof a Tier-2 grid computing centre in Munich for the preparation of the data analysis of the ATLAS experiment at the pp collider LHC

• Applicant: Professor Dr. Arnulf Quadt
• Subject Area: Nuclear and Elementary Particle Physics, Quantum Mechanics, Relativity, Fields
• Term: from 2006 to 2011
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 18570242

• Final Report Year: 2013

Final Report Abstract

Based on the provided DFG-funds, a regional grid-computing center (Tier-2) within the international "World-Wide LHC Grid Computing" Collaboration for the Large Hadron Collider experiments at CERN was established, certified and the operation started. Resulting from the appointment of the applicant A.Quadt from a Heisenberg-fellowship to a full professor for experimental particle physics at Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, the field of particle physics was newly established at their II. Institute of Physics and integrated in the national and international community. Hence, the new Tier-2 Grid Computing Center was also installed and operation started there. The close cooperation with the Max-Planck Institute for Physics in Munich, started within the DFG funds provided here, was pursued and an intense scientific exchange was continued and strengthened.

Publications

• Kinematic fitting of ttbar-events using a likelihood approach: The KLFitter package
  J. Erdmann et al.
  
• Top quark physics at hadron colliders, Eur. Phys. J. C48 (2006) 835
  A. Quadt
  
• Phys. Lett. B677 (2008) 1
  C. Amsler et al.
  
• An Interdisciplinary Pratical Course on the Application of Grid Computing, IEEE EDUCON Conference 2010 - The Future of Global Learning in Engineering Education, April 2010, Madrid
  J. Meyer, A. Quadt et al.
  
• ATLAS Tier-2 at the Compute Resource Center GoeGrid in Göttingen, CHEP-2010 Conference (2010), J.Phys.: Conf.Ser. 331 072005 (2011)
  Jörg Meyer, Arnulf Quadt and Pavel Weber