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Edinburgh Dune Application. Franz Muheim 24 January 2017 Dune IB meeting. Edinburgh PPE group Who are we? PPE activities Dune application People Expertise Interests. Who are we?. Particle Physics Experiment (PPE) Group
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Edinburgh Dune Application Franz Muheim 24 January 2017 Dune IB meeting • Edinburgh PPE group • Who are we? • PPE activities • Dune application • People • Expertise • Interests Franz Muheim
Who are we? • Particle Physics Experiment (PPE) Group • Research group in Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics - IPNP • Partners in IPNP are Particle Physics Theory & Nuclear Physics • part of School of Physics at Edinburgh University • PPE members • 8 faculty - of which 3 are applying to join DUNE • ~15 senior scientists, postdocs and technical staff • ~15 PhD students Franz Muheim
PPE Activities • History of PPE Edinburgh • Group was a member in NA31/48, Aleph, Babar • Considerable expansion over last decade • Research focussed mainly on Large Hadron Collider • Current PPE Activities • ATLAS – analysis and upgrade • LHCb – analysis and RICH upgrade • Dark Matter – LUX & LZ • Hyper-K • GridPP • Future Plans • Consolidate LHC and dark matter effort • Build up neutrino physics activity Franz Muheim
PPE Edinburgh @ Dune • Personnel • 3 academics – Peter Clarke, Franz Muheim (PI), Matt Needham initially at 0.2 FTE level, ramping up • 1 PDRA for first 2 years • Technical support • Technical expertise • Detector development • photon detectors - Ring Imaging Cherenkov (RICH) detectors for LHCb • LHCb silicon tracker, ATLAS ITK upgrade • Babar readout electronics, LHCb trigger • Computing • GridPP – UK’s Distributed Computing for Data-Intensive Research • Data storage, simulation • GPUs, multiprocessors, multi threading Franz Muheim
PPE Edinburgh @ Dune II • Interest in Dune • Dune DAQ • Data handling – optimise data flow from detector to DAQ computing farm, data compression, trigger, network • Fits well with expertise and UK plans – bid submitted this week • Photon detectors – PPE group is working with LAPPDs • Neutrino physics - CP violation • Data fitting, data reconstruction • Alignment and calibration • Neutrino nucleon interactions • Summary • Edinburgh PPE group applies to join the Dune collaboration • Dune is an exciting project and we very much want to be part of it • Plan to ramp up effort during next two years Franz Muheim