Edinburgh Dune Application Edinburgh PPE group Franz Muheim

Edinburgh Dune Application ● Edinburgh PPE group Franz Muheim 24 January 2017 Dune IB meeting – Who are we? – PPE activities ● Dune application – People – Expertise – Interests CERN 24 Jan Franz Muheim 1

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 Ph. D students CERN 24 Jan Franz Muheim 2

PPE Activities ● History of PPE Edinburgh – Group was a member in NA 31/48, 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 – Grid. PP ● Future Plans – Consolidate LHC and dark matter effort – Build up neutrino physics activity CERN 24 Jan Franz Muheim 3

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 • Grid. PP – UK’s Distributed Computing for Data-Intensive Research • Data storage, simulation • GPUs, multiprocessors, multi threading CERN 24 Jan Franz Muheim 4

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 CERN 24 Jan Franz Muheim 5