Glasgow P&A researchers to work on Open MetaAnalysis in Particle Physics (OpenMAPP) project
Published: 1 February 2024
The CHIST-ERA consortium, a coordination and co-operation activity of national and regional research funding organisations mainly in Europe, has announced the Open MetaAnalysis in Particle Physics (OpenMAPP) project involving Glasgow P&A researchers as one of nine multinational projects in its Open and Re-usable Research Data and Software (ORD) activity area.
The CHIST-ERA consortium, a coordination and co-operation activity of national and regional research funding organisations mainly in Europe, has announced the Open MetaAnalysis in Particle Physics (OpenMAPP) project involving Glasgow P&A researchers as one of nine multinational projects in its Open and Re-usable Research Data and Software (ORD) activity area.
This project will provide research personnel and collaboration funds across Europe, with centres of activity in Glasgow (led by Prof Andy Buckley, and coordinating also researchers at UCL and Durham), Grenoble, Paris, Krakow, Istanbul, and in Korea. The aim of the project is to provide an online network of connected particle-physics databases, simulations, and statistical analysis tools in order that the totality of Large Hadron Collider (LHC) data can be used simultaneously for tests of new physics.
This joining up of multiple community resources will address the current shortcoming that LHC analyses are mainly designed to be used in isolation, while the indications from a decade of experimental operations are that any new physics is likely to be subtle and to require testing against the biggest possible dataset. OpenMAPP researchers will work together over the next two years to extend and connect multiple systems, and building upon previous work to deliver not just world-leading new global interpretations of LHC data, but the infrastructure for others to continue such studies in perpetuity.
First published: 1 February 2024
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