Computing for UK Particle Physics Phenomenology

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The Institute for Particle Physics Phenomenology (IPPP) is a joint venture of Durham University and STFC.The aim of the IPPP is to play a key role in meeting STFC 's and the University of Durham's strategic goal of international excellence in research. Central to our mission is to provide strategic advice for the UK and global particlephysics community and to focus and amplify national and international experimental efforts.The scientific interests of the IPPP cover all aspects of current particle phenomenology, ranging from neutrino and astro-particle physics, through flavour physics to collider phenomenology and model building at the highest energies. There are few groups world-wide with comparable coverage of phenomenological particle physics. The topics addressed by the IPPP include the design of new theoretical techniques, such as scattering amplitude computations and higher-order calculations, the construction, development, validation and deployment of multi-purpose event generators, and feasibility studies for new facilities. In addition, IPPP plays a pivotal role in the provision and further development of tools, calculations, analyses and exploitation strategies for LHC physics. IPPP is highly visible in leading studies for current and future neutrino facilities, another high priority endeavour. It is also involved in experimental developments in quark flavour physics at LHCb. Furthermore, IPPP has made major contributions to the phenomenology of Dark Matter and its searches at accelerator and non-accelerator based experiments, and to physics exploration beyond the Standard Model.This project will ensure that the IPPP stays at the cutting edge of the development of predictions of what happens when ultra high energy protons collide by increasing the capacity of the High Throughput Computing IPPP cluster. The cluster has played a key role in the development of the IPPP as a leading international institute for developing the software that underpins particle phenomenology worldwide. The High Throughput Computing needs of the IPPP can be met with a combination of fast disk servers and standard ethernet-networked compute nodes, operating the same software platform, which is used by the experimenters, who will ultimately use the software being developed at the IPPP. These are very different requirements than those delivered by e.g. Dirac.