Egypt Contribution in CMS
Egyptian Network of High Energy Physics (ENHEP)
Amr Radi and Adel Awad
Center of Theoretical Physics (CTP)
British University in Egypt (BUE)
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Why we join CMS?
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Our joining to CMS collaboration aims to:
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Establish experimental expertise for LHC accelerator spare parts and high
standard electronic equipment.
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Develop simulation techniques that have environmental and industrial
impact.
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Take a leading part in the expected revolution in particle physics.
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To promote scientific collaboration between researchers and Egyptian
academic institutions.
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To train young scientists in Experimental and Theory of particle physics and
Data analysis, etc.
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To connect with one of the most challenging international collaborations.
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Egyptian Network of HEP
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Egypt has a bilateral agreement with CERN since 2006 for in the enormous LHC
project.
In September 2008, the Egyptian Network for High Energy Physics (ENHEP) has
been established, as a research unit within the Academic Scientific Research
and Technology (ASRT).
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Shabaan Khalil is the ENHEP Director.
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The aim of the ENHEP is to act as the nucleus for the scientific cooperation
between the Egyptian experts in HEP and CERN in the LHC project.
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In September 2008, President of the ASRT and Shabaan have visited CERN to
discuss the working plan in order to join CMS.
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In September 2009, President of the ASRT and Shabaan have visited CERN and
reported the progress made in setting up RPC lab and Grid computational
infrastructure.
With the CMS spokesman and resource manger, we have signed a letter of
intention that specify Egypt contribution to CMS.
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Our contribution include the following items:
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Purchase of materials for a number (~ 25) of forward RPC chambers to be
assembled at CMS site.
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Training and support of a number of qualified Egyptian personnel for
assembly of muon chambers at CMS site.
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Completion of the instrumentation of a laboratory to allow full testing of a
number of RPC chambers in Egypt.
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We have obtained the approval of our government on these items and
payment.
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Shabaan have presented Egypt application to the CMS council meeting on
11 Dec.
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In March 2010 we got the approval of the counsel meeting voting 69 against
2 (we are official member).
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ENHEP Structure
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The ENHEP is running under the umbrella of the ministry of Higher Education
and Scientific Research and the ASRT.
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The ENHEP consists of the three groups:
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Particle Physics Phenomenology (theory group)
Computational and Data Analysis ( data analysis group)
Experimental Particle Physics (experimental group)
University
BUE
Cairo
Helwan
Ain Shams
Node
Phenom. &
Analysis
Analysis &
Exp.
Exp. &
Analysis
Analysis &
Phenom.
No. physicists
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No. students
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Theory Group
 Dr. Adel Awad (BUE) –Coordinator
 We are expert in Physics beyond
the SM: SUSY, CP violation, Extra
Dimensions,
TeV
scale
B-L
extension of SM, etc.
 We organized series of lectures in
particle
physics,
relativistic
quantum mechanics and field
theory in ENHEP meetings.
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ENHEP organized, with the ASRT
and the IN2P3, the 1st Egyptian
School on High Energy Physics in
May 2009 at British University in
Egypt (BUE).
The first Egyptian School on high Energy
Physics (supported by ASRT & IN2P3) MayJune 2009 at BUE
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Theory Group
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Theory members published about 20
articles in the last year with ENHEPASRT acknowledgment.
We organized a conference on
neutrino physics in LHC that has
been held in Luxur in November
2009. This is part of in going biannual
meetings in LHC physics suggested
by LHC theory group (John Ellis).
ENHEP organized, with the ASRT
and the IN2P3, the 2ed Egyptian
School on High Energy Physics in
Nov. 2010 at Helwan University in
Egypt .
 We awarded 2 research grant from
ASRT and 2 grants from STDF.
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NEXT.
collaborating
with
CTP Int. Conference on Neutrino Physics
at LHC Era: 15-19 Nov. 2009 Luxor.
We have also organized SUSY at LHC Era
in 2007 & DSU 2008
LLR,
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Our model of New Physics beyond the
Standard Model at CMS
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CMS is looking for physics beyond
the Standard Model including the TeV
scale
B-L
extension
proposed
recently by members of the CTP
in “Low scale B – L extension of the
Standard Model at the LHC” by S.K.,
J. Phys. G 35:055001, 2008.
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Two groups in the CMS collaboration
working at the LHC project (one at
the Ecole Polytechnique in France
and the other in the NEXT institute,
Southampton UK) have analyzed the
discovery potential for our model.
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Now we are collaborating with NEXT
to analysis SUSY B-L model.
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The LHC Computing Grid
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Data Analysis Group
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Prof. Ali Ellithi (Cairo U.) –Coordinator
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Two computational labs at BUE (Amr
Radi) and Cairo University (Ali Ellithi)
have been established.
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Efforts
have
been
made
for
understanding Data analysis tools, as
CMSSW
programgenerationsimulation- reconstruction- analysis.
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Software including Pythia, Root,
Genat4, Calhep, CMSshow, etc.
HEP school (supported by ASRT & IN2P3)
May-June 2009 at BUE
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Data Analysis Group
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Building grid nodes at different
places (BUE, Cairo, ..) with
necessary
hardware
and
bandwidth useful for Tier3.
ENHEP Established a high
performance computational lab,
32 core main frame + 8 Sun ultra
4-core machines and more
than10 high configuration pc’s in
the BUE (internet high speed
connect).
M. Attia and S. Seif are 2 Ph.D.
students at CERN for data
analysis.
HEP school (supported by ASRT & IN2P3)
May-June 2009 at BUE
The focus will be on Exotica
analysis .
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GRID Applications
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Detector Laboratory (experimental group)
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Dr. A. Mahrous (Helwan U.) - coordinator.
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Expertise in Helwan and Cairo Univ.
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Our RPC group is working closely to the
RPC Lab in CERN.
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We have a monthly video conference with
CERN RPC group to follow the progress of
our tests.
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New collaboration with Bari U. (G. Iaselli).
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Y. Assran & A. Mostafa are 2 Ph.D. students
(100%) at CERN RPC Lab.
Visit of A. Sharma to Helwan Detector Lab
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Experimental tests:
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(i) The gas Leakage Test.
(ii) The High Voltage Test.
(iii) The Spacer Test.
(iv) The Cosmic Ray Test.
A. Mahrous, M. Sherif, and M. Soliman, Simulation of MuonInduced Air Showers Affecting CMS Tracking Detectors,
Physics of Particles and Nuclei Letters, 2009, Vol. 6, No. 3, pp.
246–250.
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Conclusions
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Why we join CMS?
The ENHEP is running under the umbrella of the ministry of Higher
Education and Scientific Research and the ASRT.
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The ENHEP consists of the three groups:
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Particle Physics Phenomenology (Theory group)
Computational and Data Analysis
Experimental Particle Physics
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Supporting the ENHEP with annual budget is crucial to achieve our
goals.
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ENHEP is first trial for team working in Egypt.
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Acknowledgment
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We would like to thanks Philippe Miné (LLR) and
Ludwik Dobrzynski (LLR) for their helps and supports
for us to join CMS experiments and many other things
etc.
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Thank you
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