EENP2 intermediate report
Lecce, 20 March 2015
G. Iaselli, N. De Filippis G. Pugliese
On behalf of EENP2
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Project information
List of Institutions
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Objectives
Study the new particles production at the CERN CMS experiment in operation at Large
Hadron Collider (LHC), develop frontier particle detector technologies and implement
of up-to-date GRID computing infrastructures
Promote the scientific collaboration in particle physics and related technologies
between a network of Egyptian Universities and EU Member States Academic
Institutions
Allow young and senior Egyptian scientists to perform advanced research on
fundamental particle physics in the context of worldwide large collaborations
Promote social innovation in Egypt through transfer of knowledge. Help in the
process of innovation of the Egyptian academy by the development of applied science
infrastructural laboratories.
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Project information
The EENP2 research program is fully embedded
in the LHC-CMS project
CMS and EENP2
Explore the exiting domain of universe basic laws
World wile collaboration (science with no frontiers)
Important technological development (GRID, Microelectronics)
Represent an incredible boost factor for applied science
Offers opportunities to young scientists for career enhancement
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WPs
WP1 on new particles search
Perform reconstruction, analysis and simulation of collision events produced in CMS.
WP2 on detector development
Study innovate particle detectors to cope with future high background experiments.
Instrument a detector laboratory in Helwan University.
WP3 on GRID computer application
Promote an European and Mediterranean distributed computing infrastructure by the
implementation of GRID nodes in Egypt
WP4 on training and dissemination.
Train young Egyptian researcher on advanced data analysis, computing and detector
technologies. Disseminate knowledge through proper regular meetings and schools
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Project management
Simple and
structure
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effective
management
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Project management
Relevant information on the
http://eenp2.ba.infn.it/
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page
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Project management
Document repository and meeting agenda/minutes at:
http://indico.cern.ch/category/4907/
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Project management
Thanks to the small size of the consortium, the management has been quite smooth
through both official steering meetings, and frequent direct contacts. We have profited
extensively of virtual meeting tools such as Skype and Vydio.
Two annual workshops were held in Egypt to review the status of the project an the
related research topics:
Cairo 22-23 January 2014
AIN SHAMS guest house
http://indico.cern.ch/event/296111/
Cairo 13 November 2015
ZEWAIL CITY guest house
https://indico.cern.ch/event/351888/
Those events have also been widely open to the entire particle physics community in
Egypt to disseminate EENP2 program and results.
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Secondments
In the period 2013 - 2014, 20 Egyptian
scientists were seconded to POLIBA and
ECOLE for a total of about 66.5 months, out
of which 29 months were used in 2013 and
37.5 months were used in 2014.
The resources were allocated among the
three research work packages as:
24.0 months to WP1
25.5 months to WP2
16.0 months to WP3
1.0 month to WP4
From AINSHAMS 22.4 months
To POLIBA 43.9 months
To ECOLE
22.6 months
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From CAIRO
14.7 months
From HELWAN
29.4 months
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Secondments
Unfortunately the period 2013-2014 was characterized by some social and political
instability in Egypt. Secondments from Europe to Egypt were minimized, but we believe
that this has not affected the success of the project
From POLIBA 1.7 months
From ECOLE 1.4 months
Total secondments
Foreseen in the Gantt table
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69.6 months
84 months
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Secondments
The Egyptian researchers have been involved in up to date activity in large scientific
collaborations.
Few of them had the opportunity to travel to CERN and join the work on CMS.
EENP2 triggered the involvement of additional researchers and students in the main fields of
interest of the activity.
The inclusive policy resulted in many international publications signed by Egyptian researches.
See the full list of publication at:
http://eenp2.ba.infn.it/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Pub.pdf
# 16 pubs on international journals
# 5 CMS notes
# 11 talks
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Dissemination
First school organized in April 2014
Second edition foreseen in November 2015
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Dissemination
CMS Analysis school in Bari , January 2015
Six Egyptian researchers joined, thanks to the
EENP2 support, the CMSDAS analysis school in
Bari in the period 19-23 January 2015. The school
was intended to introduce through practical sessions,
the methodology and the software framework for
developing analysis on CMS proton-proton collision
at the CERN Large Hadron Collider.
Two Egyptians were in the group who was
awarded the “best CMS analysis” prize of the
school
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Dissemination
CMS Analysis school in AINSHAMS, April 2015
We will reiterate the school in
a mini format next April 2015
at AINSHAMS University
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Dissemination
The EENP2 management, by successfully interfacing with the leading scientific
institution of the country, the Academy for Science and Technology (ASRT),
promoted the funding of new infrastructures and a new organization of the research
in the high-energy domain.
Also the collaboration was not limited to the consortium institutions, but it was
enlarged to other universities such as British University in Egypt and Zewail City
With the help and support of EENP2, a reinforced link was established between
CERN and the Egyptian network for high-energy physics with an important boost
of activities in this field.
With the help and support of EENP2, Egypt successfully attracted other scientists
from neighbour areas (Sudan, Morocco, Algeria) who also joined some of the
dissemination events.
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Dissemination
A Memorandum of Collaboration has been signed by the EENP2 consortium and
the Italian ReCaS collaboration to enhance the transfer of knowledge in the field
of GRID computing.
A bilateral agreement of cooperation between Instituto Nazionale di Fisica Nuclare
(INFN) and ASRT has been recently signed to fund common projects. Two
requests of funds between Bari INFN and Egypt were recently launched thanks to
EENP2 advice.
A bilateral agreement between POLIBA and BUE for the exchange of students
has been signed
Thanks to the communication network established through EENP2, some
Egyptian institutions are now applying for the “Erasmus+” call to promote
students and teachers mobility toward POLIBA and ECOLE.
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Project outcome
Reinforced capability of Egyptian researcher to became active member
of international collaborations and produce/disseminate scientific results.
Involvement in major advanced tasks and technologies. Participation to
science life of outstanding international laboratories (ECOLE, CERN).
Major scientific achievements in the field of new particles discovery
(Higgs discovery, particle detector technologies, GRID computing
technologies).
Boost in the preparation of important Egyptian infrastructure, as a
GRID main center and a particle detector laboratory
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Infrastructures
Under the advice and the help of EENP2, Egypt is putting a large effort
in the preparation of an up to date GRID computer infrastructure. The
training of Egyptian staff in Europe through EENP2 had been a crucial
step forward the success.
Applied physics needs proper instruments and procedures. Through
EENP2 we are training young scientists in the field which would trigger
the set up a local detector laboratory. Knowledge in this context is
important because could results in new technical development for
everyday life.
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Milestones
The training phase was completed.
GEM prototype validated. MRPC are still in the design phase, due
to some difficulties in the procurement of the glass electrodes.
Emphasis has been given to new RPCs with innovative
performances.
Study has been concluded on LHC RUN1 data sample.
The school was held at Ain Shams University, 26 April to
1st May 2014
Study is almost concluded on LHC RUN1 data sample. The final
paper on the subject is under submission to international journals
A TIER2 center is in development at the CAIRO Academy ASRT.
Zewail City University and AinShams University are installing
TIER3 centers
Equipment and software have been installed at Helwan University.
Commissioning under way.
The “Middle Term” workshop was held at Zewail City on
13-14 November 2014.
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WP1
Objective of WP1 is the search for “New particles search ”
In the Standard Model (SM), the origin of the mass of particles is believed to be the “Higgs
mechanism” which predicts the existence of Higgs particles.
Nevertheless, the SM does not unify electroweak and strong interaction, it does not include
gravitation, and it is not satisfactory when extrapolated to energies higher than the electroweak
symmetry breaking scale. New ideas are thus needed and their physical manifestations are
expected at the LHC. The best-motivated extension is Supersymmetry, for which a large
variety of models exist.
Search for Higgs particles
Search for heavy new particles beyond the SM
Set up of a CMS center for data analysis at AIN SHAM
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WP1
People/Secondments
8 physicists involved
24 months in total
Mailing list for WP1: [email protected]
Twiki page: https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/CMSPublic/EEPN2WP1
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WP1
October 8, 2013: Nobel Prize
We were lucky, as EENP2 has
enabled young scientists to work
in the most exciting international
contest which has led to an
epical discovery
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WP1
Perform reconstruction, analysis and simulation of collision events produced in CMS
SM Higgs in the H  ZZ  4l
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WP1
SM Higgs in the H ZZ  4l
min @mH=125.6 GeV
6.8σ (6.7σ expected)
Significance of discovery/p-value:
probability that the background
can fluctuate to give an excess of
events equal or larger than what
observed
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WP1
Higgs in the EWK singlet model
We have searched for an additional Higgs boson in the mass region above 125 GeV/c2 up
to the stability scale of 1 TeV
• No evidence of a new additional Higgs
boson has been found
• Run1 CMS statistics allows to exclude a SM
Higgs boson above 145 GeV/c2
• But doesn’t allow the complete exclusion of
an additional EWK singlet
• The Run-2 data taking will be the final
testing ground of the Higgs sector!
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WP1
Search for Z’  ee, mumu
Grand Unification Theories (GUT) suppose that at least one
extra neutral gauge boson Z’ should exist.
In the sequential Standard Model:
Z’SMM < 2.7 TeV excluded @95C.L.
In the superstring-inspired:
Z’ψ < 2.43 TeV excluded @95C.L.
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WP1
CMS analysis center in AINSHAMS
Tier3 general setup
 working
•
n. server = 10
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TB disk = 100 TB
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Analysis setup will be the basis for the:
Mini-CMS Analysis School in Egypt
Local CMS environment for analysis
Basic GRID services  working
Access to CMS users  working
April 2015
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WP1
People/Committments
Reham Aly, Ahmed Ali Abdelalim: good progress on the H  ZZ  4l analysis for the SM Higgs
discovery and for the interpretation in the EWK singlet model  AN produced, publication submitted
to EPJ C, presentations done in the group meeting
Sherif Elgammal, Ahmed Qamesh: excellent progress for the Z’  ee/mumu analysis  leading role
in the official CMS Z’ group  AN produced, publication with Run 2 data foreseen in the Summer
2015
Moustfa Eshra: strong contribution on the resolution of the problem of the spikes in the CMS
Electromagnetic calorimeter
Asmaa Hassan: study of the missing transverse energy reconstruction (MET) for W  munu analysis
Mai El Sawy: studiy of the missing transverse energy reconstruction for search for mono-pole analysis
Ahmed Sayed: study of the muon reconstruction in the forward region of the CMS detector
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WP2
Study innovate particle detectors (with gaseous and silicon technologies) to
cope with future high background experiments. R&D needed to bring the
detector technology at the required level of sustainability for this challenge.
New gaseous detectors for high rate environment
New high radiation tolerance silicon detectors
Set up of a gas-detector laboratory at HELWAN
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WP2
People/Secondments
6 physicists involved
25.5 months in total
The Egyptians seconded to Europe have been involved in relevant laboratory activity at
POLIBA and CERN for the operation of gaseous detectors. Emphasis has been given to
set up autonomous cosmic ray test benches and to detector operation in CMS
Twiky page: https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/CMSPublic/EEPN2.
Mail list: [email protected]
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WP2
Gas detectors for CMS upgrade
POLIBA
group
had
important
responsibilities on the construction and
test of the 4th RPC endcap station.
POLIBA group has started an intense R&D activity to develop a new generation of RPC
detector that can handle the high particle hit rates (about 1 kHz/cm2) expected at
maximum LHC luminosity in this region.
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WP2
RE4 activity
The Egyptian researchers have been involved in all steps of the
production and quality control procedure of the RE4 chambers at the
RPC CERN laboratory.
The detector performance was studied by means of the cosmic
ray telescope installed at CERN and using a dedicated offline
software for the cosmic muon track reconstruction.
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WP2
RE4 production and installation in CMS
Test set up for the study of the
chamber performance
One
CMS
endcap
fully
instrumented with RPC detectors
Several Egyptians have
contributed
to
the
chambers
production,
installation end operation
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WP2
R&D activity at Gamma Irradiation Facility
The Egyptians scientists are involved in the test of
new RPC detectors at the CERN Gamma
Irradiation Facility (Jan-Aug 2014). Goals of the
test:
1. detector performance study under high particle
fluxes
2. long-term monitoring of the detectors working
under high gamma irradiation.
An offline DAQ software was developed by the Egyptians scientists in
order to study the detector performance with cosmic muon.
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WP2
Development of new detectors Gas Electron Multiplier (GEM)
New concept for acceleration electrons in the gas
Bari will be one of the
construction site for
the GEM for CMS
Egypt active in the test procedures, study of electronic and simulation for CMS
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WP2
Cosmic telescope @ Helwan University
Under the advice of the POLIBA researchers, a
gas-detector laboratory is under construction at
the HELWAN University. This important
infrastructure will boost the R&D activity in this
field and serve as attraction point for training of
young scientists.
 Most of the hardware installed: power
system (HV and LV), DAQ system and
scintillators.
 Now working on the procurements of the few
missing components
 Submitted and accepted request to have two
CMS RPC chambers.
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WP2
Cosmic telescope @ Helwan University
Hardware and software for the quality control on RPC gaps running (gas
leak, spacers and HV test).
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WP3
GRID computing application
Objective is the setting up of an European and Mediterranean distributed
computing infrastructure and relevant connected manpower expertise to fulfill
the requirement of several scientific communities.
The consolidation of the GRID infrastructure at the Egyptian sites in order to
be able to fully support both CMS analysis and a larger scientific community (ie.
biomedical and computational chemistry) in compliance with the WLCG
standards is also one of the scope of the present project.
Development of a GRID job monitoring system
Data management and access for interactive users
GRID infrastructure consolidation in Egypt
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WP3
People/Secondments
6 physicists involved
16 months in total
The Egyptians seconded to Europe have been involved in relevant GRID computer
website administration activities. and Emphasis has been given to experience autonomous
TIER2/TIER3 GRID installation and condor based cluster installation
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WP3
1- Knowledge Transfer
Train young Egyptian researchers to improve their GRID knowledge and set
up basic infrastructure
2- Release a production level of a grid job
The final version of the Grid system will be implemented and released. The
data management and access system will be finalized and in production.
3- Egyptian site in production
All the Egyptian sites will have GRID infrastructure ready for the use by
CMS end users.
Egyptian engineers travelled to ECOLE and POLIBA and were trained on:
• grid node installation, maintenance, monitoring, and management.
• installation, configuration, and maintenance of EMI v3
middleware on UI, CE, WN, SE_DISK, SE_MYSQL,
SITE_BDII, TOP_BDII, XROOTD, CVFMS
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WP3
Egyptian sites in production
For ASRT Tier 3 grid node, there are 8 servers with
10 Tb storage and 1 Gb/s shared internet access.
For ASRT Tier 2, there are more than 90 servers with
their related network devices and 90 Tb storage Ready
by in the end of 2015:
- the internet bandwidth increased to 10 Gb/s
- 900 Tb of storage
For Ain-Shams Tier 3, there are 10 rack servers with
100 cores and 120 Tb storage and the related network
devices.
For Zewail Tier 3 grid node, there are 8 servers with 8
Tb storage and the related network devices.
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WP3
Achievements 2013/2014 at ASRT
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WP3
Knowledge transfer to other Universities
Zewail Tier 3 grid node
• Site is operating, certified and registered at GOCDB.
• EMI 3 middleware installed and working
• CREAM CE with Torque Pbs server,LRMS
• WNs with Torque Pbs client (44 core).
• Site and Top BDII
• User interface
• CMS Data transfer services working
• DPM storage operational
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Conclusions
The years 2013-2014 have been denoted by some social and political instability in Egypt.
In few circumstances, scientific initiatives were slowed down due to complex Egyptian
dynamics.
Also the heavy teaching load of the Egyptian researchers, has some time prevented them
from taking longer secondments to Europe.
In spite of these difficulties, EENP2 has been proceeding quite smoothly thanks to a
reliable local management.
We acknowledge that, although the financial difficulties that heavily affect also the south
Mediterranean area, Egypt is making an incredible effort to potentiate its scientific an
technological capability and to invest in new generation training and education.
We believe the EENP2 has played its little role by helping local academia in gaining
awareness of the country capability.
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