The DØ Experiment is a worldwide collaboration of scientists conducting research on the fundamental nature of matter. The experiment is located at
the world’s premier high-energy accelerator, the Tevatron Collider at Fermilab in Batavia, IL. The research focuses on precise studies of interactions of protons
and antiprotons at the highest available energies. It involves an intense search for subatomic clues that reveal the character of the building blocks of the universe.
In summer 2006, the DZero detector had a substantial upgrade, including the addition of new components. After any significant change to a detector, a precise
calibration is required to properly quantify subsequent data. DZero’s recalibration, completed in January 2007, involved measuring, reconstructing and comparing
millions of data events.
The events used in calibration do double duty: in order to be used in physics analyses, they must first be “reprocessed” using the new calibration values. In
other words, during the calibration, this data was used to refine the reconstruction “recipe”; subsequently, this same (raw) data was reprocessed using the
new-and-improved recipe.
The experiment itself also did double duty – DZero’s local computing farm was busy with incoming data and unable to accommodate all the needed calculations.
Part of the needed computing power came from DZero’s internationally distributed computing resources, DZero-SAM, and the Worldwide Large Hadron Collider
Computing Grid. However, the bulk of reprocessing took place on twelve shared Open Science Grid (OSG) sites via opportunistic access. On OSG, DZero sustained
execution of over 1,000 simultaneous jobs, and consumed and produced hundreds of gigabytes of data.
URL:
www-d0.fnal.gov
www.isgtw.org/?pid=1000434
Collaborators:
Argentina:
Universidad de Buenos Aires
Brazil:
CBPF/LAFEX; Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro; Universidade Estadual Paulista
Canada:
McGill University; Simon Frazer University; University of Alberta; York University
China:
IHEP, Beijing; University of Science and Technology of China
Colombia:
Universidad de Los Andes
Czech Republic:
Charles University/Center for Particle Physics, Prague; Czech Technical University; Czech Academy of Sciences/Institute of Physics
Ecuador:
Universidad San Francisco de Quito
France:
Centre de Physique des Particules de Marseille; DAPNIA/SPP, SACLAY; Institut de Physique Nucleaire de Lyon; IPHC Strasbourg; Laboratoire de I
Accelerateur Lineaire; LPC, Univ Blaise Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand; LPNHE, Universites Paris VI and VII; LPSC, Grenoble
Germany:
University of Wuppertal/Fachbereich Physik; Institut fuer Physik, Mainz; Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München;
Bonn University/Physikalisches Institut; Universitaet Freiburg/Physikalisches Institut; Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule (Aachen); Ill. Phys.
Institute
India:
Delhi University; Panjab University; Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
Ireland:
University College Dublin
Korea:
Korea University; Kyungsung University; Seoul National University; SungKyunKwan University
Mexico:
CINVESTAV
Netherlands:
NIKHEF; Radboud University Nijmegen
Russia:
Institute for High Energy Physics; Institute for Theoretical & Experimental Physics; Joint Institute for Nuclear Research;
Moscow State University; Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute
Sweden:
KTH – The Royal Institute of Technology; Lund University; Stockholm University; Uppsala University
Switzerland:
Universität Zürich
UK:
Imperial College, London; Lancaster University; University of Manchester
USA:
Boston University; Brookhaven National Laboratory; Brown University; California State University, Fresno; Columbia University; FermiLab;
Florida State University; Indiana University; Iowa State University; Kansas State University; Langston University; Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory;
Louisiana Tech University; Michigan State University; Northeastern University; Northern Illinois University; Northwestern University; Oklahoma State University;
Princeton University; Purdue University; Purdue University Calumet; Rice University; Southern Methodist University; State University of New York, Buffalo; State
University of New York, Stony Brook; Texas A&M University; University of Arizona; University of California, Davis; University of California, Riverside; University
of Hawaii; University of Illinois at Chicago; University of Kansas; University of Maryland; University of Michigan; University of Mississippi; University of Nebraska;
University of Notre Dame; University of Oklahoma; University of Rochester; University of Texas, Arlington; University of Virginia; University of Washington
Vietnam:
Ho Chi Minh City Institute of Physics
