"High Performance Computing for Nuclear and Particle Physics Applications"

The project is financed by the Romanian National Authority for Scientific Research, CNCS-UEFISCDI under
Grant Nr. PN-II-ID-PCE-2011-3-0323 (contract IDEI-25/2011).

Description of project - The project is based on the infrastructure existent in the Department of Particle Physics and Information Technology (QS22 IBM blade-center w/ PowerXCell 8i and the 1162 CPU-core GRID node within WLCG). With this infrastructure 4 Computer Aided Design problems are approached, in Particle and Nuclear Physics:
- Particle Physics:
        P1 - Insertable B-Layer trigger software (ATLAS Experiment upgrade plans)
                aim = code for flash tracking/vertexing for the B-layer trigger
        P2 - Geometric-kinematic exclusive reconstruction methods
                aim = method and code for combining kinematic with vertexing information in the reconstruction of B-decay modes
- Nuclear Physics:
        N1 - Cold-Neutron Proposal for ELI (Extreme-Light Infrastructure exp.)
                aim = study of cold-neutron transport feasibility and parameters at ELI
        N2 - Neural Networks for Neutron Noise Spectrae in Nuclear Reactors
                aim = methods for signaling anomalous neutron noise regimes at the IBR-2M reactor
The topics are of marked current interest to the international scientific/technological community.
More in-depth details can be found: here

Personnel:
        - scientist P1: M. Raportaru ................................. (description)
        - scientist N1: C. Visan ......................................... (description)
        - scientist P2: I. Vasile ......................................... (description)
        - scientist N2: M. Dulea ....................................... (description)
        - computational physics advisor: D. Zabet .......... (description)
        - nuclear physics advisor: M. Petre .................... (description)
        - GRID/HPC cluster engineer: T. Ivanoaica ........ (description)
        - technical writer / web designer: L. Serban ........ (description)
        - physics project economist: G. Tarlea ................ (description)

Results:
        - (2016) paper published in Int. J. Theor. Phys. - impact factor 1.184: click here
        - (2014) paper published in Comp. Phys. Comm. - impact factor 3.078: click here
        - (2014) paper published in Rev. Theor. Sci. - impact factor ...: click here
        - (2014) paper published in Adv. in Energy - impact factor .... : click here
        - (2013) paper published in Advances High Energy Physics - impact factor 3.500: click here
        - (2013) paper published in Chin. Phys. Lett. - impact factor 0.811: click here
        - (2013) paper published in J. Signal and Info Processing - impact factor .... : click here
        - (2012) paper published in Advances High Energy Physics - impact factor 3.500: click here
        - (2012) talk delivered at EUNPC: click here
        - (2012) talk delivered at ICT Innovations: click here

Activity reports:
        - summary report 2011-2016: click here
        - 2016 activity report: click here
        - 2015 activity report: click here
        - 2014 activity report: click here
        - 2013 activity report: click here
        - 2012 activity report: click here