Facilities

Liverpool HEP department has excellent facilities available to support the research of the group.

The Liverpool Semiconductor Detector Centre (LSDC) and the Detector Fabrication Facility are state-of-the-art facilities which enable us to contribute to all aspects of the construction and testing of detector systems for use in particle physics experiments around the world. It also enables the group to actively engage in R&D for new detector technologies for future experiments. 

The research group has excellent computing infrastructure in place to support its work. Our primary computing requirements are served by a distributed system of desktop PCs and laptops running, supported by central computing clusters, a GPU cluster, extensive disk storage and fast networking.

Particle Physics also manage a Tier-2 compute cluster with over 1000 cores and 800TB of high performance RAID storage, available for use by Physicists and Life Scientists via the Grid. Local high performance computing is extended by a Tier-3 cluster for both interactive analysis and batch processing with dedicated 64-bit nodes and NVidia Tesla and Intel Xeon Phi GPGPU/Accelerators.