DM TSP monthly meeting

mardi 2 nov. 2021, 10:00 → 11:30 Europe/Paris

Zoom

Caterina Doglioni (Lund University)

Monthly meeting for Dark Matter Test Science Project:

• On the first Tuesday of the month, at 10-11 (up to 11:30) Rome/Stockholm (main meeting)
• On the following Monday, at 11-12 Rome/Stockholm. 

Focus of this meeting: 

• Welcoming the new LAPTh postdoc
• Updates from the other TSP postdocs 
• Discussing preliminary work plans and milestones for each partner

Zoom details: 

TOPIC: DM Science Project for EOSC-Future discussion room

WHERE: LU Zoom meeting: https://lu-se.zoom.us/j/68795908985?pwd=azBRcXhrTFpFMFpaZVVYT3dwZDVkdz09

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Meeting ID: 687 9590 8985

Password: DarkMatter

Live notes (editable during the meeting, ask for editing permission if you want to edit them outside the meeting):

https://docs.google.com/document/d/17OFPp6f7TPPBIgY8QXxiWy8TSK1uVMJoHNV9PeV2hXY/edit?usp=sharing

1 Introduction

Orateur: Caterina Doglioni (Lund University)

2 Introduction of theory/gamma ray LAPTh postdoc

Orateurs: Francesca Calore (LAPTh, CNRS), Pasquale Dario Serpico (LAPTh, Annecy-le-vieux)

LAPTh/LAPP postdoc recruited, starting 1st Nov

goal: Investigate sensitivity of current and future TeV telescopes, notably CTA, to DM signals

Short-term milestones: 

• Complete the code release for gamma-ray limits within ESCAPE catalog (C. Eckner, on-boarding talk for OSSR done)
  presented here https://indico.in2p3.fr/event/24458/
  slides at https://indico.in2p3.fr/event/24458/contributions/99834/attachments/66153/92396/20211001_MLFermiDwarfs_E-OSSR_OnBoarding_Presentation.pdf
• Interface with theorists DM tool: MicrOmegas (new release w/ dwarf code interface)
• Understand how to make common plot for WIMP and how ID limits fit in the picture

Scientific goals: 

• Enlarge the spectrum of DM models, e.g. DM signals dependent on velocity distributions in the target of interest (models with Sommerfeld enhancements, resonances…), or bound state formation 
• How to adapt the code for the significant increase in the number of Dsph expected to be discovered with LSST/Vera R. Observatory? 
• How to extend it to the CTA case?

ESCAPE services:

• software catalog
• perhaps data lake (depending on data availability)
• analysis platform

Ressources: 

• Storage capacity can amount to O(100 GB) (e.g. weekly photon files and spacecraft data). For CTA it is generally not as large since mock data must be created.

• The occupied computing resources are relatively small. One can do that on a laptop in a small amount of time. A single multi-core machine is sufficient.

• The analysis platform should have a CPU with a RAM of at least 64 GB and it should allow for multi-threading. Additional GPUs would be beneficial for some projects that one might want to plan and conduct (the available GPUs in the USMB MUST cluster are fine).

• Codes run on python notebooks so analysis platform should allow for that

3 Data lake / Software Catalogue onboarding (TBC)

4 Brief update from ATLAS/LHC postdoc

Orateurs: Caterina Doglioni (Lund University), Jared Little, Stephane JEZEQUEL (LAPP), Tetiana Hryn'ova (LAPP)

Short-term goals

• Understanding current ATLAS RECAST workflow
  • There is a prototype in place, but some updates are needed.
• Plan how to interpret within the ESCAPE infrastructure.

Science Goal

• Target DM searches, complementing the Z’ inclusive search.
  • Already begun in parallel

Other

• Trying to get a slot at IRN Terascale (Nov. 22-24) to promote our project in France: https://indico.in2p3.fr/event/20459/
• Weekly meetings scheduled at CERN (Wednesdays at 2PM):
  • Helpful for us newcomers!

5 Brief update from KM3Net postdoc

Orateur: Dr Kay Graf (ECAP - University of Erlangen)

6 Brief update from CERN postdoc

Orateurs: Elena Gazzarrini, Simone Campana (CERN), Xavier Espinal (CERN)

• EOSC-Future VRE (working group: Arturo Sanchez Pineda, Enrique Garcia, Alba Vendrell Moya and Jared Little), transitioning from ESCAPE VRE:

  • user interface through markdown static website 

  • database orchestration through Rucio

  • Data Lake interaction through DLaas

  • OSSR software integration through Zenodo

  • workflows reproducibility through Reana 

• Rucio:

  • Learning: setting up Rucio development server environment by creating Docker image and configuring databases

  • Testing basic features 

• Documentation:

  • MkDocs tutorial on setting up the Rucio Client environment (using Docker, Singularity or manually) and interacting with it through RESTful APIs and DLaaS. 

7 Updates on recruitment / plans for DARKSIDE and Gamma-ray postdocs

Orateurs: Valerio Ippolito (Harvard University), tommaso boccali (INFN)