Assistant Professor at Otterbein College
Columbus, Ohio Area
- Current
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- Assistant Professor at Otterbein College
- Researcher at MINOS research collaboration
- Past
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- Postdoctoral research assistant at Tufts University
- Postdoctoral research assistant at Oxford University
- Research Assistant at University of Oxford
- Graduate research assistant at University of Guelph
- Education
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- University of Guelph
- University of Guelph
- The University of Lethbridge
- Trent University
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Nathaniel Tagg’s Summary
Scientific research in experimental nuclear and particle physics.
My specialization is neutrino oscillations. I have worked on several important experiments, including:
- The Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO), which discovered that neutrinos change flavour,
- MINOS, which has recently measured the mixing parameters of atmospheric neutrino oscillation to high precision,
- Daya Bay, a proposed experiment for measuring new oscillation modes
- MINERvA, an experiment for measuring neutrino-nuclear cross sections.
My contributions to these experiments include:
- Data analysis and parameter extraction, including blind analysis
- Working group leadership
- Authorship of Monte-Carlo, reconstruction and support software
- Detector calibration
- Hardware support, including instrumentation, electronics, and DAQ software
Nathaniel Tagg’s Specialties:
Experimental physics, elementary particle physics, astroparticle physics, Monte Carlo simulation software, particle detectors, detector calibration, C++ software
Nathaniel Tagg’s Experience
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Assistant Professor
Otterbein College
(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)
July 2008 — Present (1 year 1 month)
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Researcher
MINOS research collaboration
(Higher Education industry)
2001 — Present (8 years)
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Postdoctoral research assistant
Tufts University
(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)
October 2005 — June 2008 (2 years 9 months)
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Postdoctoral research assistant
Oxford University
(Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Research industry)
February 2001 — July 2005 (4 years 6 months)
Research on the MINOS long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment.
- Performed ``Time-of-flight'' analysis for neutrinos traveling from the Near to Far MINOS detector sites.
- Appointed ``Calibration Group Coordinator'',
- Authored detector simulation code.
- Implemented MINOS's data blinding scheme
- Authored various pieces of offline software
- Helped to commission detector hardware at all three MINOS
detector sites, including early test beam deployment.
- Responsible for intra- and inter-detector timing systems.
- Responsible for testing photo-multiplier tubes. -
Research Assistant
University of Oxford
(Research industry)
2001 — 2005 (4 years)
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Graduate research assistant
University of Guelph
(Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Research industry)
September 1994 — February 2001 (6 years 6 months)
Experimental nuclear and particle physics, primarily working on the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory.
Invented, designed, and commissioned the $^8$Li calibration source. This important source was deployed in SNO to test the detector response for energy and pattern recognition.
Pioneered analysis of through-going muons in SNO. Designed reconstruction algorithms and applied them to perform the first analysis of cosmic-ray muons and atmospheric neutrinos in SNO.
Nathaniel Tagg’s Education
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University of Guelph
Ph. D. , Physics , 1996 — 2001
Thesis: "``The 8-Li Calibration Source and Through-Going Muons in the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory''
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University of Guelph
M.Sc. , Physics , 1993 — 1996
Thesis: "The Characterization of the Response of a Silicon Surface Barrier Detector to Electrons''
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The University of Lethbridge
B.Sc. , Physics , 1991 — 1993
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Trent University
-none- , Physics , 1989 — 1991
- Activities and Societies:
- Debate team, Trent radio
Additional Information
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Nathaniel Tagg’s Groups:
Canadian Association of Physicists (CAP)
American Physical Association (APS)
Nathaniel Tagg’s Contact Settings
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