Nathaniel Tagg

My Curriculum Vitae: html or PDF

My Weblog (Ok, so it didn't work so well as a logbook after all. --NT, Jan 2007)

Pictures of my family including Benjamin, my newborn son.

I am work in the field of particle physics, specifically on neutrino oscillations. I am currently working on the Daya Bay and MINOS experiments; I did my graduate thesis on the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory.

Publications: (Via SPIRES and Google Scholar)

Measurement of neutrino velocity with the MINOS detectors and NuMI neutrino beam.
By the MINOS Collaboration, June 2007. Phys. Rev. D76, 072005 (2007) (I'm the lead author on this one.)

Determination of the nue and total B8 solar neutrino fluxes using the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory Phase I data set.
By the SNO Collaboration, Apr 2007.

Measurement of the atmospheric muon charge ratio at TeV energies with MINOS.
By the MINOS Collaboration, May 2007.

A Precision measurement of the neutrino mixing angle theta(13) using reactor antineutrinos at Daya Bay.
By the Daya Bay Collaboration, Jan 2007.

Charge-separated atmospheric neutrino-induced muons in the MINOS far detector.
By the MINOS Collaboration, Jan 2007.

Observation of muon neutrino disappearance with the MINOS detectors and the NuMI neutrino beam.
By the MINOS Collaboration, 2006.

First MINOS results from the NuMI beam.
Nathaniel Tagg, for the MINOS Collaboration, 4th Flavor Physics and CP Violation Conference (FPCP 2006)

The MINOS calibration detector
P. Adamson, et al, 2006.

First observations of separated atmospheric nu(mu) and anti-nu(mu) events in the MINOS detector

Performance of Hamamatsu 64-anode photomultipliers for use with wavelength-shifting optical fibres
N.J. Tagg, et. al, 2005.

NOvA: Proposal to build a 30 kiloton off-axis detector to study nu(mu) ---> nu(e) oscillations in the NuMI beamline.
The NOvA Collaboration, 2004.

The MINOS data acquisition system.
A. Belias, et. al, 2004.

The MINOS Experiment
N. Tagg for the MINOS Collaboration, 2nd International Workshop on Neutrino Oscillations in Venice (NO-VE 2003),

Direct evidence for neutrino flavor transformation from neutral current interactions in the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory.
The SNO Collaboration, 2002.

Measurement of day and night neutrino energy spectra at SNO and constraints on neutrino mixing parameters.
The SNO Collaboration, 2002.

The Li-8 calibration source for the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory
N. Tagg, et. al., 2002.

The N-16 calibration source for the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory.
M.R. Dragowsky, et. al., 2001

Measurement of the rate of nu/e + d --> p + p + e- interactions produced by B-8 solar neutrinos at the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory.
By the SNO Collaboration, 2001.

The Sudbury neutrino observatory.
By the SNO Collaboration, 2000.

Time symmetry: an application to shaped pulse excitation of spin-1 systems.
S. Habot, et. al, 1998.

The Role of Transfer Functions in Evaluating Composite-Pulse or Shaped-Pulse Excitation of Spin-1 Systems
D. Siminovitch and N. Tagg, 1994

Ph.D. Thesis

My Ph.D. Thesis, Guelph University, 2001.

Technical Documents

MINOS Technical documents (public)
MINOS Technical documents (private)

Daya Bay Techinical documents (private)

Work on MINOS:

event_strips
event_intersect


Documentation on the Far Detector Timing System

MINOS Software Work

Snapshot of the TriD event display

Snapshots and movies of MINOS events made with TriD

PhotonTransport work

I'm largely responsible for the testing of the Hamamatsu M64 multi-pixel PMTs used at the MINOS near detector:

M64 PMT Test Stand Software (a bit obsolete and usless)

M64 PMT Test Stand Results

M64 Test Stand Supporting documentation (NUMI note)

M64 NIM paper: "Performance of Hamamatsu 64-anode photomultiplier tubes for use with wavelength-shifting fibre-optic readout of scintillator"
 
Quick and dirty Alner box tests


Fun Stuff

Here's a list of Stuff I like to read and watch. It's not very serious.

Here's a link to my old personal pages from grad school, which has some amusing things, but is mostly trivia.

One thing worth preserving is this old draft of a paper discussing neutrinos and Douglas Adams, who was pretty prophetic.

Contact Info

I am...
    Nathaniel James Tagg
    Postdoctoral Associate
    High Energy Physics
    Tufts University.

    Work email: tagg.atsign.minos.phy.tufts.edu
    Home email: nathaniel.tagg.atsign.gmail.com
    (Above to foil spammers: replace .atsign. with @)

Telephone:
    Work: (617) 627-4394
    Cell: (508) 314-2911
    Cell: (508) 314-2911

Other electronic contacts:

    Sype: nathanieltagg
    Gizmo: nathanieltagg
    SIP: 1-747-007-3968
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Snailmail:
    High Energy Physics
    Tufts University
    4 Colby Street
    Medford, MA, USA
    02155

Snailmail (Home):
    Apt 2, 34 Middlesex Circle
    Waltham, MA, USA
    02452