Robert J. McTaggart

Personal Information

Education

• May 1999 Ph. D. in Physics, Pennsylvania State University (defended 1 Dec 1997)
• May 1991 B.S. in Physics with honors, West Virginia University
• May 1991 B.A. in Mathematics, West Virginia University
• Graduate of WVU Honors Program

Awards

• 1989 Barry Goldwater Scholar
• WVU Presidential Scholar

Positions

• Fall 1998-Spring 1999 Lecturer of Physics, West Virginia University
• February 1998 - May 1998 Adjunct Assistant Professor of Physics, Shippensburg University
• 1997 Teaching Assistant, Penn State University
• 1994-1996 Research Assistant, Penn State University (at Fermilab)
• 1991-1993 Teaching Assistant, Penn State University

Qualifications

• Programming Languages
1. FORTRAN
2. C, some C++
3. Tcl/Tk
4. PAW (Physics Analysis Workstation)

 
• Operating Systems
1. MacOS 8.5.1
2. UNIX (SGI's)
3. VAX/VMS

 
• Hardware Experience
1. LeCroy 1440 High Voltage System.
2. Calibrating Forward Calorimeter of E835 with Cosmic Ray Paddles
3. Cabling of Data Acquisition System for E835 at Fermilab.
4. Wiring of Straw Chambers.
5. FERA's, CAMAC.

 
• Software Experience
1. Wrote programs for operation and monitoring of LeCroy 1440 High Voltage System for Experiment E835 at Fermilab.
2. Wrote pedestal-taking program for E835.
3. Developed GUI interface for dynamically changing database parameters during data-taking conditions.

 
• Research Experience
1. Angular distributions for the exclusive decays of the charmonium resonances J/Y and Y' into e⁺e^- pairs for Fermilab Experiment 835.
2. Likelihood analysis of p-h-h Dalitz plots to search for light-quark resonances using data from Fermilab Experiment E760.

References