Curriculum Vitae for John S. Haggerty

Background

Education

• B.S. summa cum laude, Manhattan College, 1976.
• A.M., Harvard University, 1977.
• Ph.D., Harvard University, 1981.

Honors and Awards

• National Merit Finalist, 1973.
• National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship, 1976-1979.

Experience

• Research assistant, Harvard University, 1977-1981. Thesis research under Professor Francis M. Pipkin on the CLEO detector at the Cornell Electron Storage Ring building the time of flight counters and associated electronics used in my thesis, "Inclusive Kaon Production at the Upsilon Resonances."
• Research Associate, FERMILAB, 1981-1983. I worked on E-400, a charm hadroproduction experiment. I built an ADC system and worked on the preliminary data analysis.
• Research Associate, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, 1983-1986. I worked on the MARK II experiment at SLAC. I was the physicist responsible for the endcap calorimeter electronics and data acquisition for the MARK II upgrade for SLC. I analyzed data from the upgraded detector's run at PEP, measuring the Bhabha scattering cross section with the endcaps.
• Assistant Physicist, 1986-1988, Associate Physicist 1988-1990, Physicist 1992-2001, Tenured Physicist, 2001-present, Brookhaven National Laboratory. I worked on AGS Experiment 787, a search for the rare flavor changing neutral current K⁺®p⁺nn; here is the latest Physical Review Letter. I was the physicist responsible for the design, testing, construction, and maintenance of the E-787 data acquisition system's first (VAX based) and second (UNIX based) generations. I worked on the development of a system of FASTBUS 500 MHz transient digitizers, FASTBUS readout of LeCroy FERA ADC's, development of FASTBUS interfaces to Branch Bus (FBBC) and VME (BBFC). I debugged and programmed the SLAC Scanner Processor (SSP) FASTBUS controllers to read out and format data from the trigger, transient digitizers, and FERA ADC's, and took part in the development of SSP's with more memory. I implemented several trigger algorithms in the SSP's which reduced the trigger rate by a factor of ten to twenty. I wrote the software that controls the trigger and our serial CAMAC system. I wrote software for control of the LeCroy 1440 high voltage system, eventually via an Ethernet terminal server, and supervised the construction of a nice Motif gui for it. I was the first to point out in 1990 the interpretation of a measurement of K⁺®p⁺nn in the r-h plane. From 1991 to 1994 Chris Witzig and I searched for the decay K⁺®p⁺m⁺m^- and made the first observation of that decay. Here's an early conference proceeding and the final Physical Review Letter. I was briefly a member of the EMPACT and GEM collaborations at the SSC, but didn't ramp up before the SSC ramped down. In October 1996, I joined the PHENIX collaboration at RHIC, where I am now in the Online Computing Systems group. In June 1997, I was appointed Co-Deputy Project Manager for Electronic Systems, which means that I was responsible for coordinating electronic development, testing, and integration into the PHENIX online system. I developed control software for the Front End Electronic Modules using ARCNET, which resulted in a Perl/Tk gui called feed.pl. I also worked on hardware and software for the interface between the VME Data Collection Modules and PC's called Sub Event Buffers which was dubbed the JSEB. I worked on control and monitoring the high and low voltage and the remote control of the experiment with Steve Boose and Paul Giannotti; we used OPC for the low voltage and remote monitoring, quite successfully, as described here. After the construction project ended successfully with the first data taking run of PHENIX in 2000, I was appointed PHENIX Data Acquisition Coordinator.

Published papers

Conference proceedings

Unpublished papers