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David Heddle
David Heddle received his Ph.D. in physics in 1984 from Carnegie Mellon University under Professor Leonard Kisslinger. His dissertation was in nuclear theory;
he calculated hypernuclear decay rates and hyperon-nucleon scattering in a hybrid quark-nucleon model. He was a postdoctoral associate at the University of
Maryland and a research physicist at the Nuclear Physics Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where he switched his focus from nuclear
theory to accelerator physics under the supervision of Professor Larry Cardman. He came to JLab in 1989 through a joint appointment with Christopher Newport
University. After some work in accelerator physics at JLab, primarily in designing a Wien Filter for rotating polarized electrons, he joined the Physics Division
and Hall B. He continues to hold a joint position with Christopher Newport University.
Current Responsibilities in Hall B:
- Primary responsibilities are as the lead developer in a number of important Hall B software projects:
- ced - the CLAS12 single event display used for online monitoring and offline reconstruction support.
- snr - the algorithm used at the start of reconstruction used to find isolated, uncorrelated noise in the CLAS12 drift chambers.
- swimmer - the charged particle integration package used in reconstruction.
- magfield - the package used to process data from the engineering models of the torus and solenoid, and to provide fast retrieval and interpolation of the
resulting field maps.
- cmag - a C language version of magfield used in the GEMC, CLAS12 Geant4 simulation.
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