Graduate Theses and Dissertations in Physics
Theses/Dissertations from 2024
Spins and Kicks: An Analysis of Dynamical Properties of Compact Binaries Using Gravitational Waves, Sumeet Kulkarni
Infrasound from Tornadoes: Theory and Experiment, Bin Liang
Listening to Black Holes Ring: High-Precision Ringdown Modelling, Lorena Magaña Zertuche
Theses/Dissertations from 2023
Action in Causal Set Theory, Santosh Bhandari
A Study of Electron Energy Response Measurement in the NOvA Test Beam Detector, Devesh Bhattarai
Tidally-Induced Nonlinear Resonances in Extreme Mass Ratio Inspirals with an Analogue Model, David Bronicki
Black Hole Entropy in the Causal Set Approach, Ayush Dhital
Cp Asymmetry Measurement in Ξ+�� → Σ+��+��− and Distributed Computing Development at Belle II, Anil Panta
Theses/Dissertations from 2022
Biopolymer Unfolding as a Process of Biased Activated Barrier Crossing, Sudeep Adhikari
Exploration of New Physics in B to Dstar muon neutrino Using a New Monte Carlo Tool, Quinn Campagna
Using Quantum Fluctuations to Regularize an Analytic Continuation Problem from Many-Body Physics, Lucretius Coleman
Investigating the Acoustic Properties of Polymer Microspheres Suspended in Gelatin, Alexander Orlin Denette
Measurement of Inclusive Upsilon(4S) to Upsilon(1S) Decays at Belle II, Justin Wade Guilliams
ON STATISTICAL MODELS FOR SIGNAL DETECTION, Adedotun Michael Lawal
Post-Newtonian dynamics of eccentric, spinning binary black holes and the associated gravitational waveforms, Sashwat Tanay
Exploring the Standard Model and Beyond using B and D meson decays, John Waite
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
SEARCH FOR CPT AND LORENTZ INVARIANCE VIOLATION IN THE MUON g-2 EXPERIMENT AT FERMILAB, Meghna Bhattacharya
A VALENCE-BOND OPERATOR ALGEBRA FOR QUANTUM SPIN MODELS AND ITS APPLICATIONS, HUU TRAN DO
ACOUSTIC BESSEL AND VORTEX BEAMS: FORCES AND REFRACTION, Xudong Fan
Influences of alumina particles on hydroxyl macrostate estimates in a high-speed, reacting flow, Jonathan Herlan
Dynamics for Discretized Gravity in the Causal Set Approach, Benjamin Pilgrim
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
Determination Of The Gyro-Electric Reflection And Transmission Coefficients In The Fused Quartz Itop Cherenkov Particle Id Detectors At The Belle Ii Experiment, Michael Jeandron
Nonstandard Interactions And B-Hadron Decays, Saeed Kamali
Resonant Ultrasound Spectroscopy Studies Of Poroelasticity In Porous Ceramics And Elasticity Of Thermoelectric Snse, Ashoka Karunarathne
Acoustic Modeling Of A Uas For Use In A Hostile Fire Detection System, Keegan Kurpakus
Nondestructive Evaluation Of Solid Cargo Inside Cylindrical Containers By Using Linear And Nonlinear Acoustic Resonance Spectroscopy, Kevin Yi-Wei Lin
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
Geographic Variations of Sound Channel Axis in the Global Ocean, Mukunda Kumar Acharya
Manifoldlike Causal Sets, Miremad Aghili
Investigation of narrow bipolar events in Mississippi thunderstorms, Sampath Asiri Bandara
Gravitational Radiation from Superradiant Instabilities of Rotating Black Holes, Shrobana Ghosh
Acoustic Radiation Force on a Fluid to Fluid Boundary by Phase Plate Focused Ultrasound, Robert Lee Lirette
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
Experimental Investigation Of Impurities And Their Effect On Acousto-Electric Properties Of Lithium Niobate, Chandrima Chatterjee
Frequency and Temperature Dependence of Shear Wave Speed with Rheological Properties in a Micellar Fluid, E. G. Sunethra K. Dayavansha
The Beam Dynamics And Beam Related Uncertainties In Fermilab Muon G-2 Experiment, Wanwei Wu
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
Final Muon Cooling For A Muon Collider, John Gabriel Acosta Castillo
A Thermal Enclosure Prototype For A Suspended Inertial Sensor, Mohammad Afrough
Effective Interactions Between Local Hopping Modulations On The Square Lattice, Huu T. Do
Low-Frequency Emission Enhancement by Resonant Acoustic Metamaterials, Maryam Landi
Compact Objects In Relativistic Theories Of Gravity, Hector Okada Da Silva
Design Of A High Luminosity 100 Tev Proton Antiproton Collider, Sandra Jimena Oliveros Tautiva
Searching For New Physics In The B-Quark’s And Higgs’ Sectors Via Kinematic And Angular Distributions, Shanmuka Shivashankara
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
Computation Of Acoustic Ressure Fields Produced In Feline Brain By High-Intensity Focused Ultrasound, Nazanin Omidi
Temperature And Pressure Effects On Elastic Properties Of Relaxor Ferroelectrics And Thermoelectrics: A Resonant Ultrasound Spectroscopy Study, Sumudu Tennakoon
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
Effect Of Accelerated Global Expansion On Bending Of Light, Mir Emad Aghili
Fscan Code Development For Advanced Ligo Detector Characterization, Cody Arceneaux
Temperature Dependence Of Shear Speed In Micellar Fluid, E.G. Sunethra Kumari Dayavansha
Biomolecular Folding Rates As Understood From Single-Reaction-Coordinate Langevin Dynamics And Kramers’ Theory, Md Adnan Kabir
Testing Lepton Nonuniversality In Tau Neutrino Scattering, Hongkai Liu
Wind Induced Ground Motion, Vahid Naderyan
Acousto-Electric Impedance Of Ferroelectric Phononic Superlattice, Ola Hassan Nusierat
Semi-Leptonic Decay Of Lambda-B In The Standard Model And With New Physics, Wanwei Wu
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
Optimization Of Wind Fence Enclosures For Infrasonic Wind Noise Reduction, Johnpaul Russell Abbott
Group Velocity Of Acoustic Waves In Plates Of Electronic Materials, Saminda Adikaram
Cosmological And Astrophysical Tests Of Modified Gravity, Caixia Gao
The Behavior Of A Macroscopic Granular Material In Vortex Flow, Asami Nishikawa
Higgs Effects in Neutrino Physics and Heavy Quark Systems, Ahmed Rashed
Probing New Physics Through Third Generation Leptons, Preet Sharma
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
Measurement Of Angular Coefficients Of Drell-Yan E(+) E(-) Pairs In Ppbar Collisions At Square Root Of Center Of Mass Energy Of 1.96 Tev., Sudeep Singh Bhatia
Interaction Of The Cyclonic Winds With The Infrasonic Signal Generated By A Large Maritime Storm, Philip Stephen Blom
Large Eddy Simulation Of Surface Pressure Fluctuations Generated By Elevated Gusts, Jericho Erin Cain
Numerical Modeling Of Lightning Initiation And Stepped Leader Propagation, Sumedhe Karunarathne
Backscatter And Attenuation Properties Of Mammalian Brain Tissues, Pushpani Vihara Wijekularatne
Gravitational Waves From Perturbed Kerr Black Holes: Two Investigations, Zhongyang Zhang
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
The Legendre Transform of the Holst Action, Caixia Gao
Standoff Laser Interferometric Photoacoustic Spectroscopy for the Detection of Explosives, Logan Marcus
Horizons, Holography And Hydrodynamics, Arif Mohd
Simulation and Phases of Macroscopic Particles in Vortex Flow, Heath Eric Rice
Multidoman Piezo-Ceramic Cantilever, David Paul Sedorook
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
High Temperature And Pressure Resonant Ultrasound Spectroscopy Study Of Metal Hydride Systems, Rasheed Adebisi
The Effect of Static Pressure on the Inertial Cavitation Threshold and Collapse Strength, Kenneth Bryan Bader
Quantification of an Ultrasound Test Apparatus and its Potential Use to Control Nuisance Species in Commercial Aquaculture Settings, Bradley T. Goodwiller
A 233Km Circumference Tunnel for E+E-, Pp{Bar}, and Mu+Mu- Colliders, George Thomas Lyons III
DQTunePipe: a Set of Python Tools for LIGO Detector Characterization, Brooke Anne Rankins
Effects of a Heated Turbulent Boundary Layer on Surface Pressure Fluctuations, David William Rich
Theses/Dissertations from 1993
A Study of the Atomic Number Dependence of Charmed D Meson Hadroproduction, Eric Matthew Aitala