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Dissertations from 2024

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Next-Generation Alpha Irradiation Platform: Design, Development, and Applications in Radiobiological Research, Harsh Arya

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Investigating the Role of Bias and Sample Incompleteness in Gamma-ray Burst Studies, Christopher M. Bryant

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Novel Time Projection Chamber Techniques with Applications Towards Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay Searches, Nicholas K. Byrnes

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TAU LEPTONS IN THE SEARCH FOR CHARGED HIGGS BOSONS, Juan Carlos Cardenas Jr

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Boosted Dark Matter Search with the ICARUS Detector at the Gran Sasso Underground National Laboratory, Hector Carranza Jr

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Higher-Derivative Quantum Field Theory and Its Implications for Hawking Radiation and Nonlocality, Gordon Kanan

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DEEP LEARNING APPLICATIONS ON IONOSPHERIC STUDIES, Yang Pan

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Student Performance in Modern Physics in an Active, Partially-Flipped Classroom, Scott Yarbrough

Dissertations from 2023

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MEASUREMENT, MODELING, AND ANALYSIS OF THE ENERGY SPECTRA OF ELECTRONS AND ANNIHILATION GAMMAS RESULTING FROM LOW ENERGY POSITRON IRRADIATION OF CLEAN AND ADSORBATE COVERED SURFACES, Sima Lotfimarangloo

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A Multi-Channel Search for Signatures of eV2-Scale Sterile Neutrinos in IceCube, Benjamin Randolph Smithers

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CORE-COLLAPSE SUPERNOVAE AND THEIR REMNANTS: CHANDRA STUDY OF SN 1987A AND A MULTI-WAVELENGTH FOLLOW-UP OF SN 2021KRF, Aravind Pazhayath Ravi

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PURSUIT OF ULTIMATE TOMOGRAPHIC IMAGE QUALITY: FROM CLASSICAL METHODS TO DEEP LEARNING, Shiwei Zhou

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Self-Consistent Effects of the Recirculating Plasmapshere on the Development of Storm Time Dynamics in the Inner Magnetosphere., Christian-Andrew Bagby-wright

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Boundaries and Currents of the Dayside Magnetosphere: MHD Simulations and Observations, Pauline Marie Dredger

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MODEL AND OBSERVATION COMPARISONS OF IONOSPHERIC CURRENT SYSTEMS, Tre'Shunda James

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INVESTIGATION OF OPTICAL AND ELECTRICAL PROPERTIES OF NOBLE METAL AND SUPERCONDUCTING THIN FILMS AND DESIGN AND FABRICATION OF METAMATERIAL SOLAR ABSORBERS, Vivek Khichar

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Exploring Numerical Simulations of Localized Geomagnetic Disturbances, Elizabeth Vandegriff

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Novel Roles of Standard and Non-standard Null Lagrangians in Classical and Quantum Physics, Lesley Catherine Vestal

Dissertations from 2022

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Strong Constraints on New Physics from the IceCube South Pole Neutrino Observatory, Grant Kendrick Parker

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CHARGE TRANSFER AND BUILT-IN FIELDS AT A SEMICONDUCTOR-CRYSTALLINE OXIDE INTERFACE: EFFECTS OF THE INTERFACE DIPOLE AND SURFACE TERMINATION, Matthew Dennis Chrysler

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CHANDRA EJECTA KINEMATICS STUDIES AND AN ISO SPECTROSCOPIC SURVEY OF SUPERNOVA REMNANTS, Matthew James Millard

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CHIRALITY IN QUANTUM FIELD THEORY AND ITS ROLE IN THE STANDARD MODEL AND BEYOND, Timothy Blake Watson

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A Cross Section Measurement of Muon Neutrino-Induced Charged-Current Coherent Positive Pion Production on Argon with the MicroBooNE Detector, Zachary Glenn Randell Williams

Dissertations from 2021

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Electronic and Magnetic Properties of Metal Doped Silicon-Carbide Fullerene-type Nanostructures, Hussain Jabreel Alathlawi

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INVESTIGATION AND DISCOVERY OF NOVEL TRANSITION METAL CYSTEAMINE SYSTEMS WITH HALOGENS FROM THE FIRST PRINCIPLES CALCULATIONS, Noura Dawas Alkhaldi

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Energy Dissipation during Geomagnetic Storms, Fatemeh Bagheri

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GPU-based Monte Carlo Applications in Radiation Medicine, Youfang Lai

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THE ARECIBO OBSERVATORY AS AN INSTRUMENT FOR INVESTIGATING ORBITAL DEBRIS, James Isaiah Murray

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Electroluminescent Signals and CosmogenicBackgrounds in High Pressure Xenon Gas TimeProjection Detectors, Leslie Rogers

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Orbital Evolution Studies and Radio Searches of Extra-Solar Moons, Marialis Rosario-Franco

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LOCALIZED BANDS AND THEIR EFFECTS IN THE STRONGLY CORRELATED d AND f ELECTRON SYSTEMS: A FIRST PRINCIPLES STUDY, Hori Pada Sarker

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DESIGNING REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES PRODUCING MATERIALS FOR CANCER AND WASTEWATER TREATMENTS, Nil Kanatha Pandey

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THE COMMISSIONING OF THE LOW FREQUENCY ALL SKY MONITOR, THE FIRST DISTRIBUTED PHASED ARRAY TELESCOPE SPECIFICALLY DESIGNED TO SEARCH FOR RADIO TRANSIENTS AT LONG WAVELENGTHS, Louis Percy Dartez

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ANALYSIS OF WAVEFORM DISTORTIONS PRODUCED BY INTERFEROMETER RESPONSE FUNCTIONS FOR FUTURE SEARCHES OF GRAVITATIONAL-WAVE SIGNALS FROM CORE-COLLAPSE SUPERNOVAE, Anton Gribovskiy

Dissertations from 2020

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INVESTIGATION OF NANOSTRUCTURES FOR HIGHLY SENSITIVE SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE SENSORS, Hussein Akafzade

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ns2-md0 Post-Transition Metal Oxides for Solar Energy Applications, Edan Bainglass

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Investigation of range verification in carbon ion therapy using Monte Carlo simulation, Ananta Chalise

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INVESTIGATION OF PROTOPORPHYRIN IX AND COPPER CYSTEAMINE NANOPARTICLES TO IMPROVE CURRENT CANCER TREATMENT METHODS, Lalit Chudal

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Observation and analysis of unexplored low-energy electron emission processes revealed using a low-energy positron beam, Alexander Jarrett Fairchild

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Searching for a Pair-Produced Supersymmetric Top Partner Using Recursive Jigsaw Variables and Boosted Decision Trees with 139 fb⁻¹ of Data From the ATLAS Detector, Jared David Little

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Toward Background-Free Methods to Search For Majorana Neutrinos in Xenon Gas, Austin Mcdonald

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FIRST-PRINCIPLES STUDIES ON THE PIEZOELECTRICITY AND FERROELECTRICITY OF KNN RELATED MATERIALS, Yuting Peng

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MAGNETIC HARDENING IN THE TRANSITION METAL NANOPARTICLES AND NANOWIRES, Meiying Xing

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Multiscale ionospheric electrodynamics and their impacts on the ionosphere-thermosphere system, Qingyu Zhu

Dissertations from 2019

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FIRST-PRINCIPLES STUDIES OF THE LOW DIMENSIONAL TRANSITION METAL OXIDES, Jiao An

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DEVELOPMENT AND APPLICATIONS OF A MULTI-FUNCTIONAL POSITRON BEAM FOR SPECTROSCOPIES OF SURFACES AND INTERFACES, Randall Wayne Gladen

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FUNCTIONALIZING SEMICONDUCTOR-CRYSTALLINE OXIDE HETEROSTRUCTURES FOR FUTURE APPLICATION IN ENERGY HARVESTING, SENSING, AND COMPUTING TECHNOLOGIES, Zheng Hui Lim

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A FIRST PRINCIPLES BASED APPROACH TO STABILIZE Cu2S FOR EFFICIENT SOLAR ABSORBER MATERIAL, Sajib Kumar Barman

Dissertations from 2018

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THE RESPONSE OF IONOSPHERE AND THERMOSPHERE TO THE HIGH LATITUDE ENERGY DEPOSITION, Yang Lu

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A DETAILED CHANDRA X-RAY STUDY OF THE GALACTIC CORE-COLLAPSE SUPERNOVA REMNANT G292.0+1.8, Jayant Bhalerao

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SCATTER CORRECTION AND 4D RECONSTRUCTION OF CONE BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY (CBCT) WITH A MOVING BLOCKER, Cong Zhao

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A STUDY OF THE GEOSPACE RESPONSE TO DYNAMIC SOLAR WIND USING THE LYON-FEDDER-MOBARRY GLOBAL MHD SIMULATION, Richard E. F. Bonde

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FACTORS THAT INFLUENCE STUDENT PERFORMANCE IN PHYSICS, Michael Alan Greene

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PROSPECTS FOR OBSERVING DYNAMICALLY FORMED BINARY BLACK HOLES IN THE LOCAL UNIVERSE WITH GRAVITATIONAL WAVES, Dongming Jin

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A Measurement of Electron-Neutrino Cross Section at MiniBooNE, Sepideh Shahsavarani

Dissertations from 2017

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A Deep Chandra Study of Galactic Type Ia Supernova Remnant G299.2-2.9, Seth Aaron Post

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Habitability of Stellar Binary Systems, Zhaopeng Wang

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PLASMA-BASED SYNTHESIS OF NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS AND THEIR CHARACTERIZATION, Rakesh Pratapbhai Chaudhary

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THEORETICAL INVESTIGATIONS OF THE BULK AND SURFACE PROPERTIES OF PRISTINE AND DOPED PUO2, Shafaq Amdani Moten

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A CHANDRA STUDY OF SUPERNOVA REMNANTS IN THE LARGE AND SMALL MAGELLANIC CLOUDS, Andrew Corey Schenck

Dissertations from 2016

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Searches For The Exclusive Higgs and the Charged Higgs Bosons with the ATLAS Detector at the LHC, Last Feremenga

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Synthesis and Application of Porphyrinated Latex Particles for Photodynamic Therapy, Brian Quang Bui

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Searches for Supersymmetric Particles with the ATLAS Detector using Boosted Decay Tree Topologies, Daniel Bullock

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Synthesis and Characterization of Nanocomposite Scintillators for Radiation Detection, Sunil Kumar Sahi

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LOW DIMENSIONAL SEMICONDUCTING NANOSTRUCTURES: STABILITY, TRENDS AND PROMISES, Prabath Wanaguru

Dissertations from 2015

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THEORETICAL PREDICTION OF MATERIALS FOR EFFICIENT CONVERSION OF SOLAR ENERGY, Pranab Sarker

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Bimetallic-waveguide coupled sensors for tunable plasmonic devices, Kunal K. Tiwari

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Search For A Supersymmetric Partner To The Top Quark Using A Multivariate Analysis Technique., Smita Darmora

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Laser-assisted Transfection, Optogenetic Stimulation And Its Detection In Mammalian Cells, Kamal Raj Dhakal

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First Principles Study Of Ga-stabilized δ-Pu Bulk And Surfaces, Sarah Christine Hernandez

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Investigations on the impact of spatial ability and scientific reasoning of student comprehension in physics, State Assessment Test, and STEM courses, Alfonso Juan Hinojosa

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Precision Higgs Coupling Measurements In H→ww*→lνlν Final State With The Atlas Detector At The Lhc, Hee Yeun Kim

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A Density Functional Theory Guide To High Quality Modification Of Mixed Metal Oxides Used For Photocatalytic Water Splitting, Cedric Leon Mayfield

Dissertations from 2014

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Investigations Of Laser-based Repulsive Axonal Guidance And Other Novel Biophysical Applications Of Laser Microbeams, Bryan James Black

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Phenomenological Studies Of Dark Matter, Miguel Alejandro Gomez Ramirez

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Experimental Studies Of Fundamental Aspects Of Auger Emission Process In Cu(100) And Ag(100), Prasad Vivek Joglekar

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Cutoff Frequencies For Alfven Waves In The Solar Atmosphere, B L Harsha Kalpanie Perera

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Investigating The Global Geospace Response To A Period Of Solar Wind High Speed Streams Using The Lyon-Fedder-Mobarry MHD Simulation, Kevin Pham

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Biological Damage Of UV Radiation In Environments Of F-type Stars, Satoko Sato

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Orbital Stability Analysis And Chaotic Dynamics Of Exoplanets In Multi-stellar Systems, Suman Satyal

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Evidence Of A Positron Bound State On The Surface Of A Topological Insulator, Karthik Shastry

Dissertations from 2013

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Interaction Of The Geomagnetic Field With Northward Interplanetary Magnetic Field, Shree K. Bhattarai

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Atomic And Molecular Adsorptions Of Hydrogen And Oxygen On Silicon Nanotubes: An Ab Initio Study, Haoliang Chen

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Search For The Standard Model Higgs Boson In eτ Final States, Ian James Howley

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Optimization Of Energy Resolution In The Digital Hadron Calorimeter Using Longitudinal Weights, Jacob Russell Smith

Dissertations from 2012

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Silicon Carbide At Nanoscale: Finite Single-walled To "infinite" Multi-walled Tubes, Kapil Adhikari

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Defect Studies In Cu-based P-type Transparent conducting Oxides, Fnu Ameena

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A Study Of The Viscous Interaction Between The Solar Wind And Earth's Magnetosphere Using An MHD Simulation, Robert Jeffrey Bruntz

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The Variations Of Geomagnetic Energy And Solar Irradiance And Their Impacts On Earth's Upper Atmosphere, Yanshi Huang

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Selected Studies Of Celestial Dynamics And Habitability Of Extra Solar Planetary Systems, Billy Lee Quarles

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Magnetic Thermal Hysteresis In Dy, Gd And Gd/Dy/Gd Nanolayers And Experimental Determination Of Thermodynamic Properties Of Thin Film Systems., Ajani Luister Walden Ross

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Quantum Modeling Of Dark Matter In Galactic Halos, Shane Charles Spivey

Dissertations from 2011

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Investigations In The Impact Of Visual Cognition And Spatial Ability Of Student Comprehension Of Physics And Space Science, Ximena Clara Cuicatl Cid

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Fundamental Dynamical Equations For Two And Four-component Spinors In Galilean And Minkowski Space-time, Randal Huegele

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The Synthesis, Optical Properties And Biological Applications Of Mn2+, Cu2+ And Ag+ Doped Zns Nanoparticles, Lun Ma

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Measurement Of Single Diffractive Differential Cross Section (dσ/(d|t|)) At √(s ) = 1.96 TeV Using The D0 Forward Proton Detectors, Arnab Kumar Pal

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Synthesis And Characterization Of Lanthanide Based Nanomaterials For Radiation Detection And Biomedical Applications, Mingzhen Yao

Dissertations from 2010

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Selected Studies Of Orbital Stability And Habitability In Star-planet Systems, William Jason Eberle

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Search For Standard Model Higgs In Two Photon Final State At Atlas, Hyeon Jin Kim

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The Role Of The Y-component Of The Interplanetary Magnetic Field In Transpolar Saturation And Ring Current Response As Found In Data And Simulation, Elizabeth Joy Mitchell