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Cosmological Magnetohydrodynamic Simulations of Cluster Formation with Anisotropic Thermal Conduction
(IOP Publishing, 2011)
The intracluster medium (ICM) has been suggested to be buoyantly unstable in the presence of magnetic field and anisotropic thermal conduction. We perform first cosmological simulations of galaxy cluster formation that ...
Ablation Dynamics and Instabilities of Metallic Plasmas Generated Using Mega-Ampere-Scale Current Drivers.
(2011)
This dissertation represents an experimental investigation quantifying the degree of azimuthal correlation between ablating wire cores in wire array Z-pinch loads, as well as a theoretical and experimental investigation ...
Fundamental Properties of Accreting Compact Objects.
(2011)
Galactic accreting compact objects, such as stellar-mass black holes and neutron stars, can give us a unique perspective into the behavior of matter in extreme conditions. However, the exact nature of accretion onto these ...
Higher Derivative Corrections, Consistent Truncations and IIB Supergravity.
(2011)
Motivated by the anti de-Sitter/conformal Leld theory correspondence, or more generally gauge/string theory duality, we investigate various departures from the standard AdS5 x S5 construction.
We begin with a discussion ...
Investigations into the Optically Stimulated Luminescence Response of Various Materials.
(2011)
Optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) dosimetry involves the illumination of an irradiated sample of an appropriate material to produce a stimulated emission of light whose intensity is indicative of the radiation dose. ...
Hsp70 chaperone Proteins and their Interactions with Various Drugs as Studied by Nuclear Magnetic Resonance.
(2011)
Chaperone proteins and their cochaperones are perhaps one of the most intriguing systems for investigation. Ubiquitous in nature, they can be found in every organism and that perhaps is the reason that their sequence shows ...
Enhanced Light Collection from Single Trapped Ions.
(2011)
Long-range transport of quantum information across a network is most readily achieved through the use of photons as the information carriers. The nodes of such a quantum network are most naturally a quantum memory or ...
Measurement of the Production Cross-Section of Z u+u- with ATLAS at the LHC at Vs=7 TeV.
(2011)
This thesis presents measurements of the inclusive process pp->(Z->mu+mu-)+anything based on 40.2~pb^-1 of data from LHC collisions with center-of-mass energy of sqrt(s)=7 TeV as recorded by the ATLAS detector.
For events ...
Selected Topics on the Dark Side.
(2011)
Although significant progress has been made in understanding the nature and history of our universe there are still many open questions in cosmology. The nature of the dark energy (DE) and dark matter (DM) are still elusive. ...
Quantum Computing Over Long Time Scales in a Singly Charged Quantum Dot.
(2011)
In this thesis, we will study the continuous wave optical spectroscopy of self-assembled quantum dots (SAQDs), focusing on the use of these dots toward quantum computing and information processing applications. Probing the ...