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Confined Catalytic Janus Swimmers in a Crowded Channel: Geometry‐Driven Rectification Transients and Directional Locking
(Wiley Periodicals, Inc.CRC Press, 2016-11)
Kinetic Modeling of Magnetic Field Dynamics and Thermal Energy Transport in Inertial Fusion Energy Plasmas.
(2016)
In indirect-drive inertial-fusion experiments, a hohlraum converts laser energy into X-rays that heat an ablator material on a fuel capsule. The expansion of the ablator leads to implosion of the fuel capsule and fusion ...
A Cross Section of Amplitudes.
(2016)
Scattering amplitudes provide a handle for testing and constraining quantum field theories. In this thesis, I explore two directions within the topic: 1) using amplitudes to probe how the number of degrees of freedom evolves ...
Looking Wider and Further: The Evolution of Galaxies Inside Galaxy Clusters.
(2016)
Galaxy clusters are rare objects in the universe, but on-going wide field optical surveys are identifying many thousands of them to redshift 1.0 and beyond. Using early data from the Dark Energy Survey (DES) and publicly ...
High-Temperature Asymptotics of the 4d Superconformal Index.
(2016)
This dissertation contains a study of certain four-dimensional superconformal field theories (4d SCFTs). Any 4d SCFT has a spectrum of local operators. Some of these operators sit in short representations of the 4d N=1 ...
Natural Units Conversions and Fundamental Constants
(2016-02-02)
Conversions are listed between basis units of natural units system where hbar = c = 1. Important fundamental constants are given in various equivalent natural units based on GeV, seconds, and meters.
Ultra-Low Frequency Standing Alfven Waves: Global Magnetospheric Modeling of Resonant Wave-Wave Interactions.
(2016)
Alfven waves are an important energy transport modality in the collisionless plasmas that dominate Earth's magnetosphere. While wave-particle interactions are well understood, the mechanisms that govern wave-wave interactions ...
Optical Spectroscopy and Magnetic Field Profile Measurements on the Self Magnetic Pinch Diode.
(2016)
The Self-Magnetic Pinch (SMP) diode has been tested at Sandia National Laboratories on the RITS-6 accelerator for use as a flash x-ray radiography source. The diode consists of a hollow cathode that emits electrons through ...
Dipolar Modulation of Large-Scale Structure.
(2016)
For the last two decades, we have seen a drastic development of modern cosmology based on various observations such as the cosmic microwave background (CMB), type Ia supernovae, and baryonic acoustic oscillations (BAO). ...