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Search for New Particles Decaying to Hadronic Jets in Proton-Proton Collision at s = 13 TeV
(2018)
This thesis presents a search for new resonances decaying to pairs of jets in 37 fb−1 of proton-proton collision data produced by the Large Hadron Collider at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV. The data was collected in ...
Effective Field Theory Approaches to Particle Physics Beyond the Standard Model
(2018)
This dissertation covers applications of effective field theory (EFT) ideas and techniques to the study of particle physics beyond the Standard Model (SM). The recent discovery of the Higgs boson without other new physics ...
Efficient Output-Based Adaptation Mechanics for High-Order Computational Fluid Dynamics Methods
(2018)
As numerical simulations are applied to more complex and large-scale problems, solution verification becomes increasingly important in ensuring accuracy of the computed results. In addition, although improvements in ...
Applications of Locality and Asymmetry to Quantum Fault-Tolerance
(2018)
Quantum computing sounds like something out of a science-fiction novel. If we can exert control over unimaginably small systems, then we can harness their quantum mechanical behavior as a computational resource. This ...
Towards Precision Cosmology on the Largest Observable Scales
(2018)
One of the primary goals of cosmology is to extract information about fundamental physics from observations of the universe on large scales. With the advent of increasingly large cosmological datasets (and correspondingly ...
The Role of Topology and Topological Changes in the Mechanical Properties of Epithelia
(2018)
Epithelia, quasi-two-dimensional sheets of cells, are important in molding organs into their correct final shape and size during animal development. Epithelia are active materials that are capable of both generating and ...
Intracellular Cargo Transport by Single-Headed Kinesin Motors
(2018)
Kinesins are cytoskeletal motor proteins that transport cargoes along microtubules in eukaryotic cells. Motors in the kinesin superfamily share a highly conserved structure containing two motor domains that dimerize through ...
Manipulating Light with Metamaterials: Synchrotron Radiation from an Accelerating Light Pulse and On-Chip Devices
(2018)
Metamaterial devices which manipulate light over length scales that are not achievable with conventional optics are investigated. First, a sub-wavelength-slotted waveguide, which exhibits extraordinary transmission at a ...
Techniques for Spectroscopy with Frequency Combs
(2018)
This dissertation contains several novel works pertaining to the use of frequency combs for spectroscopy.
First, the optimum comb repetition rates (f_Sig and f_LO) for dual-comb spectroscopy were determined using a Monte ...
Inverse Material Design in Colloidal Self-Assembly
(2018)
A holy grail in materials science research remains the solution of the inverse design of desired crystal structures, which seeks to identify a set of building block characteristics (shape, interactions) that
guarantee the ...