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Strong Shock Waves in Highly Porous Materials
(2019)
Strong shock waves traversing through porous materials occur in a broad range of applications. Foamed plastics are a popular material in many high-energy-density physics (HEDP) experiment due to the low, tunable density, ...
Laser-Driven Electron Accelerators as a Broadband Radiation Source - from Infrared to X-Rays
(2019)
This dissertation explores the acceleration of electrons and associated production of radiation through the interaction of intense laser pulses with underdense plasma. For femtosecond duration pulses, where the pulse ...
Evidence for the WWW Production in pp Collisions with the ATLAS Detector
(2019)
This thesis presents the first evidence for the production of three $W$ bosons ($W^{pm}W^{pm}W^{mp}$) using $79.8;text{fb}^{-1}$ of $pp$ collision data at a center-of-mass energy of $13;$TeV recorded by the ac{ATLAS} ...
Absolute Magnetometry with 3He: Cross Calibration with Protons in Water
(2019)
The muon magnetic moment anomaly a_mu is a measure of how the g-factor of the muon differs from the Dirac equation value of 2. Contributions to a_mu from the Standard Model (SM) arise from QED, strong, and electroweak ...
Ultrafast Hydration Dynamics Near Extended Macromolecular Interfaces
(2019)
Liquid water is arguably the most complex, but interesting chemical, enabling development and sustenance of life. The tetrahedral geometry of the water molecule allows the formation of a dense network of hydrogen bonds ...
Quantum Computation in Large Ion Crystals
(2019)
Ion trap is one of the most promising candidates for quantum computing. High-fidelity gates have been demonstrated in small ion crystals and schemes like ion shuttling have been proposed for larger systems. This thesis ...
Recent Measurement of the Flavor Asymmetry of the Light Proton Sea
(2019)
Despite the success of perturbative Quantum Chromodynamics in particle physics, it is unable to predict the underlying structure of the nucleon. The observed violation of the Gottfried Sum Rule underscores the failings of ...
Recirculating Planar Crossed-Field Amplifiers
(2019)
The Recirculating Planar Crossed-Field Amplifier (RPCFA) is an adaptation of the Recirculating Planar Magnetron (RPM) that has been the focus of research at the University of Michigan’s Plasma, Pulsed Power and Microwave ...
Biophysical Approaches to Target Protein-Protein Interactions of Epigenetic Complexes by Small-Molecule Inhibitors
(2019)
Innumerable biological systems rely on Protein-Protein Interactions (PPIs) to govern basal physiological processes. Deregulation of PPIs is implicated in various human diseases, and PPIs have thus been frequently promoted ...
All-Electron Ground-State and Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory: Fast Algorithms and Better Approximations
(2019)
Density functional theory (DFT), in its ground-state as well as time-dependent variant, have enjoyed incredible success in predicting a range of physical, chemical and materials properties. Although a formally exact theory, ...