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Experiments at the Intersection of Inertially Confined Fusion and Astrophysics: An Investigation of an Asymmetrically Irradiated Foam Sphere
(2022)
The motivation for this thesis was to develop a laboratory astrophysics platform to investi- gate how a gas cloud of predefined optical depth would evolve when exposed to radiation from a nearby star. A scaled experiment ...
Engineering Excitonic Properties in van der Waals Solids Using Strain
(2022)
While electronics sits at the forefront of logic processing and data communication in microprocessors, the ever-increasing trend of on-chip power density has rendered the sustainability of device scaling questionable. This ...
Measurement of Charged Hadron Distributions in Beauty and Charm Quark Tagged Jets at the Large Hadron Collider beauty Experiment
(2022)
Hadronization, the process by which a color-charged quark or gluon becomes bound within a color-neutral hadron, remains a fundamental yet poorly understood process in quantum chromodynamics. Current theoretical descriptions ...
Vlasov Simulation with FARSIGHT and Unlimited Photon Acceleration
(2022)
This dissertation presents two bodies of work on the theoretical and numerical study of plasma waves via kinetic models, resolving the fine-scale structures that arise in phase space, and the implications for plasma-based ...
Upgrades of the ATLAS Muon Spectrometer Front-end Electronics for the High-Luminosity LHC
(2022)
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator. The High-Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC) is an upgraded version of the LHC that will further increase the instantaneous luminosity by ...
Symmetry and Reformulation: On Intellectual Progress in Science and Mathematics
(2022)
Science and mathematics continually change in their tools, methods, and concepts. Many of these changes are not just modifications but progress---steps to be admired. But what constitutes progress? This dissertation addresses ...
Purely Organic Triplet Emitters: From Fundamental Molecular Design to Performance Amplification in Modern Applications
(2022)
Emissive materials are the essential functional components in many modern and emerging technologies such as organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs), solid-state lighting, sensors, and data encryption. Metal-free purely organic ...
Self-Assembly and Real-Space Modeling in Binary Hard-Particle and Quasicrystalline Systems
(2022)
In this thesis, I will show a fundamentally new way to understand and construct quasicrystal tilings based on a new formulation of the quasi-unit cell called layering. There are many methods for generating quasitilings ...
Physics at Short Baseline Neutrino Experiments
(2022)
Short baseline neutrino experiments feature neutrino detectors which are relatively close to a high intensity neutrino source. As a result of this proximity, these experiments offer a rich program of physics measurements. ...
The Angular Momentum of Fission Fragments and its Effects on Neutron-Gamma Emission
(2022)
The emission of neutrons and gamma rays accompanying nuclear fission is a process that has been intensely studied since the discovery of fission. Surprisingly, some of the aspects of n-gamma emission are still largely ...