Browsing Undergraduate Honors Program - Physics and Astronomy Department by Title
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(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, 2024-04-16)Were primordial black holes (PBHs) to exist, they could constitute a significant portion of dark matter in our universe which could be explored through gravitational wave emission, gravitational lensing, and electromagnetic ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, 2012-04)Cosmic microwave background (CMB) observations suggest the possibility of an extra dark radiation component, while the current evidence from big bang nucleosynthesis (BBN) is more ambiguous. Dark radiation from a decaying ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, 2009-04-20)The Compact Muon Solenoid Experiment (CMS) at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN has brilliant prospects for uncovering new information about the physical structure of our universe. Soon physicists around the world ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, 2022-12)Strong coupling of cavity electromagnetic modes and molecules has emerged as an area of intense theoretical and experimental interest. Such systems are of particular interest due to their ability to modify the physical ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, 2011-04)The Pauli Exclusion Principle places a fundamental limit on the brightness of an electron beam. Developing a cathode which can reach this limit is useful for achieving maximum operation in current applications of ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Department of Physics and Astronomy, 2014-04)Creating high-brightness electron beams, which have many practical applications, is done with cathodes in regions with large electric field by field emission. The brightness is high when the current is high and the ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, 2011-04)The study of living specimens is essential to the understanding of organismal behavior. Unfortunately, a major difficulty in the study of live organisms is that many move in and out of the field of view or focal plane ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, 2021-12-06)Massive black hole binaries (MBHB) produce gravitational waves (GW) that will be detectable with pulsar timing arrays within the next few years. We determine the properties of the host galaxies of MBHB at the time they are ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, 2008)During the course of my Honors Research Project, I worked with Dr. David James to determine whether a group of target stars are members of the Local Association. I did this by reducing spectroscopic data, taken by Dr. ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, 2011-04)Finite element modeling was performed using COMSOL Multiphysics to study the thermal dynamics of gold::vanadium dioxide (VO$_{2}$) nanocomposites. These simulations were done to understand the data from transient ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Department of Physics and Astronomy, 2014-04)In this thesis the decays of positive D-mesons into neutral anti-K-mesons and three charged pions and of negative D-mesons into neutral K-mesons and three charged pions are reconstructed in both long and short neutral ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Department of Physics and Astronomy, 2013-04-22)Electron microscopy has been the recent subject of molecular imaging due to the strength of the electrons' interaction with the target molecule making for a detailed pattern at a small scale.[1] To achieve the best 4D ...
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Influence of patient size on dose to female breast tissue during routine computed tomography scans (Vanderbilt University. Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, 2008-04-21)Monte Carlo methods are well suited to the evaluation of radiation transport phenomena. The scalable phantoms employed in this project permitted rapid creation of three models of similar geometry, but different body habitus. ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, 2010-04)Enclosed microfluidic devices provide excellent systems for the study of biological processes such as cell-cell, paracrine, and autocrine signaling systems. By minimizing the fluid volume within the chambers, ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, 2019-04-18)In this thesis, we present LieART 2.0 which contains substantial extensions to the Mathematica application LieART (Lie Algebras and Representation Theory) for computations frequently encountered in Lie algebras and ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, 2009-04-20)A retarding mesh analyzer was used to measure the electron energy spectrum field emitted from a single tip of a Diamond Field Emitter Array. The emission was dominated by adsorbed gas atoms and molecules on the surface ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, 2011-04)Due to the complex nature of the spectra of low-mass M type stars, it is difficult to determine their metallicities and temperatures directly. By studying eclipsing binary pairs comprising one F, G, or K type star with ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, 2009-04-20)Precise control of fluid delivery in analytical devices may be achieved by harnessing electroosmotic flow (EOF) in oxidized poly(dimethylsiloxane) microfluidic channels fabricated via soft lithography. However, the ...