Browsing Undergraduate Honors Program - Physics and Astronomy Department by Title
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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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(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, 2024-04-18)As an irreversible natural process, mergers between two black holes will increase the entropy of the universe. By imposing thermodynamical constraints derived from general relativity and quasi-circular hypothesis, we ...
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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 ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, 2010-04-27)Current models of nuclear structure describe nuclear states in terms of collective vibrations and rotations of a ground state. - One such quadrupole vibrational band is the gamma-band formed by vibrations of the short ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, 2016-05-02)A Fano resonance is an asymmetric, resonant scattering phenomenon which occurs in a multitude of fields, such as atomic physics, nuclear physics, nonlinear optics, and nanophotonics. The Fano resonance is a many-particle ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, 2008-04-20)We use projected number density profiles of galaxy groups to investigate the relationship between galaxy group structure and dark matter structure within halos. We primarily study a specific model of how galaxies populate ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, 2011-04)I develop a perturbation theory for resonant frequency shifts caused by thin layer of material added to dielectric systems. This development can be used to effectively model photonic surface-sensing systems, which use ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, 2019)New massive spin-2 particles are predicted in theoretical extensions to the Standard Model (SM) attempting to solve the hierarchy problem. Such theories postulate that gravity is diluted compared to the other fundamental ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, 2008-04)While this project did not successfully produce a working photovoltaic device, significant progress has been made in the individual components of the system. This thesis describes two of those components: fabrication of ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, 2016-05-02)The energy of the Ps2- (three electrons and two positrons or vice versa) system and all possible fragmentations are calculated in a magnetic field in their M=0 states using the stochastic variational method with a deformed ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Department of Physics and Astronomy, 2014-04)We examine models of quintessence in which a minimally-coupled scalar field phi evolves near a local extremum of its potential V ( phi) at phi_*. Assuming that (1/V )(dV/dphi) is small and w ~ -1, we Taylor expand the ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, 2012-05-04)Density functional theory is utilized in real-time, real-space simulations of LEED measurements and attosecond electron scattering. For LEED measurements, we find that our simulation results agree well with experimental ...