Browsing Electronic Theses and Dissertations by Department "Physics"
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(2019-09-25)Department: PhysicsRelativistic heavy-ion collisions with a center-of-mass energy per nucleon pair of 200 GeV were performed at Brookhaven National Laboratory between small ions (proton, deuteron, Helium-3) and gold ions with the purpose of ...
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(2017-02-03)Department: PhysicsClinical imaging and biopsies are major tools for cancer diagnosis. We explore whether serial imaging coupled with a mathematical model could test and refine patient specific forecasts for therapy outcomes. We first ...
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(2003-04-14)Department: PhysicsThe description of the properties of nuclei far from stability presents a big challenge in Nuclear Physics theory. It demands the development of sophisticated algorithms suitable for describing the complex many-body ...
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(2005-04-06)Department: PhysicsDevelopment of a scanning superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID) microscope system with interchangeable sensor configurations for imaging magnetic fields of room-temperature (RT) samples with sub-millimeter ...
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(2008-07-26)Department: PhysicsIn this dissertation, we explore the magnetic fields associated with action potential propagation in the spiral fiber structure of a rabbit’s cardiac apex. We use optical imaging, SQUID microscopy, monodomain and bidomain ...
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(2016-07-24)Department: PhysicsA new ground-based detector, the Fermilab Holometer, has extended the accessible gravitational wave frequency range from kHz up to MHz. At these higher frequencies, exotic sources that were produced shortly after the Big ...
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(2018-06-22)Department: PhysicsNanomaterial research is developed from material science to broad nanotechnology, which leverages advances in material metrology and synthesis in support of microfabrication research. Particularly, carbon nanotubes (CNTs), ...
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(2009-01-02)Department: PhysicsA new quantitative and numerically efficient model of the most recent, more finely binned in energy, Super Kamiokande experiment is developed. By reproducing an analysis of this data performed by the experimentalist, ...
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(2019-10-17)Department: PhysicsDouble-sided strip (DSS) high-purity germanium (HPGe) detectors are potentially useful for nuclear medicine imaging, particularly in Single Photon Computed Emission Tomography (SPECT), where high energy and high spatial ...
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(2021-03-24)Department: PhysicsGene regulatory networks play a significant role in controlling cell fate decisions and other kinds of cellular decision-making (e.g. whether or not to proceed with growth or division). One big picture dream of quantitative ...
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(2015-08-03)Department: PhysicsStudies of the lambda and anti-lambda baryons in Au+Au collisions provide information on in-medium energy loss and hadronization mechanisms, which are important to understanding the quark-gluon plasma created in ...
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(2017-11-08)Department: PhysicsTwo-dimensional materials are one of the most intensively studied systems in the modern solid state physics. Among the broad variety of currently known 2D materials, monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDC) are ...
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(2017-03-28)Department: PhysicsThe focus of this dissertation is the interaction of gold (Au) plasmonic structures and the phase change material vanadium dioxide (VO2). Vanadium dioxide modifies the local surface plasmon resonance of an Au nanoparticles ...
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(2012-12-11)Department: PhysicsLiving tissues are active, non-linear viscoelastic materials that move drastically, often in concert, during embryogenesis. In many cases, the mechanics of this motion remain unknown. Using a combination of laser ...
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(2021-06-14)Department: PhysicsThe shortage of 3He has driven a worldwide search for solid-state neutron detection devices. The detector materials for these devices respond to incident radiation by either producing photons through scintillation mechanisms ...
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(2016-07-22)Department: PhysicsSynthesis and single crystal growth methods for Li-containing chalogenides, specifically LiIn1-xGaxSe2, single crystals are discussed. This study elucidates the possibility of improving neutron detection by reducing the ...
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(2010-12-07)Department: PhysicsDevelopment of Lanthanide based nanomaterials and investigation of their optical and magnetic properties are explored in this dissertation. Europium sulfide is one of the most prominent classes of magnetic lanthanide ...
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(2014-12-30)Department: PhysicsIn the era of large-scale surveys for exoplanets, it is important to be aware of the pernicious false positives that can contaminate survey samples. In this dissertation, it is shown that all radial velocity surveys for ...
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(2007-08-03)Department: PhysicsThe principles of statistical mechanics have in the past been successfully used to interpret the thermodynamic behavior of fluids from the atomic standpoint. The formulations of statistical mechanics for solids, however, ...
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(2020-03-26)Department: PhysicsNuclei are small many-body quantum systems which account for most of the currently observable mass of the universe. This abundance suggests that the study of interactions between atomic nuclei can enhance understanding of ...