Browsing Electronic Theses and Dissertations by Department "Physics"
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(2010-05-17)Department: PhysicsThe radiosensitizing pharmaceutical iododeoxyuridine (IUdR) has been around since the 1950’s, but has never reached full efficacy due to a lack of practical activation radiation source in the suitable energy range. We have ...
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(2005-11-30)Department: PhysicsWe solve the Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov (HFB) equations for deformed, axially symmetric even-even nuclei in coordinate space on a 2D lattice utilizing the Basis-Spline expansion method. Our 2D lattice HFB code is a highly ...
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(2015-03-26)Department: PhysicsNuclear Breast Imaging (NBI) addresses the need for improved screening and diagnostic imaging to better identify disease in women with mammographically dense breast tissue. High-Purity Germanium (HPGe) cameras are an ...
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(2009-07-29)Department: PhysicsA METHOD FOR MEASURING INTRUSION INTO CEMENTITIOUS MATERIALS CONTAINING PARAMAGNETIC SUBSTANCES USING µCT WITH CONTRAST AGENT PATRICK MICHAEL MARINE Thesis under the direction of Professor Michael Stabin ,Professor David ...
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(2006-04-05)Department: PhysicsThe dissertation describes the design and application of the Nanophysiometer, a microfluidic network that is combined with a thin film microelectrode array to study force – excitation coupling in single cardiac myocytes. ...
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(2022-08-23)Department: PhysicsA search for Supersymmetry (SUSY) produced via electroweak vector boson fusion (VBF) processes using proton-proton collision data is presented. This analysis probes compressed mass spectrum SUSY scenarios in which the mass ...
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(2023-03-27)Department: PhysicsThe focus of this thesis is a search for a heavy fourth neutrino by targeting heavy neutrino production via vector boson fusion (VBF) processes. This type of process includes two vector bosons (radiated from quarks involved ...
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A search for supersymmetric top quarks in CMS 8TeV data in the b/τ + jets + met + muon final state (2016-04-05)Department: PhysicsThis dissertation examines data recorded in 2012 by the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) to search for supersymmetric top quark decay. In order to reduce the substantial backgrounds ...
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(2018-04-09)Department: PhysicsTime-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) is a widely used, formally exact approach for describing quantum many-body electron dynamics. This approach makes possible the theoretical investigation of laser-driven ...
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(2023-07-18)Department: PhysicsMagnetic resonance microscopy (MRM) is capable of probing fine structures and complex functions of living tissue. MRM suffers from decreased SNR and long scan times approaching 10s of hours to achieve sub 10 µm isotropic ...
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(2023-07-18)Department: PhysicsMagnetic resonance microscopy (MRM) is capable of probing fine structures and complex functions of living tissue. MRM suffers from decreased SNR and long scan times approaching 10s of hours to achieve sub 10 µm isotropic ...
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(2023-07-18)Department: PhysicsMagnetic resonance microscopy (MRM) is capable of probing fine structures and complex functions of living tissue. MRM suffers from decreased SNR and long scan times approaching 10s of hours to achieve sub 10 µm isotropic ...
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(2023-07-18)Department: PhysicsMagnetic resonance microscopy (MRM) is capable of probing fine structures and complex functions of living tissue. MRM suffers from decreased SNR and long scan times approaching 10s of hours to achieve sub 10 µm isotropic ...
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(2023-07-18)Department: PhysicsMagnetic resonance microscopy (MRM) is capable of probing fine structures and complex functions of living tissue. MRM suffers from decreased SNR and long scan times approaching 10s of hours to achieve sub 10 µm isotropic ...
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(2023-07-18)Department: PhysicsMagnetic resonance microscopy (MRM) is capable of probing fine structures and complex functions of living tissue. MRM suffers from decreased SNR and long scan times approaching 10s of hours to achieve sub 10 µm isotropic ...
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(2023-07-18)Department: PhysicsMagnetic resonance microscopy (MRM) is capable of probing fine structures and complex functions of living tissue. MRM suffers from decreased SNR and long scan times approaching 10s of hours to achieve sub 10 µm isotropic ...
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(2012-07-24)Department: PhysicsCoal combustion residues from coal fired power plants are advantageous for use in building and construction materials. These by-products contain trace quantities of natural radionuclides from the uranium and thorium series, ...
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(2015-07-20)Department: PhysicsIn this dissertation I present several different but related analyses of structure on both Galactic and extragalactic scales. I first investigate whether measurements of the moments of large-scale structure can yield ...
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(2008-11-07)Department: PhysicsUsing data collected by the FOCUS experiment at Fermilab, we present a new measurement of the charm semileptonic branching ratio BR(D^+ -> rho^0 mu^+ nu)/BR(D^+ -> K*0Bar mu^+ nu). From a sample of 320 +- 44 and 11372 +- ...
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(2006-07-21)Department: PhysicsSince September 11, 2001, the safety and security of the U.S. nuclear reactor complex has become a topic of controversy. Due to the safety features afforded to reactor vessels, most experts agree that the focus should be ...