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- 2Anagaw, Amsalu Y.
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Fall 2022
The research reported in this thesis is multidisciplinary in nature. It presents the use of kinetic simulations, state of the art data analysis, and machine learning techniques to infer plasma parameters and satellite parameter from Langmuir probe measurement. Physical parameters such as plasma...
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Spring 2023
Centennial, millennial and multi-millennial scale climate cycles have been observed in paleoclimate proxies distributed globally. Examples of these cyclical climate cycles include oscillations with periods of ~2.3, ~1.5, ~1, and ≤0.5 thousand years (kyr) in the Quaternary. In the Neogene, longer...
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Fall 2023
We examine the long-term evolution of accretion tori around the remnants of compact object mergers and the explosions of highly magnetized massive stars to better understand their roles in the creation of optical transients and the synthesis of r-process elements. We begin by modifying the...
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On Advances in LAS Instrumentation and Fiducial Volume Simulations of the S140 Detector for the NEWS-G Dark Matter Search Experiment
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NEWS-G is a direct detection dark matter experiment specializing in gas-ionization detectors called Spherical Proportional Counters (SPCs) to search for low-mass par- ticle dark matter. Principal measurement campaigns undergone by NEWS-G, pre- viously at the Laboratoire Souterrain de Modane (LSM)...
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A Search for Dark Matter Interactions in the DEAP 3600 Detector Using Fiducial Masses Ranging from 1433 to 2966 kg
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The DEAP-3600 detector is a single-phase direct-detection Dark Matter (DM) experiment located 2 km underground at SNOLAB in Sudbury, Canada. The detector consists of 3279 kg of liquid Argon contained in a spherical acrylic vessel. DEAP-3600 was specifically designed to search for direct detection...
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Geothermal exploration and tectonic studies in southwestern Canada using the magnetotelluric method
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Subduction zones are an important class of plate boundaries and are the location of several important geological processes. Significant mineral and geothermal energy resources are also formed by plate convergence. The magnetotelluric (MT) method is a useful tool to study subduction zones,...
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Fall 2023
In the era of all-sky surveys, wide-area radio surveys like the Very Large Array Sky Survey (VLASS) place strong emphasis on the identification and classification of candidate transient events. To aid the transient searches, automatically generated VLASS Quick-Look (QL) images are designed and...
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Fall 2023
This thesis examines 2D Particle-in-Cell (PIC) simulations of a beat-wave interacting with a Near-Critical Density (NCD) plasma to generate an electron beam suitable for radiotherapy. The beat-wave is generated from the co-propagation of an 800nm laser, the primary laser, and a 400nm laser, the...
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A Study of the Detection of Long-Lived Charged Particles With an Auxiliary Detector Above the ATLAS Muon Spectrometer (ADAM)
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The Auxiliary Detector above the ATLAS Muon spectrometer (ADAM) is a proposed particle detector. Its function is to detect the decay products of beyond the standard model (BSM) particles produced in the 14 TeV proton-proton collisions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) which evade detection by...
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Spring 2023
The decay rate of exotic atoms is of great importance due to their short lifetimes, which presents a challenge when attempting to probe them. The study of pionic atoms can open up a new area of physics, and experiments such as the PiHe collaboration have found a new method of laser spectroscopy...