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Fall 2016
The Single Dielectric Barrier Discharge (SDBD) plasma actuator is currently considered as one among the many promising active flow-control devices. Research interest in modeling the plasma actuator is motivated by the fundamental principle of facilitating the prediction of airflow over different...
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Fall 2015
Cavity optomechanical devices are interesting systems for probing quantum mechanical behaviour of mesoscopic objects. A basic requirement for these types of experiments is preparation of the mechanical resonator in, or at least very close to, its ground state. Although active laser cooling...
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Bound State Phenomena: Positronium Molecule and Muon Decays, and the Electron Magnetic Moment
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Particle physics is the study of the fundamental constituents of matter and their interactions. The study of bound states of elementary particles such as positronium and dipositronium, whose lifetime is short, is important for understanding properties of bound leptons with precision. The...
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Open-Closed Magnetic Field Line Boundary Identification Using Directional Derivatives of SuperDARN Convection Flow
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This thesis is a case study analysis to better understand magnetospheric dynamics and in particular dynamics of the open-closed magnetic field line boundary (OCB). The directional derivatives of ionospheric convection flow speed are measured along streamlines using SuperDARN HF radar to determine...
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Spring 2019
Identification of, and discrimination against, background radiation is of the utmost importance in dark matter searches. DEAP-3600 (Dark Matter Experiment using Argon Pulse shape discrimination) is a single phase, direct dark matter detector with a 3300 kg liquid argon target housed in a...
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Fall 2019
Majorana fermions emerge in topological superconductors as end zero modes in one dimension, and vortex-trapped zero modes or chiral edge modes in two dimensions. A question of much recent interest is the effect of electron-electron interactions on such Majorana fermions. We introduce a class of...