We present results from precision X-ray spectroscopy using high-resolution ([delta lambda] = 0.01A) spectra of 3C 273 jet knots extracted from eight observations made using Chandra in conjunction with the HETGS. Using these ...

Cosmological inflation describes the phenomenon in the early universe when spacetime underwent a rapid, exponential expansion right after the Big Bang. Inflation solves the so-called "horizon problem," "flatness problem," ...

We examine the notion that supermassive black holes at the centre of galaxies, such as the Milky Way, could have been seeded in the early universe by the mechanisms of hybrid inflation. Using luminosity data, we estimate ...

Inspired by electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT), cavity induced transparency (CIT) uses a cavity rather than a laser to couple a ground state with the excited state of a three-level system. In this thesis, I ...

In this thesis, I study propagation of gravitons in the shock wave geometry in the context of the AdS/CFT correspondence, with the goal to uncover some constraint on the supergravity action in the AdS space. In studying ...

This thesis studies the decay of a pseudo-goldstino to a gravitino plus a photon in the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model. The foundational premise of this decay process is that there are two independent sectors of ...

Through this thesis, heterostructures composed of a thin layer of hexagonal boron nitride atop a monolayer of molybdenum disulfide were fabricated with the goal of measuring quantum capacitance and probing the transition ...