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Multiscale dissection of bacterial proteome optimization
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)
The quantitative composition of proteomes results from biophysical and biochemical selective pressures acting under system-level resource allocation constraints. The nature and strength of these evolutionary driving forces ...
Top mass determination using Effective Field Theories
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)
The top quark mass is one of the most important Standard Model parameters and its mass has been measured at sub-percent precision by the Tevatron and LHC using Monte Carlo (MC) based methods. The resulting MC top mass ...
A matched filter technique for slow radio transient detection and first demonstration with the Murchison Widefield Array
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)
Many astronomical sources produce transient phenomena at radio frequencies, but the transient sky at low frequencies (< 300 MHz) remain relatively unexplored. Blind surveys with new widefield radio instruments are filling ...
Properties of dijets in pp, pPb and PbPb collisions
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)
Two dijet measurements, one using 35 pb-¹ pPb data at [square root]sNN- 5.02 TeV, and another with 166 [mu]b-¹ PbPb and 5.3 pb-¹ pp data at [square root]sNN = 2.76 TeV collected with CMS detector at the LHC, are presented. ...
Measurement of helium isotopic composition in cosmic rays with AMS-02
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018)
The isotopic composition of helium in cosmic ray fluxes provides valuable information about cosmic ray propagation through the Galaxy, which is of particular interest to indirect dark matter searches. Helium-3, mainly a ...
Studies of two particle correlation functions and photon-tagged jet fragmentation in PbPb and pp Collisions with CMS at the LHC
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019)
This thesis studies of two particle correlations in proton-proton (pp), proton-lead (pPb), and lead-lead (PbPb) collisions, as well as jet fragmentation functions for jets paired with an isolated prompt photon in pp and ...
Bridging Hubbard model physics and quantum Hall physics in graphene moire superlattices
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019)
This thesis is focused on the strongly correlated physics of graphene moiré superlattices formed in twisted bilayer graphene (TBG), twisted double bilayer graphene (TDBG) and ABC trilayer graphene aligned with hexagon boron ...
Detectability of dynamical tidal effects and the detection of gravitational-wave transients with LIGO
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)
Dynamical tidal effects impact the orbital motion of extended bodies, imprinting themselves in several measurable ways. This thesis explores the saturation of weakly nonlinear dynamical tidal interactions within two very ...
Quantum signal processing by single-qubit dynamics
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)
Quantum computation is the most powerful realizable model of computation, and is uniquely positioned to solve specialized problems intractable to classical computers. This quantum advantage arises from directly exploiting ...
Cumulative effects in quantum algorithms and quantum process tomography
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)
This thesis comprises three results on quantum algorithms and quantum process tomography. In the first section, I create a tool that uses properties of the quantum general adversary bound to upper bound the query complexity ...