Browsing Department of Physics by Title
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Jet Fragmentation at the LHC
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018)Run II at the LHC is pushing the energy and luminosity frontiers, and challenging the theory community to develop new tools both to increase the precision of our predictions and to expand their scope to match measurements ... -
Jet production at hadron colliders
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)Hadronic jets feature in many final states of interest in modern collider experiments. They form a significant Standard Model background for many proposed new physics processes and also probe QCD interactions at several ... -
Jet quenching in heavy-ion collisions at LHC with CMS detector
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)The collision of highly relativistic nuclei can produce a volume of high energy density which can be used to learn about the behavior of quantum chromodynamics (QCD) at extreme conditions, such as those of the universe at ... -
Jet quenching in the compact muon solenoid at the LHC
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005)In this thesis we perform analyses on simulated data that allow us to demonstrate the sensitivity of the CMS experiment to certain jet quenching observables. In particular, two theoretical scenarios which mimic RHIC data ... -
Jet substructure at the Large Hadron Collider
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)In this thesis, we use the CMS Open Data to study the 2-prong substructure of jets. We use CMS's particle flow reconstruction algorithm to obtain jet constituents, which we then use to perform various jet substructure ... -
K-Star rapid rotators and the detection of relatively young multiple K-Star systems
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)In this thesis, I searched through the Kepler light curves of 14,440 K-star targets for evidence of periodicities that indicate rapid stellar rotation. Many Kepler M, K, and G stars show modulations in flux due to rotating ... -
Kaon production in Au-Au collisions at 11.6 GEV/c per nucleon
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1997) -
Kaon production in relativistic heavy ion collisions at 14.6 GeV/c per nucleon
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1994) -
Kinematic scaling in quasielastic electron scattering
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1995) -
The kinetic and equilibrium cluster size distributions of finite bond aggregation processes
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1994) -
The kinetics of colloidal aggregation
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1985) -
The Kondo effect in a single-electron transistor
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1999)The Kondo effect, which occurs when a metal with magnetic impurities is cooled to low temperatures, has been a focus of research in solid-state physics for several decades. I have designed, fabricated, and measured a system ... -
The L- to H-mode transition and momentum confinement in Alcator C-Mod plasmas
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)Using a spatially-resolving x-ray spectrometer system, toroidal impurity rotation in Alcator C-Mod plasmas was measured. The propagation of the rotational velocity from the edge to the core of the plasma column was measured ... -
The lamb shift
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1956) -
Landau energy loss in liquid scintillator and the search for WIFs with the LVD experiment
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1994) -
Large amplitude driving of a persistent current qubit
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)In this thesis, the persistent current qubit in the presence of large amplitude microwave radiation is studied. Three main results are presented in this work. A new coherent quasi classical regime has been observed, where ... -
The large order behavior of perturbation theory.
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1973) -
Laser cooling and spectroscopy of magnetically trapped atoms
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1991) -
Laser induced plasma ablation of biological tissue
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1985) -
Laser spectroscopy of van der Waals molecules
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1980)
