http://hdl.handle.net/1803/66 Undergraduate honors research 2013-05-13T20:34:45Z http://hdl.handle.net/1803/5206 Title: "The French Book Saith": Malory’s Adaptation of His Sources Authors: Stanley, Jennifer Description: English Department Honors Thesis. 2012-04-17T05:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/1803/5204 Title: High-energy attosecond-width electron diffraction simulations Authors: Kidd, Daniel Abstract: Electron microscopy has been the recent subject of molecular imaging due to the strength of the electrons' interaction with the target molecule making for a detailed pattern at a small scale.[1] To achieve the best 4D image of the target, one needs sufficient spatial and temporal resolution, the prior being an issue of using electrons in the keV regime as to achieve an optimally small deBroglie wavelength, and the latter being improved by the temporal width of the electron wave packet itself.[2] In order to image the motion of the electronic structure of the target molecule, this width must be within the attosecond regime. In this paper, we use the computational method of time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) to model our targets of Beryllium and the Nitrogen molecule, N2 , and an incoming electron wave packet with an energy of 1500 eV. 2013-04-22T05:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/1803/5203 Title: An anomalous measurement of delta m31 squared from neutrino oscillations at the Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment Authors: Burroughs, Hunter Abstract: In 2012, the collaboration overseeing the Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment announced results which determined the magnitude of the mixing angle \theta_{13} with unprecedented precision. However, no attempt was made in the collaboration’s publications to predict the value of the most relevant mass-squared difference to the observed oscillation, \delta m^2_{31}. This paper presents the results of an analysis which suggests that the Daya Bay data prefers a value of \delta m^2_{31} which is far greater than its presently recognized value. Specifically, it is found that Daya Bay predicts \delta m^2_{31} = 3.53_(-1.07)^(+.74) × 10^(-3) eV^2, where the cited uncertainties correspond to the 99% confidence bounds. This measurement excludes the most precise current measurement of \delta m^2_{31}, the MINOS result, at a 99% confidence level and is in turn excluded by the MINOS data at a 10 \sigma level. The possibility that sterile neutrino effects are the cause of this anomalous result is considered and used to suggest further work. 2013-04-22T05:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/1803/5196 Title: FDR and the Katyn Forest Massacre: Geopolitics, Morality, and Truth in World War II Authors: Burner, Jason Description: History Department Honors Thesis, 2013. Awarded Honors 2013-04-20T05:00:00Z