Undergraduate Honors Program - Physics and Astronomy Department: Recent submissions
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(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, 2024-04-16)Were primordial black holes (PBHs) to exist, they could constitute a significant portion of dark matter in our universe which could be explored through gravitational wave emission, gravitational lensing, and electromagnetic ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, 2022-12)Strong coupling of cavity electromagnetic modes and molecules has emerged as an area of intense theoretical and experimental interest. Such systems are of particular interest due to their ability to modify the physical ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, 2021-12-06)Massive black hole binaries (MBHB) produce gravitational waves (GW) that will be detectable with pulsar timing arrays within the next few years. We determine the properties of the host galaxies of MBHB at the time they are ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, 2021-12)The possibility to control quantum systems with photons has stimulated recent interest in the study of quantum optical systems. While simple classical quantum systems admit well-known solutions, analysis of light-coupling ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, 2021-04-30)The 1998 discovery that the universe was accelerating in its expansion has yet to be explained theoretically, meriting the continual theoretical and observational study of this phenomena. In this thesis, we undergo a ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, 2019-04-18)Given an image of an epithelial cell sheet, CellFIT can infer cellular forces by segmenting the image into individual cells, constructing equilibrium equations for the points where cells meet at triple junctions, and finding ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, 2019-04-18)In this thesis, we present LieART 2.0 which contains substantial extensions to the Mathematica application LieART (Lie Algebras and Representation Theory) for computations frequently encountered in Lie algebras and ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, 2019)New massive spin-2 particles are predicted in theoretical extensions to the Standard Model (SM) attempting to solve the hierarchy problem. Such theories postulate that gravity is diluted compared to the other fundamental ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, 2016-05-18)Using data from the Kilodegree Extremely Little Telescope (KELT) project, we performed a survey of 2028 known M Dwarf stars in the KELT footprint for M-M Dwarf eclipsing binaries (EBs). After searching 2028 Mdwarf ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, 2016-05-02)A Fano resonance is an asymmetric, resonant scattering phenomenon which occurs in a multitude of fields, such as atomic physics, nuclear physics, nonlinear optics, and nanophotonics. The Fano resonance is a many-particle ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, 2016-05-02)The energy of the Ps2- (three electrons and two positrons or vice versa) system and all possible fragmentations are calculated in a magnetic field in their M=0 states using the stochastic variational method with a deformed ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Department of Physics and Astronomy, 2014-04)Creating high-brightness electron beams, which have many practical applications, is done with cathodes in regions with large electric field by field emission. The brightness is high when the current is high and the ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Department of Physics and Astronomy, 2014-04)In this thesis the decays of positive D-mesons into neutral anti-K-mesons and three charged pions and of negative D-mesons into neutral K-mesons and three charged pions are reconstructed in both long and short neutral ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Department of Physics and Astronomy, 2014-04)We examine models of quintessence in which a minimally-coupled scalar field phi evolves near a local extremum of its potential V ( phi) at phi_*. Assuming that (1/V )(dV/dphi) is small and w ~ -1, we Taylor expand the ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Department of Physics and Astronomy, 2011-04-11)The purpose of this research project was to test and characterize a new method for gold nanoparticle production. The main idea was based on the preliminary observations made in earlier work, which had suggested that small ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Deptartment of Physics and Astronomy, 2013-04-22)Chemical Exchange Saturation Transfer (CEST) is often overlooked as a method for the investigation of metabolites in vivo due to the time required to obtain a full spectrum. We investigated the feasibility and optimization ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Department of Physics and Astronomy, 2013-04-22)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 ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Department of Physics and Astronomy, 2013-04-22)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 ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Department of Physics and Astronomy, 2013-04-22)We demonstrate the acceleration obtained from using GPU/CPU hybrid clusters and supercomputers for N-body simulations of gravity based in part on the author's new code development. Validation tests are shown for ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Department of Physics and Astronomy, 2013-04-22)Time Dependent Density Functional Theory is used to probe the structure of matter. Coulomb explosion of small hydrocarbons driven by strong laser pulses and electron holography of molecules are studied in a theoretical ...