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This dissertation examines the observability of neutralino dark matter in the context of supersymmetric models constrained constrained by the recent WMAP data on the relic density of cold dark matter. The neutralino-nucleon scattering...
Low-spin states were studied in 30Al following the β decay of 30Mg produced in the fragmentation of 140 MeV/AMU 48Ca. Analysis of the β-γ and β-γ-γ coincidences revealed a new 1+ state at 2413 keV, confirmation of the level scheme, and a...
The Standard Model (SM) describes almost all the particle physics experiments with a high accuracy. However, the SM has a lot of conceptual problems (spontaneous symmetry breaking is introduced by hand, the Higgs boson mass has to be...
SUSY is one of the most promising new physics ideas, and will soon be tested at high energy accelerators like the CERN LHC. Moreover SUSY provides a good candidate for cold dark matter (CDM). In this dissertation, we investigated...
If one could be built, a quantum computer would be capable of storing and manipulating quantum states with sufficient accuracy to carry out computations that no classical computer can do (most notably factoring integers in polynomial...
The 14C(14C, d) reaction at 22 MeV was used to study Tz=2 26Na. Charged particles were detected with a Si detector telescope at 0º, and γ transitions in coincidence were detected with an array of three Compton-suppressed "clover"...
The question of how do the properties of nuclei evolve with increasing excitation energy and angular momentum is one of the current frontiers in nuclear physics. State of the art $gamma$-ray detector systems have been used to investigate...
We present results of a search for single top quark production in pp collisions using a dataset of approximately 1 fb−1 collected with the DØ detector. This analysis considers the muon+jets and electron+jets final states and makes use of...
Supersymmetry (SUSY) is one of the most compelling theoretical extensions of the Standard Model. Many physicists believe that the discovery of SUSY may be imminent and that current and upcoming experiments will finally be able to observe...
This thesis starts with a pedagogical introduction to the study of white dwarfs and neutron stars. We will present a step-by-step study of compact stars in hydrostatic equilibrium leading to the equations of stellar structure. Through...
We describe a model of general two-to-two-body and two-to-three-body hadronic reaction based on a phenomenological Lagrangian approach that satisfies two-body unitary and is relativistic. This model is used to study πη photoproduction....
This dissertation presents the first measurement of top quark pair production cross-section in events containing a muon and a tau lepton. The measurement was done with 1 fb−1 of data collected during April 2002 through February 2006...
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