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Emergent phenomena are one of the most profound topics in modern science, addressing the ways that collectivities and complex patterns appear due to multiplicity of components and simple interactions. Ensembles of random Hamiltonians...
Understanding Type Ia Supernovae provides an opportunity to study a wide range of modern physics as well as develop a key tool in cosmology. Here, we identify and investigate new observational signatures of underlying physical processes...
It is demonstrated that inflatable structures can provide large amounts of stiffness compared to traditional structures of the same mass. A variety of inflatable structures are investigated theoretically. A pressurized lobed cylindrical...
This dissertation presents a study of rare-earth magnetism using spectroscopic techniques. The features of strong spin-orbit coupling and the presence of hyperfine coupling which lead to coupled electro-nuclear crystal field states are...
The structure and dynamics of the (001) surface of potassium tantalate (KTaO3), doped with lithium (KTL) and niobium (KTN) have been investigated using high resolution helium atom diffraction and single-phonon creation and annihilation, ...
This dissertation presents a search for large extra dimensions in the single photon plus missing transverse energy final states. We use a data sample of approximately 2.7fb⁻¹ of pp̄ collisions at√s= 1.96 TeV (recorded with the DØ...
Increasing dominance of negative parity intruder states in neutron-rich nuclei in the sd shell as N approaches 20 shows evidence of evolving shell structure. Systematically examining the structure of isotopes with increasing N while...
The Large Hadron Collider is pushing high energy physics in to a brand new territory. This extraordinary era may bring discoveries of unprecedented magnitude, delivering validation or extreme dissappointment to the physics theories of...
Determining the stellar production site of 26Al is an exciting problem that spans experimental and theoretical nuclear physics, astrophysics, and observational astronomy. This thesis details an experiment to measure the 25Al(d, n)26Si...
The study of nuclear structure at very high angular momentum requires sensitive detector systems in order to detect weak signals. Large gamma-ray arrays were used in this thesis to study the high-spin states in 166;168;170Ta and 160Yb....
The subject of this doctoral dissertation is to study the equations of state of nuclear and neutron-star matter. We tackle this problem by employing several models of the relativistic effective interactions. The relativistic effective...
An experimental examination of low-lying proton resonances in 26Si was conducted using the proton transfer reaction, d(25Al, 26Si)n. This reaction is analogous to the direct single proton capture, 25Al(p, g)26Si, of astrophysical...
In this dissertation, we present a precision measurement of the 1s2s 1S0 – 1s2p 3P1 intercombination interval in the moderate-Z helium-like ion, 28Si12+, using a fast-beam laser resonance technique. This experiment is a second-generation...
To investigate the appearance of a new magic number at neutron number 16, resonance states around the oxygen (Z=8) drip line have been investigated. The neutron unbound states were populated by a nucleon removal reaction from a...
Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), susceptibility, and magnetic torque measurements were used to investigate the field-dependent properties of the localized magnetic moment in the two chain organic conductor Per2Pt[mnt]2. At 8 K, the...
Pairing correlations and phase transitions in mesoscopic or small systems are studied through out this dissertation. We start our discussion by showing the importance of short range correlations and their role in forming bound Cooper...
This dissertation presents a systematic study of superconductivity and superconducting quantum phase transitions in ultrathin homogeneous Pb films. We have explored the superconductor to insulator quantum phase transitions (SITs) down to...
Electrical insulators provide the opportunity to study the effects of magnetic interactions in the absence of conduction electrons. Since about ten years ago, experiments on a few insulating dimerized antiferromagnets have shown a low...
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