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Harvard University

Laboratory for Particle Physics and Cosmology 

Ph.D. Theses Archive (since 1988)

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Name Ph.D. Year Thesis Title Advisor
Anthony Badea 2023 Search for massive particles producing all hadronic final states in proton-proton collisions at the LHC with the ATLAS detector John Huth
Gabriel Rabanal 2023   Melissa Franklin
Anne Fortman 2023 Searching for heavy, charged, long-lived particles via ionization energy loss and time-of-flight in the ATLAS detector using 140 fb−1of √s= 13 TeV proton-proton collision data Melissa Franklin
Brendon Bullard 2022 The first differential cross section measurements of tt¯ produced with a W boson in pp collisions Masahiro Morii
Ann Wang 2021 A search for long-lived particles with large ionization energy loss in the ATLAS silicon pixel detector using 139 fb^{−1} of sqrt{s} = 13 TeV pp collisions Melissa Franklin
Nicholas Mondrik 2020 Calibration Hardware and Methodology for Large Photometric Surveys Christopher Stubbs
Karri DiPetrillo 2019 Search for long-lived, massive particles in events with a displaced vertex and a displaced muon using s√=13 TeVs=13 TeV pppp-collisions with the ATLAS detector Melissa Franklin
Julia Gonski 2019 Probing Natural Supersymmetry With Initial State Radiation: The Search For Stops And Higgsinos At ATLAS Masahiro Morii
Jennifer Roloff 2019 Exploring the Standard Model and beyond with jets from proton-proton collisions at s√=13 TeV with the ATLAS Experiment John Huth
Stephen Kam Wah Chan 2018 Generically Orthogonal Decompositions of Collision Events and Measurement Combinations in Standard Model VH(bb̅) Searches with the ATLAS Detector John Huth
Baojia Tong 2018 Search for pair production of Higgs bosons in the four b quark final state with the ATLAS detector Melissa Franklin
Michael William Coughlin 2017 Gravitational Wave Astronomy in the LSST Era Christopher Stubbs
Gareth Kafka 2017 A Search for Sterile Neutrinos at the NOνA Far Detector Gary Feldman
Siyuan Sun 2017 Search for the Supersymmetric Partner to the Top Quark Using Recoils Against Strong Initial State Radiation Melissa Franklin
Emma Tolley 2017 Search for Evidence of Dark Matter Production in Monojet Events with the ATLAS Detector Masahiro Morii
Brian Clark 2016 A Search for New Resonant Phenomena in Dijet Final States with the ATLAS Detector at the Large Hadron Collider John Huth
Tomo Lazovich 2016 Observation of the Higgs boson in the WW* channel and search for Higgs boson pair production in the bb̄bb̄ channel with the ATLAS detector Melissa Franklin
Kevin Michael Mercurio 2015 A Search for the Higgs Boson Produced in Association with a Vector Boson Using the ATLAS Detector at the LHC John Huth
William R. Spearman 2015 Measurement of the mass and natural width of the Higgs boson in the H to ZZ to 4l decay channel with the ATLAS detector João Pedro Barreiro Guimarães da Costa
Andy Yen 2015 Search for Weak Gaugino Production in Final States with One Lepton, Two b-jets Consistent with a Higgs Boson, and Missing Transverse Momentum with the ATLAS Detector John Huth
Daniyar Nurgaliev 2014 A Study of the Radial and Azimuthal Gas Distribution in Massive Galaxy Clusters Christopher Stubbs
Laura Elizabeth Jeanty 2013 Measurement of the WZ production cross section in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV and limits on anomalous triple gauge couplings with the ATLAS detector Melissa Franklin
Giovanni Zevi Della Porta 2013 Measurement of the cross-section for W boson production in association with b-jets in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV at the LHC using the ATLAS detector Melissa Franklin
Antonio Copete 2013 BAT Slew Survey (BATSS): Slew Data Analysis for the Swift-BAT Coded Aperture Imaging Telescope Christopher Stubbs
Gautham Narayan 2013 Light Curves of Type Ia Supernovae and Preliminary Cosmological Constraints from the ESSENCE Survey Christopher Stubbs
Jonathan Ruel 2013 Optical Spectroscopy and Velocity Dispersions of SZ-selected Galaxy Clusters Christopher Stubbs
Michael Aaron Kagan 2012 Measurement of the W±Z production cross section and limits on anomalous triple gauge couplings at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV using the ATLAS detector Masahiro Morii
Corry Louise Lee-Boehm 2011 B0 Meson decays to ρ0K*0, f0K*0, and ρ-K*+, Including Higher K* Resonances Masahiro Morii
Ben Campbell Smith 2011 Measurement of the transverse momentum spectrum of W mesons produced at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV using the ATLAS detector Masahiro Morii
Verena Ingrid Martinez Outschoorn 2011 Measurement of the Charge Asymmetry of W Bosons Produced in pp Collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV using the ATLAS Detector João Pedro Barreiro Guimarães da Costa
Srivas Prasad 2011 Measurement of the Cross Section of W Bosons Produced in pp Collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV With the ATLAS Detector João Pedro Barreiro Guimarães da Costa
Fredrick William High 2010 The Dawn of Wide-Field Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Cluster Surveys: Efficient Optical Follow-Up Christopher Stubbs
Steven Cavanaugh 2010 A Measurement of Electron Neutrino Appearance in the MINOS Experiment After Four Years of Data Gary Feldman
Lashkar Kashif 2010 Measurement of the Z boson cross-section in the dimuon channel in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV John Huth
Joshua Boehm 2009 Measurement of Electron Neutrino Appearance with the MINOS Experiment Gary Feldman
Kris Chaisanguanthum 2008 An Enquiry Concerning Charmless Semileptonic Decays of Bottom Mesons Masahiro Morii
John Paul Chou 2008 tt-bar Production Cross Section Measurement using Soft Electron Tagging in pp-bar Collisions at sqrt(s) = 1.96 TeV Melissa Franklin
Andrey V. Lebedev 2007 Ratio of Pion Kaon Production in Proton Carbon Interactions Gary Feldman
Sin Man Seun 2007 Measurement of π-K Ratios from the NuMI Target Gary Feldman
Daniel Sherman 2007 Measurement of the Top Quark Pair Production Cross Section with 1.12 fb-1 of pp-bar Collisions at sqrt(s) = 1.96 TeV Melissa Franklin
Ingyin Zaw 2007 Search for the Flavor Changing Neutral Current Decay t → qZ in pp-bar Collisions at sqrt(s) = 1.96 TeV Melissa Franklin
Ayana Holloway 2006 The First Direct Limit on the t Quark Lifetime Melissa Franklin
Salvatore Rappoccio 2005 Measurement of the tt-bar Production Cross Section in pp-bar Collisions at 1.96 TeV Andrew Foland
Robyn Madrak 2003 Measurement of the Λb Lifetime in the Decay Mode Λb → J/ψ Λ Melissa Franklin
Daniel Kim 2002 Properties of Inclusive B → ψ Production George Brandenburg
Carter Hall 2002 Measurement of the Isolated Direct Photon Cross Section with Conversions in pp-bar Collisions at 1.8 TeV Melissa Franklin
Stephen Bailey 2001 A Study of B → J/ψ K(*)0 X Decays John Huth
Alexey Ershov 2001 Beauty Meson Decays to Charmonium George Brandenburg
David Daniels 2000 A Search for νμ → ντ Neutrino Oscillations in the τ → ρ Decay Channel Using the NOMAD Detector Gary Feldman
Maria Spiropulu 2000 A Blind Search for Supersymmetry in pp-bar Collisions at 1.8 TeV Using the Missing Energy plus Multijet Channel John Huth
Thomas Dignan 1998 A Search for νμ to νe Oscillations with the NOMAD Detector at the CERN SPS Gary Feldman
Andrew Gordon 1998 Measurement of the W Boson Mass With the Collider Detector at Fermilab Melissa Franklin
Fotis Ptohos 1998 Measurement of the t tbar Production Cross Section using Heavy Flavor Tags in W+ → 3 Jet Events in pbar p Collisions at 1.8 TeV Melissa Franklin
Thomas Baumann 1996 A Search for Third Generation Leptoquarks in pbar p Collisions at 1.8 TeV  
David Kestenbaum 1996 Observation of t tbar Production using a Soft Lepton b Tag in pbar p Collisions at 1.8 TeV  
Rowan Hamilton 1996 Measurement of Photon-Charm Production in pbar p Collisions at 1.8 TeV John Huth
Ashutosh Kotwal 1995 Proton and Deuteron Structure Functions in Muon Scattering at 470 GeV  
Tiehui Liu 1995 D Dbar Mixing and Doubly Cabibbo Suppressed Decays  
Michael Saulnier 1995 Measurement of Neutral B Meson Properties  
Janet Conrad 1993 A Study of the Q2 Dependence of the QCD Coupling Constant from the Transverse Momentum of Jets in Deep Inelastic Muon Scattering  
Ian Scott 1993 A Measurement of the Polarization of Tau Leptons in Z Decays with the L3 Detector at LEP  
Colin Jessop 1993 A Search for the Top Quark decaying to the Charged Higgs Boson in pbar p Collisions at 1.8 TeV  
Qingfang Wang 1991 Measurement of the Z0 Decays to Muon Pairs With the L3 Detector at LEP  
Johnny Ng 1991 Measurement of the Z Boson pT Distribution in pbar p Collisions at 1.8 TeV  
Jeffrey Wolinski 1991 Study of Lambda-like Baryons in e+e- Annihilation  
Michael Schmitt 1991 Deep Inelastic Exclusive Rho Production Using 485 GeV Muons  
William Trischuk 1990 A Measurement of the W Boson Mass in 1.8 TeV Proton-Antiproton Collisons  
Douglas Michael 1990 A Study of Transverse Momentum and Jets using Forward Hadrons and Photons in Deep Inelastic Muon Scattering at 490 GeV/c  
Dong Xiao 1990 Charmless Semileptonic Decays of the B Mesons  
Edward Kearns 1990 Z0 Production Cross Section at the Fermilab Tevatron  
Peter Hurst 1990 A Measurement of sin(θw) from the Forward-Backward Asymmetry in pbar p → Z0 → e+e− Interactions at 1.8 TeV  
Ira Joseph Kroll 1989 A Search for Long-Lived Strongly-Produced Heavy Particles in Proton-Antiproton Collisions at Center-of-Mass Energy 630 GeV  
David N. Brown 1989 A Search for Double Parton Interactions in Proton-Antiproton Collisions at 1.8 TeV  
Robert Carey 1989 Angular Distributions of Three Jet Events in Proton-Antiproton Collsions at the Fermilab Tevatron  
Alan Schwartz 1988 Measurement of the Ratio σ-BR(W → lν)/σ-BR(Z → l+l–) and Interpretation at the CERN Proton Antiproton Collider  
Richard St. Denis 1988 Dijet Angular Distributions in Proton-Antiproton Collisions at the Fermilab Tevatron