Theses

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Laboratory for Particle Physics and Cosmology

Ph.D. Theses Archive (since 1988)

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Name	Ph.D. Date	Thesis Title	Advisor
Alan Schwartz	April 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	Dec. 1988	Dijet Angular Distributions in Proton-Antiproton Collisions at the Fermilab Tevatron
Ira Joseph Kroll	Feb. 1989	A Search for Long-Lived Strongly-Produced Heavy Particles in Proton-Antiproton Collisions at Center-of-Mass Energy 630 GeV
David N. Brown	June 1989	A Search for Double Parton Interactions in Proton-Antiproton Collisions at 1.8 TeV
Robert Carey	July 1989	Angular Distributions of Three Jet Events in Proton-Antiproton Collsions at the Fermilab Tevatron
William Trischuk	April 1990	A Measurement of the W Boson Mass in 1.8 TeV Proton-Antiproton Collisons
Douglas Michael	May 1990	A Study of Transverse Momentum and Jets using Forward Hadrons and Photons in Deep Inelastic Muon Scattering at 490 GeV/c
Dong Xiao	May 1990	Charmless Semileptonic Decays of the B Mesons
Edward Kearns	June 1990	Z⁰ Production Cross Section at the Fermilab Tevatron
Peter Hurst	Nov. 1990	A Measurement of sin(θ_w) from the Forward-Backward Asymmetry in pbar p → Z⁰ → e⁺e⁻ Interactions at 1.8 TeV
Qingfang Wang	Jan. 1991	Measurement of the Z⁰ Decays to Muon Pairs With the L3 Detector at LEP
Johnny Ng	June 1991	Measurement of the Z Boson p_T Distribution in pbar p Collisions at 1.8 TeV
Jeffrey Wolinski	May 1991	Study of Lambda-like Baryons in e⁺e^- Annihilation
Michael Schmitt	July 1991	Deep Inelastic Exclusive Rho Production Using 485 GeV Muons
Janet Conrad	Jan. 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	May 1993	A Measurement of the Polarization of Tau Leptons in Z Decays with the L3 Detector at LEP
Colin Jessop	Dec. 1993	A Search for the Top Quark decaying to the Charged Higgs Boson in pbar p Collisions at 1.8 TeV
Ashutosh Kotwal	May 1995	Proton and Deuteron Structure Functions in Muon Scattering at 470 GeV
Tiehui Liu	May 1995	D Dbar Mixing and Doubly Cabibbo Suppressed Decays
Michael Saulnier	May 1995	Measurement of Neutral B Meson Properties
Thomas Baumann	May 1996	A Search for Third Generation Leptoquarks in pbar p Collisions at 1.8 TeV
David Kestenbaum	June 1996	Observation of t tbar Production using a Soft Lepton b Tag in pbar p Collisions at 1.8 TeV
Rowan Hamilton	June 1996	Measurement of Photon-Charm Production in pbar p Collisions at 1.8 TeV	John Huth
Thomas Dignan	June 1998	A Search for νμ to νe Oscillations with the NOMAD Detector at the CERN SPS	Gary Feldman
Andrew Gordon	Nov. 1998	Measurement of the W Boson Mass With the Collider Detector at Fermilab	Melissa Franklin
Fotis Ptohos	May 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
David Daniels	Feb. 2000	A Search for νμ → ντ Neutrino Oscillations in the τ → ρ Decay Channel Using the NOMAD Detector	Gary Feldman
Maria Spiropulu	Nov. 2000	A Blind Search for Supersymmetry in pp-bar Collisions at 1.8 TeV Using the Missing Energy plus Multijet Channel	John Huth
Stephen Bailey	April 2001	A Study of B → J/ψ K(*)0 X Decays	John Huth
Alexey Ershov	May 2001	Beauty Meson Decays to Charmonium	George Brandenburg
Daniel Kim	Jan. 2002	Properties of Inclusive B → ψ Production	George Brandenburg
Carter Hall	May 2002	Measurement of the Isolated Direct Photon Cross Section with Conversions in pp-bar Collisions at 1.8 TeV	Melissa Franklin
Robyn Madrak	Sept. 2003	Measurement of the Λb Lifetime in the Decay Mode Λb → J/ψ Λ	Melissa Franklin
Salvatore Rappoccio	Aug. 2005	Measurement of the tt-bar Production Cross Section in pp-bar Collisions at 1.96 TeV	Andrew Foland
Ayana Holloway	May 2006	The First Direct Limit on the t Quark Lifetime	Melissa Franklin
Andrey V. Lebedev	May 2007	Ratio of Pion Kaon Production in Proton Carbon Interactions	Gary Feldman
Sin Man Seun	July 2007	Measurement of π-K Ratios from the NuMI Target	Gary Feldman
Daniel Sherman	Aug. 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	Sept. 2007	Search for the Flavor Changing Neutral Current Decay t → qZ in pp-bar Collisions at sqrt(s) = 1.96 TeV	Melissa Franklin
Kris Chaisanguanthum	May 2008	An Enquiry Concerning Charmless Semileptonic Decays of Bottom Mesons	Masahiro Morii
John Paul Chou	Sept. 2008	tt-bar Production Cross Section Measurement using Soft Electron Tagging in pp-bar Collisions at sqrt(s) = 1.96 TeV	Melissa Franklin
Joshua Boehm	May 2009	Measurement of Electron Neutrino Appearance with the MINOS Experiment	Gary Feldman
Fredrick William High	May 2010	The Dawn of Wide-Field Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Cluster Surveys: Efficient Optical Follow-Up	Christopher Stubbs
Steven Cavanaugh	May 2010	A Measurement of Electron Neutrino Appearance in the MINOS Experiment After Four Years of Data	Gary Feldman
Lashkar Kashif	Nov. 2010	Measurement of the Z boson cross-section in the dimuon channel in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV	John Huth
Corry Louise Lee-Boehm	May 2011	B0 Meson decays to ρ0K0, f0K0, and ρ-K+, Including Higher K Resonances	Masahiro Morii
Ben Campbell Smith	May 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	May 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	June 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
Michael Aaron Kagan	May 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
Laura Elizabeth Jeanty	May 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	May 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
Daniyar Nurgaliev	2014	A Study of the Radial and Azimuthal Gas Distribution in Massive Galaxy Clusters	Christopher Stubbs
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
Brian Clark	2016	Search for New Physics in Dijet Invariant Mass Spectrum	John Huth
Tomo Lazovich	2016	Observation of the Higgs boson in the WW* channel and search for Higgs boson pair production in the bb ̅bb ̅ channel with the ATLAS detector	Melissa Franklin
Andy Yen	2016	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
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
Stephen Kam Wah Chan	2018	Orthogonal Decompositions of Collision Events and Measurement Combinations in Standard Model $VH\left(b\bar{b}\right)$ 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

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