Theses

Ph.D. Theses (since 1988)

Name	Ph.D. Year	Thesis Title	Advisor
Laura Bruce	2026	The Long Game: Searches for Massive, Long-lived Particles at 13.6 TeV with the ATLAS Experiment	Masahiro Morii
Kees Benkendorfer	2025	Wayfinding: Searching for hints of new physics using a weakly-supervised anomaly search and a measurement of high-pT ttZ production with the ATLAS experiment	Masahiro Morii
Gustavs Kehris	2025	Probing muon + b-jet resonances in pp collisions with the ATLAS detector	John Huth
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	Measuring the production of three massive vector bosons in the four-lepton channel in pp collisions at √s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS experiment at the LHC	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 ρ0K0, f0K0, 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