# Theses

Harvard University

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(θw) 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 pT 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 ρ0K*0, f0K*0, 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 William R. Spearman Aug. 2014 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 Kevin Michael Mercurio Dec. 2014 A Search for the Higgs Boson Produced in Association with a Vector Boson Using the ATLAS Detector at the LHC John Huth Andy Yen May 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