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Author:: Stuver, Amber Lynnell
Title:: Burst Gravitational Wave Data Analysis Methods:<br> Design, Development and Comparison
Graduate Program:: Physics
Keywords:: General Relativity
LIGO
simulation
signal processing
MATLAB
data analysis
gravitational waves
File:: Download StuverAmberL.pdf
Committee Members:: Lee S Finn, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Pablo Laguna, Committee Member
Stephane Coutu, Committee Member
Steinn Sigurdsson, Committee Member

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Author:: Atulugama, Buddhika Sanjeevi Kumari
Title:: A Study of the Elongation Rate and Air Shower Properties of Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays from the Southern Pierre Auger Observatory
Graduate Program:: Physics
Keywords:: Extensive Air Showers
Mass Composition
Elongation Rate
Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays
Energy Estimator
File:: Download Atulugama_thesis.pdf
Committee Members:: Stephane Coutu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Paul Sommers, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Richard Wallace Robinett, Committee Member
Jane Camilla Charlton, Committee Member

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Author:: Chang, Chia-Chen
Title:: Interacting Composite Fermions
Graduate Program:: Physics
Keywords:: fractional quantum Hall effect
two dimensional electron system
condensed matter physics
composite fermion
File:: Download ChiaChenChang-Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:: Jainendra Jain, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Gerald Dennis Mahan, Committee Member
Stephane Coutu, Committee Member
James Bernhard Anderson, Committee Member

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Author:: Rutledge, Douglas Lowery
Title:: A Search for Neutrino-Induced Electromagnetic Showers in the 2008 Combined IceCube and AMANDA Detectors
Graduate Program:: Physics
Keywords:: IceCube
AMANDA
atmospheric neutrino
File:: Download Thesis.pdf
Committee Members:: Douglas Cowen, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Douglas Cowen, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mark Strikman, Committee Member
Stephane Coutu, Committee Member
Robin Bruce Ciardullo, Committee Member

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Author:: Eun, Leonard K
Title:: Transverse Single Spin Asymmetries and Cross-Sections for Forward pi0 and eta Mesons at Large xF in sqrt{s}=200 GeV p+p Collisions at STAR
Graduate Program:: Physics
Keywords:: transverse spin
cross section
pi0
eta
spin asymmetry
analyzing power
STAR
QCD
File:: Download LenEun-Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:: Steven Heppelmann, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Steven Heppelmann, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John C Collins, Committee Member
Stephane Coutu, Committee Member
Horacio Perez Blanco, Committee Member

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Author:: Peterson, Michael Ronald
Title:: Perturbative Improvements and Exotic Excitations of Composite Fermions
Graduate Program:: Physics
Keywords:: condensed matter physics
fractional quantum Hall effect
composite fermions
File:: Download mrp-thesis.pdf
Committee Members:: Jainendra Jain, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Stephane Coutu, Committee Member
Jorge Osvaldo Sofo, Committee Member
John V Badding, Committee Member
Jayanth R Banavar, Committee Member

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Author:: Nayyar, Mohit
Title:: Periodic Gravitational Radiation from Neutron Stars with Exotic Matter
Graduate Program:: Physics
Keywords:: neutron stars
r-modes
gravitational radiation
equation of state
hybrid stars
LMXBs
File:: Download Mohit-thesis.pdf
Committee Members:: Benjamin J Owen, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Stephane Coutu, Committee Member
Pablo Laguna, Committee Member
George Pavlov, Committee Member

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Author:: Conklin, Nicholas Bryan
Title:: The Boron-to-Carbon Ratio From The First Cosmic Ray Energetics and Mass Balloon Campaign
Graduate Program:: Physics
Keywords:: boron-to-carbon ratio
cosmic ray
File:: Download NickConklin-Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:: Stephane Coutu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Stephane Coutu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Paul Sommers, Committee Member
Donald P Schneider, Committee Member
Roy F Willis, Committee Member
Scott Nutter, Committee Member

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Author:: Mognet, Samuel Adam Isaac
Title:: Measurement of H, He, C and O Cosmic Ray Primaries: Preliminary Results from the CREAM II Experiment
Graduate Program:: Physics
Keywords:: cosmic rays
geant4
scintillator
File:: Download IsaacMognetThesis.pdf
Committee Members:: Stephane Coutu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Stephane Coutu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Paul Sommers, Committee Member
Richard Wallace Robinett, Committee Member
John Andrew Nousek, Committee Member

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Author:: McReynolds, Sean
Title:: Five-dimensional Yang-Mills-Einstein Supergravity on Orbifold Spacetimes: From Phenomenology to M-theory
Graduate Program:: Physics
Keywords:: orbifold field theories
supergravity
GUTs
File:: Download my_thesis.pdf
Committee Members:: Richard Wallace Robinett, Committee Member
Luen Chau Li, Committee Member
Stephane Coutu, Committee Member
Murat Gunaydin, Committee Chair/Co-Chair

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