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Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) play a vital role in the discrimination of different cosmological models. These events have been shown to be standardizable based on properties of their light curves during the early-time photospheric phase....
18Ne(α, p)21Na reaction is one of the reactions providing a pathway for breakout from the hot CNO cycles to the rp-process in Type I X-ray bursts. The actual conditions under which the breakout occurs depend critically on the...
Investigation of nuclei with neutron and proton imbalance is at the forefront of nuclear physics research today, along with how the nuclear structure varies with the movement of the nucleons. Experimental data and theoretical models work...
In this dissertation, we study three biological applications of networks. The first one is a biological coevolution model, in which a species is defined by a genome in the form of a finite bitstring and the interactions between species...
Transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs or TMDCs) have garnered much interest recently due to their weakly layered structures, allowing for mechanical exfoliation down to a single atomic layer. As such, it is pertinent to re-examine the...
Separations were performed on double stranded DNA (dsDNA) using electrophoresis. Electrophoresis is the steady transport of particles under the influence of an external electric field. Double stranded DNA fragments ranging in length from...
This work presents a comprehensive gamma-ray spectroscopic study to the higher spin structure of ³¹Si, including its excitation energies, spins, and branching ratios, along with the shell model discussions. ³¹Si was produced through the...
This dissertation presents systematic studies on ordered states of organic conductors investigated mainly by Electron Spin Resonance (ESR). First, we describe an introduction to organic conductors. Organic conductors are based on...
Two experiments were performed. The first used a 135 MeV beam of sulfer-32 on a nickle-58 target to study niobium-87 using the Gammasphere and the Microball. The level and decay scheme of niobium-87 was substantially enhanced, and the...
Two experiments have been performed at Florida State University using the FSU Compton- Suppressed HPGe Array and associated particle telescope. The first experiment used the 9Be(18O, pnγ) reaction at 35 MeV to study the nuclear structure...
The following presents the details of the study of a class of materials known as cuprate superconductors, primarily by measurement of their specific heat capacities, across two materials at very low temperatures and in very high values...
This dissertation reports the study of three nuclei ¹⁹O, ²⁹Al, and ²⁷Mg at high angular momentum using ɣ-ray spectroscopy. These experiments were performed at the John D. Fox Superconducting Linear Accelerator at Florida State University...
Direct observation and understanding of atomic-level structural dynamics are important frontiers in scientific research and applications. Femtosecond electron diffraction (FED), a technique that combines time-resolved pump-probe and...
An inverse kinematic proton scattering experiment was performed at the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory (NSCL) using the GRETINA-S800 detector system in conjunction with the Ursinus College liquid hydrogen target. $\gamma$...
Progress in nanotechnology is trending towards applications which require the integration of soft (organic or biological) and hard (semiconductor or metallic) materials. Many applications for functional nanomaterials are currently being...
The understanding of the electronic systems of materials has not been only the essential, but the driving force, behind the progress of technology for over 100 years. This year marks the 60th anniversary of the revolutionary Bardeen...
This dissertation presents the recent developments and experiments performed using the third generation femtosecond electron diffractometer in Professor Jianming Cao's group as well as experiments performed using the previous second...
High temperature superconductors (HTS) allow for the construction of magnets generating fields of more than 30 T, enabling the investigation of new phenomena in condensed matter science and high energy physics. High field magnets store...
This thesis investigates a new family of Pd based transition metal chalcogenides which displays unconventional superconducting behavior and also the newly discovered Weyl physics in transition metal monopnictides. The superconductors...
Suppression of the J/Ψ nuclear modification factor has been seen as a trademark signature of final state effects in large collision systems for decades. In small systems, the nuclear modification was attributed to cold nuclear matter...
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