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(2018-03-13)The ARIEL electron linac is a 0.3MW accelerator that will drive the production of rare isotopes in TRIUMF's new ARIEL facility. A planned upgrade will allow a second beam to be accelerated in the linac simultaneously, ...
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(2018-01-17)Blue stragglers are enigmatic stars which appear to have undergone some form of rejuvenation, bringing them near the zero-age main sequence of the cluster in which they reside. The most likely explanation for the existence ...
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(2018-01-11)The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN is designed to search for new physics by colliding protons with a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV. The ATLAS detector is a multipurpose particle detector built to record these ...
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(2017-12-22)In this dissertation, we explore the cosmological sensitivity of well-motivated extensions of the Standard Model (SM) of particles. We focus on two specific models, the vector portal and the Higgs portal, that can connect ...
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(2017-12-22)The simplest model for superconductor electrodynamics are the London equations, which treats the impact of electromagnetic fields on the current density as a localized phenomenon. However, the charge carriers of ...
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(2017-12-22)Thin-film photovoltaics are of great interest due to decreased manufacturing costs, improved environmental sustainability and the potential for flexible, semi-transparent, and light-weight modules. The scientific literature ...
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(2017-12-11)Though there has been a considerable amount of work investigating the early stages of low-mass star formation in recent years, the general theory is only broadly understood and several open questions remain. Specifically, ...
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(2017-11-27)New techniques are developed for relating the statistics of close galaxy pairs to the galaxy merger and accretion rates. Unlike the traditional pair fraction approach, these methods are shown to be robust to a number of ...
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(2017-11-06)The ATLAS Experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider is a particle physics experiment to study fundamental particles and their interactions at very high energies. Supersymmetry is a theory of new physics beyond the ...
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(2017-10-04)Large spectroscopic surveys are trailblazing endeavours in the study of stellar archaeology and near eld cosmology. Access to homogeneous databases of thousands of stellar spectra allow for a detailed and statistically ...
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(2017-10-04)Permanent breast seed implant brachytherapy (PBSI) is a recently developed form of treatment for early-stage breast cancer which can be completed in a single day procedure. Due to the reduced treatment burden, PBSI has the ...
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(2017-09-18)According to the current cosmological paradigm, ``Lambda Cold Dark Matter'' (LambdaCDM), only ~20% of the gravitating matter in the universe is made up of ordinary (i.e. baryonic) matter, while the rest consists of ...
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(2017-09-12)Charged lepton flavour violating processes are highly suppressed in the standard model, but they are predicted to be enhanced in several new physics extensions including supersymmetry and models with leptoquarks or ...
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(2017-09-08)In the first part of the thesis, the need for physics beyond the Standard Model, as attested to by the evidence of dark matter, motivates us to study the effects of introducing into the standard theory of Leptogenesis ...
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(2017-08-31)High resolution imaging of wide fields has been a prerogative of space telescopes for decades. Multi-conjugate adaptive optics (MCAO) is a key technology for the future of ground-based astronomy, especially as we approach ...
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(2017-08-31)External Beam Radiation Therapy (EBRT) is a common treatment option for patients with prostate cancer. When treating the prostate with EBRT, a geometric volume (PTV margin) is added around the prostate to account for ...
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(2017-08-29)This dissertation describes a search for the invisible decays of dark matter particles produced in association with a Z boson, where the latter decays to a charged lepton pair. The dataset for this search includes 13.3 ...
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(2017-08-22)In this work, we use the recently developed equilibrium generating functional and systematic derivative expansion approach to hydrodynamics to explore three new regimes of relativistic hydrodynamics. First, we derive the ...
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(2017-08-16)Neutral current Drell-Yan production in proton-proton collisions at the LHC was studied with the ATLAS detector. The 20.1 inverse femtobarn data set used in this precision measurement was collected in 2012 during which the ...
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(2017-08-16)The cosmological constant + cold dark matter (ΛCDM) theory is the 'standard model' of cosmology. Encoded in it are extremely accurate descriptions of the large scale structure of the Universe, despite a very limited number ...
