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Chasing New Physics: From Electroweak Baryogenesis To Dark Matter, Huaike Guo
Chasing New Physics: From Electroweak Baryogenesis To Dark Matter, Huaike Guo
Doctoral Dissertations
The origin of the baryon asymmetry in the universe and the nature of the dark matter remain mysteries and addressing these cosmological puzzles requires physics beyond the standard model. Electroweak baryogenesis remains a highly testable framework for explaining the baryon asymmetry and is employed in this work to study the capability of baryon generation for beyond standard model physics models and to explore new physics discovery potential in high energy and precision frontier. Weakly interacting massive particles as cold dark matter are also studied in this work featuring loop induced direct detection signals and novel nuclear responses within the recently …
Study Of Charge Transport Mechanism In Microbial Nanowires, Ramesh Adhikari
Study Of Charge Transport Mechanism In Microbial Nanowires, Ramesh Adhikari
Doctoral Dissertations
Conductivity of an individual proteinaceous filaments, called pili or microbial nanowires, produced by wild type Geobacter sulfurreducens was measured using a low-noise electrical transport technique. It was shown that the conductivity is diminished if aromatic amino acid residues are removed from the pili. It was demonstrated that the conductivity of G. sulfurreducens pili is similar to that of synthetic organic polymers and is related to the respiration rate of the bacteria. Conductivity measurements were performed on microbial nanowires produced by other species of Geobacter with a different aromatic amino acid distribution along the wire. Also, measurements on a mutated pili …
A Period Examination Through Contemporary Energy Analysis Of Kevin Roche’S Fine Arts Center At University Of Massachusetts-Amherst, L Carl Fiocchi Jr
A Period Examination Through Contemporary Energy Analysis Of Kevin Roche’S Fine Arts Center At University Of Massachusetts-Amherst, L Carl Fiocchi Jr
Doctoral Dissertations
Studies of buildings belonging to a subset of Modernist architecture, Brutalism, have included discussions pertaining to social and architectural history, critical reception, tectonic form and geometry inspirations, material property selections, period technology limitations, and migration of public perceptions. Evaluations of Brutalist buildings’ energy related performances have been restricted to anecdotal observations with particular focus on the building type’s poor thermal performance, a result of the preferred construction method, i.e. monolithic reinforced concrete used as structure, interior finish and exterior finish. A valid criticism, but one that served to dismiss discussion that the possibility of other positive design strategies limiting energy …
X-Ray Characterization Of Mesophases And Phase Transitions Of Dna Analogues In Solutions, Mustafa Selcuk Yasar
X-Ray Characterization Of Mesophases And Phase Transitions Of Dna Analogues In Solutions, Mustafa Selcuk Yasar
Doctoral Dissertations
We think of DNA as double-stranded helices (duplex), but the polymer exists in many conformations. Several triplex and quadruplex DNA structures can be formed in laboratory settings and exist in nature. This thesis first provides a brief description of the nature of the order in arrays of duplex DNA under biologically relevant molecular crowding conditions. Then we compare the duplex DNA mesophases with the corresponding liquid crystalline phase behavior of the triplex and quadruplex DNA analogues. In particular, we focus on G-quadruplexes. Observed in the folds of guanine-rich oligonucleotides, G-quadruplex structures are based on G-quartets formed by hydrogen bonding and …
Evaporation Induced Self-Assembly And Characterization Of Nanoparticulate Films: A New Route To Bulk Heterojunctions, Yipeng Yang
Evaporation Induced Self-Assembly And Characterization Of Nanoparticulate Films: A New Route To Bulk Heterojunctions, Yipeng Yang
Doctoral Dissertations
Polymer-based semiconducting materials are promising candidates for large-scale, low-cost photovoltaic devices. To date, the efficiency of these devices has been low in part because of the challenge of optimizing molecular packing while also obtaining a bicontinuous structure with a characteristic length comparable to the exciton diffusion length of 10 to 20 nm. In this dissertation we developed an innovative evaporation-induced nanoparticle self-assembly technique, which could be an effective approach to fabricate uniform, densely packed, smooth thin films with cm-scale area from home-made P3HT nanoparticles. Unlike the previous reports of nanoparticle-based film formation, we use a mixture of two solvents so …
A Quantitative Measurement Of Structural Changes Of Rna Kissing Complexes Using Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer, Sheema Rahmanseresht
A Quantitative Measurement Of Structural Changes Of Rna Kissing Complexes Using Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer, Sheema Rahmanseresht
Doctoral Dissertations
Many RNA interactions in cells occur in the form of loop-loop interactions, also known as a "kissing complex". In the bacterial and viral systems discussed here, there are transiently bound proteins involved that modulate the function of kissing complex. These proteins either stabilize the kissing complex or facilitate its conversion to extended duplex. I studied R1inv-R2inv kissing complex (KC), derivatived from RNAI-RNAII complex of E.Coli. Rop protein is known to stabilize the bent R1inv-R2inv KC against dissociation. The goal was to study structural change of this kissing complex after binding of the stabilizing Rop protein. In this work for …
Search For Long-Lived, Weakly Interacting Particles That Decay To Displaced Hadronic Jets In Proton-Proton Collisions At √S = 8 Tev With The Atlas Detector, Preema R. Pais
Doctoral Dissertations
Many new physics models predict the existence of neutral, weakly interacting, long-lived particles that can decay within the detector volume, producing a distinctive experimental signature. A search is performed for a pair of such particles, using proton-proton collision data at √s = 8 TeV collected by the ATLAS detector in 2012, corresponding to a total integrated luminosity of 20.3 fb-1. Novel techniques are developed for the reconstruction of displaced decays to hadronic jets in the inner tracking detector and muon spectrometer. No significant deviation is found from the number of background events expected from Standard Model processes. The …
Prospects For Infrared Quantum Gravity: From Cosmology To Black Holes, Basem K. Mahmoud El-Menoufi
Prospects For Infrared Quantum Gravity: From Cosmology To Black Holes, Basem K. Mahmoud El-Menoufi
Doctoral Dissertations
Although perturbatively non-renormalizable, general relativity is a perfectly valid quantum theory at low energies. Treated as an effective field theory one is able to make genuine quantum predictions by applying the conventional rules of quantum field theory. The low energy degrees of freedom and couplings of quantum gravity are fully dictated by the symmetries of general relativity. To realize the full EFT treatment one has to supplement the theory with experimental input necessary to fix the Wilson coefficients of the most general Lagrangian. In spite of the fact that this is not feasible, one can still extract the leading quantum …
Kinetics And Dynamics Of Electrophoretic Translocation Of Polyelectrolytes Through Nanopores, Harshwardhan Katkar
Kinetics And Dynamics Of Electrophoretic Translocation Of Polyelectrolytes Through Nanopores, Harshwardhan Katkar
Doctoral Dissertations
The idea of sequencing a DNA based on single-file translocation of the DNA through nanopores under the action of an electric field has received much attention over the past two decades due to the societal need for low cost and high-throughput sequencing. However, due to the high speed of translocation, interrogating individual bases with an acceptable signal to noise ratio as they traverse the pore has been a major problem. Experimental facts on this phenomenon are rich and the associated phenomenology is yet to be fully understood. This thesis focuses on understanding the underlying principles of polymer translocation, with an …
Polymer And Small Molecule Designs For Anion Conducting Membranes: Connected Ion-Channel Morphologies And Highly Alkaline Stable Ammonium Cations, Sedef P. Ertem
Doctoral Dissertations
Fuel cells are one of the oldest sustainable energy generation devices, converting chemical energy into electrical energy via reverse-electrolysis reactions. With the rapid development of polymer science, solid polymer electrolyte (SPE) membranes replaced the conventional liquid ion transport media, rendering low-temperature fuel cells more accessible for applications in portable electronics and transportation. However, SPE fuel cells are still far from commercialization due to high operation cost, and insufficient lifetime and performance limitations. Anion exchange membrane fuel cells (AEMFCs) are inexpensive alternatives to current proton exchange membrane fuel cell (PEMFC) technology, which relies on utilizing expensive noble-metal catalysts and perfluorinated SPE …
Morphological And Material Effects In Van Der Waals Interactions, Jaime C. Hopkins
Morphological And Material Effects In Van Der Waals Interactions, Jaime C. Hopkins
Doctoral Dissertations
Van der Waals (vdW) interactions influence a variety of mesoscale phenomena, such as surface adhesion, friction, and colloid stability, and play increasingly important roles as science seeks to design systems on increasingly smaller length scales. Using the full Lifshitz continuum formulation, this thesis investigates the effects of system materials, shapes, and configurations and presents open-source software to accurately calculate vdW interactions. In the Lifshitz formulation, the microscopic composition of a material is represented by its bulk dielectric response. Small changes in a dielectric response can result in substantial variations in the strength of vdW interactions. However, the relationship between these …
Hadron Physics In Tests Of Fundamental Symmetries, Chien Yeah Seng
Hadron Physics In Tests Of Fundamental Symmetries, Chien Yeah Seng
Doctoral Dissertations
Low energy precision tests of fundamental symmetries provide excellent probes for the Beyond Standard Model Physics. Theoretical interpretations of these experiments often involve the application of non-perturbative Quantum Chromodynamics in the study of hadronic matrix elements that may either serve as signals of new physics or Standard Model backgrounds. In this work I present a series of studies on different hadronic matrix elements using various low-energy effective approaches to Quantum Chromodynamics, and discuss the impact of these studies on our knowledge of Standard Model and Beyond Standard Model physics.
Synthesis And Characterization Of Polymeric Anion Exchange Membranes, Wenxu Zhang
Synthesis And Characterization Of Polymeric Anion Exchange Membranes, Wenxu Zhang
Doctoral Dissertations
As alkaline anion exchange membrane fuel cells (AAEMFC) are regarded as promising and important energy devices, the development of high performance anion exchange membranes are in urgent need, as well as fundamental investigation on the structure-property relationship, which are the motivation of this dissertation. Three different polymer systems are presented and focused on polymer synthesis, material morphology, and ion transport phenomena. Crosslinked membranes are promising as practical materials, however, the understanding and further improvement of its performance is hindered by the lack of an ordered morphology or well-defined chemical structure. In Chapter 2, a series of crosslinked membranes were design …
Designing Active Granular Squares, Christopher C. Olson
Designing Active Granular Squares, Christopher C. Olson
Masters Theses
The goal of this thesis has been to find a means of i) designing an active square particle, and ii) continuously varying its degree of activity with the objective of understanding the effects of activity on the various phases of granular matter. The motivations, results and limitations of our methods of creating active particles are discussed in this thesis. The applicability of a stochastic model based on the Langevin equation in 2D as well as implications for future experiments are also discussed.
Translocations Of Ring And Linear Polymers & Polyelectrolyte Brush In Salty Solution, Ning Ouyang
Translocations Of Ring And Linear Polymers & Polyelectrolyte Brush In Salty Solution, Ning Ouyang
Doctoral Dissertations
We study the electric-field-driven translocation of polymers with ring architecture, i.e. circular polymers, in comparison with their linear counterpart. We construct the free energy landscape for ring and linear polymer translocations respectively, in the context of Fokker-Planck formalism. Non-monotonicity of translocation time as function of polymer length is observed from ring polymer, which is enhanced by pore- polymer attraction. The external electric driving force and pore-polymer interaction are the tuning parameter of relative translocation time of ring and linear polymers. We study the polyelectrolyte brush in monovalent salt using self-consistent-field- theory. We confirmed the step-function polymer profile in strong-stretched state. …
Voltage Driven Translocation Of Polyelectrolytes Through Nanopores, Byoung-Jin Jeon
Voltage Driven Translocation Of Polyelectrolytes Through Nanopores, Byoung-Jin Jeon
Doctoral Dissertations
Recently, translocations of polyelectrolyte molecules through membrane channel protein pores or solid-state nanopores have been actively studied. Although the polymer translocation researches emerged mainly due to technological demands in terms of genome sequencing, the detailed physics of the single molecule transport through a narrow channel remains fully understood. To obtain further understanding of common features of the translocation process, this thesis focuses on the effects of salt concentration, pore-polymer electrostatic interactions, and externally applied electric field on the voltage-driven polymer translocations. The study is carried out by performing a series of systematically designed experiments using alpha-hemolysin (αHL) protein pore to …