Theses and dissertations published by graduate students in the Department of Physics, College of Sciences, Old Dominion University, since Fall 2016 are available in this collection. Backfiles of all dissertations (and some theses) have also been added.

In late Fall 2023 or Spring 2024, all theses will be digitized and available here. In the meantime, consult the Library Catalog to find older items in print.

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Theses/Dissertations from 2023

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Dissertation: Deep Virtual Pion Pair Production, Dilini Lakshani Bulumulla

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Dissertation: Spectra of Atmospheric and Astronomical Molecules, W. D. Cameron

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Thesis: Exploring the Dependence of Bulges in Spiral Galaxies on Their Environment, William Jackson Clark

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Dissertation: Design and Construction of a Longitudinally Polarized Solid Nuclear Target for CLAS12, Victoria Lagerquist

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Dissertation: Optics Studies for Multipass Energy Recovery at CEBAF: ER@CEBAF, Isurumali Neththikumara

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Dissertation: Measurements of Magnetic Field Penetration of Materials for Superconducting Radiofrequency Cavities, Iresha Harshani Senevirathne

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Dissertation: Nb3Sn Coating of Twin Axis Cavity and Other Complex SRF Cavity Structures, Jayendrika Kumari Tiskumara

Theses/Dissertations from 2022

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Dissertation: Dual Energy Electron Storage Ring Cooler Design for Relativistic Ion Beams, Bhawin Dhital

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Dissertation: Experimental Investigation of All-Optical Production of Metastable Krypton, Joshua Carl Frechem

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Dissertation: Multi-Technique Characterization of Superconducting Materials for Particle Accelerator Applications, Junki Makita

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Dissertation: Investigating Gluonic Operators in Coordinate Space, Wayne Henry Morris III

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Dissertation: Characterization of Losses in Superconducting Radio-Frequency Cavities by Combined Temperature and Magnetic Field Mapping, Ishwari Prasad Parajuli

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Thesis: Development of High Conductivity Copper Coatings for SRF Cavity, Himal Pokhrel

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Dissertation: Studies of BONuS12 Radial GEM Detector and TCS Beam Spin Asymmetry in CLAS12, Jiwan Poudel

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Dissertation: Ion Production and Mitigation in DC High-Voltage Photo-Guns, Joshua T. Yoskowitz

Theses/Dissertations from 2021

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Dissertation: Quasiclassical Computations of Compton-Scattered Spectra, Erik Scott Johnson

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Dissertation: Exploring QCD Factorization at Moderate Energy Scales, Eric Alan Moffat

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Dissertation: J/ψ Photoproduction Near Threshold With CLAS12, Joseph Newton

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Dissertation: Numerical Calculation of Losses of Trapped Vortices Under Strong RF Meissner Current and DC Superheating Field in Type II Superconductors, Walive Pathiranage Manula Randhika Pathirana

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Dissertation: Spectator Proton Detection and Reconstruction in Deep Inelastic D(E,EPS) Scattering, David Payette

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Dissertation: Space Charge Effects in Low Energy Magnetized Electron Beams, W. M. Sajini Anushika Kumari Wijethunga

Theses/Dissertations from 2020

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Dissertation: Molecular Spectroscopy: A Study of Molecules in Earth and Planetary Atmospheres, Mahdi Yousefi Atashgah

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Dissertation: Simulation and Development of the Radial Time Projection Chamber for the BONuS12 Experiment in CLAS12, Nathan M. Dzbenski

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Dissertation: Trend Analyses of the Abundances of Atmospheric Molecules, Anton Fernando

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Dissertation: Deeply Virtual Compton Scattering at Hall A, Jefferson Lab, Mohamed Nuhman Hashir Rashad

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Dissertation: Measurement of Pion-Pion Final State Interactions in η → π +π −γ with CLAS at Jefferson Lab, Torri C. Jeske

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Dissertation: Measurement of the Photon Beam Asymmetry in γPK+Σ0 at Eγ = 8.5 GeV with GlueX, Nilanga Indrajie Wickramaarachchi

Theses/Dissertations from 2019

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Dissertation: Effect of Alkali on the Efficiency and Reliability of Cu(In,Ga)Se2 Solar Cells, Shankar Karki

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Dissertation: Validation of Neutrino Energy Estimation Using Electron Scattering Data, Mariana Khachatryan

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Dissertation: Characterization of Argon and Ar/Cl2 Plasmas Used for the Processing of Niobium Superconducting Radio-Frequency Cavities, Jeremy J. Peshl

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Dissertation: Optical Excitation of Metastable Krypton and Photoassociative Spectroscopy of Ultracold RbAr, Grady R. White

Theses/Dissertations from 2018

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Dissertation: Ion Bunch Formation Strategies for the JLEIC Collider, Bamunuvita Randika Prasad Gamage

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Dissertation: Crab Cavity Requirements for the Jefferson Lab Electron-Ion Collider, Salvador Isaac Sosa Güitrón

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Thesis: Fabrication of an Apparatus for All-Optical Production of Metastable Krypton, Lindsay M. Thornton

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Dissertation: Development of a 300 KV DC High Voltage Photogun and Beam Based Studies of Alkali Antimonide Photocathodes, Yan Wang

Theses/Dissertations from 2017

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Dissertation: R&D of a High-Performance DIRC Detector For a Future Electron-Ion Collider, Stacey Lee Allison

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Dissertation: Nuclear Chiral Axial Currents and Applications to Few-Nucleon Systems, Alessandro Baroni

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Dissertation: Crabbing System for an Electron-Ion Collider, Alejandro Castilla

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Dissertation: Inverse Compton Light Source: A Compact Design Proposal, Kirsten Elizabeth Deitrick

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Thesis: Test of New Readout Electronics for the BONuS12 Experiment, Mathieu Ehrhart

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Dissertation: Instrument Design Optimization with Computational Methods, Michael H. Moore

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Dissertation: Photoproduction and Radiative Decay of ηt Meson in CLAS at JLAB, Georgie Mbianda Njencheu

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Dissertation: Nonlinear Dynamics of Vortices in Different Types of Grain Boundaries, Ahmad K. Sheikhzada

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Dissertation: Searching for Heavy Photons With Detached Vertices in the Heavy Photon Search Experiment, Holly Szumila-Vance

Theses/Dissertations from 2016

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Dissertation: CEBAF Upgrade Bunch Length Measurements, Mahmoud Mohamad Ali Ahmad

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Thesis: Discipline-Based Planetary Education Research and Computational Fluid Dynamics Analysis of Mars, Filis Coba

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Dissertation: Emergence of Collective Light Scattering in Atomic 87Rb Samples, Kasie Jean Kemp

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Dissertation: Investigation of Multi-Photon Excitation in Argon with Applications in Hypersonic Flow Diagnostics, Jack L. Mills

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Dissertation: Forward Light Scattering in an Extended Sample of Cold Atoms, Stetson Roof

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Dissertation: Electroproduction of Neutral Pion Off Helium-4, Bayram Torayev

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Dissertation: Plasma Processing of Superconducting Radio Frequency Cavities, Janardan Upadhyay

Theses/Dissertations from 2015

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Dissertation: Development of Superconducting Spoke Cavities for High-Velocity Applications, Christopher Shawn Hopper

Thesis: Mapping of Electric and Magnetic Fields of Superconducting Cavities, Kevin Kennedy. Mitchell

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Dissertation: Photoassociative Spectroscopy of Ultracold Argon and Krypton Confined in a Magneto Optical Trap, Maha Khaled Omar

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Dissertation: Studies of Two-Nucleon Interactions and Few-Body Electromagnetic Structure in Chiral Effective Field Theory, Maria Piarulli

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Dissertation: Meson Photo-Couplings From Lattice Quantum Chromodynamics, Christian J. P. Shultz

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Dissertation: Catalysis of Stark-Tuned Interactions Between Ultracold Rydberg Atoms, Aye Lu Win

Theses/Dissertations from 2014

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Dissertation: Direct Measurements of Two Photon Exchange on Lepton-Proton Elastic Scattering Using Simultaneous Electron-Positron Beams in CLAS, Dasuni Kalhari Adikaram

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Dissertation: Investigation and Optimization of a New Compact Superconducting Cavity for Deflecting and Crabbing Applications, Subashini Uddika De Silva

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Dissertation: Measurement of Single and Double Spin Asymmetries in Semi-Inclusive Deep-Inelastic Scattering on Proton and Deuteron, Suman Bandhu Koirala

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Dissertation: Photoproduction of π0 on Hydrogen With CLAS From 1.1 GeV - 5.45 GeV Using e+e –γ Decay, Michael C. Kunkel

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Dissertation: Analytic Evolution of Singular Distribution Amplitudes in QCD, Asli Tandogan

Theses/Dissertations from 2013

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Dissertation: Measurement of the Spin Structure Function GD1 of the Deuteron and Its Moments at Low Q2, Krishna P. Adhikari

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Dissertation: Three-Point Correlator and Pion Form Factor in Quantum Chromodynamics: Methods of Calculation for Two-Loop Spectral Density, Islam Bedir

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Dissertation: Visualizing and Understanding Tectonism and Volcanism on Earth and Other Terrestrial Bodies, Mladen M. Dordevic

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Dissertation: Measurement of Polarized Proton-Proton Elastic Scattering at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), Ivan Koralt

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Dissertation: Double Spin Asymmetry in d →(e→e'p)n, Michael Mayer

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Dissertation: Characterization of Microwave Discharge Plasmas for Surface Processing, Milka Nikolic

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Dissertation: Spin Dependence in Polarized Proton-Proton Elastic Scattering at RHIC, Donika Plyku

Theses/Dissertations from 2012

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Dissertation: Single and Double Spin Asymmetries for Pion Electro-Production From the Deuteron in the Resonance Region, Sharon L. Careccia

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Dissertation: Case Studies in Many-Body Physics, Ana Samolov

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Dissertation: Laser Processing of Metals and Polymers, Senthilraja Singaravelu

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Dissertation: Application of Chebyshev Formalism to Identify Nonlinear Magnetic Field Components in Beam Transport System, Michael Spata

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Dissertation: Modeling, Visualizing, and Understanding Complex Tectonic Structures on the Surface and in the Sub-Surface, Steven Wild

Theses/Dissertations from 2011

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Dissertation: Triple Coincidence Beam Spin Asymmetry Measurements in Deeply Virtual Compton Scattering, Mustafa Canan

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Dissertation: Excitation-Induced Ge Quantum Dot Growth on Si(100)-2X1 by Pulsed Laser Deposition, Ali Oguz Er

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Dissertation: Epistemic Strategies for Solving Two-Dimensional Physics Problems, Mary Elyse Hing-Hickman

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Dissertation: Compensation Techniques in Accelerator Physics, Hisham Kamal Sayed

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Dissertation: Photoproduction of the Φ(1020) Meson in Neutral Decay Mode γP → ΦP → K(S)K(L)P, Heghine Seraydaryan

Theses/Dissertations from 2010

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Dissertation: Spectroscopic Study of Ultracold Rubidium Atoms in an Optical Dipole Force Trap, Eman Mohammed Ahmed

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Dissertation: Feasibility and Conceptual Design of a C.W. Positron Source at CEBAF, Serkan Golge

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Dissertation: Beyond the Born Approximation: A Precise Comparison of e+p and e-p Elastic Scattering in the CEBAF Large Acceptance Spectrometer (CLAS), Megh Raj Niroula

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Dissertation: Nuclear Electromagnetic Currents in Chiral Effective Field Theory, Saori Pastore

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Dissertation: Exclusive π- Electro-Production From the Neutron in the Resonance Region, Jixie Zhang

Theses/Dissertations from 2009

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Dissertation: Light Scattering in Ultracold High Density Rubidium Vapor, Salim Balik

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Dissertation: High-Energy Amplitudes in Gauge Theories in the Next-to-Leading-Order, Giovanni Antonio Chirilli

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Dissertation: Characterization of Microwave Cavity Discharges in a Supersonic Flow, Dareth Janette Drake

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Dissertation: Comparative Study of Forward and Diffusely Scattered Light in a Coherently Prepared Ultracold Rubidium Gas, Rocio Gisel Olave Gonzalez

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Dissertation: Spin Structure of the Deuteron, Nevzat Guler

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Dissertation: Neutron Structure Functions Measured with Spectator Tagging, Svyatoslav Tkachenko

Theses/Dissertations from 2008

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Dissertation: Investigation of (E, 2E) Collisions and Related Phenomena, Jason Manuel Martinez

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Dissertation: Photoassociative Spectroscopy of Ultracold Metastable Argon and Study of Dual Species Trap Loss in a Rubidium-Metastable Argon MOT, Michael K. Shaffer

Theses/Dissertations from 2007

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Dissertation: Measurements of Correlated Pair Momentum Distributions in -3He(e,e',p,p)n with CLAS, Hovhannes Baghdasaryan

Theses/Dissertations from 2006

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Thesis: Running Coupling Constant and Transition From Low to High Energies in Quantum Chromodynamics, Alexander Babansky

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Dissertation: The ²H(e, e'p)n Reaction at High Four-Momentum Transfer, Hassan F. Ibrahim

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Dissertation: Investigation of Ultracold Rubidium Atoms in a Pulsed Far off Resonance Trap, Minarni Minarni

Theses/Dissertations from 2005

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Dissertation: Investigation of the Superconducting Properties of Niobium Radio-Frequency Cavities, Gianluigi Ciovati

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Dissertation: Inclusive and Exclusive Compton Processes in Quantum Chromodynamics, A. Psaker

Theses/Dissertations from 2004

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Dissertation: Role of Nanophase Oxides in Short-Term Atmospheric Corrosion of Structural Steels, Rama Balasubramanian

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Dissertation: Experimental Investigation of a Rubidium-Argon Dual Species Magneto-Optical Trap, Hauke Christian Busch