Theses and dissertations published by graduate students in the Department of Physics, College of Sciences, Old Dominion University.

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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

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Dissertation: Spin Structure Functions of the Deuteron Measured with CLAS in and Above the Resonance Region, Kahanawita G. Vipuli G. Dharmawardane

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Dissertation: Electron Scattering From a High Momentum Neutron in Deuterium, Alexei V. Klimenko

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Dissertation: Some Aspects of Deeply Virtual Compton Scattering, Elena Kuchina

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Thesis: Neutron Star Electromagnetic Field Structure, Hugh O. Thurman III

Theses/Dissertations from 2003

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Dissertation: Measurement of Proton Transfer Reaction Rates in a Microwave Cavity Discharge Flowing Afterglow, George M. Brooke IV

Thesis: A Measurement of the 15ND3 Deuteron Target Polarization for the EG1 Experiment, Sara Amanda. Comer

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Dissertation: Field Emission Based Sensors Using Carbon Nanotubes, Changkun Dong