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 2025, all theses will be digitized and available here. In the meantime, consult the Library Catalog to find older items in print.
Theses/Dissertations from 2024
Dissertation: Coherent Backscattering Under Conditions of Electromagnetically Induced Transparency in Ultracold Rubidium, Joshua D. Carter
Dissertation: Spectroscopy of Atmospheres, Randika Dodangodage
Dissertation: Investigation of Cooperative Subradiance in Dense Ultracold Rubidium Ensembles, Brent Michael Jones
Dissertation: Longitudinal Solid Polarized Target for CLAS12 and Study of Spin Structure of Nucleons, Pushpa Pandey
Dissertation: Development of One and Two Current Transition Amplitudes With Two Body Final States, Keegan H. Sherman
Dissertation: Measurement of the Photoproduction Cross-Section of f1(1285) in the Exclusive Reactions γp → p′K∓KSπ± at 7.5 < Eγ < 11.5 GeV With GlueX at Jefferson Lab, Tyler Viducic
Theses/Dissertations from 2023
Dissertation: Deep Virtual Pion Pair Production, Dilini Lakshani Bulumulla
Dissertation: Spectra of Atmospheric and Astronomical Molecules, W. D. Cameron
Thesis: Exploring the Dependence of Bulges in Spiral Galaxies on Their Environment, William Jackson Clark
Dissertation: Design and Construction of a Longitudinally Polarized Solid Nuclear Target for CLAS12, Victoria Lagerquist
Dissertation: Optics Studies for Multipass Energy Recovery at CEBAF: ER@CEBAF, Isurumali Neththikumara
Dissertation: Measurements of Magnetic Field Penetration of Materials for Superconducting Radiofrequency Cavities, Iresha Harshani Senevirathne
Dissertation: Nb3Sn Coating of Twin Axis Cavity and Other Complex SRF Cavity Structures, Jayendrika Kumari Tiskumara
Theses/Dissertations from 2022
Dissertation: Dual Energy Electron Storage Ring Cooler Design for Relativistic Ion Beams, Bhawin Dhital
Dissertation: Experimental Investigation of All-Optical Production of Metastable Krypton, Joshua Carl Frechem
Dissertation: Multi-Technique Characterization of Superconducting Materials for Particle Accelerator Applications, Junki Makita
Dissertation: Investigating Gluonic Operators in Coordinate Space, Wayne Henry Morris III
Dissertation: Characterization of Losses in Superconducting Radio-Frequency Cavities by Combined Temperature and Magnetic Field Mapping, Ishwari Prasad Parajuli
Thesis: Development of High Conductivity Copper Coatings for SRF Cavity, Himal Pokhrel
Dissertation: Studies of BONuS12 Radial GEM Detector and TCS Beam Spin Asymmetry in CLAS12, Jiwan Poudel
Dissertation: Ion Production and Mitigation in DC High-Voltage Photo-Guns, Joshua T. Yoskowitz
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
Dissertation: Quasiclassical Computations of Compton-Scattered Spectra, Erik Scott Johnson
Dissertation: Exploring QCD Factorization at Moderate Energy Scales, Eric Alan Moffat
Dissertation: J/ψ Photoproduction Near Threshold With CLAS12, Joseph Newton
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
Dissertation: Spectator Proton Detection and Reconstruction in Deep Inelastic D(E,EPS) Scattering, David Payette
Dissertation: Space Charge Effects in Low Energy Magnetized Electron Beams, W. M. Sajini Anushika Kumari Wijethunga
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
Dissertation: Molecular Spectroscopy: A Study of Molecules in Earth and Planetary Atmospheres, Mahdi Yousefi Atashgah
Dissertation: Simulation and Development of the Radial Time Projection Chamber for the BONuS12 Experiment in CLAS12, Nathan M. Dzbenski
Dissertation: Trend Analyses of the Abundances of Atmospheric Molecules, Anton Fernando
Dissertation: Deeply Virtual Compton Scattering at Hall A, Jefferson Lab, Mohamed Nuhman Hashir Rashad
Dissertation: Measurement of Pion-Pion Final State Interactions in η → π +π −γ with CLAS at Jefferson Lab, Torri C. Jeske
Dissertation: Measurement of the Photon Beam Asymmetry in γP → K+Σ0 at Eγ = 8.5 GeV with GlueX, Nilanga Indrajie Wickramaarachchi
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
Dissertation: Effect of Alkali on the Efficiency and Reliability of Cu(In,Ga)Se2 Solar Cells, Shankar Karki
Dissertation: Validation of Neutrino Energy Estimation Using Electron Scattering Data, Mariana Khachatryan
Dissertation: Characterization of Argon and Ar/Cl2 Plasmas Used for the Processing of Niobium Superconducting Radio-Frequency Cavities, Jeremy J. Peshl
Dissertation: Optical Excitation of Metastable Krypton and Photoassociative Spectroscopy of Ultracold RbAr, Grady R. White
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
Dissertation: Ion Bunch Formation Strategies for the JLEIC Collider, Bamunuvita Randika Prasad Gamage
Dissertation: Crab Cavity Requirements for the Jefferson Lab Electron-Ion Collider, Salvador Isaac Sosa Güitrón
Thesis: Fabrication of an Apparatus for All-Optical Production of Metastable Krypton, Lindsay M. Thornton
Dissertation: Development of a 300 KV DC High Voltage Photogun and Beam Based Studies of Alkali Antimonide Photocathodes, Yan Wang
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
Dissertation: R&D of a High-Performance DIRC Detector For a Future Electron-Ion Collider, Stacey Lee Allison
Dissertation: Nuclear Chiral Axial Currents and Applications to Few-Nucleon Systems, Alessandro Baroni
Dissertation: Crabbing System for an Electron-Ion Collider, Alejandro Castilla
Dissertation: Inverse Compton Light Source: A Compact Design Proposal, Kirsten Elizabeth Deitrick
Thesis: Test of New Readout Electronics for the BONuS12 Experiment, Mathieu Ehrhart
Dissertation: Instrument Design Optimization with Computational Methods, Michael H. Moore
Dissertation: Photoproduction and Radiative Decay of ηt Meson in CLAS at JLAB, Georgie Mbianda Njencheu
Dissertation: Nonlinear Dynamics of Vortices in Different Types of Grain Boundaries, Ahmad K. Sheikhzada
Dissertation: Searching for Heavy Photons With Detached Vertices in the Heavy Photon Search Experiment, Holly Szumila-Vance
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
Dissertation: CEBAF Upgrade Bunch Length Measurements, Mahmoud Mohamad Ali Ahmad
Thesis: Discipline-Based Planetary Education Research and Computational Fluid Dynamics Analysis of Mars, Filis Coba
Dissertation: Emergence of Collective Light Scattering in Atomic 87Rb Samples, Kasie Jean Kemp
Dissertation: Investigation of Multi-Photon Excitation in Argon with Applications in Hypersonic Flow Diagnostics, Jack L. Mills
Dissertation: Forward Light Scattering in an Extended Sample of Cold Atoms, Stetson Roof
Dissertation: Electroproduction of Neutral Pion Off Helium-4, Bayram Torayev
Dissertation: Plasma Processing of Superconducting Radio Frequency Cavities, Janardan Upadhyay
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
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
Dissertation: Photoassociative Spectroscopy of Ultracold Argon and Krypton Confined in a Magneto Optical Trap, Maha Khaled Omar
Dissertation: Studies of Two-Nucleon Interactions and Few-Body Electromagnetic Structure in Chiral Effective Field Theory, Maria Piarulli
Dissertation: Meson Photo-Couplings From Lattice Quantum Chromodynamics, Christian J. P. Shultz
Dissertation: Catalysis of Stark-Tuned Interactions Between Ultracold Rydberg Atoms, Aye Lu Win
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
Dissertation: Direct Measurements of Two Photon Exchange on Lepton-Proton Elastic Scattering Using Simultaneous Electron-Positron Beams in CLAS, Dasuni Kalhari Adikaram
Dissertation: Investigation and Optimization of a New Compact Superconducting Cavity for Deflecting and Crabbing Applications, Subashini Uddika De Silva
Dissertation: Measurement of Single and Double Spin Asymmetries in Semi-Inclusive Deep-Inelastic Scattering on Proton and Deuteron, Suman Bandhu Koirala
Dissertation: Photoproduction of π0 on Hydrogen With CLAS From 1.1 GeV - 5.45 GeV Using e+e –γ Decay, Michael C. Kunkel
Dissertation: Analytic Evolution of Singular Distribution Amplitudes in QCD, Asli Tandogan
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
Dissertation: Measurement of the Spin Structure Function GD1 of the Deuteron and Its Moments at Low Q2, Krishna P. Adhikari
Dissertation: Three-Point Correlator and Pion Form Factor in Quantum Chromodynamics: Methods of Calculation for Two-Loop Spectral Density, Islam Bedir
Dissertation: Visualizing and Understanding Tectonism and Volcanism on Earth and Other Terrestrial Bodies, Mladen M. Dordevic
Dissertation: Measurement of Polarized Proton-Proton Elastic Scattering at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), Ivan Koralt
Dissertation: Double Spin Asymmetry in d →(e→e'p)n, Michael Mayer
Dissertation: Characterization of Microwave Discharge Plasmas for Surface Processing, Milka Nikolic
Dissertation: Spin Dependence in Polarized Proton-Proton Elastic Scattering at RHIC, Donika Plyku
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
Dissertation: Single and Double Spin Asymmetries for Pion Electro-Production From the Deuteron in the Resonance Region, Sharon L. Careccia
Dissertation: Case Studies in Many-Body Physics, Ana Samolov
Dissertation: Laser Processing of Metals and Polymers, Senthilraja Singaravelu
Dissertation: Application of Chebyshev Formalism to Identify Nonlinear Magnetic Field Components in Beam Transport System, Michael Spata
Dissertation: Modeling, Visualizing, and Understanding Complex Tectonic Structures on the Surface and in the Sub-Surface, Steven Wild
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
Dissertation: Triple Coincidence Beam Spin Asymmetry Measurements in Deeply Virtual Compton Scattering, Mustafa Canan
Dissertation: Excitation-Induced Ge Quantum Dot Growth on Si(100)-2X1 by Pulsed Laser Deposition, Ali Oguz Er
Dissertation: Epistemic Strategies for Solving Two-Dimensional Physics Problems, Mary Elyse Hing-Hickman
Dissertation: Compensation Techniques in Accelerator Physics, Hisham Kamal Sayed
Dissertation: Photoproduction of the Φ(1020) Meson in Neutral Decay Mode γP → ΦP → K(S)K(L)P, Heghine Seraydaryan
Theses/Dissertations from 2010
Dissertation: Spectroscopic Study of Ultracold Rubidium Atoms in an Optical Dipole Force Trap, Eman Mohammed Ahmed
Dissertation: Feasibility and Conceptual Design of a C.W. Positron Source at CEBAF, Serkan Golge
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
Dissertation: Nuclear Electromagnetic Currents in Chiral Effective Field Theory, Saori Pastore
Dissertation: Exclusive π- Electro-Production From the Neutron in the Resonance Region, Jixie Zhang
Theses/Dissertations from 2009
Dissertation: Light Scattering in Ultracold High Density Rubidium Vapor, Salim Balik
Dissertation: High-Energy Amplitudes in Gauge Theories in the Next-to-Leading-Order, Giovanni Antonio Chirilli
Dissertation: Characterization of Microwave Cavity Discharges in a Supersonic Flow, Dareth Janette Drake
Dissertation: Comparative Study of Forward and Diffusely Scattered Light in a Coherently Prepared Ultracold Rubidium Gas, Rocio Gisel Olave Gonzalez
Dissertation: Spin Structure of the Deuteron, Nevzat Guler
Dissertation: Neutron Structure Functions Measured with Spectator Tagging, Svyatoslav Tkachenko
Theses/Dissertations from 2008
Dissertation: Investigation of (E, 2E) Collisions and Related Phenomena, Jason Manuel Martinez
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
Dissertation: Measurements of Correlated Pair Momentum Distributions in -3He(e,e',p,p)n with CLAS, Hovhannes Baghdasaryan
Theses/Dissertations from 2006
Thesis: Running Coupling Constant and Transition From Low to High Energies in Quantum Chromodynamics, Alexander Babansky