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Honors Theses in Physics and Astronomy

Honors Theses from 2023 2023

Detecting High-Lying Rydberg States using Two-Step Electromagnetically Induced Transparency and Frequency Modulation Spectroscopy Techniques, Kate Jensen

Honors Theses from 2022 2022

Apparatus Improvement and Characterisation for Experiments on Ultra-cold Plasmas., Jakub Bystrický

Gravity as a Gauge Theory in the Poincare Group, Yu Zhi

Honors Theses from 2021 2021

MOT-based Lifetime Measurements of Potassium-39 5p1/2 and 5p3/2 States, Huan Q. Bui

Investigating the AGN-Merger Connection Using Close Galaxy Pairs in the CANDELS Fields, Sean L. Dougherty

Stimulated neutrino oscillations in supernova, Shannon J. Gray

Honors Theses from 2020 2020

Quantum Defect Measurements for High Angular Momentum Rydberg States of Potassium, Abraham Hill

Effects of Energy Resolution and Bin Size on the Measurements of Nuclear Neutron Distributions Using Coherent Elastic Neutrino-nucleus Scattering, Hongyong Zhang

Honors Theses from 2019 2019

Finding Obscure Black Hole Growth via Spectral Energy Distribution Modeling, Randall K. Chan

Expansion of an Ultracold Neutral Plasma, Yin Li

Honors Theses from 2016 2016

Resonant Collisions of Potassium Atoms, Philip Michael Adamson

Honors Theses from 2015 2015

Construction and Optimization of a Tapered Amplifier System for Applications in Ultra-Cold Plasma Research, Ryan Cole

Quantum Effects in Gravity: The Ambiguous Vacuum, Kelvin K. Lui

Honors Theses from 2014 2014

Quantumness and Coherence in Photosynthesis, Brian Doolittle

The Talbot Effect, Malia Kawamura

Honors Theses from 2013 2013

Massive Quiescent Disk Galaxies in the CANDELS Survey, Aurora Y. Kesseli

Massive Gravity Theories, Greg Seyfarth

Honors Theses from 2012 2012

Isometries and Spontaneous Lorentz Violation in General Relativity, Greg Merritt

Electronic Detection of Ultra Cold Neutral Plasma, Nirakar Poudel

Honors Theses from 2009 2009

Diagnostics for Ultracold Plasma Experiments, Lauren Rand

Honors Theses from 2008 2008

Diffeomorphism invariance in general relativity, John P. Chung

Hamiltonian constraint analysis of vector field theories with spontaneous Lorentz symmetry breaking, Nolan L. Gagne

Search for novel molecular species formed by cold Rydberg atoms in a magneto-optical trap, Alexander Gill

Foundations and interpretations of quantum mechanics, Cory Johnson

Interactions of Electrons and Rydberg Atoms in Ultra-Cold Plasmas, Cristian Vesa

Diode Lasers for use in experiments on cold Rydberg Atoms, Bill Whitledge

Honors Theses from 2007 2007

External Control of Electron Temperature in Ultra-cold Plasmas, Roy O. Wilson

Honors Theses from 2006 2006

Vector Theory of Spontaneous Lorentz Violation, Shu Hong Fung

Honors Theses from 2004 2004

Spontaneous evolution of cold Rydberg atoms to plasma, Jennifer Carini