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New ideas for Yukawa interactions and the origin of mass
(2011-07)
I explore new ideas in the Yukawa sector of the Standard Model. Very little is known experimentally about the Yukawa sector. We have yet to discover the Higgs boson. We have not experimentally measured the Yukawa couplings. ...
Evaluation of specialty fibers and waveguides for ultrashort laser pulse propagation
(2008-05)
Ultrashort pulse lasers have become invaluable tools in many areas of science and technology. Optical waveguide or fiber delivery of ultrashort pulses would benefit numerous applications that require remote location of the ...
Transport and resonances in kicked Bose-Einstein condensates
(2010-12)
Scope and Method of Study: A purpose of this research was to study the scaling behavior of resonances of a periodically kicked quantum system. Specifically, a model known as a quantum delta-kicked rotor (QDKR) was implemented ...
Development of optically stimulated luminescence dating techniques for application to terrestrial and martian studies
(2005-12)
Scope and Method of Study: Geological processes including aeolian and fluvial activity have shaped the surface of Mars. The temporal timescale on which these events have taken is place is important for understanding the ...
Phenomenology of extra dimensions
(2006-07)
Scope and Method of Study: In this thesis, we propose three different methods to look for the existence of extra dimensions as predicted by the Universal Extra Dimensions (UED) with fat brane scenario. After a brief ...
Supersymmetry, grand unification and flavor symmetry
(2006-07)
In this thesis I have presented the findings of my research pursued during my Ph.D. study. The purpose of this thesis was to study different theoretical ideas in high energy physics model building addressed primarily towards ...
Antiferromagnetic spinor condensates in microwave dressing fields and optical lattices
(2015-12)
In this thesis, I present the design and construction of several experimental parts, e.g., a spin-flip Zeeman slower, a fast feedback circuit, and some magnetic field driving circuits. An efficient method of optimizing the ...
Fermion masses and new symmetries beyond the standard model
(2010-12)
The Standard Model (SM) lacks a satisfactory explanation for the large hierarchy of the fermion masses. The use of extra symmetries is used to create a mechanism to explain this hierarchy.