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The Search for White Dwarf Binaries in Astronomical Survey Data
(2021-07-23)
Extremely low mass (ELM) white dwarfs are excellent laboratories for studying a variety of astrophysical phenomena, including common-envelope evolution, gravitational wave emission, and merger physics. A significant amount ...
Evolution and Stability of Ultra-Wide Trans-Neptunian Binaries
(2023-08-04)
This research is focused around the longevity and formation of a class of binaries in the Kuiper Belt called Ultra-Wide Trans-Neptunian Binaries (Ultra-Wide TNBs). The presence of these seemingly fragile binary systems ...
Probing Flavor Changing Higgs Interactions at LHC and Future Hadron Colliders
(2020-08)
In this dissertation, we discuss the prospect of discovering flavor changing neutral Higgs (FCNH) interactions with quarks and leptons at current and future hadron colliders. Particularly, we have looked for $t \to c h^0$ ...
Phenomenology of the String Theory Landscape
(2022)
In this dissertation, we perform a thorough phenomenological study of the string theory landscape. To this end, we compare and contrast the data collected from particle accelerators and detectors against various models of ...
AGN and their environment: a multi-wavelength photometric and spectroscopic study of AGN and galaxy clusters, and the co-evolution of AGN and the large scale structures
(2022)
Active galactic nuclei (AGN) are the central engines hosted by most of the galaxies in the universe and are believed to be actively accreting supermassive black holes. The growth of the central black hole is very closely ...
Molecular beam epitaxial growth of interband cascade structures with advances in InAs- and GaSb-based interband cascade lasers
(2023-04-21)
Interband cascade lasers (ICLs) based on the type-II quantum well (QW) active region have attracted much interest over the years, in large part due to their low power consumption. Their operation hinges on two key features; ...
WEAK SCALE SUPERSYMMETRY FROM THE MULTIVERSE
(2020)
The CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has not found any experimental evidence yet for Supersymmetric (SUSY) particles. This has pushed the limits on the masses of SUSY particles in the multi-TeV region high enough to question ...
High Contrast Imaging of Planet-forming Disks with Extreme Adaptive Optics Systems
(2022)
Circumstellar disks serve as benchmark systems to study how and where exoplanets form. With the advent of ground-based extreme adaptive optics (AO) facilities, we have entered a revolutionary era for disk studies. It is ...
The dark universe: the interplay of cosmological moduli, axions, and the MSSM
(2023-05)
In this work, we introduce two effective field theories which parameterize a light modulus field interacting both with the MSSM ($\phi$MSSM) and with the MSSM combined with an additional supersymmetric DFSZ axion ($\phi$PQMSSM). ...
New structural insights of alkanethiol self-assembled monolayers on the Au(111): a molecular dynamics and density functional theory study
(2021-12)
Self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) of alkanethiol molecules have been widely studied over the last three decades because of their diverse applications in the biomedical, nanotechnology, surface science, and electronics. It ...