# Browse Dissertations and Theses - Physics by Title

• (1990)
The mass of the W vector boson has been measured from an analysis of $W \to\ \mu\ \nu$ decays in the CDF detector at the Fermilab Tevatron $\bar p p$ collider. The mass is 79.90 $\pm$ 0.53(stat.) $\pm$ 0.31(sys.) $\pm$ ...

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• (1977)
Various differences and similarities of warm and cold frontogenesis are numerically modeled. The hydrostatic, adiabatic, Boussinesq primitive equations are integrated on a two dimensional grid. The frontogenesis is forced ...

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• (1998)
To perform electronic structure calculations on inhomogenous systems, it is desirable to use methods which adapt to the problem by using a spatially-varying level of resolution. A wavelet basis can efficiently represent ...

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• (2004)
Neutrino interactions play a crucial role in many astrophysical environments such as core-collapse supernovae and neutron stars. In this work, reaction rates for neutrino emission, absorption and scattering are calculated ...

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• (1978)
X radiation from degenerate stars is produced by the impact of accreting matter with the stellar surface. The resulting X-ray and UV spectrum gives vital clues about the nature of the underlying star and the extreme ...

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• (1970)
Measurements of integrated intensities of X-ray Bragg reflections have been made as a function of temperature on two large single crystal specimens of solid krypton. These data have been interpreted in terms of a Debye ...

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• (1971-06)
Measurements of integrated intensities of x-ray Bragg reflections have been made as a function of temperature on large grains of two solid neon specimens. These data have been interpreted in terms of two Debye characteristic ...

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• (1977)
New methods were developed and applied both to obtain very precise x-ray lattice parameters along the melting curves of solid argon and solid krypton and to measure changes in vacancy concentrations along quasi-isochores ...

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• (1996-05)
At low densities the helium solids are highly quantum in nature, with the small atomic mass and weak interactive forces giving rise to large vibrational motions of the atoms about their mean lattice sites. While these ...

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• (1982)

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• (1997)
An experimental study of the interfacial structures at the Cu(111) surface under various electrochemical environments is presented. The interfacial structures have been examined with the synchrotron x-ray diffraction. ...

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• (1986)
Norm conserving pseudopotentials are implemented in the Hartree Fock formalism to study the local electronic response to X-Ray absorption in alkali metals and alloys. The pseudopotentials are tested in a variety of ...

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• (1982)

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• (2013-05-24)
The results of x-ray scattering experiments on orbitally ordered KCuF3 and periodic arrays of stripe-like ferroelectric domains in epitaxial thin films of multiferroic BiFeO3 are presented in this dissertation. Both resonant ...

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• (1993)
Gallium arsenide-silicon heterostructures combine complementary electronic and structural properties to greater technological potential. The large 4% mismatch in lattice parameter between the two semiconductors strongly ...

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• (2002-12)
Analysis of thermal diffuse scattering of x-rays (TDS) has recently shown great promise as a tool for phonon studies, complementing more traditional neutron scattering techniques. Quasi-elastic x-ray scattering from thermally ...

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• (2005)
Real time in situ synchrotron x-ray studies of continuous Pb deposition on Si(111)-(7 × 7) at 180 K reveal an unusual growth behavior. A wetting layer forms first to cover the entire surface. Then islands of a fairly ...

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