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Item withdrawn by Mark Zulauf (zulauf@illinois.edu) on 2013-05-21T15:27:15Z Item was in collections: University of Illinois Theses & Dissertations (ID: 1) No. of bitstreams: 1 Chakraborty_Nachiketa.pdf: 1353171 bytes, checksum: 2370abaa785a3310bcbe9514150a39c2 (MD5) Nuclear and particle astrophysics comprises of applying standard principles of nuclear and particle physics to astronomical systems and making predictions for observation. Also, extreme environments in astronomical systems often serve as a probe for re-evaluating fundamental principles of physics and astronomy. The research described here comprises of both these aspects of nuclear and particle astrophysics. There are two broad themes : primordial nucleosynthesis and cosmic gamma-ray sources. As a part of the first theme, the ``cosmological lithium problem'', and a possible nuclear physics solution to it is examined. The theoretical prediction of the abundance of Li7 produced in the big bang exceeds the observationally inferred abundance by a factor of 3-4, that is very difficult to explain within the Standard Model of particle physics and cosmology. The possibility of missed nuclear resonances in the network of nuclear reactions used to compute the theoretical primordial abundance is discussed. Three such candidate resonances are found prompting experiments to either find them or rule them out. In the light of recent experiments eliminating the most promising of these candidates, requirement of new physics beyond the Standard Model looms large as a a possible solution. In the second area of research, properties of cosmic gamma-ray emitting sources such as star forming galaxies and blazars are studied. The gamma-ray sky has contributions from these guaranteed sources and potentially others such as particle dark matter. In the light of this, gamma-rays properties of the guaranteed astronomical sources as spectral slope, photon count statistics and polarisation of X-rays and soft gamma-rays is studied in the hope of achieving the broad goal of understanding the underlying physics of radiative emission of these sources and hopefully disentangling these ``foregrounds'' from other exotic sources such as particle dark matter. Fields, Brian D. Fields, Brian D. Ricker, Paul M. Kemball, Athol J. Peng, Jen-Chieh Chakraborty, Nachiketa 2013-08-22T16:55:55Z 2013-08-22T16:55:55Z 2015-08-22T10:00:46Z 2013-08 2013-08-22T16:55:55Z 2013-08 Made available in DSpace on 2013-08-22T16:55:55Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 Nachiketa_Chakraborty.pdf: 1352506 bytes, checksum: efc15b854b10c9f95bacce983cc5854f (MD5) license.txt: 4071 bytes, checksum: 0177bc67e039ca3e856e947a71a07320 (MD5) Restriction data tranferred 2014-07-01T11:36:25-05:00 Original Data Group with Access Administrator Release Date: 2015-08-22 11:57:26 UTC Reason: Author requested closed access (OA after 2yrs) in Vireo ETD system Item marked as restricted to the 'Administrator' Group (id=1) by Seth Robbins (srobbins@illinois.edu) on 2013-08-22T16:57:32Z Item is restricted until 2015-08-22T16:57:26Z Limited Restriction Lifted for Item 45610 on 2015-08-22T10:00:46Z. http://hdl.handle.net/2142/45628 en Copyright 2013 Nachiketa Chakraborty Nuclear astrophysics Particle astrophysics Gamma rays Cosmic rays Nucleosynthesis Polarisation Standard model foregrounds in nuclear and particle astrophysics text Astronomy 1430 Astronomy 0333 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Dissertation Ph.D. PHD:Astronomy -UIUC 10KS0333PHD