| Student | Presentation | Project |
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Simulation of Galactic Dark Matter Interactions with Nuclei in the SuperCDMS Experiment Master's Defense Talk (.pdf) |
CDMS | |
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"Understanding the Response of Small High Voltage Single Crystal Dark Matter Detectors to Photons Using Simulations" Preliminary Examination (.pdf) "Validating the performance of the Trigger for the Super Cryogenic Dark Matter Experiment" Master's Defense Talk (.pdf) |
CDMS | |
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Upgrading the Readout Electronics for the SuperCDMS Experiment to Discover Dark Matter Master's Defense Talk (.pdf) |
CDMS | |
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Upgrading the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) with Charge Pixel Readout (Q-Pix): Using Simulations to Determine the Minimum Clock Speed that Does Not Sacrifice Resolution Master's Defense Talk (.pdf) |
DUNE | |
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Characterizing Photon and Neutron Responses in CDMS Detectors Using Real and Simulated Cf-252 Data Thesis Outline (.pdf) "Characterizing Photon and Neutron Responses in CDMS Detectors Using Real and Simulated Cf-252 Data" Preliminary Examination (.pdf) "Searching for Dark Matter: Simulating Interactions in the CDMS Detectors" Master's Defense Talk (.pdf) |
CDMS | |
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"Using simulation to understand phonon propagation and quasiparticle coupling in silicon/aluminum devices designed for quantum computing and dark matter searches" Preliminary Examination (.pdf) "The Search for Dark Matter: Next-Generation Simulation Tools for the CDMS Experiment" Master's Defense Talk (.pdf) |
CDMS | |
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"Simulation of Dark Matter and Standard Model Interactions in the SuperCDMS Soudan Experiment" Ph.D.'s Defense Talk (.pdf) & Thesis (.pdf) "Optimized Dark Matter Search using the SuperCDMS Soudan Data and Monte Carlo Simulations: Plan and Outline" Preliminary Examination (.pdf) & Thesis outline/proposal "Improving the Sensitivity of the CDMS Detector to Dark Matter Particles:Understanding and Rejecting Sources of Noise in the Experiment" Master's Defense Talk (.pdf) |
CDMS | |
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"Simulating WIMP-Nuclei Collisions in CDMS Detectors" Master's Defense Talk (.pdf) |
CDMS | |
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"SuperCDMS - Low Threshold Limits with Run 133 Data" Slides (.pdf) (March 2018) "Maximizing Sensitivity for the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search Low Threshold Analysis" Undergraduate Thesis (.pdf) |
CDMS | |
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"Extrapolation Technique Pitfalls in Asymmetry Measurements at Colliders" Master's Defense Talk (.pdf) |
Collider/Pheno | |
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"Measurement of the Forward-Backward Asymmetry of \(t\bar{t}\) at the Fermilab Tevatron" Ph.D., Defense Talk (.pdf) & Thesis (.pdf) -Thesis Proposal (.pdf) &Preliminary Examination (.pdf) "Prospects for Measuring the Neutralino Mass and Lifetime in Gauge Mediated SUSY Decays of a Higgs Boson at CDF" Masters Defense Talk (.pptx) |
Ph.D: Collider/CDF M.S.: Collider/Pheno |
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| "Trigger Algorithms for the SuperCDMS Dark Matter Search" Master's Defense Talk (.pdf) |
CDMS | |
| "Limit Setting and Optimization For New Particle Production At CDF Using Photon Timing" Undergraduate Thesis (.pdf) |
Collider/CDF | |
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"Searching for Dark Matter with the CDMS Detector" Master's Defense Talk (.pdf) |
CDMS | |
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"Efficiency Measurement of Momentum Imbalance Trigger for Supersymmetry Searches at CMS at the LHC" -Undergraduate Thesis (.pdf) &Bachelor Defense Talk (.pdf) |
Collider/CMS | |
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"Search for New Physics in the Exclusive Delayed Photon + Missing Transverse Energy Final State at CDF" Ph.D., Defense Talk (.pdf) & Thesis (.pdf) Preliminary Examination (.pdf) & Thesis Proposal (.pdf) "Supersymmetry, New Physics Prospects & Grid Computing" Masters Defense Talk (.ppt) |
Collider/CDF | |
| "Search for New Physics in the Exclusive Delayed Photon + Missing Transverse Energy Final State" Ph.D., Defense Talk (.pdf) & Thesis (.pdf) Preliminary Examination (.pdf) & Dissertation Proposal (.pdf) Phys. Rev B649 (2007) 73 & hep-ph/0611089 "Signals in the Co-annihilation Region of Supersymmetry at the LHC" Masters Defense Talk (.ppt) |
Collider/CDF | |
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"Searching for SUSY decays of the Higgs Boson in the Exclusive Photon + Missing
Transverse Energy Final State at CDF: Going Forward" Masters Defense Talk (.pdf) |
Collider/CDF | |
| "Search for New Physics in the Exclusive Delayed Gamma + MET Final State at CDF" -Thesis Proposal (.pdf) &Preliminary Examination (.pdf) "CMS Grid Computing at TAMU: Performance, Monitoring, and Current Status of the Brazos Cluster" Masters Defense Talk (.pptx)(.pdf) |
Collider/CDF | |
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"The TAMU CMS Tier 3 Site at the Brazos Cluster" Masters Defense Talk (.pdf) |
Collider/CDF | |
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"Search for Supersymmetry Using Diphoton Events in Proton-Antiproton Collisions at a Center of Mass Energy of 1.96 TeV" Ph.D., Defense Talk (.pdf) & Thesis(.pdf) Phys. Rev. Lett. 104 (2010) 011801 & hep-ex/0910.3606 Phys. Rev. D 78 (2008) 032015 & hep-ex/0804.1043 Phys. Rev. Lett. 99 (2007) 121801 & hep-ex/0704.0760 Preliminary Examination (.pdf) & Dissertation Proposal (.pdf) "Searches for Supersymmetry at the Tevatron Collider" Masters Defense Talk (.pdf) |
Collider/CDF | |
| Searching for Dark Matter in Particle Physics Experiments" Undergraduate Thesis Talk (.ppt) & Undergraduate Thesis (.pdf) Phys. Rev. D 78 (2008) 032015 & hep-ex/0804.1043 |
Collider/CDF | |
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Search for Heavy Long-Lived Particles that Decay to Photons in p-pbar Collisions at sqrt(s) = 1.96 TeV" Ph.D., Defense Talk (.ppt) & Thesis (.pdf) - Phys. Rev. D 78 (2008) 032015 & hep-ex/0804.1042 Phys. Rev. Lett. 99 (2007) 121801 & hep-ex/0704.0760 Preliminary Examination (.pdf) & Thesis Proposal (.ps) |
Collider/CDF | |
| "The Standard Model, Supersymmetry, and Zoofinder at CDF" Masters Defense Talk (.ppt) |
Collider/CDF |