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Browsing Honours Theses by Thesis (Degree/Level) "Bachelor of Science (Honours Physics)"

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Characterization study of the CsI (T1) detector array

Trottier, Corwin (Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2013)

The ISAC Charged Particle Spectroscopy Station (IRIS) at TRIUMF, Vancouver, Canada uses CsI(Tl)—a 16 component detector array composed of thallium-doped cesium iodide—for high resolution study of nuclear reactions. Each ...
Exploring the mass determination of [superscript 33] MG through the time-of-flight technique

McLeod, Pauline J. L. (Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2013)

Neutron-rich unstable isotopes are critical to our understanding of the origins of the heavy elements found on Earth. Their properties, such as mass and binding energy, enable us to look into the nuclear structure, and ...
Investigating performance of a scintillation radiation detector design

Murtha, Nathan J. (Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2015)

The Super BigBite Spectrometer project in Hall A of the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (JLab) is finalizing the design of a required radiation detector called the Coordinate Detector (CDet) for use in ...
Investigating the Borromean nucleus 29F at the neutron drip-line

Churchill, Jessica (Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2016)

A nuclear halo is a nucleus which has a large extended surface region of either one or two pro-tons or neutrons surrounding a compact core nucleus. A Borromean nucleus is a special case consisting of a core surrounded by ...
Investigating the excitation spectrum of [superscript 8]He from inelastic scattering with deuterons

O'Keefe, Colby (Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2022-04-26)

Rare isotopes are nuclei with very short half-lives and can have a large asymmetry of neutrons to protons. These isotopes can have unusual structures such as halos that can exhibit a phenomenon known as a Soft Dipole ...
Investigation of pressure and varied electric field effect on low pressure ionization chamber resolution

Mansour, Iymad R. (Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2016)

The ISAC charged particle reaction spectroscopy station (IRIS), is an experimental facility stationed at TRIUMF Vancouver. IRIS was developed to study direct reactions with rare isotope beams. It is a tremendous challenge ...
An investigation of spectral broadening by nonlinear optical effects in photonic crystal fibers

Harvey, MacAulay James (Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2021)

When a pulse of light with sufficient power moves through optical fiber its spectrum broadens as a result of nonlinear optical effects such as self-phase modulation, self-steepening, and stimulated Raman scattering. This ...
Magnetohydrodynamical simulations of the fragmentation of molecular cloud cores

Francis, Logan (Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2014)

Multiple star systems are quite common throughout the universe, so it is of interest to know what physical process may promote and prevent the fragmentation of a collapsing gas cloud that leads to multiple star system ...
On the hunt for dark photons : improving the tracking of vertical drift chambers

Linthorne, Dylan J. (Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2016)

The current standard model (SM) of particle physics does not account for the dark matter (DM) presence within the universe. A theoretically proposed new force, governed by a U(1) Boson, has been an ongoing subject of ...
On the theory of ambipolar diffusion, with applications to astrophysical jets

Power, Michael Thomas (Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2018)

Numerically simulated magnetohydrodynamical jets are not at all morphologically similar to most of those which are observed in nature. Jets in nature are actually quite morphologically similar to pure hydrodynamical ...
Performance assessment tests of multi-anode photomultiplier tube at Jefferson Lab

Campbell, Jessica N. A. (Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2013)

In nuclear physics, photomultiplier tubes (PMTs) are used to detect scintillation light resulting from high-energy reaction products for collision events passing through detector materials. The Thomas Jefferson National ...
A search for resonance states of [superscript12]Li

Park, Jared (Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2022-05-06)

The discovery of ¹¹Li halo nuclei structure sparked the development of research of exotic nuclei close to the neutron drip line. This includes research on ¹²Li which is unbound beyond the neutron drip ...
Search for the excited states of neutron-rich krypton isotopes

Roy-Garand, Sebastien (Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2020)

The complex nature of nuclear structure is governed by strongly interacting nucleons. As described by the nuclear Shell Model, the building blocks of atomic nuclei, protons and neutrons, arrange themselves in discrete ...