Northern Illinois University
Department of Physics
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

This section displays theses and dissertations from 2020 onward. For earlier listings, see the accordion below.

2020 and Later

• Abdul-Razak Iddrisu, Ph.D., June 2024
  Using Ex-situ and In-situ Mössbauer Spectroscopy to Study the Degradation of NaFe(1-x)(Ni0.5Mn0.5)xO2 Batteries
  Advisor: Dennis Brown
• Matthew Dudak, M.S., June 2024
  Advisor: Michael Eads
• Timothy Draher, Ph.D., March 2024, Design and Performance of Superconducting Switches for Nanowirem Detectors in Magnetic Fields
• Kaela Villafania, M.S., March 2024, Cold Testing of a Prototype Superconducting Radiofrequency Electron Gun
• Mark Crowell, M.S., March 2024, Microwave Simulations of a Beam Position Monitor & Circuit Designs
• William Baker, Ph.D., March 2024, Theory of Ultrafast Spin Crossover in Divalent Iron Systems
• Austin Dick, Ph.D., October 2023, Computational Modeling & Potential Applications of Optical Stochastic Cooling
• Alister Tencate, Ph.D., September 2023, A High-Precision Electron Emission Model: Computational Methods for Nanoscale Structures
• Spencer Kelham, M.S., September 2023, Simulations of Electro-Optically Sampled Arbitrarily Shaped Electron Bunches
• Prudhvi Raj Varma Chintalapati, Ph.D., June 2023, Systematic Study of Projection Biases in Weak Lensing Analysis
• Nicholas Yee, M.S., June 2023, Verification of Proton Range Predictions in Proton Treatment Planning
• Zamiul Alam, M.S., June 2023, The Standard Model Precision Parameters at 200 GeV
• Joseph Piet, M.S., June 2023, Applications of Proton Imaging in Proton Cancer Treatments
• Elena Krivyakina, Ph.D., June 2023, Strongly-correlated Electron Systems: Alkaline & Rare-earth Perovskites
• Sarah Choate, M.S., March 2023, Identifying Tau Neutrino Charged Current Events in the DUNE Far Detector
• Mark Mekosh, M.S., March 2023, Using ML to Search for Vector Boson Scattering at the CMS Detector
• Pupsa Upreti, Ph.D., March 2023, Diffuse Scattering & 3D-ΔPDF Analyses: (Sr1-xCax)3Rh4Sn13 and NaNO2
• Dillon Merenich, M.S., March 2023, Design and Cold Test of a Metamaterial Accelerating Structure
• Marc Pavlik, Ph.D., March 2023, The Dynamics of Liquids & Glasses Using Nuclear Resonance Interferometry
• Saba Fatima, Ph.D., January 2023, Using Machine Learning to Predict Student Outcomes
• Cassandra Phillips, M.S., October 2022, Modeling of sub-THz Wakefield Structures for Electron-Beam Acceleration
• Emily Frame, M.S., October 2022, An Upgraded Photoinjector for the Argonne Wakefield Accelerator
• Elliot Parrish, Ph.D., October 2022, Search for Charged Higgs Bosons in Tau+Lepton Final State (139 fb-1, ATLAS)
• Brianna Dwyer, Ph.D., October 2022, Measuring Diphoton Production from Higgs Decays & in Association with HF Jets
• Aaakash Narayanan, Ph.D., September 2022, Third-integer Resonant Extraction Regulation System for Mu2e
• Wei Hou Tan, Ph.D., June 2022, Compact Wakefield Accelerator with Advanced Beam Manipulations
• Ramanpreet Singh, Ph.D., June 2022, Studies of Vector Boson Scattering (Semileptonic Channel) with CMS
• Tianzhe Xu, Ph.D., June 2022, Precise Phase-Space Control for Future Linear Colliders
• Timothy Draher, M.S., February 2022, Magnetic Charge Ordering of Pinwheel Artificial Spin Ice
• Benjamin Simons, M.S., October 2021, Beam Phase Space Diagnostic Techniques Along Fermilab Muon Campus
• Danylo Lykov, M.S., October 2021, Tensor Network Approach for Simulation of Quantum Many-Body Systems
• Brendan Leung, M.S., October 2021, Spectral Analysis of Cyclotron Radiation for Electron Beam Diagnostics
• Bisham Poudel, Ph.D., June 2021, Superconducting Cuprates: Synthesis & Diffuse Scattering
• Ryan Stadel, Ph.D., June 2021, Shared Magnetic Phases Among Iron-Pnictide Superconductors
• Prudhvi N. Bhattiprolu, June 2021, Signal-background Analysis for New Physics at Colliders
• Afnan Al Marzouk, Ph.D., June 2021, Collisional Methods with Applications to Charged Particle Beams
• Osama Mohsen, Ph.D., June 2021, Design & Optimization of Superconducting RF Electron Sources
• Christina Sarosiek, Ph.D., May 2021, Clinical Applications & Feasibility of Proton CT & Proton Radiography
• Christopher Marshall, M.S., August 2020, Development of an Electron-Beam Halo Diagnostics
• Aaron Fetterman, M.S., December 2020, Photoinjector Generation of High-charge Magnetized Beams
• Sebastian Szustkowski, Ph.D., October 2020, Nonlinear Integrable Optics Beam Dynamics Experiment & Diagnostics
• Jeremiah Mitchell, Ph.D., September 2020, On Systematics & Mitigation in MAGIS-100 to Explore the Dark Sector
• Kevin Hamilton, M.S., September 2020, On the Self-Force Problem of Point-Like Charged Particles
• Deblina Das, M.S., June 2020, Synthesis of Pb2Sr2Sm1-xCaxCu3O8 & Superconducting Properties
• Puja Saha, Ph.D., March 2020, Search for Higgs Pair Production in the bb–– Final State (ATLAS)