Browsing Theses and Dissertations - Department of Physics by Date "2012"
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Ion properties from high-L Rydberg atom spectroscopy: applications to nickel
An effective potential model describing high-L Rydberg states was systematically derived. The model assumes that the response of the core ion to the electric field of the Rydberg electron is at least approximately adiabatic; ... -
Constraints on the galactic magnetic field with two-point cumulative autocorrelation function
The fact that ultra high energy cosmic rays are charged particles complicates identication of their sources due to deflections by the intervening cosmic magnetic fields. The information about the fields is encoded in the ... -
Detection of small numbers of barium ions implanted in solid xenon for the EXO experiment
In an effort to discover the yet-unknown absolute masses of neutrinos, the goal of the Enriched Xenon Observatory is to observe neutrinoless double beta decay of 136Xe. Identification of this very rare decay may be difficult ... -
In-situ laser tagging of barium ions in liquid xenon for the EXO experiment
The goal of the Enriched Xenon Observatory (EXO) collaboration is to measure the half-life of neutrino-less double beta decay using a ton size liquid 136Xe detector with zero back-ground. Zero background detection can only ...
