Thesis Database

Graduate Degrees

Year	Name	Degree	Title
2024	Jizhong Liu	MSc	Beta-delayed proton emission of magnesium-20 and the RCMP silicon detector array
2024	Vijay Kumar	PhD	Measurement of the pion exclusive electro-production cross-section in the E12-19-006 experiment in Hall-C at Jefferson Lab
2024	Varun Neelamana	PhD	Beam asymmetry in the reaction channel γp→ηΔ + at Glue X
2024	Azizah Mahmood	MSc	Machine Learning on simulated forward calorimeter upgrade for JEF
2024	Luan Koerich	PhD	Development of scintillator-based components for the photosensor system for the Intermediate Water Cherenkov Detector of the Hyper-K experiment and for the time of flight system of the Water Cherenkov Test Experiment
2023	Jerit Mitchell	MSc	Unprecedented preservation of soft tissues and organic matter in fossils characterized by synchrotron radiation techniques
2023	Karthik Suresh	PhD	Partial wave analysis of Neutral b1 Meson at GlueX
2023	Shafakat Arifeen	MSc	Searching for a Pion-Like Dark Sector at MoEDAL-MAPP
2023	Love Preet	MSc	Understanding hadronic mass through light meson structure at the EIC
2023	Shweta	MSc	Performance evaluation of BioPET detector for plant-imaging
2023	Shayaan Sajid	MSc	Studying the background response of Minihalo for design optimizations
2022	Jay Parikh	MSc	Implementation of crystal mapping and energy calibration procedures for PET block detectors with pixelated scintillators
2022	Nastaran Saei	MSc	Gamma-decay spectroscopy of ²⁶Na
2021	Mark Comte	MSc	An Investigation into Seeding the Solar System Via Terrestrial Meteorites
2020	Shivani Sharma	MSc	High-precision half-life measurement of ¹⁴O
2020	Divyaben Patel	MSc	Study of a neutron reflector for the HALO-1kT supernovae neutrino detector
2019	Teagan Beattie	PhD	Measurement of the beam asymmetry for the η and η’ mesons with the GlueX experiment
2019	Anezka Kolaceke	PhD	Applications of synchroton radiation techniques to the study of taphonomic alterations and preservation in fossils
2019	Rory Evans	MSc	SoLID heavy gas cherenkov and DEMP event generator
2019	Lowell Peltier	MSc	Vulcanoids: An examination of the intra-Mercurial region
2018	Ryan Ambrose	MSc	Blinded by the light: Commissioning of the Hall C SHMS heavy gas Cherenkov detector
2018	Kyle Thompson	MSc	Simulation study of a high resolution PET detector module with depth of interaction information
2017	Dilli Paudyal	PhD	Spin polarizability of a qroton using polarized photon beam and polarized butanol target at Mainz microtron
2017	Li Wenliang	PhD	Exclusive backward-angle omega meson electroproduction
2017	Samip Basnet	MSc	Deep exclusive pseudoscalar meson production at Jefferson Lab Hall C
2015	Jamie Stoker	MSc	Applications of silicon photomultipliers in personal radiation detection and nuclear imaging
2013	Shaun Krueger	MSc	SiPM arrays as readouts for the GlueX barrel calorimeter
2013	Thomas Tolhurst	MSc	An effective polychromatic x-ray beam for quantitative analysis of fossil compositions
2012	Caio Licciardi	PhD	Measurement of single positive pion production in neutrino neutral current interactions in the ND280 detector and particle identification with the fine grained detector at T2K
2012	Mehrnoosh Tahani	MSc	Large area multipixel photon counters on the search for exotic hybrid mesons at GlueX
2012	Li Wenliang	MSc	Heavy gas Cherenkov detector construction for Hall C at Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
2011	Stamatios Katsaganis	MSc	The electromagnetic calorimeter of the GlueX particle detector
2010	Blake Leverington	PhD	The GlueX lead-scintillating fibre electromagnetic calorimeter
2010	Kathryn Janzen	MSc	Optimization of performance parameters for large area silicon photomultipliers
2010	Shaun Szymanski	MSc
2006	Gergana Koleva	MSc	Beam tests for the GlueX barrel calorimeter prototype
2003	Scott Dumalski	MSc
2002	Akihisa Shinozaki	PhD	Total cross sections for the (γ,π⁺π^–) process on ²H and ¹²C from 550 to 1105 MeV
2002	Neil Knecht	PhD
2002	Shaohong Li	MSc	Extraction of proton form factors with ratio constraint
2000	Andre Fleck	MSc
1998	George Zainea	MSc	Small angle rejection and study of inelastic events in the Jefferson lab focal plane polarimeter
1997	Marius Iurescu	MSc	Calibration and analysis of the ³He(γ,π⁺π^–) reaction using the TAGX spectrometer
1996	H. Asher Wienerman	MSc	Calibration and analysis of the vector meson data from TAGX
1994	Luiza Alexa	MSc	Model and empirical tests of the aerogel Cherenkov detector for CEBAF
1994	David Watts	MSc	The reaction ³He(γ,π⁺π^–) in the region above the Delta resonance 380 < E_γ < 700 MeV
1988	Garth Huber	PhD	Proton induced pion production from light nuclei in the region of the Δ₁₂₃₂ resonance

Undergraduate Degrees

Year	Name	Degree	Title
2024	Dhruval Shah	BSc	Superallowed ft values and Wilkinson's methods
2023	Madison Blatchford	BSc	Trans Neptunian objects
2023	Trey Chernoff	BSc	Using synchrotron radiation to search for blood vessel structures and preserved soft tissue in dinosaur bones from the Cretaceous period
2021	Breanna Crompvoets	BSc	Simple parametrized models of resonance structures within the distant trans-Neptunian belt
2021	James Giroux	BSc	A novel multi-purpose variational clustering architecture applied to neutron ID within the GlueX BCAL
2020	Nathan Heinrich	BSc	Web based particle visualization using WebGL
2020	Azizah Mahmood	BSc	Evaluation of PET positioning algorithms
2020	Jerit Mitchell	BSc	Analysis of palaeontological samples from the cretaceous and palaeogene periods using computed tomography
2020	Julian Palandri	BSc	Creating a two-dimensional energy balance to study planetary atmosphere
2018	Colleen Henschel	BSc	In-field examination of root-microbial interactions using SPECT imaging
2018	Michael Hladun	BSc	Simulations of deep exclusive meson production at Jefferson Lab Hall C