In this thesis, I discuss the conformally symmetric (CS) Standard Model (SM) and the hidden sector extensions to address the hierarchy/ naturalness problem, the origin of electroweak (EW) symmetry breaking (SB), dark matter ...

The existence of unexpected states (states not predicted by the conventional quark model) in heavy Quarkonia, specifically Charmonium and Bottomonium like states, is of great interest to modern particle physics. States ...

Quantum chromodynamics (QCD) is the quantum field theory describing strong interactions. Hybrids in QCD, which are bound states consisting of a charm and an anticharm quark with a constituent gluon, have been theorized for ...

Measurements by OSIRIS, an infrared imaging system that measures emission from excited-state molecular oxygen, are used to retrieve mesospheric ozone through a photochemical model. The design of the model and the spectral ...

The radiation-induced decomposition of glycine is studied using a combination of Near Edge X-ray Absorption Fine Structure (NEXAFS) measurements and density functional theory calculations. Principal Component Analysis was ...

The development of powerful computer algorithms that are specialized at exploring the energy landscape of chemical systems has revolutionized chemical physics and its derived disciplines. Such algorithms that ranges from ...

The subject of this dissertation is concerned almost exclusively with soft x-ray spectroscopy of the 3d transition metals. These relatively common metals, owing to their widespread availability, are already used in all ...

Fusion energy has been a persistent pursuit for decades due to its abundance in fuel supplies and low greenhouse gas emission. Tokamak is the most promising concept as a reactor in which strong magnetic fields are used to ...

Synchrotron imaging beamlines around the world all suffer from a similar limitation, namely a beam that is smaller in the vertical direction than the horizontal. This can produce a beam that is so small in the vertical ...

In this experimental study, we used a set of Langmuir probes in order to observe geodesic acoustic mode (GAM) in plasmas created in the STOR-M tokamak. At four locations of STOR-M, we measured floating potential and ion ...