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Aralis, Taylor Benjamin (2024) SuperCDMS SNOLAB, HVeV Run 3, and Development of KIPM Detectors. Dissertation (Ph.D.), California Institute of Technology. doi:10.7907/gxjp-0863. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechTHESIS:11272023-225643701

Anderson, Dustin James (2018) Inclusive Searches for Supersymmetry at √s = 13 TeV Using Razor Kinematic Variables, and Data Scouting Using the CMS Trigger System. Dissertation (Ph.D.), California Institute of Technology. doi:10.7907/BHGN-VY70. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechTHESIS:05162018-153827333

Aikin, Randol Wallace (2013) Testing Inflationary Cosmology with the BICEP1 and BICEP2 Experiments. Dissertation (Ph.D.), California Institute of Technology. doi:10.7907/z9vx0df2. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechTHESIS:06072013-113004037

Ahmed, Zeeshan (2012) A Dark-Matter Search Using the Final CDMS II Dataset and a Novel Detector of Surface Radiocontamination. Dissertation (Ph.D.), California Institute of Technology. doi:10.7907/W7TT-1E07. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechTHESIS:07182011-183516791

Ackerman Mayer, Lotty (2010) A Quest for the Physics Beyond the Cosmological Standard Model. Dissertation (Ph.D.), California Institute of Technology. doi:10.7907/F0TW-C269. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechETD:etd-08252009-151953

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Ballew, Conner Kiley (2022) Multifunctional Volumetric Metaoptics. Dissertation (Ph.D.), California Institute of Technology. doi:10.7907/dn7h-6r72. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechTHESIS:08272021-165922711

Brevik, Justus Albert (2012) Searching for Primordial Gravitational Waves at Degree Scales from the South Pole. Dissertation (Ph.D.), California Institute of Technology. doi:10.7907/E6Z2-CV94. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechTHESIS:05302012-095444014

Berger, Edo (2004) Cosmic Explosions: The Beasts and Their Lair. Dissertation (Ph.D.), California Institute of Technology. doi:10.7907/QV7S-4S81. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechETD:etd-05202004-165422

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Chang, Yen-Yung (2023) SuperCDMS HVeV Run 2 Low-Mass Dark Matter Search, Highly Multiplexed Phonon-Mediated Particle Detector with Kinetic Inductance Detector, and the Blackbody Radiation in Cryogenic Experiments. Dissertation (Ph.D.), California Institute of Technology. doi:10.7907/jswx-ad33. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechTHESIS:05212023-152144355

Callister, Thomas Alfred, III (2020) Searching for the Astrophysical Gravitational-Wave Background and Prompt Radio Emission from Compact Binaries. Dissertation (Ph.D.), California Institute of Technology. doi:10.7907/xthf-1p70. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechTHESIS:05262020-184547015

Cornell, Brett Durcan (2018) A Dark Matter Search Using the Final SuperCDMS Soudan Dataset and the Development of a Large-Format, Highly-Multiplexed, Athermal-Phonon-Mediated Particle Detector. Dissertation (Ph.D.), California Institute of Technology. doi:10.7907/M297-J716. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechTHESIS:06082018-171453167

Czakon, Nicole Gisela (2013) Sunyaev-Zel’dovich Observations Using Large-Format Millimeter Arrays. Dissertation (Ph.D.), California Institute of Technology. doi:10.7907/SRVP-D536. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechTHESIS:06052013-104216835

Chen, Edward Tann (2007) Radiative Leptonic B Decays. Dissertation (Ph.D.), California Institute of Technology. doi:10.7907/KNQF-1R30. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechETD:etd-01302007-083640

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Duarte, Javier Mauricio Gonzalez (2017) Naturalness Confronts Nature: Searches for Supersymmetry with the CMS Detector in pp Collisions at √s = 8 and 13 TeV. Dissertation (Ph.D.), California Institute of Technology. doi:10.7907/Z9GX48JV. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechTHESIS:08232016-112522351

Duan, Ran (2015) Instrumentation for Kinetic-Inductance-Detector-Based Submillimeter Radio Astronomy. Dissertation (Ph.D.), California Institute of Technology. doi:10.7907/Z90P0WXZ. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechTHESIS:05282015-141343540

Dulaney, Timothy Ryan (2011) Beyond the Standard Cosmology: Anisotropic Inflation and Baryophilic Dark Matter. Dissertation (Ph.D.), California Institute of Technology. doi:10.7907/ZSV6-RF08. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechTHESIS:05122011-161711413

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Enoch, Melissa Lanae (2008) Molecular Clouds and Star Formation: A Multiwavelength Study of Perseus, Serpens, and Ophiuchus. Dissertation (Ph.D.), California Institute of Technology. doi:10.7907/25QK-5K72. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechETD:etd-06292007-134316

Eckart, Megan Elizabeth (2007) Measurements of X-Ray Selected AGN and Novel Superconducting X-Ray Detectors. Dissertation (Ph.D.), California Institute of Technology. doi:10.7907/SZAB-0Y07. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechETD:etd-06072007-130804

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Fries, Eric Michael (2022) Precision Measurement of the Neutron Lifetime. Dissertation (Ph.D.), California Institute of Technology. doi:10.7907/qr2k-7b09. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechTHESIS:08292021-214153213

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Gupta, Anchal (2023) Next-Generation Technologies for Gravitational Wave Detectors. Dissertation (Ph.D.), California Institute of Technology. doi:10.7907/cg5p-kr27. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechTHESIS:06012023-001004673

Gluščević, Vera (2013) CMB as a Probe of New Physics and Old Times. Dissertation (Ph.D.), California Institute of Technology. doi:10.7907/VZ0P-XD08. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechTHESIS:06032013-130145873

Gresham, Moira I. (2010) Lorentz Symmetry Breaking in a Cosmological Context. Dissertation (Ph.D.), California Institute of Technology. doi:10.7907/9G69-3Z95. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechTHESIS:05252010-135506831

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Hunacek, Jonathon Robert (2020) TIME: A Millimeter-Wavelength Grating Spectrometer Array for [CII] / CO Intensity Mapping. Dissertation (Ph.D.), California Institute of Technology. doi:10.7907/hp2n-8495. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechTHESIS:04272020-121646677

Hui, Howard (2018) Measuring the Polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background with BICEP3. Dissertation (Ph.D.), California Institute of Technology. doi:10.7907/G8ET-FD62. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechTHESIS:06042018-002455152

Hall, Evan Drew (2017) Long-Baseline Laser Interferometry for the Detection of Binary Black-Hole Mergers. Dissertation (Ph.D.), California Institute of Technology. doi:10.7907/Z9PG1PQ9. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechTHESIS:01302017-113507797

Hodge, Kari Alison (2014) The Search for Gravitational Waves from the Coalescence of Black Hole Binary Systems in Data from the LIGO and Virgo Detectors. Or: A Dark Walk through a Random Forest. Dissertation (Ph.D.), California Institute of Technology. doi:10.7907/HY26-2059. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechTHESIS:06022014-104457554

Hickerson, Kevin Peter (2013) The Physics of Ultracold Neutrons and Fierz Interference in Beta Decay. Dissertation (Ph.D.), California Institute of Technology. doi:10.7907/K8CK-MQ14. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechTHESIS:11022012-135115177

Hunt, Cynthia Lee (2004) Transition-Edge Superconducting Antenna-Coupled Bolometer. Dissertation (Ph.D.), California Institute of Technology. doi:10.7907/RG6K-C898. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechETD:etd-05282004-131005

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Ji, Chenguang (2015) Design of Antenna-Coupled Lumped-Element Titanium Nitride KIDs for LongWavelength Multi-Band Continuum Imaging. Dissertation (Ph.D.), California Institute of Technology. doi:10.7907/Z9W66HQ7. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechTHESIS:05282015-121920930

Jones, William Claude (2005) A Measurement of the Temperature and Polarization Anisotropies in the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation. Dissertation (Ph.D.), California Institute of Technology. doi:10.7907/88BF-1W23. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechETD:etd-05102005-102535

Jones, Gary Mark (2004) A Precision Measurement of the Weak Mixing Angle in Møller Scattering at Low Q₂. Dissertation (Ph.D.), California Institute of Technology. doi:10.7907/S506-PZ85. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechETD:etd-05272004-172049

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Kefeli, Sinan (2023) Constraints on the Polarized Dust and the Cosmic Microwave Background Using BICEP / Keck Array Series of Telescopes. Dissertation (Ph.D.), California Institute of Technology. doi:10.7907/7a55-p606. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechTHESIS:05142023-053312973

Klimovich, Nikita Sergeevich (2022) Traveling Wave Parametric Amplifiers and Other Nonlinear Kinetic Inductance Devices. Dissertation (Ph.D.), California Institute of Technology. doi:10.7907/w980-rs97. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechTHESIS:05202022-191221394

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Lanz, Alicia Elaine (2018) Studying the Extragalactic Background Light with the Second Cosmic Infrared Background ExpeRiment, CIBER-2. Dissertation (Ph.D.), California Institute of Technology. doi:10.7907/CN9Y-MB61. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechTHESIS:04272018-205538217

Lee, Samuel Kuhnman (2012) Three Paths to Particle Dark Matter. Dissertation (Ph.D.), California Institute of Technology. doi:10.7907/Q603-SH04. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechTHESIS:05152012-125430182

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Macioce, Theodore Kenneth (2023) Mock Observations of the Sunyaev-Zel’dovich Effect in Massive Galaxy Clusters and a Six-Layer Integral Antireflective Structure for Silicon Optics. Dissertation (Ph.D.), California Institute of Technology. doi:10.7907/w1ds-j507. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechTHESIS:05052023-033943351

Mao, Jiajing (2023) Search for Supersymmetry Using Higgs Boson to Diphoton Decays and Search for Long-Lived Particles Using Out-of-Time Trackless Jets at √s = 13 TeV. Dissertation (Ph.D.), California Institute of Technology. doi:10.7907/pwpe-ef70. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechTHESIS:05302023-234037855

Mohamed Soliman, Ahmed Mohamed (2023) BICEP Array Detectors and Instrumentation at 30/40 GHz: Design, Performance, and Deployment to the South Pole for Constraining Primordial Gravitational Waves. Dissertation (Ph.D.), California Institute of Technology. doi:10.7907/srdx-w019. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechTHESIS:05232023-174453276

Mott, Alexander Robert (2015) Search for Higgs Boson Production Beyond the Standard Model Using the Razor Kinematic Variables in pp Collisions at √s=8 TeV and Optimization of Higgs Boson Identification Using a Quantum Annealer. Dissertation (Ph.D.), California Institute of Technology. doi:10.7907/Z9XK8CHR. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechTHESIS:05052015-155442785

Mendenhall, Michael Praetorius (2014) Measurement of the Neutron Beta Decay Asymmetry using Ultracold Neutrons. Dissertation (Ph.D.), California Institute of Technology. doi:10.7907/9TS2-SG08. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechTHESIS:06042014-132823956

Moore, David Craig (2012) A Search for Low-Mass Dark Matter with the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search and the Development of Highly Multiplexed Phonon-Mediated Particle Detectors. Dissertation (Ph.D.), California Institute of Technology. doi:10.7907/X8JD-4R90. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechTHESIS:05172012-142723949

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Nguyen, Thong Quang (2022) Searches for Nonresonant Higgs Boson Pair Production and Long-Lived Particles at the LHC and Machine-Learning Solutions for the High-Luminosity LHC Era. Dissertation (Ph.D.), California Institute of Technology. doi:10.7907/knfz-q495. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechTHESIS:10012021-210141406

Noroozian, Omid (2012) Superconducting Microwave Resonator Arrays for Submillimeter/Far-infrared Imaging. Dissertation (Ph.D.), California Institute of Technology. doi:10.7907/8MG2-NB23. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechTHESIS:06122012-091920562

Naylor, Bret Justin (2008) Broadband Millimeter-Wave Spectroscopy with Z-Spec: An Unbiased Molecular-Line Survey of the Starburst Galaxy M82. Dissertation (Ph.D.), California Institute of Technology. doi:10.7907/Y6TP-5E10. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechETD:etd-05282008-104041

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Peña Herrera, Cristián (2017) Searches for New Physics at the Compact Muon Solenoid Experiment and Precision Timing Calorimetry. Dissertation (Ph.D.), California Institute of Technology. doi:10.7907/Z9MK69Z6. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechTHESIS:05192017-195511866

Pullen, Anthony Robert (2011) A Survey of Results in Modern Precision Cosmology. Dissertation (Ph.D.), California Institute of Technology. doi:10.7907/VJ9N-0J70. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechTHESIS:05042011-123721947

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Rice, Frank Randolph, III (2021) A Very Wide Bandwidth SIS Heterodyne Receiver Design for Millimeter and Submillimeter Astronomy. Dissertation (Ph.D.), California Institute of Technology. doi:10.7907/357d-6535. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechTHESIS:09062020-111601302

Rogan, Christopher Sean (2013) Searches for New Symmetries in pp Collisions with the Razor Kinematic Variables at √s = 7 TeV. Dissertation (Ph.D.), California Institute of Technology. doi:10.7907/B0MD-F026. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechTHESIS:05072013-174540453

Reichardt, Christian L. (2008) A High Resolution Measurement of Temperature Anisotropies in the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation with the Complete ACBAR Data Set. Dissertation (Ph.D.), California Institute of Technology. doi:10.7907/A0NQ-TD75. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechETD:etd-12202007-130152

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Shen, Xuejian (2023) Explore the Nature of Dark Matter in the Context of Galaxy Formation. Dissertation (Ph.D.), California Institute of Technology. doi:10.7907/zccb-sr51. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechTHESIS:05252023-181654402

Sun, Guochao (2023) Understanding the Cosmological Evolution of Galaxies with Intensity Mapping. Dissertation (Ph.D.), California Institute of Technology. doi:10.7907/fzqw-2m61. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechTHESIS:11052022-133519365

Siegel, Seth Robert (2016) A Multiwavelength Study of the Intracluster Medium and the Characterization of the Multiwavelength Sub/millimeter Inductance Camera. Dissertation (Ph.D.), California Institute of Technology. doi:10.7907/Z9Z31WJ7. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechTHESIS:10212015-211417853

Stevenson, Matthew Alan (2014) Observational and Theoretical Advances in Cosmological Foreground Emission. Dissertation (Ph.D.), California Institute of Technology. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechTHESIS:09292013-182521898

Stenson, Eve Virginia (2012) Fields, Forces, and Flows: What Laboratory Experiments Reveal About the Dynamics of Arched Plasma Structures. Dissertation (Ph.D.), California Institute of Technology. doi:10.7907/24HR-J675. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechTHESIS:06102012-025123301

Sullivan, Ian Sorensen (2011) CIBER: A Near-Infrared Probe of the Epoch of Reionization. Dissertation (Ph.D.), California Institute of Technology. doi:10.7907/EFS6-PJ64. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechTHESIS:08172010-183547836

Sayers, Jack (2008) A Search for Cosmic Microwave Background Anisotropies on Arcminute Scales. Dissertation (Ph.D.), California Institute of Technology. doi:10.7907/2Q9Q-JA33. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechETD:etd-12232007-013248

Sigurdson, Kris Raymond (2005) Variations on the Standard Model of the Universe. Dissertation (Ph.D.), California Institute of Technology. doi:10.7907/52QC-H668. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechETD:etd-05272005-141451

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Trickle, Tanner David (2022) Direct Detection of Light Dark Matter with Electrons, Phonons, and Magnons. Dissertation (Ph.D.), California Institute of Technology. doi:10.7907/n4j3-1b24. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechTHESIS:05242022-185317418

Teply, Grant Paul (2015) Measurement of the Polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background with the BICEP2 and Keck Array Telescopes. Dissertation (Ph.D.), California Institute of Technology. doi:10.7907/Z9XP72WM. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechTHESIS:06012015-163200704

Tucker, Rebecca Suzanne (2014) Characterization of Detectors and Instrument Systematics for the SPIDER CMB Polarimeter. Dissertation (Ph.D.), California Institute of Technology. doi:10.7907/HNHF-HA43. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechTHESIS:05302014-170605877

Tsang, Raymond Hei Man (2013) Discovery of Non-Zero Neutrino Mixing Angle θ₁₃ Using Daya Bay Antineutrino Detectors. Dissertation (Ph.D.), California Institute of Technology. doi:10.7907/CE4Y-BX48. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechTHESIS:05302013-060415059

Tseng, Chien-Yao (2013) Deviation from Standard Inflationary Cosmology and the Problems in Ekpyrosis. Dissertation (Ph.D.), California Institute of Technology. doi:10.7907/KAHC-PK38. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechTHESIS:03212013-213920050

Trangsrud, Amy Ruth (2012) The SPIDER CMB Polarimeter. Dissertation (Ph.D.), California Institute of Technology. doi:10.7907/83YV-A258. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechTHESIS:07022011-083421311

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Wang, Christina Wenlu (2024) Search for New Physics with the Compact Muon Solenoid Experiment and QIS-enabled Technology. Dissertation (Ph.D.), California Institute of Technology. doi:10.7907/ta74-mz22. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechTHESIS:03072024-065323362

Wang, Ann Miao (2015) New Physics Models in the Diphoton Final State at CMS. Senior thesis (Major), California Institute of Technology. doi:10.7907/Z9CC0XMN . https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechTHESIS:01152016-102117113

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Yang, Yong (2013) Search for a Standard Model Higgs Boson Decaying to Two Photons in CMS at the LHC. Dissertation (Ph.D.), California Institute of Technology. doi:10.7907/MTVR-9R70. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechTHESIS:12192012-133848927

Yoon, Ki Won (2008) Design and Deployment of BICEP: A Novel Small-Aperture CMB Polarimeter to Test Inflationary Cosmology. Dissertation (Ph.D.), California Institute of Technology. doi:10.7907/5Q7T-YN18. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechETD:etd-10092007-162326

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Zhang, Cheng (2023) The Development and Performance of the First BICEP Array Receiver at 30 and 40 GHz for Measuring the Polarized Synchrotron Foreground. Dissertation (Ph.D.), California Institute of Technology. doi:10.7907/bfsb-6438. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechTHESIS:08222022-081848931

Zhang, Chao (2011) Precision Measurement of Neutrino Oscillation Parameters and Investigation of Nuclear Georeactor Hypothesis with KamLAND. Dissertation (Ph.D.), California Institute of Technology. doi:10.7907/ME5M-F406. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechTHESIS:06102010-171034096