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Wandui, Albert Kamau (2025) Thermal Kinetic Inductance Detectors (TKIDs) for Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) Polarimetry. Dissertation (Ph.D.), California Institute of Technology. doi:10.7907/hw92-qd36. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechTHESIS:05232024-191504825

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

Feder, Richard Moses (2024) Dissecting and Reconstructing the Cosmic Infrared Background with Spaceborne Experiments. Dissertation (Ph.D.), California Institute of Technology. doi:10.7907/52md-wx74. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechTHESIS:06032024-165958595

Minutolo, Lorenzo (2024) Thermal Kinetic Inductance Detector (TKIDs) Camera: A Pathfinder mm-Wave Polarimeter. Dissertation (Ph.D.), California Institute of Technology. doi:10.7907/pmh8-gy97. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechTHESIS:05302024-213502241

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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