Student theses

The following table has links to the theses prepared by our graduate students.

Year	Name	Degree	Area	Supervisor(s)	Title of thesis/dissertaton
2024	CERVANTES SMITH, Marla	PhD	Particle Physics	A. Gottberg / D. Karlen	Development and Implications of ISOL Target-Materials with High-Carbon content for Short-Lived Radioactive Isotope Beam Production
2024	GREGORY, Ruthann	MSc	Particle Physics	T. Junginger / R. Laxdal	Flux Expulsion in Coaxial Superconducting Radiofrequency Cavities
2023	ADEGUN, Adedapo Joseph	PhD	Particle Physics	O. Kester / D. Karlen	Improvement of the efficiency and beam quality of the TRIUMF Charge State Booster
2023	BOOTH, Nicholas	MSc	Particle Physics	M. Hartz / D. Karlen	Measuring Light Distribution of LED Sources for Hyper-Kamiokande Detector Calibration
2023	FOROUGHI-ABARI, Saeid	PhD	Theory	Ritz	Searching for Dark Sectors with Proton Bremsstrahlung
2023	GOUSY-LEBLANC, Vincent	MSc	Particle Physics	D. Karlen / A. Konaka	Improving the Super-Kamiokande 20-inch PMT modelling using the photosensor test facility (PTF)
2023	KIY, Spencer	MSc	Particle Physics	O. Kester / D. Karlen	Automated Optimization of the ISAC-II Heavy Ion Linac
2023	MILLER, Caleb	PhD	Particle Physics	J.M. Roney	Development of Tau Polarimetry for measuring beam polarization in e+e- colliders
2023	SHELBAYA, Olivier	PhD	Particle Physics	O. Kester / D. Karlen	Model Coupled Accelerator Tuning
2022	BROWN, Leesa	MSc	Particle Physics	I. Trigger / R. McPherson	ATLAS New Small Wheel sTGC Pad Efficiency and Signal Strength
2022	MacDONELL, Danika	PhD	Particle Physics	R. Kowalewski / R. Sobie	Search for Dark Matter Produced in pp Collisions with the ATLAS Detector
2022	MALDONADO MILLAN, Fernando	PhD	Particle Physics	A. Gottberg / D. Karlen	Comprehensive Ionization Model Development for the FEBIAD Ion Source and Its Application for TRIUMF’s Radioactive Ion Beam Program
2022	PENG, Yuhao	MSc	Particle Physics	J.M. Roney	Conceptual Design of the Spin Rotator for the Super KEKB High Energy Ring
2022	WRIGHT, Benjamin	MSc	Particle Physics	J. Albert	Search for dark Higgs boson production in pp events at √s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector at the LHC
2021	BEAUBIEN, Alexandre	MSc	Particle Physics	J.M. Roney	Noise waveform generation using GANs and charged particle identification using pulse shape discrimination in the belle II electromagnetic calorimeter
2021	GENNARI, Michael	MSc	Theory	P. Navratil / R. Kowalewski	Ab initio approaches to nuclear structure, scattering and tests of fundamental symmetries
2021	GHASEMI BOSTANABAD, Meisam	PhD	Particle Physics	J. Albert	Search for supersymmetry in final states with multiple bottom quarks with the ATLAS detector
2021	McLEAN, Kayla	PhD	Particle Physics	M. Lefebvre	Search for dark matter produced in association with a Z boson in the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider
2021	POLSON, Lucas	MSc	Particle Physics	M. Lefebvre	Application of machine learning for energy reconstruction in the ATLAS liquid argon calorimeter
2021	TAYLOR, Samantha	MSc	Particle Physics	M. Lefebvre	Constraints on dark matter models using a fast simulation of the ATLAS detector
2020	CHIU, Justin	PhD	Particle Physics	M. Lefebvre	Search for Higgs boson decays to beyond-the-Standard-Model light bosons in four-lepton events with the ATLAS detector at the LHC
2020	COFFEY, John	MSc	Theory	D Morrissey / A. Ritz	Cosmological constraints on sub-GeV dark vectors
2020	HOULT, Raphael	MSc	Theory	Kovtun	Constraints effecting stability and causality of charged relativistic hydrodynamics
2020	JUNG, Paul	MSc	Particle Physics	Baartman / Karlen	Hybrid macro-particle moment accelerator tracking algorithm
2020	SHROFF, Maheyer	MSc	Particle Physics	Keeler	A data injector for the High Luminosity LHC ATLAS Liquid Argon Signal Processor
2020	WILKINSON-ZAN, Benjamin	MSc	Theory	Pospelov / Ritz	Does size matter? Exploring the viability of measuring the charge radius of the first excited nuclear state in muonic zirconium
2019	BEAULIEU, Alexandre	PhD	Particle Physics	J.M. Roney	The Study and Shielding of Electromagnetic Radiation for SuperKEKB Electron and Position Beam Interactions
2019	CARLSON, Evan	MSc	Particle Physics	I. Trigger / R. V. Kowalewski	Results of the 2018 ATLAS sTGC test beam and internal strip alignment of sTGC detectors
2019	GAO, Yi Lin (Kyle)	MSc	Particle Physics	S. Koscielniak / D. Karlen	A Study of HL-LHC Beam-Beam Resonances Using a Lie Algebraic Weak-Strong Model
2019	LI, Zhelun	MSc	Particle Physics	R. Kowalewski	The development of missing transverse momentum reconstruction with the ATLAS detector using the PUfit algorithm in pp collisions at 13 TeV
2019	LONGO, Savino	PhD	Particle Physics	J.M. Roney	First application of CsI(Tl) pulse shape discrimination at an e^+ e^- collider to improve particle identification at the Belle II experiment
2019	TAYLOR, Kate	MSc	Theory	A. Ritz	Exploring energy extraction from Kerr Magnetospheres
2018	LIU, Ruochuan	MSc	Theory	M. Pospelov	Self-interacting Dark Matter of an SU(2) Gauged Dark Sector
2018	STOREY, Douglas	PhD	Particle Physics	D. Karlen / L. Merminga	A superconducting RF Deflecting Cavity for the ARIEL e-Linac Separator
2017	de JONG, Samuel	PhD	Particle Physics	J.M. Roney	Study of thermal neutron flux from SuperKEKB in the Belle II commissioning detector
2017	ELLIOT, Alison	PhD	Particle Physics	R. Keeler / R. McPherson	Search for dark matter in association with a leptonically decaying Z boson in the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider
2017	FRADETTE, Anthony	PhD	Theory	M. Pospelov	Particle physics probes from cosmology
2017	HERNANDEZ, Juan	MSc	Theory	P. Kovtun	Exploring the fluid landscape: three new regimes of relativistic hydrodynamics
2017	HILL, Ewan	PhD	Paricle Physics	I. Trigger / R. V. Kowalewski	Search for Direct Scalar Top Pair Production
2017	KWAN, Tony	PhD	Particle Physics	R. Keeler	Measurement of neutral current Drell-Yan production at 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector
2017	LEBLANC, Matthew	PhD	Particle Physics	R. McPherson	Characterising the decays of high-pt top quarks and addressing naturalness with jet substructure in ATLAS runs I and II
2017	Le DALL, Matthias	PhD	Theory	A. Ritz / R. de Sousa	Portal interactions within leptogenesis and precision observables -- and -- Quantum theory of orbitally-degenerate impurities in superconductors
2017	NIEDERMAYER, Graeme	MSc	Particle Physics	R. V. Kowalewski	Investigations of calorimeter clustering in ATLAS using machine learning
2017	TASNEEM, Nafisa	PhD	Particle Physics	J.M. Roney	Search for the Lepton Flavour Violating Decay in Upsilon(3S) ->emu
2016	CERVANTES SMITH, Marla	MSc	Particle Physics	D. Karlen	ARIEL electron to gamma converter design
2016	CHIU, Justin	MSc	Particle Physics	R. V. Kowalewski	The Performance of the ATLAS Missing Transverse Momentum High-Level Trigger in 2015 pp Collisions at 13TeV
2016	DAVID, Claire	PhD	Particle Physics	R. McPherson / M. Lefebvre	Search for supersymmetry using a Higgs boson in the decay cascade with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider
2016	deNIVERVILLE, Patrick	PhD	Theory	A. Ritz	Searching for Hidden Sector Dark Matter with Fixed Target Neutrino Experiments
2016	KOVACS, Paul	MSc	Particle Physics	J. Albert	Design, construction and analysis of a solid state nearly-isotropic light source
2016	MALDONADO MILLAN, Fernando	MSc	Particle Physics	D. Karlen	Extraction Optics for Ion Beam Generation in the ARIEL Facility at TRIUMF
2016	MYSLIK, Jordan	PhD	Particle Physics	D. Karlen	Measurement of Muon Antineutrino Disappearance in the T2K Experiment
2016	SAVARD, Nicolas	MSc	Particle Physics	L. Merminga / D. Karlen	Temperature Unifromity Measurements and Studies of Bunch Parameter Variations for the Advanced Wakefield Experiment, AWAKE
2015	ABERNATHY, Jason	MSc	Particle Physics	D. Karlen	A Control System for the E-Linac View Screen System
2015	LANGE, Nicholas	MSc	Theory	M. Pospelov	Sensitivities to a Light Scalar Particle Using Muon Decay, Kaon Decay, and Electron-Positron Annihilation
2015	LONGO, Savino	MSc	Particle Physics	J.M. Roney	Measurements of the Radiation Hardness of CsI(Tl) Scintillation Crystals and Comparison Studies with Pure CsI for the Belle II Electromagnetic Calorimeter
2015	PEARCE, James	PhD	Particle Physics	R. V. Kowalewski	A search for Higgs-portal dark matter and new phenomena with monojet signatures in 𝑝𝑝 collisions at √𝑠 = 8 TeV
2015	PORTER, Ryan	MSc	Particle Physics	R. Keeler	An electronic model of the ATLAS Phase-1 Upgrade Hadronic Endcap Calorimeter Front End Crate Baseplane
2014	MOIR, Brock	MSc	Particle Physics	R. Keeler	A Correction to the Modelled Jet Energy Resolution of the ATLAS Detector
2014	KING, Gregory	PhD	Particle Physics	J.M. Roney	Search for Lepton Universality Violation Using Υ (3S) Decays
2014	OUELLETTE, Eric	PhD	Particle Physics	J. Albert	Search for the Higgs Boson in the Vector Boson Fusion Channel at the ATLAS Detector
2014	WANG, Xun	PhD	Theory	A. Ritz	Force-free magnetospheres, Kerr-AdS black holes and holography
2013	BERGHAUS, Frank	PhD	Particle Physics	M. Lefebvre	Search for Quark Compositeness in 7 TeV Proton-Proton Collisions with the ATLAS Detector at the Large Hadron Collider
2013	BOJECHKO, Casey	PhD	Particle Physics	D. Karlen	Simultaneous Analysis of Near and Far Detector Samples of the T2K Experiment to Measure Muon Neutrino Disappearance
2013	BABB, James	MSc	Theory	P. Kovtun	The Derivation and Quasinormal Mode Spectrum of Acoustic Anti-de Sitter Black Hole Analogues
2013	BEAULIEU, Alexandre	MSc	Particle Physics	J.M. Roney	Search for New Spin-0 Particles Near Π0 Mass Produced in Association with τ pairs at BaBar
2013	HARDER, Michael	MSc	Theory	P. Kovtun	Holography and Causality in Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet Gravity
2012	FRADETTE, Anthony	MSc	Theory	M. Pospelov	Constraining the variation of fundamental constants with tritium decays
2012	LESSARD, Jean-Raphael	PhD	Particle Physics	M. Lefebvre	Searches for top-antitop resonances in proton-proton collisions at a center of mass energy of 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector
2012	LEWCZUK, Mateusz	PhD	Particle Physics	R. Sobie	Study of high multiplicity 3-prong [tau] decays at BaBar
2012	KWAN, Tony	MSc	Particle Physics	R. Keeler	A measurement of the Drell-Yan differential cross section using data from proton-proton collisions at 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector
2011	CHOI, Hervé	PhD	Particle Physics	R. Sobie	Search for CP violation in [Tau] decays at BABAR
2011	COURNEYEA, Lorraine	PhD	Particle Physics	R. McPherson/ R. Keeler	Accounting for jet response induced MET backgrounds to new physics at the ATLAS experiment at CERN’s LHC
2011	de NIVERVILLE, Patrick	MSc	Theory	A. Ritz	Observing a Light Dark Matter Beam with Neutrino Experiments
2011	HILL, Ewan	MSc	Particle Physics	I. Trigger/ M. Lefebvre	Cosmic Muon Flux in the ATLAS Detector at the Large Hadron Collider
2011	JARRETT, Michael	MSc	Particle Physics	J. Albert	Prospects for the Measurement of the Higgs CP Structure at ATLAS in Higgs to Four Lepton Decays
2011	PEARCE, James	MSc	Particle Physics	R. V. Kowalewski	W/Z+Jets production cross section ratio as a new physics search with the ATLAS Detector at CERN
2011	SHARMAN, Jonathan	MSc	Theory	M. Pospelov	The Impact of Strongly Interacting Relics on Big Bang Nucleosynthesis
2011	STOREY, Douglas	MSc	Particle Physics	D. Karlen	A view screen beam profile monitor for the ARIEL e-lineac at TRIUMF
2011	WANG, Kuhan	MSc	Particle Physics	R. Keeler	A Study of Missing Transverse Energy in Minimum Bias Events with In-time Pile-up at The Large Hadron Collider using The ATLAS Detector and Proton-Proton Collision Data at a Center of Mass Energy of 7 TeV
2010	BAYES, Ryan	PhD	Particle Physics	A. Olin/ R. Kowalewski	Measurement of the decay parameter rho and a search for non-Standard Model decays in the muon decay spectrum
2010	HILLAIRET, Anthony	PhD	Particle Physics	A. Olin/ M. Lefebvre	Measurement of the delta and eta muon decay parameters
2010	INCE, Tayfun	PhD	Particle Physics	R. Keeler	Prospects for Probing the Structure of the Proton with the Low-mass Drell-Yan Events in ATLAS
2010	BAKER, Mark	MSc	Particle Physics	A. Olin/ R. Kowalewski	Improving the robustness of the ATLAS calorimeter software trigger
2010	GAUDIN, André	MSc	Particle Physics	M. Roney	Drift speed and gain measurements in the T2K time projection chambers
2009	HAMANO, Kenjo	PhD	Particle Physics	R. Kowalewski	Measurement of branching fractions and form factor parameters of B->Dlnu and B->D*lnu decays at BaBar
2009	NUGENT, Ian	PhD	Particle Physics	M. Roney	Precision measurements of tau lepton decays
2009	BIRD, Christopher	M.Sc	Theory	M. Pospelov	The early universe as a probe of new physics
2009	LAMBERT, Simon	M.Sc	Theory	M. Pospelov	Scalar-tensor gravity with pseudoscalar couplings
2009	LINDSAY, Clayton	MSc	particle Physics	M. Roney	Search for the lepton flavour violating decay tau->e gamma
2009	TAYLOR, Ryan	MSc	Particle Physics	R. Kowalewski	Masking problematic channels in the liquid argon calorimeter for the high-level trigger of ATLAS
2008	BOLOKHOV, Pavel	PhD	Theory	M. Pospelov	Lorentz violation in quantum field theory
2008	FRANSHAM, Kyle	MSc	Particle Physics	D. Karlen	Evaluating the performance of a prototype TPC for use in the ND280m detector of the T2K experiment
2008	KING, Greg	MSc	Particle Physics	R. Sobie M. Roney	A measurement of the branching fraction of the decays of the tau- lepton to 2pi- pi+ eta nu
2007	EDMONDS, Keith	MSc	Particle Physics	M. Lefebvre/ R. McPherson	Prospects for top quark mass measurement through the fully Hadronic decay of top-antitop events with the ATLAS detector
2007	KOOPMANS, Kristen	MSc	Theory	M. Pospelov	Catalyzed Big Bang Nucleosynthesis and the properties of charged relics in the early universe
2007	LEWCZUK, Matek	M.Sc	Particle Physics	R. Sobie	Measurement of high multiplicity [tau] branching ratios
2006	FORTIN, Dominique	PhD	Particle Physics	R. Kowalewski	"Determination of the CKM element \|Vub\|"
2006	BAYES, Ryan	MSc	Particle Physics	R. Kowalewski/ A. Olin	"A Search for Exotic Muon Decays in the TWIST Muon Decay Spectrum"
2006	HUGHES, Tamara	MSc	Particle Physics	M. Lefebvre	“Pion Energy Reconstruction Methods for the ATLAS Electromagnetic and Hadronic Endcap Calorimeters"
2006	SHAW, Warren	MSc	Particle Physics	R. McPherson/ R. Keeler	"Callibration and Response of the High Pseudorapidity Region of the ATLAS Liquid Argon End-cap Calorimeters"
2005	INCE, Tayfun	MSc	Particle Physics	R. Keeler	“Position Resolution of the Atlas Electromagnetic Endcap Calorimeter”
2005	ROSENBAUM, Gabriel	MSc	Particle Physics	D. Karlen	“Measuring the Resolution of a GEM-TPC in a Magnetic Field”
2005	YUN, Zinkoo	MSc	Particle Physics	M. Roney	A Study of Muon Pair Events at BaBar”
2004	BAILEY, Ian	PhD	Particle Physics	R. Keeler	“The W boson spin density matrix at OPAL”
2004	JACKSON, Paul	PhD	Particle Physics	R. Kowalewski	"A search for 'B'+ --> 'K'+'vv'"
2004	NUGENT, Ian	MSc	Particle Physics	M. Roney	“The Utilization of Muon Pairs in Determining the Tracking Efficiency at the BaBar Experiment”
2003	KORMOS, Laura	PhD	Particle Physics	R. Keeler/ R. Sobie	“A Measurement of the Tau to Muon Branching Ratio”
2002	DOBBS, Matthew	PhD	Particle Physics	M. Lefebvre	“Probing the Three Gauge-boson Couplings in 14 TeV Proton-Proton Collisions”
2002	VACHON, Brigitte	PhD	Particle Physics	R. McPherson/ R. Sobie	“Search for Excited Charged Leptons in Electron-Positron Collisions”
2001	GRAHAM, Kevin	PhD	Particle Physics	M. Roney	“Precision Determination of the Electroweak Mixing Angle and Test of Neutral Current Universality from the Tau Polarization Measurements at OPAL”
2001	BIRD, Chris	MSc	Particle Physics	C. Picciotto/ H. Fearing	“Infrared Regularization in Relativistic Chiral Perturbation Theory”
2001	BROWN, Chris	MSc	Particle Physics	M. Roney	“A Study of the Leptonic Branching Ratios of the Tau at BABAR”
2001	FORTIN, Dominique	MSc	Particle Physics	M. Lefebvre	“Performance of the ATLAS Hadronic Endcap Calorimeter Modules to Electrons and Pions”
2001	JACKSON, Paul	MSc	Particle Physics	R. Kowalewski	“Hypothesis Testing Variables Applied to Trajectory Fitting in the BaBar Experiment"
2000	LAWSON, Ian	PhD	Particle Physics	R. Keeler/ R. Sobie	“Neutral Kaon Production from One-prong Tau Decays”
2000	O'NEIL, Dugan	PhD	Particle Physics	M. Lefebvre	"Performance of the ATLAS Hadronic Endcap Calorimeter and the Physics of Electroweak Top Quark Production at ATLAS”