Thesis (Ph. D.)--Carleton University, 1992. / Also available in electronic format on the Internet.

Thesis (M. Sc.)--Carleton University, 1997. / Also available in electronic format on the Internet.

Two-charged-particle correlations are measured as a function of pseudorapidity and azimuthal angle difference in pp collisions at √s = 13, 2.76 and 5.02 TeV with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. A long-range structure in the two-dimensional function centered at ∆φ = 0 and extending over a large range of ∆η referred to as the “ridge” is seen in the three data sets. A template fitting method is implemented to extract the Fourier harmonics of the flow and gives the dependence of the harmonics on the charged-particle multiplicities. In this method a rescaled correlation function from peripheral events representing the recoil component plus a cosine modulation representing the ridge is used to describe the whole one-dimensional correlation function. Different multiplicity intervals for the peripheral events are used to extract the harmonics. The results presented show that vn,n from correlation functions can be factorized into the products of single particle vn. Significant contributions from v₂, v₃ and v₄ are obtained and their dependences on multiplicity and transverse momentum are studied. It is also shown that there is significant vn even in the lowest multiplicity bins. In addition, the second harmonics v₂ in pp do not have a significant dependence on both the multiplicity and collision energy. Results of pp and pPb at the same energy are compared with each other in both multiplicity and pT distributions. Both chᵗʳᵏ−chᵗʳᵏ and chᵗʳᵏ-muon correlations are measured in pPb collisions at √sNN = 8.16 TeV. Long-range correlations are studied through template fitting procedure. chᵗʳᵏ-v₂ increases with the number of reconstructed charged tracks at low multiplicity and saturates at high multiplicity. Muon-v₂ is considerably smaller than chᵗʳᵏ-v₂ and only has a weak dependence on event multiplicity. Factorization in both cases works pretty well. Two-charged-particle correlation functions are also measured in Xe+Xe events at √sNN = 5.44 TeV. In the most central collisions direct Fourier decomposition is preferred to avoid negative recoil component that might appear in the template fitting method. vn reaches its maximum value in the mid-centrality region and becomes smaller at both low and high centralities. Results are compared with Pb+Pb events at √sNN = 5.02 TeV showing that vn obtained from these two systems have similar values and behaviors.

In the course of experiments using uniaxial double alignment channeling to investigate radiation damage in single crystals, an anomalously large ion-scattering yield from the near surface of disordered or simulated disordered solid targets was observed. The chronology of the discovery of this new ion-solid effect and its explanation are presented along with experiments detailing the dependence of the new effect upon ion type and energy, as well as target atomic number and density. Targets included a spectrum of polycrystalline elemental targets in a range Z = 29 to Z = 82. Also, the influence of the effect upon scattering yields from an aligned Au(110) single crystal is demonstrated.

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Measurements of the jet substructure in Pb+Pb collisions provide information about the mechanism of jet quenching in the hot and dense QCD medium created in these collisions, over a wide range of energy scales. Recent measurements of the nuclear modification factor of large-radius jets in 5.02 TeV Pb+Pb collisions with ATLAS are presented. 2017 pp data of 257 inverse picobarns and 2018 Pb+Pb data of 1.72 inverse nanobarns are used in these measurements. The R=1.0 large-radius jets are reconstructed with the anti-kt algorithm from R=0.2 anti-kt jets. In each large-radius jet, the associated R=0.2 jets, as constituents, are re-clustered using the kt algorithm to obtain the earliest splitting substructure observables, including the splitting scale sqrt(d12) and the angular separation dR. The nuclear modification factor RAA, which is the jet yield suppression in Pb+Pb compared to pp, is measured as a function of the jet transverse momentum pt and jet substructure observables sqrt(d12) and dR. A significant RAA decrease for jets with one single sub-jet is observed, compared to jets with more complex substructure. These results support the hypothesis that jets with hard internal splittings losemore energy propagating through the medium. Measurements of RAA with dependence on the jet substructure characterized using charged particle fragments are also presented. Utilizing jets of a consistent definition, the substructure observables, specifically the splitting scale sqrt(d12) and the angular separation dR, are extracted from the kt re-clusterings of charged particles associated to each large-radius jet. The soft-drop grooming algorithm is applied with the kt re-clusterings of the charged particles to mitigate the strong underlying event effects. RAA is found to have a significant decrease with increasing sqrt(d12) and dR at their lower values, suggesting possible color coherence effects influencing the jet energy loss in the medium.

Volcanogenic lightning has a long documented history in the scientific field, though its origins are still poorly understood. The interactions leading to electrification of ash plumes is essentially a function of the microphysics controlling and affecting ash particle collisions. This thesis presents measurements made on charged particle interactions in a fluidized bed, with large-scale applications to the phenomenon of volcanogenic lightning and charged particle dynamics in volcanic plumes. Using a fluidized bed of ash samples taken from Ecuador's Volcán Tungurahua, particles are introduced to a collisional environment, where they acquire an associated polarity. A charged copper plate is used to collect particles of a given polarity, and particle size distributions are obtained for different weight fractions of the ash. It is observed that relatively smaller particles acquire a net negative charge, while larger particles in the sample charge positively. This is a well-documented occurrence with perfectly spherical, chemically identical samples, but this work represents one of the first applications of the principle to volcanic ash. Image analysis is preformed to determine the size distribution associated with specific polarities, and the associated minimum charge on each particle is calculated based on the plate collection height and particle size. We also present results that demonstrate the relationship between particle collisions and the amount of charge exchanged. Using techniques developed to examine the collision rate within a flow, combined with the charging rates determined from this experiment, we determine a maximum charge exchange rate of 1.28±0.23 electrons transferred per collision.

Microscopic approaches enable one to study nuclear bound states as well as nuclear collisions in a unified framework.<p>At non-relativistic energies, all physical quantities are determined by the solutions of the many-body Schrödinger equation based on an interaction potential between nucleons.<p>The difficulty of solving this equation for collisions and taking the antisymmetrization principle into account restricts these approaches to light nuclei and requires the development of nuclear models based on some simplifying assumptions.<p>One of these assumptions, which is done in this work, is to consider that the nucleons are aggregated in clusters in the nuclear systems. <p><p>Another major problem of the microscopic description is the difficulty of determining a reliable interaction potential between nucleons.<p>In spite of many years of efforts to establish such potentials, none has yet been proved to accurately describe both the spectroscopic properties of nuclei and the reactions between light nuclei.<p>For this reason, many effective NN interactions, adapted to the model space and to the studied collision, have been built and used in microscopic models.<p>In parallel, for a few years, some efforts have been done to use in the microscopic models more realistic NN interactions, adjusted to reproduce the two-nucleon properties.<p>However, this requires solving much more accurately the Schrödinger equation by relaxing, for instance, the cluster assumption.<p>These approaches therefore need large computational times, which limits the size of the systems that can be studied.<p><p>In this work, a two-body realistic interaction has been adapted to the simple microscopic cluster model by using the Unitary Correlation Operator Method. This new realistic effective interaction has been adjusted so that the α+α elastic phase shifts obtained with the microscopic cluster model agree rather well with the experimental data.<p>This interaction has been used to study α+N and α+3He scattering.<p>The calculated phase shifts give a rather good agreement with experimental data without additional adjustment, without three-body interactions and with simple basis functions. <p><p>Besides this study of elastic scattering between light nuclei, this work deals with the nucleus-nucleus bremsstrahlung.<p>Previous microscopic models of nucleus-nucleus bremsstrahlung were based on a photon-emission operator fully neglecting the meson-exchange currents. <p>In this work, a microscopic cluster model of bremsstrahlung is developed, which implicitly takes them partially into account by using an extension of the Siegert theorem. <p>Then, the photon-emission operator can be deduced from the charge density rather than from the current density.<p>Although this extension of the Siegert theorem does not fully remove the nuclear-current dependence, the effects of the meson-exchange currents should be largely reduced, especially at low photon energy.<p><p>The microscopic cluster model of nucleus-nucleus bremsstrahlung developed in this work has been applied to the α+ α and α+N systems. This model is based on an effective NN interaction, which enables a good reproduction of the elastic phase shifts for the α+ α and α+N systems.<p>The agreement with experimental bremsstrahlung cross sections is rather good but the comparison between theory and experiment requires more numerous and more accurate data to be conclusive. With an extension to the p shell, the present model could also describe heavier cluster systems such as 12C+p and 16O+p for which experimental data exist at low energies.<p> / Doctorat en Sciences de l'ingénieur / info:eu-repo/semantics/nonPublished

La sécurité des installations nucléaires est constamment un souci majeur lors de leur exploitation, mais aussi lors de la conception de nouveaux réacteurs. Leurs durées de vie est limitée à cause des changements de comportement mécanique de leurs composants métalliques (principalement la cuve du réacteur mais aussi ses composants internes), qui sont accélérés ou induits par l’irradiation de neutrons. Une prédiction quantitative précise de ces changements, en fonction de la composition des matériaux et des conditions d'irradiation, est par conséquent un objectif de première importance pour la science des matériaux nucléaires. La modélisation est, de nos jours, considérée comme un complément vital aux approches expérimentales, avec l'objectif d’apporter une meilleure compréhension des processus physiques et chimiques qui se produisent dans les matériaux métalliques sous irradiation de neutrons.<p><p>La modélisation des effets de l'irradiation de neutrons dans les aciers est par nature un problème multi-échelle. Le point de départ est la simulation des cascades de collisions atomiques initiées par les neutrons à hautes énergies qui pénètrent dans le matériau, créant ainsi des défauts ponctuels mobiles. Différents modèles physiques, considérant des échelles de temps et de longueur croissantes, doivent être développés afin de convenablement tenir en compte de tous les différents processus qui provoquent des changements de comportement macroscopique, à cause de la présence de ces défauts ponctuels mobiles. En outre, des liens entre les différents modèles doivent être créés, parce que les prédictions de chacun d'entre eux doivent servir de paramètres d'entrée pour les modèles qui travaillent aux échelles supérieures. Dans cette thèse, un tel lien est créé entre le niveau atomique et les modèles à gros-grains, en développant un nouvel algorithme Monte-Carlo cinétique atomistique (MCCA), où le matériau est décrit comme une collection d'atomes occupant des sites cristallographiques réguliers. Le processus simulé est dès lors naturellement décomposé en séries d'évènements élémentaires activés thermiquement, correspondant à la migration des défauts ponctuels (lacunes ou interstitiels) vers des positions de proches voisins, qui sont en permanence en compétition en fonction de leurs fréquences d'occurrences respectives. Ces dernières sont calculées en fonction des énergies de migrations, qui sont elles-mêmes calculées avec peu d'approximations par une méthode qui prend en compte tous les effets de la relaxation statique et des interactions chimiques à longue portée. Le nouvel algorithme MCCA est par conséquent un modèle physique, entièrement basé sur un potentiel inter-atomique approprié qui est utilisé de la manière la plus complète possible, sans définir de paramètres empiriques qui devraient être, par exemple, fittés depuis des données expérimentales. Finalement, l'algorithme est accéléré de plusieurs ordres de grandeur en utilisant des réseaux de neurones artificiels (RNA), entraînés à prédire les énergies de migrations des défauts ponctuels en fonction de leur environnement atomique local.<p><p>Le nouvel algorithme MCCA est utilisé avec succès pour simuler des expériences de recuits (pour lesquels une seule lacune doit être introduite dans la boîte), afin de valider le modèle grâce à une comparaison directe de ses prédictions avec des résultats expérimentaux trouvés dans la littérature. Une comparaison très satisfaisante est accomplie pour deux alliages modèles importants pour la science des matériaux nucléaires. Dans les deux cas, l'évolution avec le temps de recuit du rayon moyen des précipités formés, ainsi que de leur densité, est en très bonne adéquation avec les mesures expérimentales trouvées dans la littérature, contrairement à ce que d'autres auteurs avaient jusqu’à présent réussi. Ensuite, l'algorithme est généralisé avec succès afin de permettre l'introduction d'un grand nombre de lacunes, ce qui est un des deux ingrédients nécessaires pour la simulation des effets de l'irradiation de neutrons dans les métaux. Cet accomplissement permet la simulation de processus longs et complexes, par exemple le calcul de coefficients de diffusions et temps de vies d'amats de cuivre-lacunes, qui sont des paramètres d'entrée nécessaires pour des modèles de simulation à gros-grains. Finalement, des preuves convaincantes sont apportées que l'algorithme MCCA peut être, dans un futur proche, généralisé d'avantage et permettre la prise en compte des interstitiels, ouvrant ainsi la voie vers la simulation de cycles complets d'irradiation.<p> / Doctorat en Sciences / info:eu-repo/semantics/nonPublished

In this thesis, two studies of the diffractive phenomena in the electron proton collisions with the H1 detector at HERA are presented.<p>The first is the study of the inclusive elastic diffractive events $ep \ / Doctorat en Sciences / info:eu-repo/semantics/nonPublished