The Department of Physics at Syracuse University has been educating students and carrying out research for over 125 years. Our faculty members, research associates, graduate students, and undergraduate majors are active in fields ranging from biological and condensed matter physics, through cosmology and particle physics, to gravitational wave detection and astrophysics.

Physics attempts to understand how the world works; from the very small scales inside the nucleus of an atom to the very largest scales in the Universe; from the behavior of the most basic constituents of matter to the rich and diverse phenomena that arise when many simple components interact together. We have internationally recognized research groups working in all of these areas; from soft condensed matter and biological physics to elementary particle physics and cosmology and the search for gravitational waves

This page contains all publications submitted to SURFACE written by students, faculty, and staff in the department.

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2011

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Self-Propulsion of Droplets by Spatially-Varying Roughness, Mark Bowick and Zhenwei Yao

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The Shrinking Instability of Toroidal Liquid Droplets in the Stokes Flow Regime, Mark Bowick and Zhenwei Yao

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Search for Gravitational Wave Bursts from Six Magnetars, Duncan Brown and J. Abadie

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All-Sky Search for Periodic Gravitational Waves in the Full S5 LIGO Data, Duncan Brown, J. Abadie, Stefan Ballmer, Collin Capano, and P. Couvares

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Implementation and Testing of the First Prompt Search for Electromagnetic Counterparts to Gravitational Wave Transients, Duncan Brown, J. Abadie, Stefan Ballmer, Collin Capano, and P. Couvares

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Search for Gravitational Waves from Binary Black Hole Inspiral, Merger and Ringdown, Duncan Brown, J. Abadie, Collin Capano, J. A. Garofoli, and Eiichi Hirose

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Beating the Spin-Down Limit on Gravitational Wave Emission from the Vela Pulsar, Duncan Brown, J. Abadie, Collin Capano, J. A. Garofoli, and A. P. Lundgren

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A Measurement of the Semileptonic Branching Fraction of the B_s Meson, Duncan Brown and J. P. Lees

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Searching for Gravitational Waves from Compact Binary Coalescence Using LIGO and Virgo Data, Collin Capano

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MCRG Minimal Walking Technicolor, Simon Catterall, Luigi Del Debbio, and Joel Giedt

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Systematic Errors of the MCRG Method, Simon Catterall, Luigi Del Debbio, Joel Giedt, and Liam Keegan

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Perturbative Renormalization of Lattice N=4 Super Yang-Mills Theory, Simon Catterall, Eric Dzienkowski, Joel Giedt, Anosh Joseph, and Robert Wells

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de Sitter Gravity from Lattice Gauge Theory, Simon Catterall, Daniel Ferrante, and Arwen Nicholson

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An Object Oriented Code for Simulating Supersymmetric Yang--Mills Theories, Simon Catterall and Anosh Joseph

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Cooperative Self-Propulsion of Active and Passive Rotors, Yaouen Fily, Aparna Baskaran, and M. Cristina Marchetti

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Higher Derivative Gravitational Systems and Ghost Fields, Michele Fontanini

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Polar Patterns in Active Fluids, Luca Giomi and M. Cristina Marchetti

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Active Jamming: Self-Propelled Soft Particles at High Density, Silke Henkes, Yaouen Fily, and M. Christina Marchetti

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Supersymmetric Yang-Mills theories on the lattice, Anosh Joseph

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Theory of Double-Sided Flux Decorations, M. Cristina Marchetti and David R. Nelson

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Critical Slowing Down in Polynomial Time Algorithms, Alan Middleton

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Zero and Low Temperature Behavior of the Two-Dimensional \pm J Ising Spin Glass, Alan Middleton, Creighton K. Thomas, and David A. Huse

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Observation of J/ψ Pair Production in pp Collisions at \sqrt{s}=7 TeV, Raymond Mountain, Marina Artuso, S. Blusk, and Alesandra Borgia

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Determination of f_s/f_d for 7 TeV pp Collisions and a Measurement of the Branching Fraction of the Decay Bd->D-K+, Raymond Mountain, Marina Artuso, S. Blusk, and Alessandra Borgia

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First Observation of B0s → Ds2*+ Xη-ν Decays, Raymond Mountain, Marina Artuso, S. Blusk, and Alessandra Borgia

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First Observation of B0s → J/Ψf0(980) Decays, Raymond Mountain, Marina Artuso, S. Blusk, and Alessandra Borgia

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First Observation of Bs -> D_{s2}^{*+} X mu nu Decays, Raymond Mountain, Marina Artuso, S. Blusk, and Alessandra Borgia

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First Observation of Bs -> J/psi f0(980) Decays, Raymond Mountain, Marina Artuso, S. Blusk, and Alessandra Borgia

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Measurement of J/psi Production in pp Collisions at Sqrt(s)=7 TeV, Raymond Mountain, Marina Artuso, S. Blusk, and Alessandra Borgia

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Measurement of J/Ψ Production in pp Collisions at √s=7 TeV, Raymond Mountain, Marina Artuso, S. Blusk, and Alessandra Borgia

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Measurement of Measurement of V 0 Production Ratios in pp Collisions at ps = 0.9 and 7TeV, Raymond Mountain, Marina Artuso, S. Blusk, and Alessandra Borgia

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Measurement of the Inclusive phi Cross-Section in pp Collisions at Sqrt(s) = 7 TeV, Raymond Mountain, Marina Artuso, S. Blusk, and Alessandra Borgia

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Measurement of the Inclusive Φ Cross-Section in pp Collisions at √s = 7 TeV, Raymond Mountain, Marina Artuso, S. Blusk, and Alessandra Borgia

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Measurement of V0 Production Ratios in pp Collisions at √s= 0.9 and 7 TeV, Raymond Mountain, Marina Artuso, S. Blusk, and Alessandra Borgia

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Measurements of the Branching Fractions for B_(s) -> D_(s)πππ and Λ_b^0 -> Λ_c^+πππ, Raymond Mountain, Marina Artuso, S. Blusk, and Alessandra Borgia

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Measurements of the Branching Fractions for B(s) → D(s)πππ and Λb0 → Λc+πππ, Raymond Mountain, Marina Artuso, S. Blusk, and Alessandra Borgia

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Observation of J/ψ Pair Production in pp Collisions at √s=7 TeV, Raymond Mountain, Marina Artuso, S. Blusk, and Alessandra Borgia

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Search for Lepton-Number Violating Processes in B+ -> h- l+ l+ Decays, Raymond Mountain, Marina Artuso, S. Blusk, and Alessandra Borgia

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Search for the Lepton Number Violating Decays B+ → π- μ+μ+ and B+→ K-μ+ μ+, Raymond Mountain, Marina Artuso, S. Blusk, and Alessandra Borgia

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Measurement of the eta_b(1S) mass and the Branching Fraction for Upsilon(3S) --> gamma eta_b(1S), Raymond Mountain, Marina Artuso, S. Blusk, and Sadia Khalil

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Amplitude Analyses of the Decays chi_c1 -> eta pi+ pi- and chi_c1 -> eta' pi+ pi-, Raymond Mountain, Marina Artuso, S. Blusk, and T. Skwarnicki

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Amplitude Analyses of the Decays Χc1 →ηπ+π- and Χc1→η'π+π-, Raymond Mountain, Marina Artuso, S. Blusk, and T. Skwarnicki

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Analysis of the Decay D0 → K0Sπ0π0, Raymond Mountain, Marina Artuso, S. Blusk, and T. Skwarnicki

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Analysis of the Decay D^0 to K^0_S pi^0 pi^0, Raymond Mountain, Marina Artuso, S. Blusk, and T. Skwarnicki

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Branching Fractions for Y(3S) -> pi^0 h_b and psi(2S) -> pi^0 h_c, Raymond Mountain, Marina Artuso, S. Blusk, and T. Skwarnicki

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Branching Fractions for ϒ(3S)→ π0hb and Ψ(2S) →π0hc, Raymond Mountain, Marina Artuso, S. Blusk, and T. Skwarnicki

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Measurements of Branching Fractions for Electromagnetic Transitions Involving the χ_{bJ}(1P) States, Raymond Mountain, Marina Artuso, S. Blusk, and T. Skwarnicki

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Measurements of Branching Fractions for Electromagnetic Transitions Involving the χbJ(1P) States, Raymond Mountain, Marina Artuso, S. Blusk, and T. Skwarnicki

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Observation of the Dalitz Decay D_{s}^{*+} \to D_{s}^{+} e^{+} e^{-}, Raymond Mountain, Marina Artuso, S. Blusk, and T. Skwarnicki

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Observation of the h_c(1P) Using e^+e^- Collisions Above DDbar Threshold, Raymond Mountain, Marina Artuso, S. Blusk, and T. Skwarnicki

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Observation of the Hc(1P) Using e+e- Collisions Above DD Threshold, Raymond Mountain, Marina Artuso, S. Blusk, and T. Skwarnicki

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Search for the Decay D^+_{s}\toωe^+ν, Raymond Mountain, Marina Artuso, S. Blusk, and T. Skwarnicki

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Studies of D^+ -> {eta', eta, phi} e^+ nu_e, Raymond Mountain, Marina Artuso, S. Blusk, and T. Skwarnicki

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Studies of D+→ {η', η, φ}e+νe, Raymond Mountain, Marina Artuso, S. Blusk, and T. Skwarnicki

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Determination of fs/fd for 7 TeV pp Collisions and a Measurement of the Branching Fraction of the Decay B0→D-K+, Raymond Mountain, Marina Artuso, S. Blusk, and S. Stone

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Search for the Decay D+s→ωe+ν, Raymond Mountain, Marina Artuso, and T. Skwarnicki

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Observation of the Dalitz Decay Ds*+ → Ds*+ e+e-, Raymond Mountain, Marina Artuso, T. Skwarnicki, and S. Stone

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Study of Radiation Damage in Lead Tungstate Crystals Using Intense High Energy Beams, Raymond Mountain, K. Khroustalev, V.A. Batarin, and T. Brennan

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Viscous to inertial crossover in liquid drop coalescence, Joseph Paulsen

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Characterization of Enhanced Interferometric Gravitational Wave Detectors and Studies of Numeric Simulations for Compact-Binary Coalescences, Larne Pekowsky

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Rectification of Vortex Motion in a Circular Ratchet Channel, Britton Plourde, N. S. Lin, T. W. Heitmann, Kang Yu, and V. R. Misko

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Morphology and Mechanics of the Actin Cytoskeleton, David Aaron Quint

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The Design and Construction of a Green Laser and Fabry-Perot Cavity System for Jefferson Lab's Hall A Compton Polarimeter, Abdurahim Rakhman

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Are Three Flavors Special?, Joseph Schechter, Amir H. Fariborz, Renata Jora, and M. Naeem Shahid

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Chiral Nonet Mixing in pi pi Scattering, Joseph Schechter, Amir H. Fariborz, Renata Jora, and M. Naeem Shahid

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Semi-Leptonic D_s^+(1968) Decays as a Scalar Meson Probe, Joseph Schechter, Amir H. Fariborz, Renata Jora, and M. Naeem Shahid

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Possible Z-Width Probe of a "Brane-World" Scenario for Neutrino Masses, Joseph Schechter, Sherif Moussa, Salah Nasri, and F Sannino

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Thermodynamic Limit to Photonic-Plasmonic Light-Trapping in Thin Films on Metals, Eric A. Schiff

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Microwave Properties of Vortices in Superconducting Resonators, Chunhua Song

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The Importance of Slow-Roll Corrections During Multi-field Inflation, Scott Watson, Anastasios Avgoustidis, Sera Cremonini, and Anne-Christine Davis

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The Baryon-Dark Matter Ratio Via Moduli Decay After Affleck-Dine Baryogenesis, Scott Watson, Gordon Kane, Jing Shao, and Hai-Bo Yu

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Constraints on a Non-thermal History from Galactic Dark Matter Spikes, Scott Watson and Pearl Sandick

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Topics in Cosmic Acceleration and Braneworlds, Eric J. West

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Interacting Stochastic Processes: from Viciousness to Caging to Force Chains, Shiliyang Xu

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A Biosynthetic Membrane-Anchor/Protein System Based on a Genetically Encoded "Aldehyde Tag", ChaoJie Zhen

2010

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Quantum field theory in a noncommutative geometry: The Moyal spacetime, Earnest Akofor

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Do Cosmological Perturbations Have Zero Mean?, Christian Armendariz-Picon

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Effective Theory Approach to the Spontaneous Breakdown of Lorentz Invariance, Christian Armendariz-Picon, Alberto Diez-Tejedor, and Riccardo Penco

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Primordial Perturbations in Einstein-Aether and BPSH Theories, Christian Armendariz-Picon, Noela Farina Sierra, and Jaume Garriga

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Covariant Quantum Fields on Noncommutative Spacetimes, A. P. Balachandran, A. Ibort, G. Marmo, and M. Martone

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Quantum Geons and Noncommutative Spacetimes, A. P. Balachandran, A. Ibort, G. Marmo, and M. Martone

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Instabilities and Oscillations in Isotropic Active Gels, Shiladitya Banerjee and M. Cristina Marchetti

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Nonequilibrium Statistical Mechanics of Self-Propelled Hard Rods, Aparna Baskaran and M. Cristina Marchetti

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Paraboloidal Crystals, Mark Bowick and Luca Giomi

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Crystalline Order on Catenoidal Capillary Bridges, Mark Bowick and Zhenwei Yao

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Crystalline Order on Catenoidal Capillary Bridges, Mark Bowick and Zhenwei Yao

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A Search for Gravitational Waves Associated with the August 2006 Timing Glitch of the Vela Pulsar, Duncan Brown and J. Abadie

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Calibration of the LIGO Gravitational Wave Detectors in the Fifth Science Run, Duncan Brown and J. Abadie

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First Search for Gravitational Waves from the Youngest Known Neutron Star, Duncan Brown and J. Abadie

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Methods for Reducing False Alarms in Searches for Compact Binary Coalescences in LIGO Data, Duncan Brown and J. Slutsky

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Supersymmetric Lattices, Simon Catterall

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Three Dimensional Lattice Gravity as Supersymmetric Yang-Mills Theory, Simon Catterall

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Topological Gravity on the Lattice, Simon Catterall

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Twisted Lattice Supersymmetry and Applications to AdS/CFT, Simon Catterall

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First Results from Lattice Simulation of the PWMM, Simon Catterall and Greg Van Anders

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MCRG Minimal Walking Technicolor, Simon Catterall, Luigi Del Debbio, Joel Giedt, and Liam Keegan

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Realization of Center Symmetry in Two Adjoint Flavor Large-N Yang-Mills, Simon Catterall, Richard Galvez, and Mithat Unsal

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Gauge Theory Duals of Black Hole - Black String Transitions of Gravitational Theories on a Circle, Simon Catterall, Anosh Joseph, and Toby Wiseman

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Thermal Phases of D1-Branes on a Circle from Lattice Super Yang-Mills, Simon Catterall, Anosh Joseph, and Toby Wiseman

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Discreteness and the Transmission of Light from Distant Sources, Fay Dowker, Joe Henson, and Rafael Sorkin