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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2006

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Twisted Supersymmetric Sigma Model on the Lattice, Simon Catterall and Sofiane Ghadab

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Intracellular Signaling: How do Cells Respond to Single and Multiple Inputs, LaToya Crayton

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Exact supersymmetry on the lattice, Sofiane Ghadab

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Temperature Dependence of the Electron Diffusion Coefficient in Electrolyte-Filled TiO2, Nikos Kopidakis, Kurt D. Benkstein, Arthur J. Frank, Quan Yuan, and Eric A. Schiff

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Temperature Dependence of the Electron Diffusion Coefficient in Electrolyte-Filled TiO2 Nanoparticle Films: Evidence Against Multiple Trapping in Exponential Conduction-Band Tails, Nikos Kopidakis, Kurt D. Benkstein, Jao van de Lagemaat, Quan Yuan, and Eric A. Schiff

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Hole Mobility Limit of Amorphous Silicon Solar Cells, Jiang Liang, Eric A. Schiff, S. Guha, Baojie Yan, and Jeff Yang

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Device physics of hydrogenated amorphous silicon solar cells, Jianjun Liang

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Are Domain Walls in Spin Glasses Described by Stochastic Loewner Evolutions?, Alan Middleton, Denis Bernard, and Pierre Le Doussal

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Measuring Functional Renormalization Group Fixed-Point Functions for Pinned Manifolds, Alan Middleton, Pierre Le Doussal, and Kay Jorg Wiese

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Chiral Approach to Phi Radiative Decays, Joseph Schechter, Deirdre Black, and Masayasu Harada

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Generalized Sigma Model Description of the Light J=0 Mesons, Joseph Schechter, Amir H. Fariborz, and Renata Jora

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Model for Light Scalars in QCD, Joseph Schechter, Amir H. Fariborz, and Renata Jora

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An Approach to Permutation Symmetry for the Electroweak Theory, Joseph Schechter, Renata Jora, and Salah Nasri

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Hole Mobilities and the Physics of Amorphous Silicon Solar Cells, Eric A. Schiff

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Mode-Coupling Theory of the Stress-Tensor Autocorrelation Function of a Dense Binary Fluid Mixture, Supurna Sinha and M. Cristina Marchetti

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Sound-Propagation Gap in Fluid Mixtures, Supurna Sinha and M. Cristina Marchetti

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String Gas Cosmology, Scott Watson and Thorsten Battefeld

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Dilaton Dynamics from Production of Tensionless Membranes, Scott Watson and Sera Cremonini

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First measurements of the exclusive decays of the upsilon(5S) to B* meson B* bar meson pion pion final states and improved B*(s) meson mass measurements, Hongshan (Kevin) Zhang

2005

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Footprints of Statistical Anisotropies, Christian Armendariz-Picon

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Haloes of k-Essence, Christian Armendariz-Picon and Eugene A. Lim

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The BTeV RICH Front End Electronics, Marina Artuso

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Weak Point Disorder in Strongly Fluctuating Flux-Line Liquids, Panayotis Benetatos and M. Cristina Marchetti

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Crystalline Particle Packings on a Sphere with Long Range Power Law Potentials, Mark Bowick, Angelo Cacciuto, David R. Nelson, and Alex Travesset

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Grain Boundary Scars on Spherical Crystals, Mark Bowick, Thomas Einert, Peter Lipowsky, Jorg Schilling, and Andreas R. Bausch

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Direct Visualization of Dislocation Dynamics in Grain Boundary Scars, Mark Bowick, Peter Lipowsky, Jan H. Meinke, David R. Nelson, and Andreas R. Bausch

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Supertubes, black strings and D-brane systems, Belkis Cabrera Palmer

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Photo-Induced Current Measurements in Chlamydomonas Cell Suspensions, Collin D. Capano

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Dirac-Kähler Fermions and Exact Lattice Supersymmetry, Simon Catterall

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Lattice Formulation of {\cal N}=4 Super Yang-Mills Theory, Simon Catterall

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Notes on (Twisted) Lattice Supersymmetry, Simon Catterall

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The Clash of Symmetries in a Randall-Sundrum-like Spacetime, Gareth Dando, Aharon Davidson, Damien P. George, Raymond R. Volkas, and Kameshwar C. Wali

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The accelerating universe and other cosmological aspects of modified gravity models, Antonio De Felice

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Hole Drift-Mobility Measurements in Microcrystalline Silicon, T. Dylla, F. Finger, and Eric A. Schiff

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The nonlinear phototaxis signaling network of Chlamydomonas investigated by observing ciliary responses of individual cells to green and red light, Keith Josef

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Studies on Novel Semiconductor Detectors and Front-End Electronics for Heavy Flavor Decay Studies, Gustavo Kertzscher

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A method for the study of anelasticity in fused silica, Scott Erich Kittelberger

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Light-Soaking Effects on the Open-Circuit Voltage of a-Si:H Solar Cells, Jianjun Liang, Eric A. Schiff, S. Guha, Baojie Yan, and J. Yang

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Temperature-Dependent Open-Circuit Voltage Measurements and Light-Soaking in Hydrogenated Amorphous Silcon Solar Cells, Jianjun Liang, Eric A. Schiff, S. Guha, Baojie Yan, and Jeff Yang

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The Higgs Sector on a Two-Sheeted Space Time, Cosmin Macesanu and Kameshwar C. Wali

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Exploring Optimization for the Random-Field Ising Model, Alan Middleton, D. Clay Hambrick, and Jan H. Meinke

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Effects of Disorder on Electron Transport in Arrays of Quantum Dots, Alan Middleton and Shantenu Jha

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Linking Physics and Algorithms in the Random-Field Ising Model, Alan Middleton and Jan H. Meinke

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The Cleo Rich Detector, Raymond Mountain, Marina Artuso, R. Ayad, and Konstantin Vladimirovich Bukin

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Performance of a C4F8O Gas Radiator Ring Imaging Cherenkov Detector Using Multi-anode Photomultiplier Tubes, Raymond Mountain, Marina Artuso, Chaouki Boulahouache, and S. Blusk

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Molecular Hydrogen Formation on Ice Under Interstellar Conditions, Hagai B. Perets, Gianfranco Vidali, Joe Roser, and Sol Swords

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Flux Qubits and Readout Device with Two Independent Flux Lines, Britton Plourde and T. L. Robertson

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Absolute branching fraction measurements and electron spectrum of inclusive charged and neutral D meson semileptonic decays, Radia Redjimi

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Isobar Rescattering Model and Light Scalar Mesons, Joseph Schechter

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Toy Model for Two Chiral Nonets, Joseph Schechter, Amir H. Fariborz, and Renata Jora

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Fine Structure of Beta Decay Endpoint Spectrum, Joseph Schechter, Samina S. Masood, and Salah Nasri

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Formation of Molecular Hydrogen on Analogues of Interstellar Dust Grains: Experiments and Modelling, Gianfranco Vidali and Joe Roser

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Conducting Polymer and Hydrogenated Amorphous Silicon Hybrid Solar Cells, Evan L. Williams, Ghassan E. Jabbour, Qi Wang, Sean E. Shaheen, and Eric A. Schiff

2004

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Could Dark Energy be Vector-Like?, Christian Armendariz-Picon

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Non-Adiabatic Perturbations from Single-Field Inflation, Christian Armendariz-Picon

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Fixed-Connectivity Membranes, Mark Bowick

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A Geometrical Approach to N=2 Super Yang-Mills Theory on the Two Dimensional Lattice, Simon Catterall

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Lattice Supersymmetry Via Twisting, Simon Catterall

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Simulations of Dynamically Triangulated Gravity -- an Algorithm for Arbitrary Dimension, Simon Catterall

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Lattice Sigma Models with Exact Supersymmetry, Simon Catterall and Sofiane Ghadab

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Entropy and the Approach to the Thermodynamic Limit in Three-Dimensional Simplicial Gravity, Simon Catterall, John B. Kogut, and R. Renken

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Upper limit for electron-positron decaying to neutral Lambda(baryon)-antineutral Lamba(baryon) cross section and R in the center-of-mass energy range from 11.230 to 11.382 GeV, Orlokh Dorjkhaidav

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Hole Drift-Mobility Measurements and Multiple-Trapping in Microcrystalline Silicon, T. Dylla, F. Finger, and Eric A. Schiff

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A search for new physics at the TeV scale via a precise measurement of the weak mixing angle in Moller scattering, Waled S. Emam

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Numerical studies of electron transport in disordered quantum dot arrays, Shantenu Jha

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Explorations in fuzzy physics and non-commutative geometry, Seckin Kurkcuoglu

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Bridging the Microscopic and the Hydrodynamic in Active Filament Solutions, Tanniemola B. Liverpool and M. Cristina Marchetti

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Improved Extremal Optimization for the Ising Spin Glass, Alan Middleton

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Photon spectroscopy of heavy quarkonia, Hajime Muramatsu

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Decoherence in Josephson-Junction Qubits due to Critical Current Fluctuations, Britton Plourde and D. J. Van Harlingen

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Laboratory simulations of chemical reactions on dust grains in the interstellar medium, Joseph E. Roser

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Leptonic CP Violation in a Two Parameter Model, Joseph Schechter, Samina S. Masood, and Salah Nasri

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Leptonic CP Violation Phases Using an Ansatz for the Neutrino Mass Matrix and Application to Leptogenesis, Joseph Schechter, Salah Nasri, and Sherif Moussa

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Study of Leptonic CP Violation, Joseph Schechter, Salah Nasri, and Sherif Moussa

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Drift-Mobility Measurements and Mobility Edges in Disordered Silicons, Eric A. Schiff

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What are the Building Blocks of Our Universe?, Kameshwar C. Wali

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Moduli Stabilization with the String Higgs Effect, Scott Watson

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Stabilizing Moduli with String Cosmology, Scott Watson

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UV Perturbations in Brane Gas Cosmology, Scott Watson

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Effective Field Theory Approach to String Gas Cosmology, Scott Watson and Thorsten Battefeld

2003

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Role of light scalar resonances in strongly interacting chiral effective Lagrangians, Abdou M. Abdel-Rehim

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Liberating the Inflaton from Primordial Spectrum Constraints, Christian Armendariz-Picon

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Anisotropic Inflation and the Origin of Four Large Dimensions, Christian Armendariz-Picon and Vikram Duvvuri

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Spinors, Inflation, and Non-Singular Cyclic Cosmologies, Christian Armendariz-Picon and Patrick B. Greene

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Scale Invariance without Inflation?, Christian Armendariz-Picon and Eugene A. Lim

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Vacuum Choices and the Predictions of Inflation, Christian Armendariz-Picon and Eugene A. Lim

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Grain Boundary Scars and Spherical Crystallography, Mark Bowick and A. R. Bausch

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The Shapes of Dirichlet Defects, Mark Bowick, Antonio De Felice, and Mark Trodden

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Curvature-Induced Defect Unbinding in Toroidal Geometries, Mark Bowick, David R. Nelson, and Alex Travesset

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The BaBar Mini, Duncan Brown

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Search for eta(b) in the CLEO-II Upsilon(3S) and Upsilon(2S) data, Konstantin Vladimirovich Bukin

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Exact Lattice Supersymmetry from Topological Field Theory, Simon Catterall

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Lattice Supersymmetry and Topological Field Theory, Simon Catterall

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A Lattice Study of the Two-Dimensional Wess Zumino Model, Simon Catterall and Sergey Karamov

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Amorphous Silicon Based Solar Cells, Xunming Deng and Eric A. Schiff

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Hole Drift-Mobility Measurements in Contemporary Amorphous Silicon, S. Dinca, Eric A. Schiff, V. Vlahos, C. R. Wronski, and Q. Yuan

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Supersymmetric theories on the lattice, Sergey Alexandrovich Karamov

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Driven Depinning of Strongly Disordered Media and Anisotropic Mean-field Limits, Alan Middleton, M. Cristina Marchetti, Karl Saunders, and J. M. Schwarz

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Mean Field Theory of Collective Transport with Phase Slips, Alan Middleton, Karl Saunders, J. M. Schwarz, and M. Cristina Marchetti

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Percolation of Satisfiability in Finite Dimensions, Alan Middleton and J. M. Schwarz