Sheet fluorescence and annular analysis of ultracold neutral plasmas

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dc.contributor.advisorKillian, Thomas C.en_US
dc.creatorCastro Nieto, Jose Antonioen_US
dc.date.accessioned2018-12-03T18:33:18Zen_US
dc.date.available2018-12-03T18:33:18Zen_US
dc.date.issued2009en_US
dc.description.abstractThis thesis describes sheet fluorescence and annular analysis in strontium ultracold neutral plasmas (UNPs). UNPs are interesting because they can be strongly-coupled, where strong-coupling indicates plasmas with Coulomb interaction energies higher than their thermal energy. UNPs are ideal for studying strongly-coupled physics since they offer the ability to precisely control their initial conditions. Previous studies of UNPs applied fluorescence spectroscopy to measure expansion and ion temperature. This thesis further refines fluorescence by narrowing the laser into a sheet, thereby measuring parameters in the plasma where density variation is small. Annular analysis increases the signal-to-noise ratio in these measurements by adding the signal from sections of an annulus in the spherically-symmetric plasma. This method is applied to the study of kinetic energy oscillations in UNPs, obtaining a higher resolution than previous experiments, and may be used for other density dependent studies.en_US
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dc.identifier.callnoTHESIS PHYS. 2010 CASTRO NIETOen_US
dc.identifier.citationCastro Nieto, Jose Antonio. "Sheet fluorescence and annular analysis of ultracold neutral plasmas." (2009) Master’s Thesis, Rice University. <a href="https://hdl.handle.net/1911/103739">https://hdl.handle.net/1911/103739</a>.en_US
dc.identifier.digital751007055en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1911/103739en_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
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dc.subjectAtoms & subatomic particlesen_US
dc.subjectPlasma physicsen_US
dc.subjectPure sciencesen_US
dc.titleSheet fluorescence and annular analysis of ultracold neutral plasmasen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
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thesis.degree.departmentPhysicsen_US
thesis.degree.disciplineNatural Sciencesen_US
thesis.degree.grantorRice Universityen_US
thesis.degree.levelMastersen_US
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Scienceen_US
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