Ultraviolet sources for advanced applications in the vacuum UV and near UV

This dissertation documents a systematic study consisting of experimental investigations and theoretical analyses of intense ultraviolet sources in VUV and near-UV. Some engineering issues regarding two prototypes of electrodeless lamps using rf and microwave are discussed.;Various excimers that produce intense UV light are investigated, including: (1) A benchmark Xe2 excimer which has been proven to be very efficient in our novel rf capacitively coupled discharge lamp; (2) A rarely studied excimer, KrI, which suffers from predissociation and was reported to be very weak or invisible by most of other studies; (3) XeI excimer whose emission dominates around 253 nm and is promising as a mercury-free lamp for antibacterial applications. In the above studies, discharge temperatures are estimated from the emission band width. An elaborate kinetic model is developed for KrI to account for the KrI* and I2* intensities as a function of pressure. It was found that Kr2* plays the rule for energy transfer instead of Kr* in the pressure of interest. The electromagnetic wave interaction with charge particles is studied in our 2D and 3D EM-PIC simulations for both the rf and microwave lamps. Important plasma parameters, such as the electron density and temperature are obtained for various pressures. The electron energy distribution function that is important to account for excimer excitation is obtained.;We also performed a high-level ab initio calculation in Gaussian to produce the ground state potential curve for KrI, which agrees with previous scattering experiments and is necessary for predicting spectral emissions. as a systematic study to account for the KrI emission spectra at high pressure, we use a semiclassical model to account for emissions between a bound excited state and an unbound ground state. An explicit expression is obtained to represent the observed spectral intensity. Important molecular constants are obtained for KrI and compared with previous results

Probing the baryogenesis and dark matter relaxed in phase transition by gravitational waves and colliders

The cosmological phase transition with Q-balls production mechanism can explain the baryogenesis and dark matter simultaneously, where constraints on dark matter masses and reverse dilution are significantly relaxed. We study how to probe this scenario by collider signals at QCD next-to-leading order and gravitational wave signals.Comment: 22 pages,9 figures,4 tables, published in Phys.Rev.

Electroweak baryogenesis in the framework of the effective field theory

We study the electroweak baryogenesis in the framework of the effective field theory. Our study shows that by introducing a light singlet scalar particle and a dimension-5 operator, it can provide the strong first order phase transition and the source of the CP-violation during the phase transition, and then produce abundant particle phenomenology at zero temperature. We also show the constraints on the new physics scale from the observed baryon-to-photon ratio, the low-energy experiments, and the LHC data.Comment: 12 pages, 5 figures, 1 table; version published in Phys.Rev.

Three-terminal normal-superconductor junction as thermal transistor

We propose a thermal transistor based on a three-terminal normal-superconductor (NS) junction with superconductor terminal acting as the base. The emergence of heat amplification is due to the negative differential thermal conductance (NDTC) effect for the NS diode in which the normal side maintains a higher temperature. The temperature dependent superconducting energy gap is responsible for the NDTC. By controlling quantum dot levels and their coupling strengths to the terminals, a huge heat amplification factor can be achieved. The setup offers an alternative tuning scheme of heat amplification factor and may find use in cryogenic applications.Comment: 6 pages, 3 figure

Modelling of Axial Spring Stiffness in Active Vibration Controlled Drilling

During drilling process, substantial amount of vibration and shock are induced to the drill string. Active vibration controlled drilling is introduced to reduce the vibration and increase the efficiency of drilling process. In this system, two main components that determine the damping stiffness are MR damper and spring assembly. Performance of vibration damping system is depending on the viscosity of MR fluid in the damper and spring constant of spring assembly. One of the key issues that are unclear from the design is the correlation between the axial spring stiffness configuration and the damping force which needs to be tuned actively. There has been lack of studies on how the viscosity of MR fluid on the active vibration damper affects the damping stiffness of the whole system. The first objective of the project is to investigate the relationship between the damping coefficient and power input to the system. Second objective is to develop the correlation between the viscosity of magnetorheological (MR) fluid and axial spring stiffness. To achieve the objectives, model of vibration damping system is created using MATLAB Simulink. The model is built with reference of experimental data conducted by APS Technology. Inputs of the simulation such as force exerted, mass of mandrel, spring constant and step time are based on the experimental data and can be adjusted to suit different experiments. By having the model, behavior of the system can be studied and analyzed. From the simulation, it is also observed that the relationship between damping coefficient and power input of the system is linear