Licht, David (Date of defense: 2021-04-14)
In this thesis we present a new aspect pertaining to the effective field theory of general relativity in the limit of a large number D of dimensions. We demonstrate that the theory initially developed ...
Wijsen, Nicolas (Date of defense: 2020-04-30)
Our modern society is becoming increasingly dependent on the constant stream of information sent out by satellites orbiting Earth. However, highly energetic rays traversing the near-Earth space environment ...
Garcia Palau, Carles (Date of defense: 2022-05-12)
In this thesis we have presented a new method to search for tidal streams generated by globular clusters in the Gaia catalogue. This statistical method is based on the maximum likelihood technique to ...
Rosich Salgado, Albert (Date of defense: 2022-02-24)
The current trend in exoplanet research focuses on the detection and characterisation of Earth-sized planets, and the study of their potential subtle and tenuous atmospheres. The aim of this thesis is ...
Valcin, David (Date of defense: 2021-09-28)
CONTEXT: The current ΛCDM cosmological paradigm has seen remarkable success in recent decades (whether it is the discovery of the CMB, the formation of large-scale structures, the expansion of the ...
Garcia Garcia, Carlos (Date of defense: 2020-11-10)
This thesis studies Dark Energy, a central topic of Modern Cosmology, from different points of view. It covers from models and parametrizations to likelihood approximations for the observations of the ...
Sanglás Martín, Albert (Date of defense: 2023-10-10)
[eng] This thesis investigates primordial black holes and their observational consequences. In the first part, we examine the behavior of domain walls produced during inflation, and their subsequent ...