Alarcón Avellán, Andreina (Date of defense: 2021-04-12)
The transformation of the current energy model towards a more sustainable mix, independent of fossil fuels, requires the exploration of new technologies that are capable of taking advantage of excess ...
Blanco Portals, Javier (Date of defense: 2021-03-04)
This thesis has been primarily dedicated to the exploration and implementation of new computational analysis tools and techniques for the characterisation of nanomaterials and devices via transmission ...
Esteban Muñoz, Iván (Date of defense: 2020-09-10)
At the end of the 20th century, experiments studying neutrinos coming from the Sun and cosmic rays hitting the atmosphere revealed that these particles can change their flavour, behaving in a way that ...
Alfonso Albero, Alejandro (Date of defense: 2022-02-11)
The main goal of this thesis is to study the radiative decays produced in one of the four big detectors of LHC, LHCb, which focuses on the study of matter-antimatter asymmetry through b and c quarks. ...
Viader Godoy, Xavier (Date of defense: 2021-01-29)
In this thesis, single-molecule experiments using LOT are employed to extract accurate information about the thermodynamics and kinetics of various molecular systems, with special emphasis on the elastic ...
Casellas Masana, Enric (Date of defense: 2022-05-20)
Precipitation phase discrimination at ground level constitutes a fundamental variable in many meteorological and hydrological applications, including avalanche hazards, winter road safety, and flooding ...
Illa Subiña, Marc (Date of defense: 2021-09-09)
Nuclei make up the majority of the visible matter in the Universe; obtaining a first principles description of the nuclear properties and interactions between nuclei directly from the underlying theory ...
Llabrés Brustenga, Alba (Date of defense: 2020-01-14)
Intensity - Duration - Frequency (IDF) relationships of extreme precipitation events are of high interest in hydrology. The building of infrastructure or designation of flood zone need, as groundwork, ...
Montaña Faiget, Glòria (Date of defense: 2022-07-08)
For many decades after the conception of the quark model in 1964, and the development of quantum chromodynamics (QCD) a few years later as the theory governing the strong interaction between quarks and ...
Ramon Gamon, Jaume (Date of defense: 2022-01-27)
Multiple initiatives are being implemented to mitigate and, in the worst-case scenarios, adapt society to climate change. The vast majority consider renewable energies key to accomplishing a necessary ...