Charmed baryon resonances and mesons in hot and dense matter 

    Jiménez Tejero, Clara Estela (Date of defense: 2012-03-05)

    In this thesis we have studied baryon resonances generated from the dynamical interaction of two hadrons. We are interested on this study as an alternative approach to explain the increasing number of observed charmed ...

    Colisiones de partículas cargadas. Modelos de interacción y algoritmos numéricos 

    Bote Paz, David (Date of defense: 2010-03-25)

    En esta tesis se reformulan de manera detallada la primera aproximación de Born relativista con ondas planas (PWBA), para colisiones inelásticas de electrones, positrones y partículas pesadas con átomos o iones, suponiendo ...

    Contribución al estudio de las aleaciones de Cu-Zn-AI mediante calorimetría y emisión acústica 

    Auguet Sangrá, Carlota E. (Date of defense: 1988-07-07)

    Hay un gran número de aleaciones que experimentan transformaciones martensíticas termoelásticas (Au-Cd, Ti-Ni, Cu- Zn- Al, Cu- Al- Mo) y, en consecuencia, presentan ciertas propiedades termomecánicas que los convierten en ...

    Description of hyperonic matter and hypernuclei within the Brueckner-Hartree-Fock theory. 

    Vidaña Haro, Isaac (Date of defense: 2001-06-08)

    The purpose of this thesis is to study, within the framework of Brueckner-Hartree-Fock theory, properties of finite (hypernuclei) and infinite (hyperonic matter) nuclear many-body systems with hyperonic degrees of freedom, ...

    Estudi de la influència de l'estat d'ordre atòmic en les transicions martensítiques 

    Castan i Vidal, Maria Teresa (Date of defense: 1987-04-09)

    Els sistemes objecte d'estudi en aquest treball són aliatges metàl·lics d'estructura reticular b.c.c. els quals, a baixes temperatures, experimenten una transició de fase estructural de tipus martensític (bàsicament descrita ...

    Estudi experimental de la dinàmica d'un front fluid en un medi desordenat 

    Planet Latorre, Ramon (Date of defense: 2009-10-23)

    La imbibició és un procés de transport de fluids immiscibles en un medi desordenat en el qual el fluid que mulla preferentment el medi desplaça el fluid resident. La interfície que separa aquests dos fluids esta sotmesa a ...

    Estudio de la dinámica estocástica mediante tiempos de primer paso 

    Ramírez de la Piscina Millán, Laureano (Date of defense: 1990-07-06)

    La caracterización de sistemas por medio de sus tiempos característicos es sujeto de investigación tanto teórica como experimental. Posiblemente el tiempo característico más conocido y más ampliamente utilizado es el Tiempo ...

    Experimentos y modelos en sistemas que presentan transiciones de fase de primer orden con dinámica de avalanchas 

    Pérez Reche, Francisco José (Date of defense: 2005-04-29)

    En esta tesis se han estudiado algunos aspectos de sistemas que presentan transiciones de fase. Para ello se ha empleado tanto un enfoque experimental como teórico. En particular, se han investigado algunas transiciones ...

    Experiments on perturbed Saffman-Taylor flows 

    Ignés i Mullol, Jordi (Date of defense: 1997-06-26)

    We have performed pattern formation experiments where a relatively well understood system (flow in a Hele-Shaw cell) is perturbed either by means of a lattice of grooves or by the use of viscoelastic fluids. We have extended ...

    Explicit Bound states and Resonance fields in Effective Field Theories 

    Tarrús Castellà, Jaume (Date of defense: 2012-06-07)

    The first three chapters of this thesis have been devoted to the theoretical background. We presented the novel work of this thesis in chapters 4 and 5. In chapter 4 we have constructed a Chiral effective field theory for ...

    Facets of non-relativistic Effective Field Theories. 

    Eiras Fernández, Dolors (Date of defense: 2002-07-01)

    Collected papers where problems involving non-relativistic systems are solved by means of a proper Effective Field Theory. Those problems include the calculation of the lifetime of pionium, the lepton finite mass corrections ...

    First measurements of radiative B decays in LHCb 

    Puig Navarro, Albert (Date of defense: 2012-03-09)

    Radiative decays of B mesons, a good example of Flavor Changing Neutral Currents, are interesting for the study of physics beyond the Standard Model, as new high-energy phenomena can enter in the loop. The LHCb experiment, ...

    Flavour Tagging developments within the LHCb experiment 

    Grabalosa Gándara, Marc (Date of defense: 2012-05-15)

    Flavour Tagging at the LHCb experiment is a fundamental tool for the measurement of B oscillations and the study of CP violation. This document explains the development of different tagging techniques and the different ...

    Imbibition in a model open fracture. Capillary rise, kinetic roughening, and intermittent avalanche dynamics 

    Clotet i Fons, Xavier (Date of defense: 2014-07-11)

    The dynamics of fractured media flows is relevant in many processes of interest that range from the micrometre to the kilometre lengthscales. Flow in disordered media has been proven to be an interesting system to study ...

    Inclusive b-jet production cross section measurement at LHCb 

    Camboni, Alessandro (Date of defense: 2013-02-11)

    The LHCb detector features an outstanding capability to identify displaced secondary vertices with respect to the interaction point. The extraordinary performance of the whole LHCb tracking system makes possible accurate ...

    Instabilities in Newtonian and non-Newtonian fluids 

    Torralba Cuello, Mireia (Date of defense: 2007-04-26)

    [spa] Durante la tesis se realizó un estudio experimental de inestabilidades hidrodinámicas en dos sistemas muy diferentes. Estudiamos inestabilidades laterales en dedos de Saffaman-Taylor sujetos a dos tipos de ...

    Many-body studies on atomic quantum systems 

    Mur Petit, Jordi (Date of defense: 2006-01-11)

    En aquesta tesi presentem un conjunt d'estudis sobre sistemes atòmics on els efectes quàntics són especialment destacats. Aquests estudis s'han dut a terme aplicant diverses tècniques de la física teòrica de molts ...

    Mechanical instabilities and dynamics of living matter. From single-cell motility to collective cell migration 

    Blanch Mercader, Carles (Date of defense: 2015-03-04)

    The thesis belongs to the field of biophysicis, in particular we evaluate from a physicial perspective biological processes that occur at the celular and multicelular scales involving collective phenomena of self-organization. ...

    Mechano–chemical study of rotatory molecular motors 

    Pérez Carrasco, Rubén (Date of defense: 2013-02-04)

    Cells are the minimum unit of life. They are born, they eat, the may grow, they may move, and, eventually, they die. By contrast, from a physicist point of view, cells are systems out of equilibrium continuously transducing ...

    Non-mesonic weak decay of hypernuclei in effective field theory 

    Pérez-Obiol Castañeda, Axel (Date of defense: 2014-02-11)

    In this thesis we have described the weak Lambda N to NN interaction, which is the main responsible for the decay of heavy hypernuclei, within the effective field theory (EFT) framework. The EFT is developed up to second ...