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 ...
Sanchez Garitaonandia, Mikel (Date of defense: 2022-07-15)
Cosmological thermal first-order phase transitions are assumed to proceed via the nucleation of bubbles and subsequent expansion and collision. The out-of-equilibrium physics involved during the collision ...
Arnan Vendrell, Pere (Date of defense: 2020-09-04)
Recently lepton flavor universality tests in colliders have reported tensions with the Standard Model, providing an experimental hint at low energies of the effect of a new high energy theory. These ...
Katanaeva, Alisa (Date of defense: 2021-02-10)
AdS/CFT correspondence combines ideas of holography and duality in a way that allows one to make calculations in the otherwise hardly accessible (strongly coupled) regime of the target theory. In this ...
Cortés Simó, Maria (Date of defense: 2020-01-21)
Flooding is one of the main natural hazard in the world causing huge economic and human impacts. Assessing the flood damage in the Mediterranean region is of great importance, mainly due to its pronounced ...
Rios Fukelman, Alan (Date of defense: 2022-07-06)
This thesis is devoted to the study of the planar regime of N = 2 Lagrangian 4−dimensional superconformal field theories. In the first part of the thesis we study the matrix models that describe such ...