Puxeu Vaqué, Josep (Date of defense: 2015-12-22)
The use of small Fields has substantially increased in radiotherapy during recent years mainly due to expansion in the use of modulated techniques which are also used at some institutions for Stereotactic ...
Casanovas Hoste, Adrià (Date of defense: 2020-10-27)
Neutron capture cross sections are fundamental in the study of the slow neutron capture process of nucleosynthesis, also known as the s-process, which produces half of the observed solar system abundances ...
Hernández Masgrau, Víctor (Date of defense: 2013-11-07)
Radiation therapy is one of the main modalities used for treating cancer patients, together with surgery and chemotherapy. Radiotherapy treatments can be carried out with a great variety of devices, but ...
Espinal Bustos, Raúl Uziel (Date of defense: 2013-12-20)
Hydrogen constitutes a promising alternative to manage our energy supply more efficiently. Hydrogen can be stored and used in fuel cells to produce electricity, where it combines with the oxygen present ...
Wegener, Moritz (Date of defense: 2021-02-12)
The colossal risks and challenges posed by climate change require innovative solutions that must fulfil energy service demands sustainably. The concept of small-scale, biomass-based polygeneration (SBP) ...
Ćwik, Agnieszka (Date of defense: 2019-09-30)
In this work two research topics are presented: investigation of carbonation reactions of high – calcium waste materials and CO2 storage in coal. Firstly, sorption capacity of CO2 and CH4 of hard coal ...
Salvador Castiñeira, Paula (Date of defense: 2014-11-07)
A recent sensitivity analysis done for the new generation of fast reactors [1] has shown the importance of improved cross section data for several actinides. Among them, the neutron-induced fission cross ...
Coello de Portugal - Martínez Vázquez, Jaime Maria (Date of defense: 2021-06-16)
In order to increase the performance of particle colliders, it is crucial to make the beam sizes at the collision points as small as possible. This causes an increase of the beam size in the region ...
García Morales, Héctor (Date of defense: 2015-01-16)
The 4th of July 2012 was a milestone date in the history of physics of the last decades. The discovery of the Higgs boson at the ATLAS and CMS experiments thanks to the proton collisions delivered by ...
Camp Brunés, Anna (Date of defense: 2017-09-15)
The present thesis is focused on the improvement of radiological surveillance networks using gamma spectrometry. Tipically they are equipped with gamma dose rate monitors, while they do not have gamma ...