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UCL PhD theses in digital format can be found in  UCL Discover y, but please note that some theses have restrictions on access, at least for a certain period of time, and UCL's Open Access Team can be contacted with any queries.

Records can also be found in  Explore , and if we have a print copy,  it may be possible to consult it in one of our libraries by filling in a  Store Request Form  in advance of a visit.

Older PhD theses which haven’t been scanned yet can be ordered via the British Library's EThOS service  as they are digitizing them on demand, and for more information on theses generally see our  web page .

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Theses listed in reverse date order (most recent at the top).

To access theses on-line, click the link. If a thesis does not appear in this list, there may be a hard copy in the Elizabeth Spreadbury Library . Theses for which we have both electronic and hard copies are marked "ESL".

• Towards a search for the electric dipole moment of the muon at the Fermilab Muon g − 2 experiment Sam Grant, August 2022
• Differential cross-section measurements for four-lepton production and implications for new physics Dan Ping (Joanna) Huang, February 2022
• Preparations for the Mu3e experiment: Magnet commissioning, beamline studies and a study of fake tracks Ioannis Paraskevas, November 2021
• Search for exotic long-lived particles decaying into hadronic states in the calorimeter of the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider Alice Morris, August 2020
• Radon Background Studies for the SuperNEMO Experiment Fang Xie, July 2020
• Alignment of the straw tracking detectors for the Fermilab Muon g − 2 experiment and systematic studies for a muon electric dipole moment measurement Gleb Lukicov, June 2020
• Constraining new physics with fiducial measurements at the LHC David Yallup, September 2019
• Ad Lucem: Quantum Electrodynamic Parton Distribution Functions. Ricky Nathvani, September 2019
• Construction and commissioning of the tracker for the SuperNEMO Demonstrator Module and unfolding the 2vbb spectrum of Mo-100 from the NEMO-3 experiment. Ashwin Chopra, August 2019
• Measurement of the electron energy distribution at AWAKE Fearghus Keeble, August 2019
• Searches for new physics using pairs of jets containing b-quarks at the ATLAS detector Laurie McClymont, March 2018
• Measurements of ZZ production with the ATLAS detector and simulation of loop-induced processes with the Herwig event generator Stefan Richter, February 2018
• b-Tagging and Evidence for the Standard Model H -> bb Decay with the ATLAS Experiment Andy Bell, December 2017
• Search for dark matter in events containing jets and missing transverse momentum using ratio measurements Valentinos Christodoulou, November 2017
• Search for new resonances decaying to a Standard Model Vector boson (W/Z) and Higgs boson in proton-proton collisons at 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector Stephen Jiggins, November 2017
• Simulations of the physics and electronics in 2D semiconductor pixel detectors Ashley Joy, July 2017
• Sensitivity study and first prototype tests for the CHIPS neutrino detector R&D program Maciej Pfutzner, June 2017
• The development, testing and characterisation of a straw tracking detector and readout system for the Fermilab muon g-2 experiment Tom Stuttard, May 2017
• Low background techniques for the SuperNEMO experiment Xin Ran Liu, January 2017
• Dark Matter Searches with the LUX and LZ Experiments Sally Shaw, November 2016
• Three-flavour neutrino oscillations with MINOS and CHIPS Andrew Perch, November 2016
• A Search for Ultra-High Energy Neutrinos and Cosmic Rays with ANITA-3 Ben Strutt, October 2016
• Measurement of vector boson pair production using hadronic decays of high transverse momentum W and Z bosons at the ATLAS detector David Freeborn, June 2016
• Measurement of the inclusive-jet cross-section in proton-proton collisions and study of Quark-Gluon Jet discrimination with the ATLAS experiment at the LHC Hilal Kucuk, May 2016
• Liquid Argon Time Projection Chambers for Dark Matter and Neutrino Experiments Laura Manenti, April 2016
• Search for Higgs boson pair production in the bbbb final state at the Large Hadron Collider Rebecca Falla, February 2016
• Probing bb production with the ATLAS detector at the LHC Peter Davison, November 2015
• Generating brilliant X-ray pulses from particle-driven plasma wakefields Jimmy Holloway, December 2015
• Search for double-beta decay of 96 Zr with the NEMO-3 detector and ultra-low radioactivity measurements for the SuperNEMO experiment with the BiPo-3 detector Guillaume Eurin, October 2015
• Model Building and Phenomenology in Grand Unified Theories Tomas Gonzalo Velasco, September 2015
• Three flavour neutrino oscillations in MINOS+ Joseph O'Connor, September 2015
• An Estimate of the Hadron Production Uncertainty and a Measurement of the Rate of Proton Emission after Nuclear Muon Capture for the Comet Experiment Andrew Edmonds, March 2015
• Searching for the Higgs boson in the bb decay channel with the ATLAS experiment Ines Ochoa, February 2015
• A Search for Cosmogenic Neutrinos with the Askaryan Radio Array Jonathan Davies, October 2014
• First observation of electroweak Z boson plus two jet production Christian Gütschow, October 2014
• Search for double-beta decay of 48 Ca in NEMO-3 and commissioning of the tracker for the SuperNEMO experiment Cristovao Vilela, September 2014
• Characterisation of the MuSIC muon beam and design of the Eu-XFEL LPD/CCC interface firmware Sam Cook, September 2014
• Electrical Tests of the ATLAS Phase-II Strip Tracker Upgrade Samer Kilani, September 2014
• Studies of hadronic decays of high transverse momentum W and Z bosons with the ATLAS detector at the LHC Rebecca Chislett, August 2014
• Boosted bb bar decays with the ATLAS experiment at the LHC Luke Lambourne, June 2014
• Constraining the sources of ultra-high energy cosmic rays with multi-messenger data Foteini Oikonomou, March 2014
• Search for double beta decay of 82 Se with the NEMO-3 detector and development of apparatus for low-level radon measurements for the SuperNEMO experiment James Mott, Sep 2013
• Inclusive Measurement of the Charm Contribution to the Structure Function of the Proton Kenan Mujkic, Sep 2013
• Measuring the Disappearance of Muon Neutrinos with the MINOS Detectors Alexander Radovic, August 2013
• Two b or not two b jets: Measurements of inclusive and dijet b -jet differential cross-sections with the ATLAS detector Stephen Bieniek, June 2013
• Measurements of the total transverse energy in pp collisions and a new technique for model independent missing transverse energy searches with ATLAS Peter Wijeratne, June 2013
• Double beta decay of 48 Ca with NEMO3 and calibration development for SuperNEMO Ben Richards, June 2013
• Optimisation of the COMET experiment to search for charged lepton flavour violation and a new simulation to study the performance of the EMMA FFAG accelerator Richard D'Arcy, September 2012
• Studies of Jets, Subjets and Higgs Searches with The ATLAS Detector Sarah Baker, September 2012
• Modelling Energy Loss Mechanisms and a Determination of the Electron Energy Scale for the CDF Run II W Mass Measurement Thomas Riddick, June 2012
• A Function-Analytic Development of Field Theory David Houseman, June 2012
• Jet physics with the ATLAS experiment at the LHC James Robinson, March 2012
• A Search for Ultra-high Energy Neutrinos and Cosmic Rays with ANITA-2 Matthew Mottram, February 2012
• Search for the neutrinoless double beta decay of 100 Mo with the NEMO3 detector and calorimeter research and development for the SuperNEMO experiment Anastasia Basharina-Freshville, September 2011
• Simulation, Software and First ATLAS Physics Alex Richards, June 2011
• Exploring Electroweak Symmetry Breaking with Jet Substructure at the ATLAS Experiment Adam Davison, September 2010
• Investigation of the discovery potential of a Higgs boson in the tt bar H 0 , H 0 → bb bar channel with the ATLAS experiment Catrin Bernius, September 2010
• PDF and QCD effects in the precision measurement of the W boson mass at CDF Dan Beecher, September 2010
• Electron Neutrino Appearance in the MINOS Experiment Anna Holin, February 2010 (ESL)
• Using ATLAS to Investigate the Associated Production of a Higgs Bososn with a Pair of Top Quarks Lily Asquith, December 2009
• Precision Measurement of the Mass and Width of the W Boson at CDF Sarah Malik, September 2009
• A study of the top quark production threshold at a future electron-positron linear collider Filimon Gournaris, September 2009
• Beauty in photoproduction at HERA II with the ZEUS detector Sarah Boutle, August 2009 (ESL)
• Supersymmetry or Universal Extra Dimensions? Utilizing the ATLAS Experiment at CERN Thomas Byatt, January 2009
• Measurement of the Double Beta Decay Half-Life of 100 Mo to the 0 1 + Excited State, and 48 Ca to the Ground State in the NEMO 3 Experiment Shiva King, October 2008 (ESL)
• An Investigation into the Feasibility of a Sea Water and Ice Based Acoustic UHE Neutrino Telescope Simon Bevan, October 2008
• A Direct Measurement of the W Decay Width Troy Vine, Aug 2008
• The study of D +- and D 0 meson production in deep inelastic scattering at HERA II with the ZEUS detector Daniel Nicholass, Aug 2008 (ESL)
• Laser Interactions with High Brightness Electron Beams Stephen Malton, Feb 2007
• Study of WW scattering in the absence of a light Higgs boson using the ATLAS Detector at the LHC Efstathios Stefanidis, Jan 2007
• An investigation of the Higgs Boson production channel tt bar H 0 , H 0 → bb bar with the ATLAS detector at the LHC. Janice Drohan, Sep 2006
• A Measurement of the Production of Jets in Association with a W Boson in Proton-Antiproton Collisions at the Tevatron using Data Collected with the CDF Experiment Ben Cooper, Sep 2006 (ESL)
• An Investigation into Transport Protocols and Data Transport Applications Over High Performance Networks Yee-Ting Li, Aug 2006
• Beauty Photproduction at HERA II with the ZEUS experiment Silvia Miglioranzi, June 2006
• Dijet Photoproduction and the Structure of the Proton with the ZEUS detector. Chris Targett-Adams, Feb 2006
• A Measurement of the W+ W- production cross section in ppbar collisions at √s=1.96 TeV in the DiLepton channel and limits on anomalous WWZ/γ couplings Dustin McGivern, Sept 2005 (ESL)
• Charm at HERA I and HERA II with the ZEUS experiment John Loizides, June 2005
• Design and Implementation of the Object-Oriented Fast Simulation Program for the ATLAS experiment and its use to determine the discovery potential of the Higgs Boson via the channel h → Z 0 Z 0* → bb bar l + l - Richard Steward, Nov 2004
• Measurement and Simulation of the Performance of High Energy Physics Data Grids Paul Crosby, June 2004
• Dijet Production and MultiScale QCD at HERA Matthew Lightwood, June 2004
• Calibration of the MINOS detectors Ryan Nichol, Oct 2003 (ESL)
• Jets and Energy Flow in Photoproduction using the ZEUS Detector at HERA Claire Gwenlan, Sep 2003
• An eikonal model for multi particle production in hadron-hadron scattering Ivan Borozan, Dec 2002
• Calibration of the MINOS detectors and extraction of neutrino oscillation parameters Chris Smith, Nov 2002
• Charm and the Virtual Photon at HERA and a Global Tracking Trigger for ZEUS Ben West, August 2001 (ESL)
• Dijet Photoproduction and the Structure of the Photon Eileen Heaphy, June 2001
• Measurement of the Triple Gauge Boson Couplings and W Polarization in W-Pair Production at LEP2 Jonathan Couchman, Oct 2000 (ESL)
• Measurement of the low x behaviour of the Photon Structure Function F 2 γ Edmund Clay, June 2000
• A Measurement of the triple Gauge Boson Couplings from e + e - Collisions at 183-189 GeV Stephen Betts, July 1999
• The Study of Heavy Quark Production in High E T Photoproduction at HERA using the ZEUS Detector Matthew Wing, January 1999 (ESL)
• An analysis of the hadronic final state and jets in deep inelastic e-gamma scattering events using the OPAL detector at LEP Anthony M. Rooke, September 1998
• Charm in Dijet Photoproduction at HERA Mark R. Sutton, August 1998
• An Investigation of Singly and Doubly Tagged Photon-Photon Scattering Using the OPAL Detector at LEP Edward A. McKigney, September 1998 (ESL)
• A Measurement of Dijet Photoproduction at HERA using the Zeus Detector Robert L. Saunders, September 1997 (ESL)
• Investigation of the Performance of Microstrip Gas Detectors for X-rays and Evaluation of their Application to Mammography Antonis Papanestis, July 1997
• Measurements of the Tau Lepton Polarisation Asymmetries Using TAU --> MUON MUON-ANTINEUTRINO TAU-NEUTRINO Decay Identified in the OPAL Detector at LEP. Clive M. Lewis, December 1996 RAL-TH-97-002 (ESL)
• A Study of Photon Structure with Special Attention to the Low-x Region Jason J. Ward, August 1996 RAL-TH-96-014 (ESL)
• Energy flows in deep inelastic scattering at HERA Philip B. Kaziewicz, November 1995
• Measurement of charged particles from the hadronic final state of electron-proton deep inelastic scattering at a centre of mass energy of 296 GeV Corinna Catterall, September 1995

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Where should i start, what is a literature review, why are literature reviews important, what is a literature search, should i conduct a ‘systematic review’, can i get help with researching my dissertation.

The research process for your dissertation requires a different approach from that you'll have used during your taught modules. Rather than being guided to relevant sources by a lecturer, you’re responsible for finding, selecting, evaluating and managing all your research sources. You'll be using many more sources than you'll have consulted for smaller pieces of assessed work, and perhaps different types of information from those you've used previously, so you need to think carefully about your approach to your information gathering and management activities.

If you're unsure where to start, then some background reading should help you get underway. Start by looking at broad themes and topics of interest, viewing sources like textbooks, subject dictionaries and encyclopaedias which examine larger fundamental concepts, before narrowing your search to look for specific research in your area of study. If you find some really useful material, such as relevant articles or books, you can mine these for all sorts of other useful related sources. For example:

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A literature review summarises and analyses the literature you've found through your research. In a literature review, the literature itself is the subject of discussion. The aim of a literature review is to demonstrate that you’ve read, and have a good grasp of, the main published material concerning a particular topic or question in your field. A literature review isn’t a straightforward summary of everything you’ve read on a topic. It’s an evaluative analysis of what’s been discovered in your field. The review should describe, summarise, evaluate and clarify this literature. Research and Writing Skills for Dissertations and Projects  is a UCL Moodle course available to all UCL students and looks at the skills associated with researching and writing an extended piece of work. Module 4 focuses on the literature review process.

When academics and industry professionals conduct research, they usually publish the work in books, journal articles and conference proceedings. For the most part, this is the 'literature' you need to find and review. A literature review sets the scene for your work. It places your research in context and shows how it relates to and builds upon the work of others. It’s also your chance to tell people why your work matters, why it’s relevant, and how it contributes original research to your field. Importantly, a literature review helps you find out how to do research. It shows which research methods have worked in the past and which ones haven’t. This can be a big help when planning your own research strategy.

For your dissertation, you’re likely to need to perform a literature search. A literature search is a well-thought-out, organised search and evaluation of literature available on a topic. A well-structured literature search is an effective and efficient way to locate sound evidence on the subject you're researching. 'Literature' can include journal articles, newspaper articles, official publications, conference proceedings, archives, book chapters, etc. View the literature searching page on this guide for further details about planning your search, common search techniques and developing a search strategy.

Systematic reviews are a type of literature review that follow a very rigorous and systematic searching, screening and analysis process. You can find out more about the process on our guide to systematic reviews . Usually a systematic review addresses a focused, structured research question to inform understanding on a particular topic and often to support evidence-based decision-making in that area. To do a full systematic review can be an extremely time-consuming process and requires a lot of resources, but you may want to incorporate some similar methodology, such as systematic approaches to literature searching or data analysis, without necessarily carrying out a full review. This can be considered to be a systematic style review, or a “light” systematic review.

Your Subject Liaison Librarian or Site Library can provide support for your dissertation through their subject guides which offer guidance on accessing quality academic resources. Send them an email for personalised support or book a one-to-one appointment .

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Doctoral theses in UCL’s repository

By Patrycja, on 25 October 2018

At UCL, candidates for research degrees are required to deposit an electronic copy of their final thesis in UCL’s Research Publications Service (RPS), to be made open access in UCL’s institutional repository, UCL Discovery . Students can choose to restric public access to their thesis, for a variety of reasons like future publication, copyright restriction or sensitive data, but most are made open access immediately, or after a delay period no longer than 12 months.

The requirement to submit an electronic copy of your thesis as a condition of award has been in place at UCL since 2009. In addition to that, we have retrospectively digitised theses from earlier years, as a part of a collaborative project with ProQuest. So far, about 3,500 theses have been made available in UCL Discovery as a part of this collaboration. Theses are also digitised through the British Library’s e-Theses Online Service ( EThOS ), upon request.

In total, there are over 10,500 theses available in UCL’s institutional repository, dating as far back as 1933 . UCL theses are amongst our most-downloaded items! The most popular is a 1990 thesis,  Marketing theories and concepts for the international construction industry , available here . Amongst the theses available there are some completed by notable UCL alumni:

Julian Baggini , philosopher and author of popular books on philosophy, including  A Short History of Truth , The Pig that Wants to be Eaten and 99 other thought experiments , and most recently  How the World Think s. Baggini completed his PhD in 1996, and his thesis on philopsphy of idnetity was recently made available here: http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/10057733/

Adam Rutherford , geneticist and author, has produced several science documentaries, and hosts the BBC 4 radio programme Inside Science. He completed his PhD at UCL in 2002, and his thesis on the role of a specific gene (CHX10) on eye development was recently made available in UCL Discovery: http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/10057801/

Chris Van Tulleken , together with his twin brother and fellow doctor Xand, makes programmes on various aspects of health, most recently Operation Ouch for CBBC . He is also an infectious diseases doctor and MRC Clinical Research Fellow at University College London Hospital, and completed his PhD in 2017. Chris’ thesis is available here: http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1567969/

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