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This thesis discusses cosmic particles. Cosmic particles are originated by stars and black holes that could live in the Milky Way or other galaxies. These energetic particles can be protons, carbon, iron, gamma, electrons and positrons, and so on. After reaching the earth, these particles collide with atmospheric atoms to make the first interaction, which leads to the production of secondary particles. The number of secondary particles produced also increases steadily due to successive collisions with atmospheric atoms. The set of secondary particles that originate from the cosmic primary particle is called the extensive air shower. The aim of this paper is to investigate the properties of... 

Alborz-I array with 20 detectors will be established at Sharif University of Technology, to study Extensive Air Showers with energies around the knee of cosmic ray spectrum. In this thesis studies related to construction of this array is performed in two parts. First part is dedicated to evaluate detectors of Alborz-I array. Each detector consists of a plane plastic scintillator, 50×50×2 cm3 each, which is enclosed in a pyramidal light enclosure with a 5 cm photomultiplier tube at the vertex of the light enclosure. In order to optimize the height of the light enclosure, two parameters are considered: efficiency and uniformity of different parts of the detector. By building and comparing four... 

We present a new high signal to noise ratio spectroscopic survey of the Northern hemisphere to probe the Local Bubble and its surroundings using the 5780Å and 5797Å Diffuse Interstellar Bands (DIBs). We have observed 432 sightlines to a distance of 200 pc over a duration of 3 years. In this study, for both inside and outside the Local Bubble, we establish the 5780and 5797correlations with Na i, Ca iiand E(B-V). The correlations show that among all neutral and ionized atoms, the Na ihas more similarity with 5780and Ca iihas strong correlation with 5797, which suggest that the ionization level of 5797is more than 5780. We study the 5780correlation with 5797, which shows a tight correlation... 

We study hydrodynamic fluctuation forces in a compressible and viscous fluid in confined geometries. First, we shall give an introduction on fluctuations and their applications in several experimental methods. Then, we shall proceed by introducing hydrodynamic equations governing the behavior of fluids and their dynamics. Assuming a compressible and viscous fluid, confined between two rigid, parallel, infinite plates, we subject one of the plates to a random force, having zero ensemble average and finite variance, while the other plate is kept fixed. We shall investigate the correlation functions of the forces acting on the boundaries and analyze the responses of the fluid film to the... 

It is well known that the fluctuations of electromagnetic fields in vacuum or in material media depend on the boundary conditions imposed on the fields. This dependence gives rise to forces which are known as Casimir forces, acting on the boundaries. Casimir forces between similar and disjoint objects such as two conducting or dielectric bodies are known in most cases to be attractive.¬¬ These forces are sometimes viewed as the macroscopic consequence of Van der Waals and Casimir-Polder attraction between molecules. In this thesis at first, calculation of Casimir forces in simple models were demonstrated. Then Van der Waals and Casimir-Polder forces have been explained in a unified theory... 

We discuss and classify all four dimensional black hole solutions to Einstein-Maxwell-Lambda theory. These solutions contain a black hole region with an event horizon. The cosmological constant can be nonzero and the black hole may possess electric and magnetic charge. We classify solutions according to their asymptotic behavior. Three major parts are asymptotic-flat, asymptotic-de Sitter and asymptotic-Anti-de Sitter and in all of them we discuss Schwarzschild, Reissner-Nordstrom, Kerr and Kerr-Newman black holes separately. Black holes can also have NUT charge and acceleration parameter which make the solution singular in one direction. As a result, these solutions are asymptotically... 

Black holes are a general set of solutions of Einstein’s general relativity. Their most important feature is the horizon, which is basically a region that separates the space-time into two causally disconnected regions. Studying the general features of black holes, classifying this family of solutions and studying the dynamics of particles and fields in the background of a given black hole are famous subjects in the field of classical black hole physics which are going to be covered in this thesis. By putting different conditions on the equations, we will get different solutions like Schwarzschild, Reissner-Nordstrom, Kerr, Kerr-Newman and etc, each of them having specific features. Then we... 

The phase space of the Near Horizon of Extremal Geometries has been studied in ”arXiv:1506.07181”. The phase space for the NHEGs consists of the space of all near horizon geometries with a given symmetry. Utilizing covariant phase space method we will build the symplectic two form on the phase space and will use it to define the notion of symplectic symmetry. The conserved charges corresponding to this symmetries form a symmetry algebra which is called NHEG algebra. It turns out that this algebra is a generalization of the celebrated Virasoro algebra. In this thesis we will first review necessary concepts for construction of the phase space of a Lagrangian field theory and will build the... 

The most important aspects of extensive air shower studies are finding energy, mass and the arrival direction of primary cosmic ray particles. In order for these parameters to be established, the core position of extensive air showers should be determined. In this thesis, a new method has been introduced that utilizes trigger time information of particle detectors for finding extensive air showers core location and for correcting plane wave front approximation to reconstruct their arrival direction. This method, in its simplest form, does not depend on density-sensitive detectors which are sensitive to the number of crossing particles. It is also independent of lateral distribution models.... 

In this study, two conventional methods for controlling flexible two-link robots based on artificial neural networks is improved. The first method is implemented by combining fuzzy logic and reinforcement learning in the form of a neural network. This method is modified in two steps. In the first step, the system feedback is changed and in the second step, the system Jacobin is used. This Jacobin can be the result of system identification. In the second method, an optimal controller is proposed for the system, which is also implemented in the form of a neural network. The performance of the neural-optimal controller is further improved by redefining the Bellman's principle of optimality.... 

technologies for cooling of electronic devices, have high efficiency due to the heat transfer in two-phase state. In this project, experimental effects of asymmetric triangle groove has been studied on the boiling fluid and effect of the motion on the boiling and heat pipe. Therefore, the experiment has been done by 3 heat pipes and each with 3 plates. The plates consist of a smooth plate, a plate with triangle groove and a plate with rectangle groove. Each heat pipe was filled by methanol in volumetric percentage from 10 to 60. The results show that 20 percent methanol is the optimum for all kind of heat pipe, which has been used. In addition, it is shown that heat pipe with triangle groove...