creator Asimacopoulos, Leia 2019 Spring 2019 Thesis Illinois Institute of Technology PHYS / Physics advisor Littlejohn, Bryce Particle physics ab initio Daya Bay fine structure neutrino prompt energy reactor neutrinos en Theorized in the 1930s and discovered in the 1950s, neutrinos have puzzled physicists for decades. One method of studying neutrinos and their properties is measuring energy spectra produced by interactions of antineutrinos which come from beta decays of isotopes in nuclear reactors. With precise enough detectors, the antineutrino spectra of specific isotopes, also referred to as fine structure, may be observed. In this study, theoretical models of antineutrino energy spectra are compared with measured energy spectra from the Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment to test if the resolution of Daya Bay's detectors is precise enough to measure fine structure. born digital application/pdf In Copyright http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/ Restricted Access http://hdl.handle.net/10560/islandora:1000802