Karin Schönning

Research

As a member of the CELSIUS/WASA collaboration in Uppsala I have studied meson production in pd collisions. The focus has been on omega production in pd --> 3He omega, but since the data contain all sorts of reactions with 3He in the final state, eta production and multipion production have also been object of my study. Recently, some signal of the eta-pi0 production has been observed and it will be exciting to see what we can do with those data.

My supervisors during my graduate studies are Professor Bo Höistad and Dr. Jozef Zlomanczuk.

My thesis, defended on May 22nd, 2009, can be found here.

Publications

"Production of the omega meson in the pd --> 3He omega reaction at 1360 MeV and 1450 MeV", PRC 79, 044002 (2009)

"Polarisation of the omega meson in the pd --> 3He omega reaction at 1360 MeV and 1450 MeV", PLB 668, p 258 (2008)

"The pd --> 3He omega reaction", Proceedings of the 11th Conference on Meson-Nucleon Physics and the structure of the Nucleon (MENU 2007) Juelich, Germany (2007)

"The production of omega in pd --> 3He omega near the kinematic threshold", NPA 790, p319

"Production of omega in pd --> 3He omega at CELSIUS/WASA", Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop in eta Meson physics (ETA 2007), Peniscola, Spain (2007)

"Production of omega in pd --> 3He omega at kinematic threshold", Acta Physica Slovaca 56, p.299 (2005)

Talks

Talk given at the 11th Conference on Meson-Nucleon Physics and the Structure of the Nucleon (MENU 2007) Germany, September 2007: omega production in pd --> 3He omega at the kinematic threshold

Talk given at the 2nd International Workshop on eta Meson Physics, Peniscola, Spain, May 2007: omega production in pd --> 3He omega at the kinematic threshold

Talk given at the 18th IUPAP Conference on Few-Body Problems in Physics, Santos, Brazil, August 2006: omega production in pd --> 3He omega at the kinematic threshold

Talk given at the Annual Meeting of Swedish Nuclear Physicists XXV, Umeå, Sweden, November 2005: Meson Production with the CELSIUS/WASA facility

Talk given at the International Workshop on Production and Decay of eta and eta' mesons, Cracow, Poland, September 2005: omega production in pd --> 3He omega at threshold energies

Talk given at the workshop "Hadron Physics at COSY" in Bad/Honnef, Germany, July 2005: Meson Production with the CELSIUS/WASA facility

Talk given at the 15th Nordic Meeting of Intermediate and High Energy Nuclear Physics, Gräftåvallen, Sweden, January 2005: Meson Production with the CELSIUS/WASA facility

Talk given together with Henrik Pettersson (now Petrèn) at the Annual Meeting of Swedish Nuclear Physicists XXIV, Uppsala, Sweden, November 2004: Meson Production with the CELSIUS/WASA facility

Other research related topics

When calibrating the FD, one must correct for the gain drift in the photomultipliers that arise from the varation in the detection count rate (2006).

A note on the possibility of redcing the background from beam halo in the CELSIUS ring by using scrapers (2004).

...and a note on the possibility of using the energy deposit in the Window Detector at WASA as a 3He trigger (2004).

Work during my undergraduate studies

Master thesis: Study of the COMPASS spectrometer performance using K0 events (April 2003).

CERN summer student report: Initial Study of the diffractive Higgs production in the CMS detector" (September 2002).

Teaching

I have also been teaching at times, in lab exercises for the courses "Nuclear and particle physics", "Quantum physics II", and "Nuclear physics".

Instructions for the laboratory exercise "Detection of gamma radiation using NaI-detectors" can be downloaded here .

Status of hand-in excercises and laboratory reports 2009 can be checked here .

Tips and links for undergraduate students.

Gender issues

My dear friend and former colleague Agnes Lundborg and myself made a study about gender perspectives on the situation for Physics Ph. D. students in Uppsala University. The report also became a book, printed by Uppsala Universitetstryckeri.

We have recently been awarded with Uppsala Universitets Jämställdhetspris 2009 (Uppsala University Gender Equity Award 2009) for the report.

In 2007, we were invited to write a short article about the report in the portuguese journal Gazeta de Fisica. We wrote it in english but it was translated and published in portuguese.

Talk given at the 2nd Workshop of the Nordic Network for Women in Physics, Lund, Sweden, November 2006: Dandelion Physicists

A few years earlier, we made a project about female undergraduate students at the department of radiation sciences: read the report in swedish, or the abstract in english!

Read also the questionnaire; appendix1.

At the Women in Physics in Sweden conference, May 2004, we contributed with a poster about the project. You are most welcome to download it and put it wherever you like!

Popular science

A little note describing a particle physics experiment to the genuine non-physicist...

...and a poster explaing an experiment to a child.