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Physical Sciences
The research groups in Physics focus on fundamental and applied atomic spectroscopy, in particular atomic structure and atom-light interaction. Applications range from atomic nucleus characterization and cancer treatments to galactic evolution.
The group performs quantum structure calculations, develops computational methods and computer programs, and determines atomic data based on Fourier transform spectroscopy and atomic lifetime measurements. The data is applied to a variety of research questions, for example in the field of medicine and astronomy.
We work in the following fields:
Fundamental physics
Combining calculated atomic data with results from high-precision measurements at for example radioactive beam facilities such as ISOLDE at CERN (link: http://isolde.web.cern.ch/), nuclear properties are extracted for unexplored parts of the nuclear chart. These data, in turn, are important for nuclear theory.
Atomic Astrophysics
Over 99% of all visible matter in the Universe is in the plasma state. The group determines atomic data needed to analyze spectra from the plasma and to give information about its fundamental properties, e.g., temperature and density, as well as the abundance and isotopic composition of different elements and the balance between different ionization stages. Data on abundances are used to test different models of nucleosynthesis in the stars and trace the chemical evolution of the galaxy. In addition, there are important applications for future energy sources such as fusion reactors.
Data for Medicine
The group produces data and develops computer programs needed for dosimetry simulations for new cancer treatments based on the emission of low-energetic Auger electrons. The data and the simulation programs aim for accurate dose determinations at the microscale.
The research groups are active in national and international networks, e.g. in the development of atomic calculations and running the Edlén FTS laboratory as well as using astronomical observational facilities. We are in addition part of the consortium behind the DESIREE national facility for studies of cold atoms, and CompAS and LUMCAS networks.
Researchers, publications and projects
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Staff
Peter Bengtsson - Senior lecturer
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Staff
Shilpa Bijavara Seshashayana - Doctoral student
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Staff
Jakob Blomqvist - Program director/Senior lecturer
jakob.blomqvist@mau.se -
MBStaff
Madeleine Burheim - Doctoral student
madeleine.burheim@mau.se -
Staff
Jörgen Ekman - Pro dean/Senior lecturer
jorgen.ekman@mau.se -
SGStaff
Stefan Gustafsson - Senior lecturer
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HHStaff
Henrik Hartman - Assistant head of dep./Associate Professor
henrik.hartman@mau.se -
UHStaff
Ulf Hejman - Program director/Lecturer
ulf.hejman@mau.se -
Staff
Johan Hektor - Associate senior lecturer
johan.hektor@mau.se -
PJStaff
Per Jönsson - Professor
per.jonsson@mau.se -
Staff
Henrik Jönsson - Associate Professor
henrik.jonsson@mau.se -
Staff
Lindsay Richard Merte - Associate Professor
lindsay.merte@mau.se -
HNStaff
Hampus Nilsson - Senior lecturer
hampus.nilsson@mau.se -
Staff
Felix Roosen-Runge - Associate senior lecturer
felix.roosen-runge@mau.se -
JSStaff
Javier Sotres Prieto - Researcher
javier.sotres@mau.se -
Staff
Christian Stråhlman - Doctoral education coordinator
christian.strahlman@mau.se -
MTStaff
Mattias Tidefelt - Doctoral student
mattias.tidefelt@mau.se -
RdStaff
Rickard du Rietz - Senior lecturer
rickard.du.rietz@mau.se
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2022 | Article in journal
The Open Cluster Chemical Abundances and Mapping Survey. VII. APOGEE DR17 [C/N]-Age Calibration
Taylor Spoo, Jamie Tayar, Peter M. Frinchaboy, Katia Cunha, Natalie Myers, John Donor, Steven R. Majewski, Dmitry Bizyaev, D. A. Garcia-Hernandez, Henrik Jönsson, Richard R. Lane, Kaike Pan, Penelope Longa-Pena, A. Roman-Lopes
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2022 | Article in journal
Detailed Chemical Abundances for a Benchmark Sample of M Dwarfs from the APOGEE Survey
Diogo Souto, Katia Cunha, Verne V. Smith, C. Allende Prieto, Kevin Covey, D. A. Garcia-Hernandez, Jon A. Holtzman, Henrik Jönsson, Suvrath Mahadevan, Steven R. Majewski, Thomas Masseron, Marc Pinsonneault, Donald P. Schneider, Matthew Shetrone, Keivan G. Stassun, Ryan Terrien, Olga Zamora, Guy S. Stringfellow, Richard R. Lane, Christian Nitschelm, Barbara Rojas-Ayala
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2022 | Article in journal
Benchmarking calculations of wavelengths and transition rates with spectroscopic accuracy for W XLVIII through W LVI tungsten ions
Chun Yu Zhang, Jin Qing Li, Kai Wang, Ran Si, Michel Godefroid, Per Jönsson, Jun Xiao, Ming Feng Gu, Chong Yang Chen
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2022 | Article in journal
The Seventeenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys: Complete Release of MaNGA, MaStar, and APOGEE-2 Data
Abdurro'uf, Katherine Accetta, Conny Aerts, Victor Silva Aguirre, Romina Ahumada, Nikhil Ajgaonkar, N. Filiz Ak, Shadab Alam, Carlos Allende Prieto, Andres Almeida, Friedrich Anders, Scott F. Anderson, Brett H. Andrews, Borja Anguiano, Erik Aquino-Ortiz, Alfonso Aragon-Salamanca, Maria Argudo-Fernandez, Metin Ata, Marie Aubert, Vladimir Avila-Reese, Carles Badenes, Rodolfo H. Barba, Kat Barger, Jorge K. Barrera-Ballesteros, Rachael L. Beaton, Timothy C. Beers, Francesco Belfiore, Chad F. Bender, Mariangela Bernardi, Matthew A. Bershady, Florian Beutler, Christian Moni Bidin, Jonathan C. Bird, Dmitry Bizyaev, Guillermo A. Blanc, Michael R. Blanton, Nicholas Fraser Boardman, Adam S. Bolton, Mederic Boquien, Jura Borissova, Jo Bovy, W. N. Brandt, Jordan Brown, Joel R. Brownstein, Marcella Brusa, Johannes Buchner, Kevin Bundy, Joseph N. Burchett, Martin Bureau, Adam Burgasser, Tuesday K. Cabang, Stephanie Campbell, Michele Cappellari, Joleen K. Carlberg, Fabio Carneiro Wanderley, Ricardo Carrera, Jennifer Cash, Yan-Ping Chen, Wei-Huai Chen, Brian Cherinka, Cristina Chiappini, Peter Doohyun Choi, S. Drew Chojnowski, Haeun Chung, Nicolas Clerc, Roger E. Cohen, Julia M. Comerford, Johan Comparat, Luiz da Costa, Kevin Covey, Jeffrey D. Crane, Irene Cruz-Gonzalez, Connor Culhane, Katia Cunha, Y. Sophia Dai, Guillermo Damke, Jeremy Darling, James W., Jr. Davidson, Roger Davies, Kyle Dawson, Nathan De Lee, Aleksandar M. Diamond-Stanic, Mariana Cano-Diaz, Helena Dominguez Sanchez, John Donor, Chris Duckworth, Tom Dwelly, Daniel J. Eisenstein, Yvonne P. Elsworth, Eric Emsellem, Mike Eracleous, Stephanie Escoffier, Xiaohui Fan, Emily Farr, Shuai Feng, Jose G. Fernandez-Trincado, Diane Feuillet, Andreas Filipp, Sean P. Fillingham, Peter M. Frinchaboy, Sebastien Fromenteau, Lluis Galbany, Rafael A. Garcia, D. A. Garcia-Hernandez, Junqiang Ge, Doug Geisler, Joseph Gelfand, Tobias Geron, Benjamin J. Gibson, Julian Goddy, Diego Godoy-Rivera, Kathleen Grabowski, Paul J. Green, Michael Greener, Catherine J. Grier, Emily Griffith, Hong Guo, Julien Guy, Massinissa Hadjara, Paul Harding, Sten Hasselquist, Christian R. Hayes, Fred Hearty, Lewis Hill, David W. Hogg, Jon A. Holtzman, Danny Horta, Bau-Ching Hsieh, Chin-Hao Hsu, Yun-Hsin Hsu, Daniel Huber, Marc Huertas-Company, Brian Hutchinson, Ho Seong Hwang, Hector J. Ibarra-Medel, Jacob Ider Chitham, Gabriele S. Ilha, Julie Imig, Will Jaekle, Tharindu Jayasinghe, Xihan Ji, Jennifer A. Johnson, Amy Jones, Henrik Jönsson, Ivan Katkov, Arman Khalatyan, Karen Kinemuchi, Shobhit Kisku, Johan H. Knapen, Jean-Paul Kneib, Juna A. Kollmeier, Miranda Kong, Marina Kounkel, Kathryn Kreckel, Dhanesh Krishnarao, Ivan Lacerna, Richard R. Lane, Rachel Langgin, Ramon Lavender, David R. Law, Daniel Lazarz, Henry W. Leung, Ho-Hin Leung, Hannah M. Lewis, Cheng Li, Ran Li, Jianhui Lian, Fu-Heng Liang, Lihwai Lin, Yen-Ting Lin, Sicheng Lin, Chris Lintott, Dan Long, Penelope Longa-Pena, Carlos Lopez-Coba, Shengdong Lu, Britt F. Lundgren, Yuanze Luo, J. Ted Mackereth, Axel de la Macorra, Suvrath Mahadevan, Steven R. Majewski, Arturo Manchado, Travis Mandeville, Claudia Maraston, Berta Margalef-Bentabol, Thomas Masseron, Karen L. Masters, Savita Mathur, Richard M. McDermid, Myles Mckay, Andrea Merloni, Michael Merrifield, Szabolcs Meszaros, Andrea Miglio, Francesco Di Mille, Dante Minniti, Rebecca Minsley, Antonela Monachesi, Jeongin Moon, Benoit Mosser, John Mulchaey, Demitri Muna, Ricardo R. Munoz, Adam D. Myers, Natalie Myers, Seshadri Nadathur, Preethi Nair, Kirpal Nandra, Justus Neumann, Jeffrey A. Newman, David L. Nidever, Farnik Nikakhtar, Christian Nitschelm, Julia E. O'Connell, Luis Garma-Oehmichen, Gabriel Luan Souza de Oliveira, Richard Olney, Daniel Oravetz, Mario Ortigoza-Urdaneta, Yeisson Osorio, Justin Otter, Zachary J. Pace, Nelson Padilla, Kaike Pan, Hsi-An Pan, Taniya Parikh, James Parker, Sebastien Peirani, Karla Pena Ramirez, Samantha Penny, Will J. Percival, Ismael Perez-Fournon, Marc Pinsonneault, Frederick Poidevin, Vijith Jacob Poovelil, Adrian M. Price-Whelan, Anna Barbara de Andrade Queiroz, M. Jordan Raddick, Amy Ray, Sandro Barboza Rembold, Nicole Riddle, Rogemar A. Riffel, Rogerio Riffel, Hans-Walter Rix, Annie C. Robin, Aldo Rodriguez-Puebla, Alexandre Roman-Lopes, Carlos Roman-Zuniga, Benjamin Rose, Ashley J. Ross, Graziano Rossi, Kate H. R. Rubin, Mara Salvato, Sebastian F. Sanchez, Jose R. Sanchez-Gallego, Robyn Sanderson, Felipe Antonio Santana Rojas, Edgar Sarceno, Regina Sarmiento, Conor Sayres, Elizaveta Sazonova, Adam L. Schaefer, Ricardo Schiavon, David J. Schlegel, Donald P. Schneider, Mathias Schultheis, Axel Schwope, Aldo Serenelli, Javier Serna, Zhengyi Shao, Griffin Shapiro, Anubhav Sharma, Yue Shen, Matthew Shetrone, Yiping Shu, Joshua D. Simon, M. F. Skrutskie, Rebecca Smethurst, Verne Smith, Jennifer Sobeck, Taylor Spoo, Dani Sprague, David, V Stark, Keivan G. Stassun, Matthias Steinmetz, Dennis Stello, Alexander Stone-Martinez, Thaisa Storchi-Bergmann, Guy S. Stringfellow, Amelia Stutz, Yung-Chau Su, Manuchehr Taghizadeh-Popp, Michael S. Talbot, Jamie Tayar, Eduardo Telles, Johanna Teske, Ani Thakar, Christopher Theissen, Andrew Tkachenko, Daniel Thomas, Rita Tojeiro, Hector Hernandez Toledo, Nicholas W. Troup, Jonathan R. Trump, James Trussler, Jacqueline Turner, Sarah Tuttle, Eduardo Unda-Sanzana, Jose Antonio Vazquez-Mata, Marica Valentini, Octavio Valenzuela, Jaime Vargas-Gonzalez, Mariana Vargas-Magana, Pablo Vera Alfaro, Sandro Villanova, Fiorenzo Vincenzo, David Wake, Jack T. Warfield, Jessica Diane Washington, Benjamin Alan Weaver, Anne-Marie Weijmans, David H. Weinberg, Achim Weiss, Kyle B. Westfall, Vivienne Wild, Matthew C. Wilde, John C. Wilson, Robert F. Wilson, Mikayla Wilson, Julien Wolf, W. M. Wood-Vasey, Renbin Yan, Olga Zamora, Gail Zasowski, Kai Zhang, Cheng Zhao, Zheng Zheng, Kai Zhu
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2022 | Article in journal
Exploring the S-process History in the Galactic Disk: Cerium Abundances and Gradients in Open Clusters from the OCCAM/APOGEE Sample
J. V. Sales-Silva, S. Daflon, K. Cunha, D. Souto, V. V. Smith, C. Chiappini, J. Donor, P. M. Frinchaboy, D. A. Garcia-Hernandez, C. Hayes, S. R. Majewski, T. Masseron, R. P. Schiavon, D. H. Weinberg, R. L. Beaton, J. G. Fernandez-Trincado, Henrik Jönsson, R. R. Lane, D. Minniti, A. Manchado, C. Moni Bidin, C. Nitschelm, J. O'Connell, S. Villanova
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2022 | Article in journal
The Influence of 10 Unique Chemical Elements in Shaping the Distribution of Kepler Planets
Robert F. Wilson, Caleb, I Canas, Steven R. Majewski, Katia Cunha, Verne V. Smith, Chad F. Bender, Suvrath Mahadevan, Scott W. Fleming, Johanna Teske, Luan Ghezzi, Henrik Jönsson, Rachael L. Beaton, Sten Hasselquist, Keivan Stassun, Christian Nitschelm, D. A. Garcia-Hernandez, Christian R. Hayes, Jamie Tayar
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2022 | Article in journal
APOGEE detection of N-rich stars in the tidal tails of Palomar 5
Sian G. Phillips, Ricardo P. Schiavon, J. Ted Mackereth, Carlos Allende Prieto, Borja Anguiano, Rachael L. Beaton, Roger E. Cohen, D. A. Garcia-Hernandez, Douglas Geisler, Danny Horta, Henrik Jönsson, Shobhit Kisku, Richard R. Lane, Steven R. Majewski, Andrew Mason, Dante Minniti, Mathias Schultheis, Dominic Taylor
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2022 | Article in journal
Effects of interatomic potential on fracture behaviour in single- and bicrystalline tungsten
Praveenkumar Hiremath, Solveig Melin, Erik Bitzek, Pär A T Olsson
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2022 | Article in journal
Epitaxial growth and thermoelectric properties of Mg3Bi2 thin films deposited by magnetron sputtering
Grzegorz Sadowski, Yongbin Zhu, Rui Shu, Tao Feng, Arnaud le Febvrier, Denis Music, Weishu Liu, Per Eklund
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2022 | Article in journal
Mechanical property enhancement of NbTiZr refractory medium-entropy alloys due to Si-induced crystalline-to-amorphous transitions
Chengcheng Zhan, Dandan Huang, Xiaofei Hu, Kai Xu, Ming Lou, Leilei Chen, Denis Music, Keke Chang