In chronological order I first would like to thank my professor and supervisor Göran Jarlskog for recruiting me as a PhD student. I'm also greatly in debt for the financial support that I have received from both Lund university and NFR. My first contact in CERN was Per Jonsson that teached me all worth knowing of the VSAT detector and the offline reprocessing. I'm also very grateful for the help I got from the other VSAT personell during my first years - Ivan Kronkvist, Guiseppia Rinaudo and Christina Jarlskog.
The help from Olof Barring during my time as system manager in CERN, saved me and many others from many hours of crashed computers. From my 'CERN era' I finally would like to thank Kristina Gunne for all kinds of translations and tedious bureaucratic work. Last but not the least I also would like to thank Andre', Dave, Schibu and all my other friends in Geneva, that made life outside working hours to a pure pleasure.
After two year of detector development and offline managing in
CERN, Pavel Tiapkine took over this task. Grateful for this I
could move back to Sweden to start with data analysis. Here I
definitely need to thank Ulf Mjörnmark for solving ALL
computer related problems for me and the department. Also
Björn Lundberg deserve credit for putting my computer together
in the first place. ANY kind of problems with PAW can easily be
solved by asking Oxana Smirnova, which I also did numerous of
times (THANKS !!). I also am very grateful for all the help I got from
my two-photon physics mentor, Nikolai Zimin, in my analysis of
VSAT
-data.
Nikolai and Sverker Almehed deserve all the credit for generating the VSAT TWOGAM Monte Carlo. I'm also in dept to Vincent Hedberg for providing me with the STIC data I needed. Naturally I would like to send all my gratitude to all my friends in Sweden that have gold plated my spare time during my PhD studies. Special thanks should perhaps go out to Åsa, Lisa, Anders*2, Cecilia, Marie and Andre' for supporting me last the month with joy and sunshine during my stressful hours of composing this thesis. Finally I would like to send my fullest gratitude to my parents Kaj Nilsson and Ylva Nygren, for always being there for me and the many nice Sunday dinners.