Dr. Blair Jamieson

Title: Professor
Phone: 204.786.9216
Office: 3L24
Building: Lockhart Hall
Email: bl.jamieson@uwinnipeg.ca

Degrees:
Ph. D. (University of British Columbia, 2006)

Courses:
(2024-2025)

• PHYS-2001: Directed Studies
• PHYS-3103: Special Topics
• PHYS-2105: Mathematical Physics II (Winter 2025)
• PHYS-4201: Electrodynamics (Winter 2025)

Research Interests:

Website: http://t2kwinnipeg.uwinnipeg.ca/~jamieson/index.html

My research is in experimental subatomic physics, with a focus on precision measurements, fundamental symmetries, and tests of the Standard Model. I have long-standing interests in detector development, including contributions to large-volume time projection chambers for the T2K near detector, and continue to work toward a deeper understanding of neutrino properties. Currently, my research is centered on the search for CP violation in the next-generation Hyper-Kamiokande experiment. To reduce systematic uncertainties, I have focused on improving the calibration of water Cherenkov detectors. This includes work on the Water Cherenkov Test Experiment (WCTE) at CERN, where I developed underwater photogrammetry cameras and reconstruction methods to precisely map detector geometry. These systems were deployed in WCTE and are being upgraded for the Intermediate Water Cherenkov Detector (IWCD), with applications extending to Hyper-Kamiokande. I also led construction of the hodoscope for the WCTE tagged gamma system and am conducting analyses of pion photoproduction in water Cherenkov detectors. In addition, I am developing a dedicated scattering detector to study Mie scattering in water Cherenkov detectors, advancing both calibration and fundamental measurements in support of next-generation neutrino experiments.

Publications:
Please see HERE for recent publications.