Dr. Michael Gericke
Professor
Associate Professor 2012-2019
Assistant Professor 2007-2012
Post-doctoral Research Associate at Jefferson Laboratory and TRIUMF 2004-2007
Graduate Research Assistant at Los Alamos National Laboratory 2001-2004
Ph.D., Indiana University, 2004
My research websites:
Efforts at Jefferson Laboratory
Efforts at the Spallation Neutron Source
My teaching websites:
Courses I have taught or am teaching:
Relativistic Quantum Mechanics: PHYS 7560
Nuclear and Particle Physics: PHYS 7570
Introduction to Nuclear Physics: PHYS 4510
Quantum Mechanics II: PHYS 3380
Quantum Mechanics III: PHYS 4390
E&M and Modern Physics: PHYS 1030
Contact:
Room 213 Allen Bldg.
Department of Physics & Astronomy
University of Manitoba
Winnipeg, MB R3T 2N2
Canada
Phone: +1-204-474-6203
FAX: +1-204-474-7622
Email: mgericke 
physics.umanitoba.ca
Research interests:
Broadly speaking, my research is focused on experimental tests of the Standard Model (SM), including verification of its untested or poorly tested sectors (QCD) and possible extensions to the theory (physics beyond the SM in the electro-weak sector).
I currently use the majority of my research time to perform high precision tests of the Standard Model, using parity-violating electron scattering at Jefferson Laboratory, in the US (the MOLLER experiment), in the USA, and at the MAMI and future MSEA facilities, at the Mainz institute for nuclear physics, at the Johannes Gutenberg University, in Germany (the P2 experiment).
I am also spending some of my research time working on experiments that use cold and ultra-cold neutrons to measure fundamental properties of neutrons to high precision. These include the neutron beta-decay correlation parameters (the Nab experiment at the spallation neutron source (SNS), at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, USA) and the search for the neutron electric dipole moment (nEDM), using ultra-cold neutrons at TRIUMF, in Vancouver, Canada (the TUCAN experiment).
Selected recent publications:
- A fast-switching magnet serving a spallation-driven ultracold neutron source , Submitted to Physical Review Accelerators and Beams (2019)
- A beamline for fundamental neutron physics at TRIUMF , Nucl. Instr. And Meth. A, 927 (2019) 101 - 108
- Using Nab to determine correlations in unpolarized neutron decay , Hyperfine Interact 240:1, 2019
- First ultracold neutrons produced at TRIUMF , Phys. Rev. C 99, 025503 (2019)
- First Observation of P-odd gamma Asymmetry in Polarized Neutron Capture on Hydrogen , Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 242002 (2018) (PRL Highlight)
- The P2 Experiment: A future high-precision measurement of the weak mixing angle at low momentum transfer , Eur. Phys. J. A (2018) 54: 208
- Precision measurement of the weak charge of the proton , Nature, volume 557, pages207–211 (2018)
- Study of light backgrounds from relativistic electrons in air light-guides , Nucl. Instr. And Meth. A, 896 (2018) 96-102
- Measurement of the absolute neutron beam polarization from a supermirror polarizer and the absolute efficiency of a neutron spin rotator for the NPDGamma experiment using a polarized 3He neutron spin-filter , Nucl. Instr. And Meth. A, 895 (2018) 19-28
- Status of the NPDGamma Experiment , Hyperfine Interaction (2017) 238: 11
- New upper bound on the scattering cross section of slow neutrons on liquid parahydrogen from neutron transmission, Phys. Rev. B 91, 180301(R) (2015)
- First Determination of the Weak Charge of the Proton, Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 141803 (2013)