{"id":4266,"date":"2019-08-15T16:38:34","date_gmt":"2019-08-15T21:38:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dunescience.org\/facesofdune\/?page_id=4266"},"modified":"2019-08-16T08:50:43","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T13:50:43","slug":"luke-pickering","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.dunescience.org\/facesofdune\/luke-pickering\/","title":{"rendered":"Luke Pickering"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Luke Pickering<\/strong><\/div>\n
Postdoctoral researcher<\/strong>
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I\u2019m a qualified ski instructor; I took a year off after undergrad and went and skied for a year. I also work on an experiment in Japan, T2K, and the skiing in Japan is insane. I\u2019m there for physics, and it\u2019s a work hard, play hard kind of thing. With DUNE, I mainly work on trying to understand how neutrinos interact with matter. We\u2019re trying to work out properties of the neutrinos themselves, and the only way we see them is when they hit something. At the near detector, we want to see what the beam looks like when we\u2019ve just produced it \u2013 and then we want it to travel for 800 miles and measure it at the far detector and see how it changed. All the work that I\u2019ve done prior to working on DUNE was on an experiment that\u2019s pretty established, so there are ways of doing things. You can try to do new things, but you can\u2019t rebuild the experiment. So, the fact that with DUNE we\u2019re able to go, ‘Well, what if we did this – how might that help us in 10 years?’ is very different and quite exciting. Physics is really where it\u2019s at. It\u2019s kind of the melding of doing awesome math and using that to understand the universe. And also getting to poke the universe and see what happens.<\/p><\/blockquote><\/div>\n

Curious about the project? Learn more about DUNE, LBNF and PIP-II<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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