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Helen Louise Caines FInstP is a Professor of Physics at Yale University. She studies the quark–gluon plasma and is the co-spokesperson for the STAR experiment.

Education

Caines studied physics at the University of Birmingham and graduated in 1992. She earned her PhD at the University of Birmingham in 1996.

Career and research

In 1996 she joined Ohio State University. She was elected a junior representative of the STAR experiment in 1998. Caines was appointed to Yale University in 2004. She studies the quark–gluon plasma, working alongside John Harris. She uses heavy-ion experiments to study quantum chromodynamics in extreme conditions. She studies the quark–gluon plasma. Her measurements indicated the quark–gluon plasma is the most vortical fluid ever known. In 2005 she became a council member of the STAR experiment advisory board. She investigated soft physics. She was elected a fellow of the Institute of Physics in 2008. She was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in 2007.

She developed the STAR detector, a solenoidal tracker to measure hadronic particle production. She works on the Au-Au collisions at √s_NN = 7.7 to 200 GeV. They demonstrated that when two gold ions collide, negatively and positive charged particles flow out in a chiral magnetic effect. She also looks at the product of two colliding ruthenium ions, which creates a strong magnetic field. Along with Zhangbu Xu, Caines was appointed co-spokesperson for the STAR experiment in 2017. The STAR experiment is part of the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at Brookhaven National Laboratory.

She served as a member for the Nuclear Science Advisory Committee at the United States Department of Energy from 2016. She contributes to the United States Long Range Plan for Nuclear Physics. She has explored how artificial neural networks can be used to identify quark jets. She serves as a member of the American Physical Society Education Committee.

Caines taught a Being Human in STEM course at Yale University. The class examines how socioeconomic background, gender, race, religion and sexuality shape the STEM experience. The course was modelled on a similar program at Amherst College.

Awards and honours

Caines was elected a fellow of the American Physical Society in 2018 and a Fellow of the Institute of Physics (FInstP). In 2003 she was awarded an Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council advanced research fellowship.

References

1. ^ "Helen Caines". star.physics.yale.edu. Retrieved 2018-12-13.
2. Caines, Helen Louise (1996). A study of strangeness production in Pb-Pb collisions at 158GeV nucleon (PhD thesis). University of Birmingham. OCLC 911151465. Copac 911151465.
3. "Helen Caines | Department of Physics". physics.yale.edu. Retrieved 2018-12-13.
4. "Nuclear Physics at Ohio State" (PDF). Department of Physics. 2011. Retrieved 2018-12-13.
5. "Recent Papers of the OSU Heavy Ion Group". physics.ohio-state.edu. Retrieved 2018-12-13.
6. ^ Shelton, Jim (2017-07-12). "Yale's Helen Caines takes a leadership role in international experiment". YaleNews. Retrieved 2018-12-13.
7. ^ "Helen Caines Bio" (PDF). energy.gov. US Department of Energy. Retrieved 2018-12-13.
8. "Working for a more inclusive collaboration: Interview with John Harris". alicematters.web.cern.ch. Retrieved 2018-12-13.
9. Caines, Helen (2009). "Heavy-Ion Collisions - Examining the Quark Gluon Plasma at RHIC". arXiv:0911.3211. Bibcode:2009arXiv0911.3211C. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
10. Sanchez-Maes, Sophia (2018-01-17). "What's Hot, Dense, and Spins Like Crazy?". yalescientific.org. Yale Scientific Magazine. Retrieved 2018-12-13.
11. Caines, H. (2007). "Is soft physics entropy driven?". The European Physical Journal C. 49 (1): 297–301. arXiv:nucl-ex/0609004. Bibcode:2007EPJC...49..297C. doi:10.1140/epjc/s10052-006-0109-2. ISSN 1434-6052. S2CID 5363575.
12. Woodford, Antonia (April 3, 2012). "Seven professors awarded tenure". yaledailynews.com. Retrieved 2018-12-13.
13. Caines, Helen (2003). "STAR results from the first year at RHIC". Pramana. 60 (4): 627–638. Bibcode:2003Prama..60..627C. doi:10.1007/BF02705163. ISSN 0973-7111. S2CID 120358633.
14. Caines, Helen (2014). "A Snapshot of our Experimental Knowledge Circa Winter 2012-13". Journal of Physics: Conference Series. 509 (1): 012001. Bibcode:2014JPhCS.509a2001C. doi:10.1088/1742-6596/509/1/012001. ISSN 1742-6596.
15. "Relativistic heavy ion collider begins 18th year of experiments". phys.org. Retrieved 2018-12-13.
16. "Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider Begins 18th Year of Experiments". bnl.gov. Brookhaven National Laboratory. Retrieved 2018-12-13.
17. Akiba, Yasuyuki; Angerami, Aaron; Caines, Helen; Frawley, Anthony; Heinz, Ulrich; Jacak, Barbara; Jia, Jiangyong; Lappi, Tuomas; Li, Wei (2015). "The Hot QCD White Paper: Exploring the Phases of QCD at RHIC and the LHC". arXiv:1502.02730. Bibcode:2015arXiv150202730A. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
18. "The 2015 Long Range Plan for Nuclear Science" (PDF). Nuclear Science Advisory Committee. Retrieved 2018-12-13.
19. "Department of Physics and Astronomy". physics.rutgers.edu. Retrieved 2018-12-13.
20. "APS -2017 Fall Meeting of the APS Division of Nuclear Physics - Event - Identifying Jets Using Artifical [sic] Neural Networks". Bulletin of the American Physical Society. 62 (11). American Physical Society.
21. "Education Committee". aps.org. Retrieved 2018-12-13.
22. ^ Kan, Ellen (December 9, 2016). "Class examines inclusivity in STEM". yaledailynews.com. Retrieved 2018-12-13.
23. "Helen Caines (Associate Professor of Physics) elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society | Department of Physics". physics.yale.edu. Retrieved 2018-12-13.

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