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Helen Caines
Birth Name:Helen Louise Caines
Workplaces:Yale University
Ohio State University
Thesis Title:A study of strangeness production in Pb-Pb collisions at 158GeV nucleon
Thesis Url:https://copac.jisc.ac.uk/id/46984569?style=html
Thesis Year:1996
Alma Mater:University of Birmingham (BSc, PhD)
Known For:Quark–gluon plasma

Helen Louise Caines 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.[1] She earned her PhD at the University of Birmingham in 1996.[2] [3]

Career and research

In 1996 she joined Ohio State University.[4] [5] She was elected a junior representative of the STAR experiment in 1998.[6] Caines was appointed to Yale University in 2004. She studies the quark–gluon plasma, working alongside John Harris.[7] [8] She uses heavy-ion experiments to study quantum chromodynamics in extreme conditions.[9] She studies the quark–gluon plasma. Her measurements indicated the quark–gluon plasma is the most vortical fluid ever known.[10] In 2005 she became a council member of the STAR experiment advisory board. She investigated soft physics.[11] She was elected a fellow of the Institute of Physics in 2008. She was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in 2007.[12]

She developed the STAR detector, a solenoidal tracker to measure hadronic particle production.[13] She works on the Au-Au collisions at √sNN = 7.7 to 200 GeV.[14] They demonstrated that when two gold ions collide, negatively and positive charged particles flow out in a chiral magnetic effect.[15] 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.[16] 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.[17] [18] [19] She has explored how artificial neural networks can be used to identify quark jets.[20] She serves as a member of the American Physical Society Education Committee.[21]

Caines taught a Being Human in STEM course at Yale University.[22] 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[23] and a Fellow of the Institute of Physics (FInstP). In 2003 she was awarded an Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council advanced research fellowship.[1]

Notes and References

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

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