Helen Caines

Helen Caines FInstP
Born	Helen Louise Caines
Alma mater	University of Birmingham (BSc, PhD)
Known for	Quark–gluon plasma
Scientific career
Institutions	Yale University Ohio State University
Thesis	A study of strangeness production in Pb-Pb collisions at 158GeV nucleon (1996)
Website	physics.yale.edu/people/helen-caines

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

Career and research

The STAR Detector at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider

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.[6] 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.[7] 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.[6] She investigated soft physics.[11] She was elected a fellow of the Institute of Physics in 2008.[6] 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 √s_NN = 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.[6][16] The STAR experiment is part of the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at Brookhaven National Laboratory.[6]

The collision of two gold ions at the 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.[22] The course was modelled on a similar program at Amherst College.[22]

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).^[when?] In 2003 she was awarded an Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council advanced research fellowship.[1]

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.