Helen Caines

Helen Caines is the Horace D. Taft (B.A. 1949) Professor of Physics and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Physics at Yale University. Her research focuses on Nuclear Physics, with current projects including the ALICE, STAR, and ePIC experiments. These experiments investigate the behavior of nuclear matter under extreme conditions, such as those found in ultra-relativistic heavy ion collisions, to explore the properties of the Quark Gluon Plasma. She is affiliated with the Wright Lab-W 306 at Yale and can be contacted at helen.caines@yale.edu. Her research website is available at https://physics.yale.edu/people/helen-caines.

Helen Caines is a researcher focused on high-energy nuclear physics, particularly in the context of heavy-ion collisions and particle production mechanisms. Her work centers on the study of quark-gluon plasma, a state of matter formed in extreme conditions, through experiments at facilities such as the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) and the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). She has contributed to the analysis of phenomena such as elliptic flow, charged-particle multiplicity, and high-pT hadron suppression. Her research also explores global polarization of Λ hyperons and long-range angular correlations in proton-nucleus collisions. These studies aim to understand the dynamics of strongly interacting matter under extreme temperatures and densities.