Biographical Sketch:
Research:
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Biographical Sketch:
Research:
Education:
Honors & Awards:
Selected Publications:
WLW 301
Research Website
Research Areas: Relativistic Heavy Ions
Research Type: Experimentalist
CV
Science goal: Understand the behavior of nuclear matter under extremes of temperature and density.
WL involvement: Yale plays a critical role in preparations and data-taking, including trigger coordination, shift leadership, on-call detector expertise, and a diverse range of analyses. Caines was co-spokesperson of STAR from 2017-2023
Graduate student Andrew Tamis is pioneering the characterization of the evolution of jets through time to better understand the strong force.
At the end of May, Professors Helen Caines and Laura Havener took their group to the RHIC and AGS Users meeting at BNL.
A team of Yale postdoctoral associates and graduate students coordinated the 2025 Pint of Science Festival in New Haven from May 20-21, 2025.