Helen Caines

Helen Louise Caines FInstP is a Professor of Physics at Yale University.

[12] She developed the STAR detector, a solenoidal tracker to measure hadronic particle production.

[14] They demonstrated that when two gold ions collide, negatively and positive charged particles flow out in a chiral magnetic effect.

[6][16] The STAR experiment is part of the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at Brookhaven National Laboratory.

[6] She served as a member for the Nuclear Science Advisory Committee at the United States Department of Energy from 2016.

[22] The class examines how socioeconomic background, gender, race, religion and sexuality shape the STEM experience.