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Laura Havener is an Assistant Professor of Physics at Yale University, joining the faculty in 2023. She is a member of the Relativistic Heavy Ion Group (RHIG) at Wright Lab and serves as a co-convener for the Jets and Hard Photons Physics Working Group within the ALICE collaboration at the Large Hadron Collider.
Dr. Havener earned her Ph.D. in physics from Columbia University in 2018 and completed her undergraduate studies in physics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her academic journey includes positions as an associate research scientist and postdoctoral associate at Yale prior to her appointment as faculty.
Havener specializes in experimental high energy nuclear physics, with research focused on quantum chromodynamics (QCD) using high-energy particle colliders. Her work primarily investigates the quark-gluon plasma (QGP), the deconfined state of QCD matter, through the study of jets and their substructure. As a key member of the ALICE collaboration at CERN's LHC, she analyzes how jets interact with the QGP to reveal its intricate properties. Her research also extends to the Electron-Ion Collider (EIC) project, where she contributes to detector development for the ePIC experiment.
Analysis of her recent publications shows a consistent focus on jet substructure as a probe of QGP properties, with increasing sophistication in measurement techniques. Her work bridges fundamental QCD research with experimental particle physics, contributing to our understanding of matter under extreme conditions.
Dr. Havener is actively involved in the Yale Pathways to Science program, developing curriculum and experiments for local high school students. Her laboratory work at Wright Lab contributes to major international collaborations including ALICE at CERN and the future EIC at Brookhaven National Laboratory, where Yale has been involved in detector development, particularly for particle identification systems.
