Marco van Leeuwen's SAP home page
This is the home page of Marco van Leeuwen. I am a Senior Scientist at Nikhef and a guest of the GRASP Institute at Utrecht University. Our group
performs experiments to study the strong nuclear interaction, Quantum
Chromo Dynamics (QCD). I am a member of the STAR collaboration at RHIC and the ALICE
collaboration at LHC. My main research interest is the use of so-called
'hard probes' to probe hot and dense QCD matter generated in heavy ion
collisions.
This page is kept for reference but not actively maintained
Pages for Bachelor/Master student research projects
QCD links
CTEQ
Pythia
and Hijing
TECHQM
Virtual Journal on QCD Matter
My lectures on high-pt processes in A+A Second set
Gavin Salam's lectures on jet-finding
Software links
ROOT
AliRoot
Root4star
Other resources
SPIRES preprint archive
twitter feed of papers relevant to Heavy Ion Physics
Presentations at conferences, schools
2020
Group lecture: pertubative QCD
2019
Highlights from ALICE, EPS HEP Conference, Ghent, Belgium
2018
Conference summary, Quark Matter 2018, Venice, Italy
2017
Heavy Ion Overview (pdf, 18Mb), XLV International Meeting on Fundamental Physics, Granada, Spain
2016
Heavy Ion Overview, ICHEP 2016, Chicago, USA
Recent results of the ALICE experiment, 54th International Winter Meeting on Nuclear Physics, Bormio, Italy
2015
Gluon saturation with forward photons at LHC: prospects for a high-granularity calorimeter upgrade for ALICE (pdf version), 6th International conference on Physics Opportunities at Electron-Ion Colliders, 7-11 September 2015, Paris, France
Hard probes of the quark gluon plasma at the LHC, 3rd European Nuclear Physics Conference, 31 Aug-4 Sept 2015, Groningen, Netherlands
Confronting parton energy loss models with jet fragmentation measurements, Hard Probes 2015, 29 June - 3 July 2015, Montreal, Canada
Probing the Quark Gluon Plasma with JetsStrong interaction seminar, 1 June 2015, Technische Universitat Munchen, Germany
Quantum Chromodynamics and the Quark Gluon Plasma at the Large Hadron Collider Colloquium at Institute of Physics, UvA, 19 March 2015, Amsterdam
2014
Jet Physics in Heavy Ion Collisions: Hard probes of the Quark Gluon Plasma, Tsukuba Global Science Week, 28-30 September 2015, Tsukuba Japan
Hard Probes of the QGP: what do we know and what can we learn?, Heavy Ion Cafe, 27 September, Tokyo, Japan
Centrality dependent measurements, centrality determination and biases (keynote zip file), 3rd Heavy Ion Jet Workshop, 9-11 July 2014, Lisbon, Portugal
Jets and high-pT probes: recent results Lecture at student day, Quark Matter, Darmstadt, Germany
Lectures at JET Collaboration Summer School 19-21 June 2014
Summary talk on CGC physics at 'Arbeitstreffen Kernphysik', March 2014, Schleching, Germany
Lectures at Helmholtz School Manigod
Lecture 1: Introduction, pQCD and RAA
Lecture 2: RAA, IAA and energy loss modeling
Lecture 3: Jets
Lecture 4: Intermediate pT and p+p, p+Pb
2013
Lectures at QGP School, July 9-13 2013, Siena, Italy
2012
Overview of experimental results from jets I at Jet Modifcation in the RHIC and LHC Era, Wayne State University, 20-23 August 2012, Detroit, USA
Forward Phsyics with the ALICE FOCAL upgrade at Hot and dense QCD in the LHC era, 8-10 February 2012, Santiago the Compostela, Spain
2011
Powerweek Jet Quenching in Chamonix, France
Lecture Jet finding and jet quenching at Topical Lectures, 15-17 June, Nikhef, Amsterdam
Student lecture Jets, high-pt hadrons and direct photons at Quark Matter 2011. 22-28 May, Annecy, France
Lectures at Helmholtz Graduate School, 28 Feb-5 March, Manigod, France
Introduction, perturbative QCD
Single- and di-hadron measures
Jets
Jet modeling and Intermediate pt
2010
Comparing energy loss models at Hard Probes 2010, October 2010, Eilat, Israel
Parton energy loss in a realistic geometry at INT program Quantifying the properties of Hot QCD Matter, June 2010, Seattle, USA
Status of the TECHQM brick report at JET symposium, 18 June 2010, Berkeley, USA
ALICE at the LHC [27Mb] Summer School Lecture, Feb 2010, Sao Paulo
2009
What do we understand about parton energy loss at RHIC? seminar at Duke and Ohio State University, Nov 2009
Lecture series at the 2009 Jyvaskyla Summer School
Lecture 1: Introduction to QCD
Lecture 2: Parton energy loss at high pT
Lecture 3: Intermediate pT: coalescence and medium response
Lecture 4: Jet finding techniques and results
Lecture 5: Open issues and future projects
Topical Lectures at NIKHEF:
Lecture 1
Lecture 2
Comparing energy loss phenomenology
at the workshop High-pt physics at the LHC in Prague, Czech Republic, February 4-7, 2009
2008
Lecture series at the Helmholtz Quark-Matter school in Blankenheim, Germany
lecture 1: pQCD in p+p collisions
lecture 2: high-pt in heavy ion collisions at RHIC
lecture 3: intermediate pt and more quantitative details
lecture 4: direct photons, jets and LHC
Jet-modifications at RHIC at Hadron Collider Physics Workshop, May 27-31, 2008
Recent high-pt results from STAR at Hard Probes, June 8-14, 2008
Hot and dense matter: Hard probes from RHIC to LHC at International Conference on Particles and Nuclei (PANIC), November 9-14, 2008