Marco van Leeuwen's SAP home page

This is the home page of Marco van Leeuwen. I am working in the Subatomic Physics (SAP) group of the University of Utrecht. 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.

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:
     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