Catalogo dei Corsi di studio

Leticia Cunqueiro Mendez

Associate Professor of Physics
Sapienza Università di Roma
Piazzale Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Roma, Italy
e-mail: leticia.cunqueiromendez@uniroma1.it
Languages: Spanish (native), English (fluent), Italian (fluent), French (basic)
web: https://corsidilaurea.uniroma1.it/it/users/leticiacunqueiromendezuniroma1it

Academic Appointments

23rd May 2023- National scientific habilitation, Abilitazione scientifica Nazionale , for
the position of Full Professor in Experimental Physics of Fundamental
interactions.

31st March 2022- Associate Professor of Physics, Sapienza University, Rome, Italy

Sept 2021- 30th March 2022 PI of an ERC consolidator grant, researcher at Ecole Polytechnique, Paris

May 2018-August 2021 Joint position of Research Assistant Professor at UT Tennessee and
Oak Ridge National Laboratory, based at CERN.

Sept 2017-Mai 2018 Scientific Staff at Oak Ridge National Laboratory

October 2015-Sept 2017 CERN Project Associate, University of Muenster

July 2013-October 2015 CERN Research Physics Fellow

January 2012-January 2013 INFN-CERN fellow

July 2011-July 2013 Research Associate to Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati

October 2010-July 2011 Postdoctoral researcher at the University of Santiago de Compostela

Sept 2008-October 2010 INFN postdoctoral fellowship for non-Italian citizens at Laboratori
Nazionali di Frascati, INFN.

Grants

2021-2025 PI of an ERC (QCDHighDensityCMS) consolidator grant 2020 to work at
CMS hosted at Sapienza (5 year duration, starting on Sep.2021)

2019-2020 PI of an NSF grant (US) to work on Bayesian analysis of data-theory
comparisons

Scientific responsibilities

January 2023- Member of the Nupec Infrastructure Working Group

February 2022-2024 Member of the RHIC/AGS Program Advisory Committee

Jan 2022-2024 Member of the PS and SPS Experiments Committee (SPSC) at CERN

Jan 2020-July 2021 Deputy physics coordinator of ALICE

Jan 2019- Jan 2020 Convener of the group Jets and Heavy Flavour at the EIC
Yellow report, EICUG

Dec 2018-Jan 2020 Convener of the Statistical Analysis Group at the JETSCAPE
Collaboration

June 2017-July 2019 Convener of the Jet Analysis Group at the ALICE Collaboration

Jan 2016-Sept 2017 System Run Coordinator of TRD (Transition Radiation Detector)
at the ALICE Collaboration

Oct 2015-Jan 2016 Deputy System Run Coordinator of TRD

July 2013-July 2015 Convener of the Monte Carlo Group at ALICE

Jan 2012-July 2015 ALICE convener for the Collider Cross Talks at CERN

Education

July 2005-July 2008 PhD in Theoretical Particle Physics, University of Santiago de
Compostela.(USC) Spain. PhD Thesis Title: ``Interplay between
initial and final state effects in high density matter''. PhD advisors: Prof.
C. Pajares, Prof. N. Armesto and Prof. C. A. Salgado. Cum Laudem

October 2003-July 2005 MSc in Particle Physics, USC Spain. Thesis title: Multiplicity fluctuations
In the framework of percolation of strings . Thesis supervisors: Prof.
C.Pajares and Prof.E. Ferreiro. votes: 10/10.

Sep 1999-Sep 2003 BSc in Particle Physics, University of Santiago de Compostela

Selected publications

Selection of 15 publications of which I was main contributor or main (co)author:
The whole list of 355 published peer-reviewed publications can be found here: https://inspirehep.net/authors/1042424

L.Cunqueiro, D.Napoletano, A.O.Soto, Dead-cone searches in heavy-ion collisions with the jet tree , Phys.Rev.D 107 (2023) 9, 094008, https://arxiv.org/pdf/2211.11789.pdf

L. Cunqueiro, A. Sickles, Experimental review of jets in heavy ion collisions , Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics 103940 (2022), https://arxiv.org/pdf/2110.14490.pdf

[ALICE Collaboration] Measurements of the groomed jet radius and groomed momentum fraction in pp and PbPb collisions at sqrt(sNN)=5.02 TeV , Phys.Rev.Lett 128,102001 (2022), https://arxiv.org/pdf/2107.12984.pdf ,

[ALICE Collaboration] First direct measurement of the dead cone , Nature 605, pages 440 446 (2022), https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-04572-w

[ALICE Collaboration] First measurement of N-subjettiness in central Pb-Pb collisions at 5 TeV , arXiv:2105.04936, JHEP 3 (2021)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.04936

[ALICE Collaboration] Exploring the phase space of jet splittings with ALICE in pp and Pb-Pb collisions, arXiv:1905.02512, Phys.Lett.B802 (2020) 135227 https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.02512

L.Cunqueiro, M.Ploskon, Searching for the dead cone effects with iterative declustering of heavy flavor jets , Phys.Rev.D99 (2019)no.7.
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.00102

H.Andrews, L.Cunqueiro, K.Tywoniuk et al Novel tools and observables for jet physics in heavy-ion collisions , J.Phys.G 47 (2020) 6, 065102 https://arxiv.org/pdf/1808.03689.pdf

[ALICE Collaboration] Medium modifications of the shape of small-radius jets in central Pb-Pb
collisions at sqrt(sNN)=2. 76 TeV , JHEP 1810 (2018) 139
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.06854

[ALICE Collaboration], Measurement of jet quenching with semi-inclusive hadron-jet distributions
in central at (sNN)=2.76 TeV', JHEP 1509 (2015) 17
https://arxiv.org/abs/1506.03984

N.Armesto, L.Apolinario, L.Cunqueiro ``An analysis of the influence of background subtraction
and quenching on jet observables in heavy ion collisions'', JHEP 1302 (2013) 022
https://arxiv.org/abs/1211.1161

[ALICE Collaboration], Measurement of Event Background Fluctuations for Charged Particle Jet
Reconstruction in Pb-Pb collisions at (sNN)=2.76 TeV,'', JHEP 1203 (2012) 053
https://arxiv.org/abs/1201.2423

N.Armesto, G.Corcella, L.Cunqueiro, C.A.Salgado Angular-ordered parton showers with medium-modified splitting functions , JHEP 0911 (2009) 122
https://arxiv.org/abs/0909.5118

N.Armesto, L.Cunqueiro, C.A.Salgado, QPYTHIA: a medium-modified implementation of final
state radiation , Eur. Phys. J. C63 (2009) 679
https://arxiv.org/abs/0907.1014

N. Armesto, L. Cunqueiro, C. A. Salgado and W. C. Xiang, ``Medium-evolved fragmentation functions  JHEP 0802 (2008) 048
https://arxiv.org/abs/0710.3073

Public notes

"Measurement of the primary Lund jet plane density in inclusive jet production in proton-proton collisions at 13 TeV with CMS", https://cds.cern.ch/record/2853467/files/SMP-22-007-pas.pdf
" Groomed jet radius and girth of jets recoiling against isolated photons in PbPb and pp collisions at 5.02 TeV, "https://cds.cern.ch/record/2867449/files/HIN-23-001-pas.pdf
Measurement of the Lund Plane in pp collisions at 13 TeV at ALICE , ALICE-
PUBLIC-2021-002, https://cds.cern.ch/record/2759456/files/ALICE_PN_LundPlanepp13TeV.pdf

Measurements of the groomed jet radius and groomed momentum fraction in pp and PbPb
collisions at sqrt(sNN)=5.02 TeV , ALICE-PUBLIC-2020-006
http://cds.cern.ch/record/2725572/files/ALICE_public_note.pdf

Future High-energy pp programme with ALICE, ALICE-PUBLIC-2020-005; CERN-LHCC-2020-018;
LHCC-G-179.,
http://cds.cern.ch/record/2724925/filesALICE_HEpp_PublNote.pdf

Other publications

Z.Citron et al, Future opportunities for high-density QCD at the LHC with heavy-ion and proton
Beams https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.06772

A.Dainese et al, Heavy Ions at the Future Circular Collider
https://arxiv.org/abs/1605.01389

[ALICE EMCal Collaboration], ALICE EMCal Physics Performance Report [physics.insdet]
https://arxiv.org/abs/1008.0413

L.Cunqueiro, Jet production at RHIC and the LHC , Nucl.Phys.A967 (2017) 153-160
https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.09839

Mentoring and supervision
Vangelis Vladimirov, postdoc under my ERC QCDHigDensity grant, June 2023-

Jelena Mijuskovic, postdoc under my ERC QCDHighDensity grant, November 2023-

Cristian Baldenegro, postdoc under my ERC QCDHighDensity grant, April 2021-

Bharadwaj Harikrishnan, PhD student under my ERC QCDHighDensity grant , October 2021-

Joao Seixas, co-supervised with Dr. Liliana Apolinario at LIP, Portugal, Masters Thesis, September 2021-

Raymond Ehelers, postdoc at ORNL 2020, former Yale PhD student, now postdoc at Berkeley

Laura Havener, postdoc at Yale, 2019

Davide Caffarri, postdoc (fellow) at CERN, 2016, now in industry

Katharina Garner, PhD student from Muenster University, b-jets and the Lund plane , 2019

Nima Zhardosti, PhD student, from Birmingham University N-Subjettiness in pp and heavy ion collisions , 2017, now a CERN LD staff.

Harry Andrews, PhD student from Birmingham University, Soft drop in pp and in heavy ion collisions , 2017, now in industry.

Jose Manuel Penin, bachelor thesis, Quark and gluon jet tagging in Heavy Ion Backgrounds University of Santiago de Compostela, 2015

From 2013, n.5 Cern Summer students

Participation in international projects and collaborations

September 2021- CMS Collaboration at the LHC

August 2016-Dec 2020 Council Member of the international collaboration JETSCAPE.
JETSCAPE: The Jet Energy-loss Tomography with a statistically and
Computationally Advanced Program Envelope Collaboration.

Sept 2008-August 2021 ALICE Collaboration at LHC, CERN.

Oct 2010-Dec 2011 Numerical and analytical studies of QCD at high densities at the LHC ,
Università di Santiago de Compostela, project FPA2009-11951
Jan 2012-Dec 2014 Study of Strongly interacting matter , network: Hadron Physics I3,
INFN(Italia)-USC(Spagna)-Subatech(Francia)

Jan 2012-Jan 2014 Theory and phenomenology of particles, astroparticles, fields and
strings , GI-2033, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain.

Contributions to international conferences

April 2022 Jet production and suppression , Quark Matter 2022 experimental jet
plenary review talk, invited.

August 2021 Hard splittings and medium response, invited talk at the
INT 2021 workshop Seattle

June 2021 Jet properties and substructure , plenary QCD talk at LHCP 2021

July 2020 First direct measurement of the dead-cone effect at colliders with
iterative declustering techniques in pp collisions at 13 TeV with ALICE ,
ICHEP 2020, Prague.

July 2020. Inclusive and heavy flavour jet substructure in pp collisions with ALICE ,
invited talk at the workshop Jet Observables at the EIC, BNL, US.

July 2019 Jet substructure in Heavy Ion Collisions , invited experimental review talk
at BOOST 2019, MIT

January 2019 Searching for the dead cone using iterative declustering of heavy flavor jets ,
talk at JETSCAPE Conference, Texas A&M

July 2018 Jet substructure: Lund diagrams and iterative techniques in pp and
PbPb collisions , talk at BOOST 2018, Jussieu

November 2017 ALICE status and Run2 results. , invited review talk, US LUA, Fermilab

October 2017 Jet substructure in ALICE , invited talk at 12th High pT workshop in Bergen
University

May 2017 Challenges in experimental jet physics in heavy ions , invited talk at Hot QCD
matters, Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati (LNF)

March 2017 Exploring the physics of color coherence , talk at the German Physics Society

February 2017 Jet production , invited overview talk , Quark Matter 2017, Chicago

September 2016 Jet substructure at the LHC , invited experimental overview talk, Hard
Probes 2016, Wuhan

March 2016 Jets in ALICE: from vacuum to QCD at high temperatures , group report at the
German Physics Society Conference.

October 2015 Jet Shapes in pp and Pb-Pb collisions at ALICE , talk at Quark Matter 2015,
Kobe

September 2015 Energy flow in jets , review talk at LHCP15, Saint Petersburg

September 2014 (p)QCD results in ALICE'', talk at LHC days in Split, Croatia

July 2014 Jet circularity and correlations in the transverse plane'', invited talk at Jet
Workshop MIT-LIP, Lisbon

July 2014 Measurement of jet production in central Pb-Pb collisions at sqrt(s)=2.76
TeV using semi-inclusive hadron-jet distributions'', invited presentation at
2nd Workshop on Hight pT physics on hot and dense matter, LNF

March 2014 Jet measurements in ALICE'', talk at 50th Rencontres de Moriond: QCD and
hadronic high energy interactions, La Thuile

November 2013 Measurement of jet production in central Pb-Pb collisions at sqrt(s)=2.76 TeV
using semi-inclusive hadron-jet distributions'', talk at Hard Probes 13, South
Africa

June 2013 Measurement of inclusive and recoil jets in central Pb-Pb collisions with ALICE
at the LHC'', talk at INPC2013, Firenze

August 2012 Jet structure in 2.76 TeV Pb-Pb Collisions at ALICE'', talk at Quark Matter
2012, Washington

July 2012 ALICE latest results'', invited plenary talk at Fundamental Physics
Conference, Benasque, Spain

October 2011 Jet Physics with ALICE'', talk at 7th International Workshop on High-pT
physics, Frankfurt

April 2011 Jet Physics in ALICE'', plenary talk in IFAE2011, Perugia

October 2011 Jets in ALICE'', talk at DIS2011, Newport News

October 2011 Jet Reconstruction at LHC'', invited review talk at LHC11, Trento

October 2010 Jet Quenching: probing the hot dense matter'', invited talk at WISH2010

Augut 2010 qPythia/qHERWIG'', invited talk at ``Jets in Proton-Proton and Heavy Ion
Collisions'' Prague University

June 2010 ALICE First Physics Results'', review talk at Light Cone 2010 Valencia

October 2009 Jet Physics in Heavy Ions , invited talk at Quark Matter Italia, Roma

April 2009 Quenched jets and algorithms'', talk at Workshop on Jet and Photon
Physics and High Level Trigger'', Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

March 2009 "QPYTHIA" invited talk given at the 4th International workshop
High pT physics at LHC 09", Prague University

February 2009 Monte Carlo for Jet Quenching", invited talk at Workshop on high-
density QCD at the LHC and in cosmic rays, Santiago de Compostela
University (USC)

June 2008 Medium evolution of jets: A Montecarlo'', talk at Hard probes 2008, A
Toxa (Spain)

March 2008 Jet Quenching , invited talk at 43rd Rencontres de Moriond: QCD and
hadronic high energy interactions", La Thuile

July 2007 Medium-Modified Fragmentation Functions", talk at the European
Physical Society Conference on High Energy Physics, Manchester

March 2007 ``Medium-modified fragmentation functions", invited talk at ``42nd
Rencontres de Moriond: QCD and hadronic high energy interactions", La
Thuile

February 2006 ``Multiplicity associated to high pT events", invited talk at Workshop on
hadronic physics at high energies'', USC

Seminars and schools

I ve given multiple seminars and lectures on phenomenology and experimental results
various universities and laboratories. Some relevant examples are:

July 2022 Jets as probes of the QGP , lecturer at the school
https://indico.in2p3.fr/event/26074/

October 2021 Prospects for Heavy Ion Physics during Run3 and Run4 , LLR, Paris

Sept 2019 Recent results on jet substructure at ALICE , CERN PH-seminar

March 2019 Parton showers in vacuum and in medium , lecture at Manigod Winter
School, France.

January 2019 Jets and jet substructure , lecture at Texas University, USA

May 2015 Jet physics , seminar at the Stefan Meyer Institute for Physics, Wien.

December 2014 Jets in ALICE: from vacuum to high-temperature QCD , CERN PH-seminar

September 2014 ALICE Status Report , 119th LHCC meeting, CERN, I was selected by Alice
experiment to represent it in front of the LHC review panel.

April 2013 The hot and dense matter: QGP in Heavy Ion Collisions , seminar at LPSC
,Grenoble and at SUBATECH, Nantes France

February 2009 Quenched jets and jet algorithms , at the Heavy Ion Forum, CERN,
I was invited to present original ideas on jet observables for jet quenching.

Organization of conferences and other roles

Organization of the workshop Novel tools and observables for jet physics in heavy ion collisions ,
CERN, September 21st https://indico.cern.ch/event/625585/

Organization of the workshop 13th International Workshop on High-pT Physics in the RHIC/LHC era

Organization of the workshop Jet Tools 2019 , https://indico.cern.ch/event/771644/

Local organizer of the CERN-FERMILAB summer school 2019, CERN.

Chairperson of the HotQCD session in PANIC 2021

Member of the discussion panel at Boost 2021

Opponent in the PhD thesis of Dr. Michal Vajzer with title: Charged jet cross section in pp collisions at ALICE , Prague University, 2016

Opponent in the PhD thesis of Dr. Jan Rusnak with title : Jet production at STAR , Prague University, 2017

Opponent in the PhD thesis of Dr. Paul Caucal, with title: Jet evolution in a QCD medium , IPHT Saclay 2020

Opponent in the PhD thesis of Dr. Guillaume Fallegname, with title: The B+c meson in heavy ion collisions with the CMS detector , Ecole Polytechnique 2021