The Colour Glass Condensate : An Introduction

By E. Iancu, Andrei Leonidov, Larry McLerran. 2001

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In these lectures, we develop the theory of the Colour Glass Condensate. This is the matter made of gluons in the high density environment characteristic of deep inelastic scattering or hadron-hadron collisions at very high energy. The lectures are self contained and comprehensive. They start with a phenomenological introduction, develop the theory of classical gluon fields appropriate for the Colour Glass, and end with a derivation and discussion of the renormalization group equations which determine this effective theory. In particular, these equations predict gluon saturation at sufficiently high energy, with a maximal density of order 1/α3.

Subfields: Nuclear and High Energy Physics

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In Nuclear and High Energy Physics

1. E. Iancu
2. Larry McLerran
3. K. Itakura
4. Y. Kovchegov
5. J. Albacete
6. A. Mueller
7. D. Kharzeev
8. B. Schenke

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• Geometric scaling above the saturation scale (2002, background): “6), as the gluon density in the saturation regime [7, 9, 3].”