Gluon saturation and initial conditions for relativistic heavy ion collisions
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2015-06-18 v1
Abstract
We present an overview of theoretical aspects of the phenomenon of gluon saturation in high energy scattering in Quantum Chromo Dynamics. Then we review the state-of-the-art of saturation-based phenomenological approaches to the study and characterisation of the initial state of ultra-relativistic heavy ion collisions performed at RHIC and the LHC. Our review focuses mostly in the Color Glass Condensate effective theory, although we shall also discuss other approaches in parallel.
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@article{arxiv.1401.4866,
title = {Gluon saturation and initial conditions for relativistic heavy ion collisions},
author = {Javier L. Albacete and Cyrille Marquet},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1401.4866},
year = {2015}
}
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72 pages and 31 figures