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Small x, Saturation and the High Energy Limit of QCD

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

The high energy limit of QCD is controlled by the small-xx part of a hadron wavefunction. We argue that this part is universal to all hadrons and is composed of a new form of matter: a Colored Glass Condensate. This matter is weakly interacting at very small xx, but is non-perturbative because of the highly occupied boson states which compose the condensate. Such a matter might be studied in high energy lepton-hadron or hadron-hadron interactions.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0005195,
  title  = {Small x, Saturation and the High Energy Limit of QCD},
  author = {Edmond Iancu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0005195},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

6 pages, 1 figure. Invited talk at the XXXVth Rencontres de Moriond on QCD and Hadronic Interactions March 18 -- 25, 2000, Les Arcs, France