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The Color Glass Condensate and Small x Physics: 4 Lectures

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2010-11-30 v2

Abstract

The Color Glass Condensate is a state of high density gluonic matter which controls the high energy limit of hadronic matter. These lectures begin with a discussion of general problems of high energy strong interactions. The infinite momentum frame description of a single hadron at very small x is developed, and this picture is applied to the description of ultrarelativistic nuclear collisions. Recent developments in the renormalization group description of the Color Glass Condensate are reviewed.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0104285,
  title  = {The Color Glass Condensate and Small x Physics: 4 Lectures},
  author = {Larry McLerran},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0104285},
  year   = {2010}
}

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44 pages, 24 figures