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Saturation in High-energy QCD

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2015-06-25 v1

Abstract

In these proceedings, I shall review the basic concepts of perturbative QCD in its high-energy limit, emphasising the approach to the unitarity limit, usually referred to as {\em saturation}. I shall explain the basic framework showing the need for saturation, first, from a simple picture of the high-energy behaviour, then, giving a short derivation of the equation driving this evolution. In the second part, I shall exhibit an analogy with statistical physics and show how this allows to derive {\em geometric scaling} in QCD with saturation. I shall finally consider the effects of gluon-number fluctuations on this picture.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0605192,
  title  = {Saturation in High-energy QCD},
  author = {G. Soyez},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0605192},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

10 pages, 11 figures, talk given at the XXVI Brazilian National Meeting on Particles and Fields, Sao Lourenco, Brazil, October 2005

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