The Color Glass Condensate: An Intuitive Physical Description

Journal Article · Tue Apr 11 04:00:00 EDT 2006 · AIP Conference Proceedings

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2197417· OSTI ID:20800079

McLerran, Larry ^[1]

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1. Physics Department PO Box 5000, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973 (United States)

I argue that the scattering of very high energy strongly interacting particles is controlled by a new, universal form of matter, the Color Glass Condensate. This matter is predicted by QCD and explains the saturation of gluon densites at small x. I motivate the existence of this matter and describe some of its properties.

• OSTI ID: 20800079
• Journal Information: AIP Conference Proceedings, Journal Name: AIP Conference Proceedings Journal Issue: 1 Vol. 828; ISSN APCPCS; ISSN 0094-243X
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS
COLOR MODEL
GLUONS
PARTICLE INTERACTIONS
QUANTUM CHROMODYNAMICS
QUARK MATTER
SCATTERING