Small x physics and the initial conditions in heavy ion collisions

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2001-04-17

arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0104168v1

Nucl.Phys.A698:209-216,2002

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

LaTex, 8 pages. Plenary talk by RV at Quark Matter 2001, Stony Brook, USA and at Workshop on Lepton Scattering, Hadrons, and Q

Scientific paper

10.1016/S0375-9474(01)01366-5

At very high energies, the high parton densities (characterized by a semi-hard saturation scale \Lambda_s) ensure that parton distributions can be described by a classical effective field theory with remarkable properties analogous to those of spin glass systems. This color glass condensate (CGC) of gluons also provides the initial conditions for multi-particle production in high energy nuclear collisions. In this talk, we briefly summarize recent theoretical and phenomenological progress in the CGC approach to small x physics. In particular, we discuss recent numerical work on the real time gluodynamics of partons after a nuclear collision. The implications of this work for the theoretical study of thermalization in nuclear collisions and on the phenomenological interpretation of results of the recent RHIC experiments are also discussed.

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