The Color Glass Condensate to the Strongly Interacting Quark Gluon Plasma: Theoretical Developments

2007 ◽  
Vol 787 (1-4) ◽  
pp. 1-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Larry McLerran
Keyword(s):  
Quark Gluon Plasma ◽  
Gluon Plasma ◽  
Color Glass ◽  
Color Glass Condensate ◽  
Strongly Interacting ◽  
Theoretical Developments

scholarly journals COLOR GLASS CONDENSATE AND GLASMA

2013 ◽  
Vol 28 (01) ◽  
pp. 1330001 ◽  
Author(s):  
FRANÇOIS GELIS
Keyword(s):  
Quark Gluon Plasma ◽  
Heavy Ion ◽  
Gluon Plasma ◽  
High Energy ◽  
Effective Theory ◽  
Color Glass ◽  
Color Glass Condensate ◽  
Saturation Regime ◽  
Initial State ◽  
Ion Collisions

We review the color glass condensate effective theory, that describes the gluon content of a high energy hadron or nucleus, in the saturation regime. The emphasis is put on applications to high energy heavy ion collisions. After describing initial state factorization, we discuss the glasma phase, that precedes the formation of an equilibrated quark–gluon plasma. We end this review with a presentation of recent developments in the study of the isotropization and thermalization of the quark–gluon plasma.

scholarly journals Quark–gluon plasma and color glass condensate at RHIC? The perspective from the BRAHMS experiment

2005 ◽  
Vol 757 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 1-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
I. Arsene ◽  
I.G. Bearden ◽  
D. Beavis ◽  
C. Besliu ◽  
B. Budick ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quark Gluon Plasma ◽  
Gluon Plasma ◽  
Color Glass ◽  
Color Glass Condensate

scholarly journals STRONGLY INTERACTING MATTER AT HIGH ENERGY DENSITY

2010 ◽  
Vol 25 (32) ◽  
pp. 5847-5864 ◽  
Author(s):  
LARRY MCLERRAN
Keyword(s):  
Energy Density ◽  
Gluon Plasma ◽  
High Energy ◽  
Baryon Density ◽  
Hadronic Matter ◽  
High Energy Density ◽  
Color Glass ◽  
Color Glass Condensate ◽  
Strongly Interacting ◽  
Very High Energy

This lecture concerns the properties of strongly interacting matter (which is described by Quantum Chromodynamics) at very high energy density. I review the properties of matter at high temperature, discussing the deconfinement phase transition. At high baryon density and low temperature, large Nc arguments are developed which suggest that high baryonic density matter is a third form of matter, Quarkyonic Matter, that is distinct from confined hadronic matter and deconfined matter. I finally discuss the Color Glass Condensate which controls the high energy limit of QCD, and forms the low x part of a hadron wave function. The Glasma is introduced as matter formed by the Color Glass Condensate which eventually thermalizes into a Quark Gluon Plasma.

scholarly journals The Color Glass Condensate: An Intuitive Description

2006 ◽  
Vol 21 (04) ◽  
pp. 694-698 ◽  
Author(s):  
Larry McLerran
Keyword(s):  
High Energy ◽  
Color Glass ◽  
Color Glass Condensate ◽  
Interacting Particles ◽  
Universal Form ◽  
Strongly Interacting ◽  
Very High Energy ◽  
Very High

I argue that the physics of the scattering of very high energy strongly interacting particles is controlled by a new, universal form of matter, the Color Glass Condensate. I motivate the existence of this matter and describe some of its properties.

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