2002/02/27 by Edmond Iancu, Iancu, Edmond, Andrei Leonidov +3 · 2 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #Relativity and Gravitational Theory #hep-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.hep-ph/0202270
74 pages, Lectures given at the NATO Advanced Study Institute ``QCD perspectives on hot and dense matter'', August 6--18, 2001, in Cargèse, Corsica, France
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In these lectures, we develop the theory of the Colour Glass Condensate. This is the matter made of gluons in the high density environment characteristic of deep inelastic scattering or hadron-hadron collisions at very high energy. The lectures are self contained and comprehensive. They start with a phenomenological introduction, develop the theory of classical gluon fields appropriate for the Colour Glass, and end with a derivation and discussion of the renormalization group equations which determine this effective theory.