2014/10/23 by S. Munier, Stephane Munier
Physics and Astronomy · #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #Nuclear physics #Particle physics #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Physics #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #Quantum chromodynamics #Statistical physics #hep-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1007/s11433-015-5666-7
published as Science China Physics, Mechanics & Astronomy Vol. 58 No. 8: 081001 (2015) · 58 pages, 32 figures. Lectures given at the Huada school on QCD, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China, June 2-13, 2014
arxiv created 2014/10/23 · openalex publication_date 2015/07/03 · arxiv updated 2015/07/06 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
The concepts and methods used for the study of disordered systems have proven useful in the analysis of the evolution equations of quantum chromodynamics in the high-energy regime: Indeed, parton branching in the semi-classical approximation relevant at high energies is a peculiar branching-diffusion process, and parton branching supplemented by saturation effects (such as gluon recombination) is a reaction-diffusion process. In these lectures, we first introduce the basic concepts in the context of simple toy models, we study the properties of the latter, and show how the results obtained for the simple models may be taken over to quantum chromodynamics.