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Larry McLerran, Brookhaven National Laboratory
The Color Glass Condensate and the Glasma
The Color Glass Condensate is high energy density made of gluons which controls the high energy limit of strong interactions. I describe its properties. The Color Glass Condensate is associated with the wavefunction of strongly interacting particles. In the collision of two particles, the CGC is converted into a Glasma, which in heavy ion collisions ultimately evolves into a thermalized Quark Gluon Plasma. I discuss the Glasma and what is known of its properties.
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