Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
1839795 Nuclear Physics A 2005 18 Pages PDF
Abstract

This contribution discusses the phenomenon of parton saturation, the color glass picture of hadronic wavefunctions, and their relevance in the early stages of nucleus–nucleus collisions. Evidence for the color glass condensate in the presently available RHIC data is critically reviewed.

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