The Color Glass Condensate and the Glasma

by Larry McLerran (Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL))

Wednesday 17 Nov 2010, 14:00 → 15:00 Europe/Zurich

TH Theory Conference Room (CERN)

The Color Glass Condensate is high density gluonic matter associated with the wavefunction of a hadron, and controls the high energy limit of its strong interactions. The Glasma is matter produced by the Color Glass Condensate in high energy collisions. The theory of the CGC and Glasma allows for first principle computations of many typical properties of particles produced in high energy collisions. It predicts novel effects in two particle correlations such as the "ridge" phenomenon seen in CMS and in RHIC. It provides a good description of the transverse momentum and multiplicity distributions seen in pp collisions at LHC.