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arxiv: 1401.4866 · v1 · pith:W2FLUEEEnew · submitted 2014-01-20 · ✦ hep-ph

Gluon saturation and initial conditions for relativistic heavy ion collisions

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We present an overview of theoretical aspects of the phenomenon of gluon saturation in high energy scattering in Quantum Chromo Dynamics. Then we review the state-of-the-art of saturation-based phenomenological approaches to the study and characterisation of the initial state of ultra-relativistic heavy ion collisions performed at RHIC and the LHC. Our review focuses mostly in the Color Glass Condensate effective theory, although we shall also discuss other approaches in parallel.

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