The Colored Glass Condensate and eRHIC
Larry McLerran,
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Abstract
A new form of matter, the Colored Glass Condensate, has been
proposed as the universal form of matter which is probed in high energy
hadron-hadron and hadron-lepton interactions. This matter lives on two
dimensional sheets which propagate at near light velocity, and is
mathematically similar to spin glasses and bose condensates. It is the
matter which is excited into the quark gluon plasma in nuclear collisions,
and which controls the high energy limit of scattering in QCD. It might
be studied in eRHIC, a new facility which is proposed for BNL which uses
collisions of electrons and nuclei in the RHIC tunnel.
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