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The Color Glass Condensate is a state of high-density gluonic matter which controls the high-energy limit of hadronic matter. The article begins with a discussion of general problems of high-energy strong interactions. The infinitemomentum- frame description of a single hadron at very small x is developed, and this picture is applied to the description of ultrarelativistic nuclear collisions. Recent developments in the renormalization group description of the Color Glass Condensate are reviewed.
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McLerran, L. (2002). The Color Glass Condensate and Small-x Physics. In: Plessas, W., Mathelitsch, L. (eds) Lectures on Quark Matter. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 583. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45792-5_8
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