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Two Introductory Lectures on High-Energy QCD and Heavy-Ion Collisions

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The Physics of the Quark-Gluon Plasma

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Physics ((LNP,volume 785))

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These introductory lectures present a broad overview of the physics of high parton densities in QCD and its application to our understanding of the early time dynamics in heavy-ion collisions.

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Acknowledgments

R.V´s work on this manuscript was supported by DOE Contract No. #DEAC02-98CH10886. R.V. would like to thank Sourav Sarkar, Helmut Satz, and Bikash Sinha or their kind invitation to lecture at the QGP winter school in Jaipur and for the excellent atmosphere and hospitality at the school. D. B and R.V. would also like to thank the Center for Theoretical Sciences (CTS) of the Tata Institute for Fundamental Research (TIFR) for their support of the program and school on "Initial Conditions in Heavy Ion Collisions" at Dona Paula, Goa, where some of this work was performed.

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  1. Centre (VECC), Variable Energy Cyclotron, Bidhan Nagar, Kolkata, 700064, India

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  2. Fak. Physik, Universität Bielefeld, Universitätsstr. 25, Bielefeld, 33615, Germany

    Helmut Satz

  3. Centre (VECC), Variable Energy Cyclotron, Bidhan Nagar, Kolkata, 700064, India

    Bikash Sinha

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Banerjee, D., Nayak, J.K., Venugopalan, R. (2009). Two Introductory Lectures on High-Energy QCD and Heavy-Ion Collisions. In: Sarkar, S., Satz, H., Sinha, B. (eds) The Physics of the Quark-Gluon Plasma. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 785. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02286-9_3

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