Javier Albacete (ECT Trento): "Phenomenology of Saturation"

Monday 29 Jun 2009, 14:15 → 15:45 Europe/Berlin

3344 - Physics Department TUM Garching

At high energies QCD enters a novel regime characterized by high partonic densities, coherence phenomena and non-linear saturation  effects.  The saturation of hadronic wave functions, closely related tounitarity, stems from the increasing importance of gluon-gluon recombination effects with increasing energy (decreasing Bjorken-x). I will first review the recent theoretical progress attained in the determination of the BK-JIMWLK non-linear QCD evolution equations. Then I will focus in the phenomenological applications of the saturation based ideas in Deep Inelastic Scattering experiments (HERA), ultra-relativistic heavy ion collisions (RHIC, LHC) and in cosmic ray physics. Prospects for future experiments will also be discussed.

document Albacete_290609.pdf