Eur. Phys. J. C (2005) 43: 337-344
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s2005-02180-6

Theoretical Physics

The color glass condensate: an overview

Physics Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, NY 11973, Upton, USA

^* e-mail: raju@bnl.gov

Received: 18 February 2005
Published online: 12 April 2005

Abstract

The color glass condensate is a theory of the dynamical properties of partons in the Regge limit of QCD: , and the center of mass energy squared . We provide a brief introduction to the theoretical ideas underlying the color glass condensate and discuss the application of these ideas to high energy scattering in QCD.