Saturation in high-energy QCD: scaling laws and applications

by Dr Gregory Soyez (CEA Saclay)

Thursday 30 Nov 2006, 16:00 → 17:00 Europe/Brussels

e.349 (CP3)

The aim of the talk is to expose the properties of the collision amplitudes expected from high-energy QCD. They are usually taking the form of universal and generic scaling laws. To reach that point, I shall first introduce the perturbative QCD equation towards high-energy, emphasising the need for saturation and gluon-number fluctuations. Then I should explain how the scaling laws appear as solutions to those equations and what is the physical picture emerging from that analysis. Finally, I shall show how they apply to physical observables such that forward particle production at the LHC.