Speaker
Shaswat Tiwari
(North Carolina State University)
Description
At high energies, the density of gluons inside nucleons grow rapidly, leading to a dense regime where their interactions become non-linear. This phenomenon, known as gluon saturation, is a prediction of QCD and is effectively described by the Color Glass Condensate framework. In this talk, we will explore how saturation manifests in high-energy processes such as deep inelastic scattering, proton-nucleus, and nucleus-nucleus collisions. We will review key experimental signatures from RHIC, HERA, and the LHC that point toward saturation, and discuss how upcoming measurements at the Electron-Ion Collider are expected to provide decisive tests of saturation physics.
Primary author
Shaswat Tiwari
(North Carolina State University)
