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Understanding the high energy limit of Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) is one of the outstanding goals in nuclear and particle physics. At very high energies, it is conjectured that hadrons and nuclei transform into a universal form of matter known as the Color Glass Condensate (CGC). The CGC is an effective field theory for high-density saturated small-x gluons. This framework has been confronted with experimental data from HERA, RHIC, and the LHC, where hints of gluon saturation have been observed. In this talk, I will review the state of the art of the CGC with an eye toward the Electron-Ion Collider (EIC) era. I will emphasize recent next-to-leading-order computations for a variety of processes, and the potential for the discovery of gluon saturation at the EIC.
| speaker affiliation | UCLA/UCB/LBNL |
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