This contribution discusses the phenomenon of parton saturation, the color glass picture of hadronic wavefuntions, and their relevance in the early stages of nucleus-nucleus collisions. Evidence for the color glass condensate in the presently available RHIC data is critically reviewed. Preprint SPhT-T04/062

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We discuss proton-nucleus collisions in the framework of the color glass condensate. By assuming that the proton can be described as a low density color source, we solve exactly the Yang-Mills equations corresponding to this type of collision, and then use this solution in order to calculate inclusive gluon production or quarkantiquark production. Our result shows that k⊥-factorization, while v...

A brief qualitative mapping is given between austenite, tweed and twinned phases of martensite alloys and corresponding paramagnetic, spin glass and periodic phases in spin glass alloys. ‡ This paper is dedicated to John Pendry in celebration of his 65th birthday. § Permanent address A Simple Spin Glass Perspective on Martensitic Shape-memory Alloys 2

Engenharia de Materiais, Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná, 86036-370, Londrina, PR, Brazil Laboratório de Novos Materiais Isolantes e Semicondutores (LNMIS), Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal de Uberlândia, CP 593, CEP 38400-902, Uberlândia, Minas Gerais, Brazil Instituto de Ciências Exatas e Naturais e Educação (ICENE), Departamento de Física, Universidade Federal do Triângul...

The Color Glass Condensate is a state of high density gluonic matter which controls the high energy limit of hadronic matter. These lectures begin with a discussion of general problems of high energy strong interactions. The infinite momentum frame description of a single hadron at very small x is developed, and this picture is applied to the description of ultrarelativistic nuclear collisions....