Seminar in Hadronic Physics

Electromagnetic signatures of the Color Glass Condensate

Jamal Jalilian-Marian

Baruch College, CUNY

After a brief introduction to gluon saturation and the Color Glass Condensate (CGC), I discuss its applications to hadron production in deuteron-nucleus collisions at RHIC and our current understanding of the kinematics where CGC may be the dominant physics. I then discuss the electromagnetic signatures of CGC, i.e. in photon and dilepton production, and how it may shed further light on the dynamics of gluon saturation and discriminate against the phenomenological models of particle production in high energy collisions.