Seminar in Hadronic Physics

Pursuing Precision for Gluon Saturation Observables

Farid Salazar

UCLA

A major pillar of the Electron-Ion Collider (EIC) scientific program is the discovery and characterization of a new regime of nuclear matter, known as color glass condensate (CGC), dominated by a highly dense and saturated system of gluons. Predictions from the CGC effective field theory have been confronted with experimental data from HERA, RHIC, and the LHC, where compelling but not definitive signatures 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 EIC era. I will emphasize recent developments in next-to-leading-order computations for a variety of observables in deep inelastic scattering: structure functions, diffractive processes, and semi-inclusive two-particle production.