Quantum Chromodynamics at High Energy

Filling a gap in the current literature, this book is the first entirely dedicated to
high energy quantum chromodynamics (QCD) including parton saturation and the
color glass condensate (CGC). It presents groundbreaking progress on the subject and
describes many problems at the forefront of research, bringing postgraduate students,
theorists, and interested experimentalists up to date with the current state of research
in this field.
The material is presented in a pedagogical way, with numerous examples and
exercises. Discussion ranges from the quasi-classical McLerran–Venugopalan model
to the linear BFKL and nonlinear BK/JIMWLK small-x evolution equations. The
authors adopt both a theoretical and an experimental outlook, and present the physics
of strong interactions in a universal way, making it useful for physicists from various
subcommunities of high energy and nuclear physics, and applicable to processes
studied at all high energy accelerators around the world. A selection of color figures
is available online at www.cambridge.org/9780521112574.