Gluon Saturation and the Formation Stage of Heavy Ion Collisions

This document is part of Volume 23 ‘Relativistic Heavy Ion Physics’ of Landolt-Börnstein - Group I ‘Elementary Particles, Nuclei and Atoms’. It contains the Section ‘5.3 Gluon Saturation and the Formation Stage of Heavy Ion Collisions’ of the Chapter ‘5 Primordial Bulk Plasma Dynamics in Nuclear Collisions at RHIC’ with the content: 5.3 Gluon Saturation and the Formation Stage of Heavy Ion Collisions 5.3.1 Introduction 5.3.2 Motivation for the Color Glass Condensate 5.3.3 Mathematics of the Color Glass Condensate 5.3.4 Phenomenological Consequences of the Color Glass Condensate 5.3.5 The Glasma and High Energy Nuclear Scattering 5.3.6 Thermalization of the Glasma 5.3.7 Conclusions