The Color Glass Condensate

Search for a new state of matter called the Quark-Gluon Plasma, which is believed to be the state of matter existing in the universe shortly after the Big Bang. If it is found, then measure its properties.

Study matter under extreme conditions of temperature and pressure.

Learn where the proton gets its spin.

Study the most basic building blocks of nature and the forces that govern them.

Conclusions: Overwhelming empirical evidence for a new form of matter sQGP with unexpected properties

Is a term that is new to me and since it has been brought by Lubos in regards to The RHIC fireball as a dual black hole, and other issues in regards to gluon consideration as blackhole radiation. I would like to comprehend this better as to the direction string research is going:)

Background on color glass condensate

Color glass condensate is another extreme condition of matter that some theoretical physicists postulate exists inside two gold ions about to collide at very high energy in RHIC. According to Einstein’s theory of relativity, a high-energy particle appears Lorentz contracted, or compressed, along its direction of motion. As a result, the gluons inside one gold ion appear to the other ion as a ‘gluonic wall’ traveling near the speed of light. At very high energies, the density of the gluons in this wall is seen to increase greatly. Unlike the quark-gluon plasma produced in the collision of such walls, the color glass condensate describes the walls themselves, and is an intrinsic property of the particles that can only be observed under high-energy conditions such as those at RHIC.

To me Peter and Lubos are getting close on regards to the issue of the Shakespearean Quandry of to B^-e or not the be⁺, and as a artistic rendition? What value could we have ever sought from the minute interactions, photon gluon interaction, that might be demonstrated from such fine dimensional thinking of the issues involve at such perceptive levels of existance? How is this possible?



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