Connections between high energy QCD and statistical physics

Abstract

It has been proposed that the energy evolution of QCD amplitudes in the high-energy regime falls in the universality class of reaction-diffusion processes. We review the arguments for this correspondence, and we explain how it enables one to compute analytically asymptotic features of QCD amplitudes.

Comments: 8 pages; To appear in the proceedings of 12th International Conference on Elastic and Diffractive Scattering, DESY, Hamburg, Germany, 21-25 May 2007