The Colored Glass Condensate and Extreme QCD

Abstract

The high energy limit of QCD is controlled by the small-$x$ part of a hadron wavefunction. I argue that this part is universal to all hadrons and is composed of a new form of matter: a Colored Glass Condensate. This matter is weakly interacting at very small $x$, but is non-perturbative because of the highly occupied boson states which compose the condensate. Such a matter might be studied in high energy lepton-hadron or hadron-hadron interactions.

Comments: 13 pages, 2 eps figures; talk presented at Strong and Electroweak Matter (SEWM2000), Marseille, France, 14-17 June, 2000