From high-energy QCD to statistical physics

Abstract

I discuss recent progress in understanding the high-energy evolution in QCD, which points towards a remarkable correspondence with the reaction-diffusion problem of statistical physics. This enables us to determine the asymptotic behaviour of the scattering amplitudes in QCD.

Comments: Invited talk at the XIth International Conference on Elastic and Diffractive Scattering, Blois, France, May 15 - 20, 2005; 7 pages, 4 figures