In the Shadow of the Color Glass

Abstract

I give a brief overview of recent theoretical progress within perturbative QCD concerning the high-energy dynamics in the vicinity of the unitarity limit. Special attention is payed to the most recent developments concerning the relation between high-energy QCD and statistical physics, the role of the pomeron loops, and the transition from geometric scaling to diffusive scaling with increasing energy.

Comments: 12 pages, 7 figures. Based on the two talks presented by the author at DIS2006 (April 20-24, Tsukuba, Japan), in the plenary session and, respectively, in the parallel session on Diffraction and Vector Mesons