CGC phenomenology at RHIC and the LHC

I present a brief review of the recent phenomenological analyses of RHIC data based on the the Color Glass Condensate, including the use of non-linear evolution equations with running coupling. In particular, I focus in the study of the total multiplicities in Au+Au collisions, and in the single inclusive and double inclusive forward spectra in d+Au collisions. Predictions for the LHC are also discussed.Comment: 4 pages, 5 figures. Contributed to the proceedings of the XLVth Rencontres de Moriond, QCD session. March 13th - 20th, La Thuile, Ital

Heavy Quark Potential at Finite Temperature in AdS/CFT

A calculation of the heavy quark potential at finite temperature at strong coupling based on the AdS/CFT correspondence is presented. The calculation relies on the method of complex string trajectories and on the introduction of a modified renormalization subtraction. The obtained potential is smooth, negative definite for all quark-antiquark separations, and develops an imaginary part for r > r_c =0.870/\pi T . At large separations the real part of the potential does not exhibit the exponential Debye falloff expected from perturbation theory and instead falls off as a power law, proportional to 1/r^4.Comment: 4 pages, 1 figure. Contribution to the proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Ultra-Relativistic Nucleus-Nucleus collisions (QM09), March 30 April 4 2009, Knoxville (TN

Azimuthal correlations of forward di-hadrons in d+Au collisions suppressed by saturation

RHIC experiments have recently measured the azimuthal correlation function of forward di-hadrons. The data show a disappearance of the away-side peak in central d+Au collisions, compared to p+p collisions, as was predicted by saturation physics. Indeed, we argue that this effect, absent at mid-rapidity, is a consequence of the small-x evolution into the saturation regime of the Gold nucleus wave function. We show that the data are well described in the Color Glass Condensate framework.Comment: 6 pages, 1 figure, Proceedings of the XXXVth International Conference on High Energy Physics (ICHEP2010), Paris, France, July 22-28 201