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I have a general understanding of high energy particle physics and the standard model.
Can someone explain the color-glass condensate results in the recent p-Pb collision results at the LHC for me, and most especially why "glass" is appropriate? I understand the Wikipedia article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_glass_condensate fairly well, but want a bit more depth, particularly in why one can generalize the oncoming relativistic nucleus as a "wall of gluons," and why this is not expected in the case of a single proton.
Can someone explain the color-glass condensate results in the recent p-Pb collision results at the LHC for me, and most especially why "glass" is appropriate? I understand the Wikipedia article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_glass_condensate fairly well, but want a bit more depth, particularly in why one can generalize the oncoming relativistic nucleus as a "wall of gluons," and why this is not expected in the case of a single proton.