Searching Evidence for the Color Glass Condensate at RHIC
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This contribution discusses the phenomenon of parton saturation, the color glass picture of hadronic wavefuntions, and their relevance in the early stages of nucleus-nucleus collisions. Evidence for the color glass condensate in the presently available RHIC data is critically reviewed. Preprint SPhT-T04/062
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