Dynamic Time Scales in Colored Glass Nuclear Matter

Ultra high energy collisions between heavy nuclei can be employed to experimentally probe the QCD properties of dense quark-gluon systems [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]. The properties of the high density quark gluon system have also been compared to a color glass[6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13]. High energy proton-proton scattering also probes the QCD vacuum. The QCD vacuum differs from the QED vacuum via properties largely due to the nature of the electrically charged and color charged dielectric screening response functions. In the QCD case, there is a quark-quark potential containing both a Coulomb-like piece as well as a linear confining potential. The confining force may be viewed in terms of the tension σ in a “string” connecting two quarks having the experimental value