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We present a summary of the physics of gluon saturation and non-linear QCD evolution at small values of the parton momentum fraction x in the proton and nucleus in the context of recent experimental results at HERA and RHIC. The rich physics potential of low-x studies at the LHC, especially in the forward region, is discussed and some benchmark measurements in pp, pA and AA collisions are introduced.
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d'Enterria, D. Low- x QCD physics from RHIC and HERA to the LHC. Eur. Phys. J. A 31, 816–823 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/i2006-10206-6
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