  We consider the Color Glass Condensate (CGC) at finite temperature, which
would be relevant to the initial condition of relativistic heavy ion collisions
and the energy loss of energetic partons in the quark-gluon plasma. In the weak
source approximation, we derive the thermal BFKL equation. We find that the
thermal effect shows up as a Bose enhancement of the soft gluon emission if the
temperature is high enough to match the light-cone energy of the soft gluons.
This suggests that the saturation regime could be reached sooner than in the
vacuum.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology