2026-07-072026-07-07http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/43770I discuss elastic dipole-dipole scattering in QCD at high energies, with emphasis on the relation between Mueller's dipole picture and the Color Glass Condensate, and on the importance of rare fluctuations for the high-energy limit of the S-matrix.6 pages, invited talk at the XII International Workshop on Deep Inelastic Scattering (DIS 2004), Strbske Pleso, Slovakia, April 14-18, 2004High Energy Physics - PhenomenologyThe QCD S-matrix in the high-energy limittext