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Chiral magnetic effect in isobaric collisions

Nuclear Theory 2018-03-14 v1 Nuclear Experiment

Abstract

We give a numerical simulation of the generation of the magnetic field and the charge-separation signal due to the chiral magnetic effect (CME) --- the induction of an electric current by the magnetic field in a parity-odd matter --- in the collisions of isobaric nuclei, 4496^{96}_{44}Ru + 4496^{96}_{44}Ru and 4096^{96}_{40}Zr + 4096^{96}_{40}Zr, at sNN=200\sqrt{s_{\rm NN}}=200 GeV. We show that such collisions provide an ideal tool to disentangle the CME signal from the possible elliptic-flow driven background effects. We also discuss some other effects that can be tested by using the isobaric collisions.

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@article{arxiv.1704.04382,
  title  = {Chiral magnetic effect in isobaric collisions},
  author = {Xu-Guang Huang and Wei-Tian Deng and Guo-Liang Ma and Gang Wang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1704.04382},
  year   = {2018}
}

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Proceedings of XXVIth International Conference on Ultrarelativistic Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions (Quark Matter 2017)

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