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Separation of flow from chiral magnetic effect in U+U collisions using spectator asymmetry

Nuclear Theory 2015-07-15 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Nuclear Experiment

Abstract

We demonstrate that the prolate shape of the Uranium nucleus generates anti-correlation between spectator asymmetry and initial state ellipticity of the collision zone, providing a way to constrain the initial event shape in U+U collisions. As an application, we show that this can be used to separate the background contribution due to flow from the signals of chiral magnetic effect.

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@article{arxiv.1412.5103,
  title  = {Separation of flow from chiral magnetic effect in U+U collisions using spectator asymmetry},
  author = {Sandeep Chatterjee and Prithwish Tribedy},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1412.5103},
  year   = {2015}
}

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5 pages, 4 figures, few texts modified