English
Related papers

Related papers: A Case for the Chiral Magnetic Effect in mid-perip…

200 papers

The chiral magnetic effect (CME) in relativistic heavy-ion collisions originates from a chirality imbalance among quarks within metastable QCD vacuum domains and may be linked to $CP$ violation, which is believed to play a crucial role in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-31 Jing Gu , Jinhui Chen , Jie Zhao

For the search of the chiral magnetic effect (CME), STAR previously presented the results from isobar collisions (${^{96}_{44}\text{Ru}}+{^{96}_{44}\text{Ru}}$, ${^{96}_{40}\text{Zr}}+{^{96}_{40}\text{Zr}}$) obtained through a blind…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2024-07-19 STAR Collaboration , M. I. Abdulhamid , B. E. Aboona , J. Adam , J. R. Adams , G. Agakishiev , I. Aggarwal , M. M. Aggarwal , Z. Ahammed , A. Aitbaev , I. Alekseev , E. Alpatov , A. Aparin , S. Aslam , J. Atchison , G. S. Averichev , V. Bairathi , J. G. Ball Cap , K. Barish , P. Bhagat , A. Bhasin , S. Bhatta , S. R. Bhosale , I. G. Bordyuzhin , J. D. Brandenburg , A. V. Brandin , C. Broodo , X. Z. Cai , H. Caines , M. Calderón~de~la~Barca~Sánchez , D. Cebra , J. Ceska , I. Chakaberia , B. K. Chan , Z. Chang , A. Chatterjee , D. Chen , J. Chen , J. H. Chen , Z. Chen , J. Cheng , Y. Cheng , S. Choudhury , W. Christie , X. Chu , H. J. Crawford , G. Dale-Gau , A. Das , T. G. Dedovich , I. M. Deppner , A. A. Derevschikov , A. Dhamija , P. Dixit , X. Dong , J. L. Drachenberg , E. Duckworth , J. C. Dunlop , J. Engelage , G. Eppley , S. Esumi , O. Evdokimov , O. Eyser , R. Fatemi , S. Fazio , C. J. Feng , Y. Feng , E. Finch , Y. Fisyak , F. A. Flor , C. Fu , T. Gao , F. Geurts , N. Ghimire , A. Gibson , K. Gopal , X. Gou , D. Grosnick , A. Gupta , A. Hamed , Y. Han , M. D. Harasty , J. W. Harris , H. Harrison-Smith , W. He , X. H. He , Y. He , C. Hu , Q. Hu , Y. Hu , H. Huang , H. Z. Huang , S. L. Huang , T. Huang , X. Huang , Y. Huang , Y. Huang , T. J. Humanic , M. Isshiki , W. W. Jacobs , A. Jalotra , C. Jena , Y. Ji , J. Jia , C. Jin , X. Ju , E. G. Judd , S. Kabana , D. Kalinkin , K. Kang , D. Kapukchyan , K. Kauder , D. Keane , A. Kechechyan , A. Khanal , A. Kiselev , A. G. Knospe , H. S. Ko , L. Kochenda , A. A. Korobitsin , A. Yu. Kraeva , P. Kravtsov , L. Kumar , M. C. Labonte , R. Lacey , J. M. Landgraf , A. Lebedev , R. Lednicky , J. H. Lee , Y. H. Leung , N. Lewis , C. Li , D. Li , H-S. Li , H. Li , W. Li , X. Li , Y. Li , Y. Li , Z. Li , X. Liang , Y. Liang , T. Lin , Y. Lin , C. Liu , G. Liu , H. Liu , L. Liu , T. Liu , X. Liu , Y. Liu , Z. Liu , T. Ljubicic , O. Lomicky , R. S. Longacre , E. M. Loyd , T. Lu , J. Luo , X. F. Luo , V. B. Luong , L. Ma , R. Ma , Y. G. Ma , N. Magdy , R. Manikandhan , S. Margetis , H. S. Matis , G. McNamara , O. Mezhanska , K. Mi , N. G. Minaev , B. Mohanty , M. M. Mondal , I. Mooney , D. A. Morozov , A. Mudrokh , M. I. Nagy , A. S. Nain , J. D. Nam , M. Nasim , E. Nedorezov , D. Neff , J. M. Nelson , D. B. Nemes , M. Nie , G. Nigmatkulov , T. Niida , L. V. Nogach , T. Nonaka , G. Odyniec , A. Ogawa , S. Oh , V. A. Okorokov , K. Okubo , B. S. Page , R. Pak , S. Pal , A. Pandav , A. K. Pandey , Y. Panebratsev , T. Pani , P. Parfenov , A. Paul , C. Perkins , B. R. Pokhrel , M. Posik , A. Povarov , T. Protzman , N. K. Pruthi , J. Putschke , Z. Qin , H. Qiu , C. Racz , S. K. Radhakrishnan , A. Rana , R. L. Ray , H. G. Ritter , C. W. Robertson , O. V. Rogachevsky , M. A. Rosales Aguilar , D. Roy , L. Ruan , A. K. Sahoo , N. R. Sahoo , H. Sako , S. Salur , E. Samigullin , S. Sato , B. C. Schaefer , W. B. Schmidke , N. Schmitz , J. Seger , R. Seto , P. Seyboth , N. Shah , E. Shahaliev , P. V. Shanmuganathan , T. Shao , M. Sharma , N. Sharma , R. Sharma , S. R. Sharma , A. I. Sheikh , D. Shen , D. Y. Shen , K. Shen , S. S. Shi , Y. Shi , Q. Y. Shou , F. Si , J. Singh , S. Singha , P. Sinha , M. J. Skoby , Y. Söhngen , Y. Song , B. Srivastava , T. D. S. Stanislaus , D. J. Stewart , M. Strikhanov , B. Stringfellow , Y. Su , C. Sun , X. Sun , Y. Sun , Y. Sun , B. Surrow , D. N. Svirida , Z. W. Sweger , A. C. Tamis , A. H. Tang , Z. Tang , A. Taranenko , T. Tarnowsky , J. H. Thomas , D. Tlusty , T. Todoroki , M. V. Tokarev , S. Trentalange , P. Tribedy , O. D. Tsai , C. Y. Tsang , Z. Tu , J. Tyler , T. Ullrich , D. G. Underwood , I. Upsal , G. Van Buren , A. N. Vasiliev , V. Verkest , F. Videbæk , S. Vokal , S. A. Voloshin , F. Wang , G. Wang , J. S. Wang , J. Wang , K. Wang , X. Wang , Y. Wang , Y. Wang , Y. Wang , Z. Wang , J. C. Webb , P. C. Weidenkaff , G. D. Westfall , H. Wieman , G. Wilks , S. W. Wissink , J. Wu , J. Wu , X. Wu , X , Wu , B. Xi , Z. G. Xiao , G. Xie , W. Xie , H. Xu , N. Xu , Q. H. Xu , Y. Xu , Y. Xu , Z. Xu , Z. Xu , G. Yan , Z. Yan , C. Yang , Q. Yang , S. Yang , Y. Yang , Z. Ye , Z. Ye , L. Yi , K. Yip , Y. Yu , W. Zha , C. Zhang , D. Zhang , J. Zhang , S. Zhang , W. Zhang , X. Zhang , Y. Zhang , Y. Zhang , Y. Zhang , Y. Zhang , Z. J. Zhang , Z. Zhang , Z. Zhang , F. Zhao , J. Zhao , M. Zhao , J. Zhou , S. Zhou , Y. Zhou , X. Zhu , M. Zurek , M. Zyzak

An interpretation of the charge dependent correlations sensitive to the Chiral Magnetic Effect (CME) -- the separation of the electric charges along the system magnetic field (across the reaction plane) -- is ambiguous due to a possible…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2018-12-05 Sergei A. Voloshin

We devise a test of the Chiral Magnetic and Chiral Vortical effects (CME and CVE) in relativistic heavy ion collisions that relies only on the general properties of triangle anomalies. We show that the ratio $R_{EB}=J_E/J_B$ of charge $J_E$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-02-23 Dmitri E. Kharzeev , Dam T. Son

Recent measurements of charge-dependent azimuthal correlations in high-energy heavy-ion collisions have indicated charge-separation signals perpendicular to the reaction plane, and have been related to the chiral magnetic effect (CME).…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-11-29 Fufang Wen , Jacob Bryon , Liwen Wen , Gang Wang

We propose a novel method to search for the chiral magnetic effect (CME) in heavy ion collisions. We argue that the relative strength of the magnetic field (mainly from spectator protons and responsible for the CME) with respect to the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-07-18 Hao-jie Xu , Jie Zhao , Xiaobao Wang , Hanlin Li , Zi-Wei Lin , Caiwan Shen , Fuqiang Wang

The interplay between the chiral anomaly and the strong magnetic or vortical fields created in noncentral heavy-ion collisions can lead to various anomalous chiral effects in the quark--gluon plasma, including the chiral magnetic effect…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2023-12-13 Chun-Zheng Wang

Quark interactions with topological gluon fields in QCD can yield local $\mathcal{P}$ and $\mathcal{CP}$ violations which could explain the matter-antimatter asymmetry in our universe. Effects of $\mathcal{P}$ and $\mathcal{CP}$ violations…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-01-29 Jie Zhao , Zhoudunming Tu , Fuqiang Wang

The chiral magnetic effect (CME) is a phenomenon in which electric charge is separated by a strong magnetic field from local domains of chirality imbalance in quantum chromodynamics. The CME-sensitive azimuthal correlator difference…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-05-26 Han-Sheng Li , Yu-Shan Chang , Yi Yang , Fuqiang Wang

When searching for anomalous chiral effects in heavy-ion collisions, one of the most crucial points is the relationship between the signal and the background. In this letter, we present a simulation in a modified blast wave model at LHC…

The scaling properties of the $\Delta\gamma$ correlator, inferred from the Anomalous Viscous Fluid Dynamics (AVFD) model, are used to investigate a possible chiral-magnetically-driven (CME) charge separation in $p$+Au, $d$+Au, Ru+Ru, Zr+Zr,…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2022-06-23 Roy A. Lacey , Niseem Magdy

A charge-sensitive in-event correlator is proposed and tested for its efficacy to detect and characterize charge separation associated with the Chiral Magnetic Effect (CME) in heavy ion collisions. Tests, performed with the aid of two…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2018-06-27 Niseem Magdy , Shuzhe Shi , Jinfeng Liao , N. Ajitanand , Roy A. Lacey

Correlation measurements with respect to the spectator and participant planes in relativistic heavy ion collisions were proposed to extract the chiral magnetic effect (CME) from background dominated azimuthal correlators. This paper…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2022-03-14 Yicheng Feng , Jie Zhao , Hanlin Li , Hao-jie Xu , Fuqiang Wang

A new sine observable, $R_{\Psi_2}(\Delta S)$, has been proposed to measure the chiral magnetic effect (CME) in heavy-ion collisions; $\Delta S = \left \langle \sin \varphi_+ \right \rangle - \left \langle \sin \varphi_- \right \rangle$,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-09-11 Yicheng Feng , Jie Zhao , Fuqiang Wang

In this paper a pair of observables are proposed as alternative ways, by examining the fluctuation of net momentum-ordering of charged pairs, to study the charge separation induced by the Chiral Magnetic Effect (CME) in relativistic heavy…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2020-06-24 A. H. Tang

Quantum anomaly is a fundamental feature of chiral fermions. In chiral materials the microscopic anomaly leads to nontrivial macroscopic transport processes such as the Chiral Magnetic Effect (CME), which has been in the spotlight lately…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-01-29 Shuzhe Shi , Hui Zhang , Defu Hou , Jinfeng Liao

The emergence of the Chiral Magnetic Effect (CME) and the related anomalous current is investigated using the real time Dirac-Heisenberg-Wigner formalism. This method is widely used for describing strong field physics and QED vacuum…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-08-08 Dániel Berényi , Péter Lévai

We report our recent progress on the search of Chiral Magnetic Effect (CME) by developing new measurements as well as by hydrodynamic simulations of CME and background effects, with both approaches addressing the pressing issue of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-11-23 Xu-Guang Huang , Yi Yin , Jinfeng Liao

The chiral magnetic effect (CME) in heavy-ion collisions reflects the local violation of ${\cal P}$ and ${\cal CP}$ symmetries in strong interactions and manifests as electric charge separation along the direction of the magnetic field…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-09-10 Zhiyi Wang , Jinhui Chen , Diyu Shen , Aihong Tang , Gang Wang

The interplay of quantum anomalies with magnetic field and vorticity results in a variety of novel non-dissipative transport phenomena in systems with chiral fermions, including the quark-gluon plasma. Among them is the Chiral Magnetic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-03-23 D. E. Kharzeev , J. Liao , S. A. Voloshin , G. Wang