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We consider a relativistic plasma containing charged chiral fermions in an external magnetic field, e.g a chirally symmetric quark-gluon plasma created in relativistic heavy ion collisions. We show that triangle anomalies imply the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-04-22 Dmitri E. Kharzeev , Ho-Ung Yee

Chiral Magnetic Wave (CMW) is a gapless collective excitation of chiral charges along the direction of magnetic field in the Quark-Gluon Plasma that arises from the triangle anomaly of QCD. We perform reliable study of the CMW in the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-05-07 Ho-Ung Yee , Yi Yin

Propagating chiral magnetic waves (CMW) are expected to exist in chiral plasmas due to the interplay between the chiral magnetic and chiral separation effects induced by the presence of a chiral anomaly. Unfortunately, it was pointed out…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-04-02 Yongjun Ahn , Matteo Baggioli , Yan Liu , Xin-Meng Wu

Chiral Magnetic Wave (CMW) is a gapless collective excitation of quark-gluon plasma in the presence of external magnetic field that stems from the interplay of Chiral Magnetic (CME) and Chiral Separation Effects (CSE); it is composed by the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-08-17 Yannis Burnier , Dmitri E. Kharzeev , Jinfeng Liao , Ho-Ung Yee

The chiral magnetic wave (CMW) is a macroscopic quantum phenomenon that arises due to the mixing of the electric and chiral charge oscillations induced by the chiral anomaly. In this study we report the first quantum simulation (on…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-02-07 Kazuki Ikeda , Dmitri E. Kharzeev , Shuzhe Shi

At high energies, the dynamics of a plasma with charged fermions can be described in terms of chiral magnetohydrodynamics. Using direct numerical simulations, we demonstrate that chiral magnetic waves (CMWs) can produce a chiral asymmetry…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-08-13 Jennifer Schober , Igor Rogachevskii , Axel Brandenburg

The quark-gluon plasma formed in heavy ion collisions contains charged chiral fermions evolving in an external magnetic field. At finite density of electric charge or baryon number (resulting either from nuclear stopping or from…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-08-14 Y. Burnier , D. E. Kharzeev , J. Liao , H. -U. Yee

The chiral magnetic wave (CMW) is sought using the charge asymmetry ($A_{\rm ch}$) dependence of anisotropic flow in heavy-ion collisions. The charge dependent transverse momentum ($p_{\rm T}$), however, could play a role as a background.…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-05-30 Wen-Ya Wu , Chun-Zheng Wang , Qi-Ye Shou , Yu-Gang Ma , Liang Zheng

The chiral magnetic wave (CMW) has been theorized to propagate in the Quark-Gluon Plasma formed in high-energy heavy-ion collisions. It could cause a finite electric quadrupole moment of the collision system, and may be observed as a…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2023-05-30 Qi-Ye Shou

Matter with chiral fermions is microscopically described by theory with quantum anomaly and macroscopically described (at low energy) by anomalous hydrodynamics. For such systems in the presence of external magnetic field and chirality…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-03-10 Yi Yin , Jinfeng Liao

We study collective excitations in systems described by chiral kinetic theory in external magnetic field. We consider high-temperature weak-coupling plasma, as well as high-density Landau Fermi liquid with interaction not restricted to be…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-17 Mikhail Stephanov , Ho-Ung Yee , Yi Yin

The chiral magnetic wave (CMW) has been theorized to propagate in the deconfined nuclear medium formed in high-energy heavy-ion collisions, and to cause a difference in elliptic flow ($v_{2}$) between negatively and positively charged…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2023-07-18 The STAR Collaboration

The interplay of the chiral anomaly and the strong magnetic field ($\sim$ 10$^{15}$ T) created in heavy-ion collisions could give rise to a collective excitation in the quark--gluon plasma called the Chiral Magnetic Wave (CMW). This effect…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2023-03-22 Wenya Wu

The chiral magnetic effect (CME) in quantum chromodynamics (QCD) refers to a charge separation (an electric current) of chirality imbalanced quarks generated along an external strong magnetic field. The chirality imbalance results from…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-06-28 Jie Zhao , Fuqiang Wang

We study the collective excitations in a relativistic fluid with an anomalous $U(1)$ current. In $3+1$ dimensions at zero chemical potential, in addition to ordinary sound modes we find two propagating modes in presence of an external…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-09-19 Navid Abbasi , Ali Davody , Kasra Hejazi , Zahra Rezaei

The Chiral Magnetic Wave (CMW) phenomenon is essential to provide insights into the strong interaction in QCD, the properties of the quark-gluon plasma, and the topological characteristics of the early universe, offering a deeper…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2024-01-09 ALICE Collaboration

Theoretical calculations have shown the possibility of P-violating bubbles in the QCD vacuum, which in combination with the strong magnetic field created in off-central heavy-ion collisions lead to novel effects such as the Chiral Magnetic…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2015-06-22 Ron Belmont

We present a new way of deriving effective theories of dynamical electromagnetic fields in general media. It can be used to give a systematic formulation of magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) with strong magnetic fields, including systems with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-01-10 Michael J. Landry , Hong Liu

Quantum chromodynamics (QCD) contains field configurations which can be characterized by a topological invariant, the winding number Q_w. Configurations with nonzero Q_w break the charge-parity CP symmetry of QCD. We consider a novel…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-04-06 Dmitri E. Kharzeev , Larry D. McLerran , Harmen J. Warringa

A number of recent progresses in the study of strong field effects in heavy ion collisions are discussed here: 1) the Chiral Magnetic Wave (CMW) and its experimental manifestation via splitting of positive/negative pions' elliptic flow; 2)…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-06-24 Jinfeng Liao
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