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The Chiral Magnetic Effect (CME) is a fundamental prediction of QCD, and various observables have been proposed in heavy ion collisions to access this physics. Recently the CMS Collaboration \cite{Khachatryan:2016got} has reported results…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-08-16 R. Belmont , J. L. Nagle

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

Gluon field configurations with nonzero topological charge induce P- and CP-odd effects. Such configurations are likely to be produced during heavy ion collisions. In this article, I will argue that in the intense (electromagnetic) magnetic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-06-17 Harmen J. Warringa

The experimental status is reviewed on the search for the chiral magnetic effect (CME) in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. Emphasis is put on background contributions to the CME-sensitive charge correlation measurements and their effects…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2022-07-26 Fuqiang Wang

High-energy, heavy-ion collisions can create local domains of chirality-imbalanced quarks, reflecting the topological features of quantum chromodynamics. The chiral magnetic effect (CME) predicts an electric charge separation of quarks in…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2026-03-16 The STAR Collaboration

Recently there has been significant interest in the macroscopic manifestation of chiral anomaly in many-body systems of chiral fermions. A notable example is the Chiral Magnetic Effect (CME). Enthusiastic efforts have been made to search…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-02-06 Anping Huang , Yin Jiang , Shuzhe Shi , Jinfeng Liao , Pengfei Zhuang

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

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…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-03-05 Han-Sheng Li , Yicheng Feng , Fuqiang Wang

The Chiral Magnetic Effect (CME) is predicted for Au-Au collisions at RHIC. However many backgrounds can give signals that make the measurement hard to interpret. The STAR experiment has made measurements at different collisions energy…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-12-15 R. S. Longacre

The chiral magnetic effect (CME) refers to charge separation along a strong magnetic field between left- and right-handed quarks, caused by interactions with topological gluon fields from QCD vacuum fluctuations. We present two approaches…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2021-02-03 Jie Zhao

We investigate the chiral magnetic effect (CME) in relativistic heavy-ion collisions through an improved two-plane method analysis of the $\Delta\gamma$ observable, probing $\mathcal{CP}$-symmetry breaking in strong interactions and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-01-07 Bang-Xiang Chen , Xin-Li Zhao , Guo-Liang Ma

Chiral anomaly is a very fundamental aspect of quantum theories with chiral fermion, from the Standard Model to supersymmetric field theories or even string theories. How such microscopic anomaly manifests itself in a macroscopic many-body…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-12-22 Jinfeng Liao

Measurement of the Chiral Magnetic Effect (CME) has been a popular topic of high-energy nuclear physics in the last decade. The flow correlation $\gamma$ between charged hadron pairs of the same and opposite charges and their difference…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-03-20 Yu Wang , Hua Pei

Systematic studies of charge-dependent two- and three-particle correlations in Pb-Pb collisions at $\sqrt{\it{s}_\mathrm{{NN}}} = $ 2.76 and 5.02 TeV used to probe the Chiral Magnetic Effect (CME) are presented. These measurements are…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2022-04-07 ALICE Collaboration

In non-central heavy-ion collisions unprecedented strong magnetic fields, of the order of 10$^{18}$ Gauss, are expected to be produced. The interplay of such fields with QCD anomalies in the Quark--Gluon Plasma (QGP) has been predicted to…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2017-09-19 Jacopo Margutti

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

Chiral Magnetic Effect (CME) is the macroscopic manifestation of the fundamental chiral anomaly in a many-body system of chiral fermions, and emerges as anomalous transport current in hydrodynamic framework. Experimental observation of CME…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-03-20 Shuzhe Shi , Yin Jiang , Elias Lilleskov , Jinfeng Liao

Charge-dependent two- and three-particle correlations measured in Xe-Xe collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\mathrm{NN}}} = 5.44$ TeV are presented. Results are obtained for charged particles in the pseudorapidity range $|\eta|<0.8$ and transverse…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2024-09-30 ALICE Collaboration

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

Experiments conducted in the last decade to search for the Chiral Magnetic Effect (CME) in heavy-ion collisions have been inconclusive. The Isobar program at RHIC was undertaken to address this problem. Also, a new approach known as the…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2024-06-11 Jagbir Singh