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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 azimuthal correlator $\Delta\gamma$ searching for the chiral magnetic effect (CME) is contaminated by a major background proportional to the elliptic flow $v_2$. Event-shape engineering (ESE) and event-shape selection (ESS) binning…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2025-09-26 Han-Sheng Li , Yicheng Feng , Fuqiang Wang

The (3+1)D relativistic hydrodynamics with chiral anomaly is used to obtain a quantitative description of the chiral magnetic effect (CME) in heavy-ion collisions. We find that the charge-dependent hadron azimuthal correlations are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-08-28 Yuji Hirono , Tetsufumi Hirano , Dmitri E. Kharzeev

In high-energy heavy-ion collisions, the chiral magnetic effect (CME) is predicted to arise from the interplay between the chirality imbalance of quarks in the nuclear medium and the intense magnetic field, and will cause a charge…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-03-22 Diyu Shen , Jinhui Chen , Aihong Tang , Gang Wang

The isobaric collision experiment at RHIC provides the unique opportunity to detect the possible signal of Chiral Magnetic Effect (CME) in heavy ion collisions. The idea is to contrast the correlation observables of the two colliding…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-02-20 Shuzhe Shi , Hui Zhang , Defu Hou , Jinfeng Liao

Experimental searches for Chiral Magnetic Effect (CME) in heavy-ion collisions have been going on for a decade, and so far there is no conclusive evidence for its existence. Recently, the Signed Balance Function (SBF), based on the idea of…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2021-02-03 Yufu Lin

The observation of the Chiral Magnetic Effect (CME) in heavy-ion collisions remains challenging because of large flow-induced backgrounds and experimental constraints. We demonstrate that the forward-backward multiplicity asymmetry (FBMA)…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-04-07 Kaiser Shafi , Sandeep Chatterjee

We investigate the signal of the chiral magnetic effect (CME) in Au+Au collisions and isobar collisions of $_{44}^{96}\text{Ru}+\rm{} _{44}^{96}Ru$ and $_{40}^{96}\text{Zr}+\rm{}_{40}^{96}Zr$ in the newly developed chiral anomaly transport…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-12-13 Zilin Yuan , Anping Huang , Guannan Xie , Wen-Hao Zhou , Guo-Liang Ma , Mei Huang

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

The chiral magnetic effect (CME) is a highly discussed effect in heavy-ion collisions stating that, in the presence of a magnetic field B, an electric current is generated in the background of topologically nontrivial gluon fields. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-01-29 Ingo Kirsch , Tigran Kalaydzhyan

The chiral magnetic effect (CME) is a collective quantum phenomenon that arises from the interplay between gauge field topology and fermion chiral anomaly, encompassing a wide range of physical systems from semimetals to quark-gluon plasma.…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-01-03 Dmitri E. Kharzeev , Jinfeng Liao , Prithwish Tribedy

Charge separation ($\Delta S$) measurements, obtained relative to the $2^{\rm{nd}}$-order ($\Psi_2$) and $3^{\rm{rd}}$-order ($\Psi_3$) event planes with a new charge-sensitive correlator ${R_{\Psi_m}(\Delta S)}$, are presented for…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2021-08-31 STAR Collaboration

The Chiral Magnetic Effect (CME) is a remarkable phenomenon that stems from highly nontrivial interplay of QCD chiral symmetry, axial anomaly, and gluonic topology. It is of fundamental importance to search for the CME in experiments. The…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-11-23 Jinfeng Liao

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

Based on the chiral kinetic approach using quarks and antiquarks from a multiphase transport model as initial conditions, we study the chiral magnetic effect, i.e., the magnetic field induced separation of charged particles in the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-08-01 Yifeng Sun , Che Ming Ko

We present a systematic study of the correlators used experimentally to probe the Chiral Magnetic Effect (CME) using the Anomalous Viscous Fluid Dynamics (AVFD) model in Pb--Pb and Xe--Xe collisions at LHC energies. We find a…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-09-01 Panos Christakoglou , Shi Qiu , Joey Staa

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 STAR collaboration is currently pursuing the blind analysis of the data for isobar collisions that was performed at RHIC in the year 2018 to make a decisive test of the Chiral Magnetic Effect (CME). Why is it so difficult to detect…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2020-09-04 Prithwish Tribedy

We extend previous holographic studies of the Chiral Magnetic Effect (CME) by incorporating a time-dependent magnetic field. Various magnetic field profiles proposed in the literature are implemented, and their impact on the CME signal is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-03-14 Sebastian Grieninger , Sergio Morales-Tejera , Pau G. Romeu

A quark interaction with topologically nontrivial gluonic fields, instantons and sphalerons, violates \P~ and \CP~ symmetry. In the strong magnetic field of a noncentral nuclear collision such interactions lead to the charge separation…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2010-10-27 Sergei A. Voloshin