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The chiral magnetic effect (CME) refers to a predicted phenomena in quantum chromodynamics that manifests as a charge separation along an external magnetic field, driven by an imbalance of quark chirality. Searches for the CME has been…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2026-03-18 Wei Li , Qiye Shou , Fuqiang Wang

In relativistic high energy heavy-ion collisions, Chiral Magnetic Effect (CME) could produce a charge separation in QGP. The charge separation could survive into final hadron system during evolution, observed as correlator $\Delta\gamma$.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-02-25 Yi Xu , Chen Gao , Shi-Xue Zhang , Wei-Tian Deng

Chiral anomaly is a fundamental aspect of quantum theories with chiral fermions. How such microscopic anomaly manifests itself in a macroscopic many-body system with chiral fermions, is a highly nontrivial question that has recently…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-05-09 Shuzhe Shi , Yin Jiang , Elias Lilleskov , Jinfeng Liao

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

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

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

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

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-12-01 Yin Jiang , Shuzhe Shi , Yi Yin , Jinfeng Liao

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

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 latest experimental studies related to the search for the Chiral Magnetic Effect (CME) in Pb-Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\rm NN}} = 5.02$ TeV recorded with the ALICE detector at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) are presented.…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2026-02-27 ALICE Collaboration

The search for the chiral magnetic effect (CME) has been a subject of great interest in the field of high-energy heavy-ion collision physics, and various observables have been proposed to probe the CME. Experimental observables are often…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-01-05 Ryan Milton , Gang Wang , Maria Sergeeva , Shuzhe Shi , Jinfeng Liao , Huan Zhong Huang

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

In ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions, the event-by-event variation of the elliptic flow $v_2$ reflects fluctuations in the shape of the initial state of the system. This allows to select events with the same centrality but different…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-02-05 ALICE Collaboration

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

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 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

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

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

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