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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

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

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

Relativistic heavy-ion collisions create hot quark-gluon plasma as well as very strong electromagnetic (EM) and fluid vortical fields. The strong EM field and vorticity can induce intriguing macroscopic quantum phenomena such as chiral…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-05-26 Yu-Chen Liu , Xu-Guang Huang

Chiral anomaly implies the existence of non-dissipative transport phenomena, such as the chiral magnetic effect. At second order in the derivative expansion, novel quantum transport phenomena emerge. In this paper, we focus on the anomalous…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-11-23 Matteo Buzzegoli , Dmitri E. Kharzeev , Yu-Chen Liu , Shuzhe Shi , Sergei A. Voloshin , Ho-Ung Yee

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

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

Chiral magnetic effect (CME) has been suggested to take place during peripheral relativistic heavy ion collisions. However, signals of its realization are not yet independent of ambiguities and thus probing the non-trivial topological vacua…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-01-14 A. J. Mizher , A. Raya , C. Villavicencio

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

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

We present a first principles approach to study the Chiral Magnetic Effect during the pre-equilibrium stage of a heavy-ion collision. We discuss the dynamics of the Chiral Magnetic Effect and Chiral Magnetic Wave based on real-time lattice…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2018-03-14 Mark Mace , Niklas Mueller , Soeren Schlichting , Sayantan Sharma

In this proceeding we will show that the expectations of the isobaric $^{96}_{44}\mathrm{Ru}+^{96}_{44}\mathrm{Ru}$ and $^{96}_{40}\mathrm{Zr}+^{96}_{40}\mathrm{Zr}$ collisions on chiral magnetic effect (CME) search may not hold as…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-02-20 Hao-jie Xu , Jie Zhao , Xiaobao Wang , Hanlin Li , Zi-Wei Lin , Caiwan Shen , Fuqiang Wang

The heavy ion collision provides a unique many-body environment where local domains of strongly interacting chiral medium may occur and in a sense allow environmental symmetry "violation" phenomena. For example certain anomalous transport…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-07-19 Jinfeng Liao

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

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 and parity violation in quantum chromodynamics (QCD). The CME-sensitive observable,…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2025-11-06 Han-Sheng Li , Yicheng Feng , Fuqiang Wang

The search for the Chiral Vortical Effect (CVE) in relativistic heavy-ion collisions is carried out by measuring azimuthal correlators for baryon pairs such as $\Lambda$ and protons. Experimental results from the ALICE collaboration show…

The search for the chiral magnetic effect (CME) in relativistic heavy-ion collisions helps us understand the $\mathcal{CP}$ symmetry breaking in strong interactions and the topological nature of the QCD vacuum. Since the background and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-02-22 Bang-Xiang Chen , Xin-Li Zhao , Guo-Liang Ma

Quark interactions with topological gluon configurations can induce chirality imbalance and local parity violation in quantum chromodynamics. This can lead to electric charge separation along the strong magnetic field in relativistic…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-09-25 STAR collaboration

The chiral magnetic effect (CME) -- a macroscopic manifestation of the quantum chiral anomaly -- induces currents along magnetic field lines, facilitating mutual conversion between chiral asymmetry and magnetic helicity. Although the finite…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-16 Clara Dehman , José A. Pons

The chiral magnetic effect (CME) is an exact statement that connects via the axial anomaly the electric current in a system consisting of interacting fermions and gauge field with chirality imbalance that is put into a strong external…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-04-17 L. Ya. Glozman