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The hot and dense medium produced in relativistic heavy-ion collisions has been conjectured to be accompanied by an axial charge asymmetry that may lead to a separation of electric charges in the direction of the extremely strong magnetic…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2022-02-16 Yu Hu

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

The chiral magnetic effect (CME) is a macroscopic transport effect resulting from the chiral anomaly. We review the recent progress in theoretical understanding the properties of chiral plasmas, in which the CME and other anomaly-induced…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-03-14 Yuji Hirono

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) -- the separation of positive and negative electric charges along the direction of the external magnetic field in quark-gluon plasma and other topologically non-trivial media -- is a consequence of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-06-27 Kirill Tuchin

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

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 extremely large electromagnetic fields generated in heavy-ion collisions provide access to novel observables that are expected to constrain various key transport properties of the quark-gluon plasma and could help solve one of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-01-08 Andrea Dubla , Umut Gürsoy , Raimond Snellings

The chiral magnetic effect in heavy-ion collisions predicts a charge separation signal along a magnetic field, which indicates local $P$ and $CP$ violations in the quark-gluon plasma. We report measurements of electric charge separation…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2025-06-03 The STAR Collaboration

The article presents a study aimed at probing the dependence of the Chiral Magnetic Effect (CME) on the magnetic field strength using the Anomalous Viscous Fluid Dynamics (AVFD) model in Pb--Pb at LHC energies. The results demonstrate the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-02-13 Panos Christakoglou

We study the charge-dependent azimuthal correlations in relativistic heavy ion collisions, as motivated by the search for the Chiral Magnetic Effect (CME) and the investigation of related background contributions. In particular we aim to…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-04-15 John Bloczynski , Xu-Guang Huang , Xilin Zhang , Jinfeng Liao

An anisotropic thermal plasma phase of a strongly coupled gauge theory can be holographically modelled by an anisotropic AdS black hole. The temperature and anisotropy parameter of the AdS black hole background of interest [1] is specified…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-11-12 Mohammad Ali-Akbari , Seyed Farid Taghavi

Metastable domains of fluctuating topological charges can change the chirality of quarks and induce local parity violation in quantum chromodynamics. This can lead to observable charge separation along the direction of the strong magnetic…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2018-02-01 Jie Zhao

The emergence of the Chiral Magnetic Effect (CME) and the related anomalous current is investigated using the real time Dirac-Heisenberg-Wigner formalism. This method is widely used for describing strong field physics and QED vacuum…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-08-08 Dániel Berényi , Péter Lévai

We study the charge transports originating from triangle anomaly in out-of-equilibrium conditions in the framework of AdS/CFT correspondence at strong coupling, to gain useful insights on possible charge separation effects that may happen…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-08-21 Shu Lin , Ho-Ung Yee

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

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

Based on a holographic far-from-equilibrium calculation of the chiral magnetic effect~(CME) in an expanding quark gluon plasma, we study collisions at various energies. We compute the time evolution of the CME current in the presence of a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-03-23 Casey Cartwright , Matthias Kaminski , Bjoern Schenke

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 Multi-Phase Transport model, AMPT, and the Anomalous Viscous Fluid Dynamics model, AVFD, are used to assess a possible chiral-magnetically-driven charge separation ($\Delta S$) recently measured with the ${R_{\Psi_2}(\Delta S)}$…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2021-05-20 Roy A. Lacey , Niseem Magdy