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Using two novel methods, pair invariant mass ($m_{inv}$) and comparative measurements with respect to reaction plane ($\Psi_{\rm RP}$) and participant plane ($\Psi_{\rm PP}$), we isolate the possible chiral magnetic effect (CME) from…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-02-20 Jie Zhao

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

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

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

Chiral magnetic effect (CME) is a macroscopic transport phenomenon induced by quantum anomaly in the presence of chiral imbalance and an external magnetic field. Relativistic heavy ion collisions provide the unique opportunity to look for…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-11-29 Dmitri E. Kharzeev , Jinfeng Liao , Shuzhe Shi

Relativistic heavy-ion collisions provide an ideal environment to study the emergent phenomena in quantum chromodynamics (QCD). The chiral magnetic effect (CME) is one of the most interesting, arising from the topological charge…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2018-05-11 Jie Zhao

Background: The chiral magnetic effect (CME) is extensively studied in heavy-ion collisions at RHIC and the LHC. An azimuthal correlator called $R_{\Psi_{m}}$ was proposed to measure the CME. By observing the same $R_{\Psi_{2}}$ and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-04-07 Yicheng Feng , Jie Zhao , Hao-jie Xu , Fuqiang Wang

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

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

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 quark-gluon matter produced in relativistic heavy-ion collisions may contain local domains in which P and CP symmetries are not preserved. When coupled with an external magnetic field, such P- and CP-odd domains will generate electric…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-11-02 Wei-Tian Deng , Xu-Guang Huang , Guo-Liang Ma , Gang 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

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

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

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

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

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) 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

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

The scaling properties of the $\Delta\gamma$ correlator, inferred from the Anomalous Viscous Fluid Dynamics (AVFD) model, are used to investigate a possible chiral-magnetically-driven (CME) charge separation in $p$+Au, $d$+Au, Ru+Ru, Zr+Zr,…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2022-06-23 Roy A. Lacey , Niseem Magdy