Investigation of Experimental Observables in Search of the Chiral Magnetic Effect in Heavy-ion Collisions in the STAR experiment
Abstract
The chiral magnetic effect (CME) is a novel transport phenomenon, arising from the interplay between quantum anomalies and strong magnetic fields in chiral systems. In high-energy nuclear collisions, the CME may survive the expansion of the quark-gluon plasma fireball and be detected in experiments. Over the past two decades, experimental searches for the CME have attracted extensive interest at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) and the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The main goal of this study is to investigate three pertinent experimental approaches: the correlator, the R correlator, and the signed balance functions. We exploit simple Monte Carlo simulations and a realistic event generator (EBE-AVFD) to verify the equivalence of the core components among these methods and to ascertain their sensitivities to the CME signal and the background contributions for the isobar collisions at the RHIC.
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- Fudan Univ., Shanghai (China)
- Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
- Abilene Christian Univ., TX (United States)
- Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
- Univ. of Tsukuba (Japan)
- Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN (United States)
- Southern Connecticut States Univ., New Haven, CT (United StateS)
- Fudan Univ., Shanghai (China); Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
- Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States); State Univ. of New York (SUNY), Stony Brook, NY (United States)
- Rice Univ., Houston, TX (United States)
- Indiana Univ., Bloomington, IN (United States)
- Guangxi Normal Univ., Guilin (China); Central China Normal Univ., Wuhan (China)
- The Ohio State Univ., Columbus, OH (United States)
- Univ. of Texas, Austin, TX (United States)
- Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA (United States)
- McGill Univ., Montreal, QC (Canada)
- Wayne State Univ., Detroit, MI (United States)
- Huzhou Univ. (China)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States); Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Nuclear Physics (NP); National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC); Chinese Academy of Science; Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities; Ministry of Science and Technology (MoST); National Science Foundation (NSF); USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1823012
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1809070; OSTI ID: 1875298; OSTI ID: 1897982; OSTI ID: 1903249
- Report Number(s):
- BNL-222187-2021-JAAM; BNL-221825-2021-JAAM
Journal ID: ISSN 1674-1137; TRN: US2214530
- Grant/Contract Number:
- SC0012704; AC02-98CH10886; FG02-89ER40531; FG02-92ER40713; FG02-88ER40424; SC0012910; SC0013391; SC0020651; 12025501; 11905059; 12075085; XDB34030200; CCNU19ZN019; 2016YFE0104800; U2032110; PHY-1913729; AC02-05CH11231
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Chinese Physics C, High Energy Physics and Nuclear Physics
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 46; Journal Issue: 1; Journal ID: ISSN 1674-1137
- Publisher:
- IOP Publishing
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 73 NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND RADIATION PHYSICS; chiral magnetic effect; anisotropic flow; heaby-ion collisions; quark-gluon plasma
Citation Formats
Choudhury, Subikash, Dong, Xin, Drachenberg, Jim, Dunlop, James, ShinIchi, Esumi, Feng, Yicheng, Finch, Evan, Hu, Yu, jia, Jiangyong, Lauret, Jerome, Li, Wei, Liao, Jinfeng 廖劲峰, Lin, Yufu, Lisa, Mike, Niida, Takafumi, Ray, Robert Lanny, Sergeeva, Masha, Shen, Diyu, Shi, Shuzhe, Sorensen, Paul, Tang, Aihong, Tribedy, Prithwish, Buren, Gene Van, Voloshin, Sergey, Wang, Fuqiang 王福强, Wang, Gang, Xu, Haojie, Xu, Zhiwan, Yao, Nanxi, and Zhao, Jie. Investigation of Experimental Observables in Search of the Chiral Magnetic Effect in Heavy-ion Collisions in the STAR experiment. United States: N. p., 2021.
Web. doi:10.1088/1674-1137/ac2a1f.
Choudhury, Subikash, Dong, Xin, Drachenberg, Jim, Dunlop, James, ShinIchi, Esumi, Feng, Yicheng, Finch, Evan, Hu, Yu, jia, Jiangyong, Lauret, Jerome, Li, Wei, Liao, Jinfeng 廖劲峰, Lin, Yufu, Lisa, Mike, Niida, Takafumi, Ray, Robert Lanny, Sergeeva, Masha, Shen, Diyu, Shi, Shuzhe, Sorensen, Paul, Tang, Aihong, Tribedy, Prithwish, Buren, Gene Van, Voloshin, Sergey, Wang, Fuqiang 王福强, Wang, Gang, Xu, Haojie, Xu, Zhiwan, Yao, Nanxi, & Zhao, Jie. Investigation of Experimental Observables in Search of the Chiral Magnetic Effect in Heavy-ion Collisions in the STAR experiment. United States. https://doi.org/10.1088/1674-1137/ac2a1f
Choudhury, Subikash, Dong, Xin, Drachenberg, Jim, Dunlop, James, ShinIchi, Esumi, Feng, Yicheng, Finch, Evan, Hu, Yu, jia, Jiangyong, Lauret, Jerome, Li, Wei, Liao, Jinfeng 廖劲峰, Lin, Yufu, Lisa, Mike, Niida, Takafumi, Ray, Robert Lanny, Sergeeva, Masha, Shen, Diyu, Shi, Shuzhe, Sorensen, Paul, Tang, Aihong, Tribedy, Prithwish, Buren, Gene Van, Voloshin, Sergey, Wang, Fuqiang 王福强, Wang, Gang, Xu, Haojie, Xu, Zhiwan, Yao, Nanxi, and Zhao, Jie. Tue .
"Investigation of Experimental Observables in Search of the Chiral Magnetic Effect in Heavy-ion Collisions in the STAR experiment". United States. https://doi.org/10.1088/1674-1137/ac2a1f. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1823012.
@article{osti_1823012,
title = {Investigation of Experimental Observables in Search of the Chiral Magnetic Effect in Heavy-ion Collisions in the STAR experiment},
author = {Choudhury, Subikash and Dong, Xin and Drachenberg, Jim and Dunlop, James and ShinIchi, Esumi and Feng, Yicheng and Finch, Evan and Hu, Yu and jia, Jiangyong and Lauret, Jerome and Li, Wei and Liao, Jinfeng 廖劲峰 and Lin, Yufu and Lisa, Mike and Niida, Takafumi and Ray, Robert Lanny and Sergeeva, Masha and Shen, Diyu and Shi, Shuzhe and Sorensen, Paul and Tang, Aihong and Tribedy, Prithwish and Buren, Gene Van and Voloshin, Sergey and Wang, Fuqiang 王福强 and Wang, Gang and Xu, Haojie and Xu, Zhiwan and Yao, Nanxi and Zhao, Jie},
abstractNote = {The chiral magnetic effect (CME) is a novel transport phenomenon, arising from the interplay between quantum anomalies and strong magnetic fields in chiral systems. In high-energy nuclear collisions, the CME may survive the expansion of the quark-gluon plasma fireball and be detected in experiments. Over the past two decades, experimental searches for the CME have attracted extensive interest at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) and the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The main goal of this study is to investigate three pertinent experimental approaches: the correlator, the R correlator, and the signed balance functions. We exploit simple Monte Carlo simulations and a realistic event generator (EBE-AVFD) to verify the equivalence of the core components among these methods and to ascertain their sensitivities to the CME signal and the background contributions for the isobar collisions at the RHIC.},
doi = {10.1088/1674-1137/ac2a1f},
journal = {Chinese Physics C, High Energy Physics and Nuclear Physics},
number = 1,
volume = 46,
place = {United States},
year = {Tue Nov 09 00:00:00 EST 2021},
month = {Tue Nov 09 00:00:00 EST 2021}
}
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