Deciphering the correlator in search for the chiral magnetic effect in relativistic heavy ion collisions
Abstract
The chiral magnetic effect (CME) is extensively studied in heavy-ion collisions at the BNL Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) and the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). An azimuthal correlator called was proposed to measure the CME. By observing the same and (convex) distributions from A Multi-Phase Transport (ampt) model, by contrasting data and model as well as large and small systems and by event shape engineering (ESE), a recent preprint (arXiv:2006.04251v1) from STAR suggests that the observable is sensitive to the CME signal and relatively insensitive to backgrounds, and their Au + Au data are inconsistent with known background contributions. Our ampt results contradict those from a recent preprint by STAR. Our toy model simulations demonstrate that is sensitive to both the CME signal and physics backgrounds. Toy model simulations of isobar collisions show similar centrality dependence and magnitudes for the relative strengths as well as the relative Δ γ strengths. We conclude that and the inclusive Δ γ are essentially the same.
- Authors:
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- Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN (United States)
- Huzhou Univ. (China)
- Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN (United States); Huzhou Univ. (China)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC); National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1851772
- Grant/Contract Number:
- SC0012910; 11905059; 12035006; 12047568; 12075085
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Physical Review. C
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 103; Journal Issue: 3; Journal ID: ISSN 2469-9985
- Publisher:
- American Physical Society (APS)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 73 NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND RADIATION PHYSICS
Citation Formats
Feng, Yicheng, Zhao, Jie, Xu, Hao-jie, and Wang, Fuqiang. Deciphering the RΨm correlator in search for the chiral magnetic effect in relativistic heavy ion collisions. United States: N. p., 2021.
Web. doi:10.1103/physrevc.103.034912.
Feng, Yicheng, Zhao, Jie, Xu, Hao-jie, & Wang, Fuqiang. Deciphering the RΨm correlator in search for the chiral magnetic effect in relativistic heavy ion collisions. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevc.103.034912
Feng, Yicheng, Zhao, Jie, Xu, Hao-jie, and Wang, Fuqiang. Mon .
"Deciphering the RΨm correlator in search for the chiral magnetic effect in relativistic heavy ion collisions". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevc.103.034912. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1851772.
@article{osti_1851772,
title = {Deciphering the RΨm correlator in search for the chiral magnetic effect in relativistic heavy ion collisions},
author = {Feng, Yicheng and Zhao, Jie and Xu, Hao-jie and Wang, Fuqiang},
abstractNote = {The chiral magnetic effect (CME) is extensively studied in heavy-ion collisions at the BNL Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) and the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). An azimuthal correlator called RΨm was proposed to measure the CME. By observing the same RΨ2 and RΨ3 (convex) distributions from A Multi-Phase Transport (ampt) model, by contrasting data and model as well as large and small systems and by event shape engineering (ESE), a recent preprint (arXiv:2006.04251v1) from STAR suggests that the RΨm observable is sensitive to the CME signal and relatively insensitive to backgrounds, and their Au + Au data are inconsistent with known background contributions. Our ampt results contradict those from a recent preprint by STAR. Our toy model simulations demonstrate that RΨ2 is sensitive to both the CME signal and physics backgrounds. Toy model simulations of isobar collisions show similar centrality dependence and magnitudes for the relative RΨ2 strengths as well as the relative Δ γ strengths. We conclude that RΨ2 and the inclusive Δ γ are essentially the same.},
doi = {10.1103/physrevc.103.034912},
journal = {Physical Review. C},
number = 3,
volume = 103,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon Mar 01 00:00:00 EST 2021},
month = {Mon Mar 01 00:00:00 EST 2021}
}
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