Chiral Magnetic Effect in Heavy Ion Collisions

Liao, Jinfeng

doi:10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2016.02.027

Title: Chiral Magnetic Effect in Heavy Ion Collisions

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The Chiral Magnetic Effect (CME) is a remarkable phenomenon that stems from highly nontrivial interplay of QCD chiral symmetry, axial anomaly, and gluonic topology. We show it is of fundamental importance to search for the CME in experiments. The heavy ion collisions provide a unique environment where a hot chiral-symmetric quark-gluon plasma is created, gluonic topological fluctuations generate chirality imbalance, and very strong magnetic fields |Β^→|~m²_π are present during the early stage of such collisions. Significant efforts have been made to look for CME signals in heavy ion collision experiments. Lastly, in this contribution we give a brief overview on the status of such efforts.

Authors:: Liao, Jinfeng

Publication Date:: Thu Dec 01 00:00:00 EST 2016

Research Org.:: Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States). RIKEN Research Center

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)

OSTI Identifier:: 1260154

Report Number(s):: BNL-112296-2016-JA
Journal ID: ISSN 0375-9474; R&D Project: PO-3; TRN: US1601880

Grant/Contract Number:: SC0012704; PHY-1352368

Resource Type:: Accepted Manuscript

Journal Name:: Nuclear Physics. A

Additional Journal Information:: Journal Volume: 956; Journal Issue: C; Journal ID: ISSN 0375-9474

Publisher:: Elsevier

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; chiral magnetic effect; heavy ion collision; chiral anomaly; QCD topology

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  abstractNote = {The Chiral Magnetic Effect (CME) is a remarkable phenomenon that stems from highly nontrivial interplay of QCD chiral symmetry, axial anomaly, and gluonic topology. We show it is of fundamental importance to search for the CME in experiments. The heavy ion collisions provide a unique environment where a hot chiral-symmetric quark-gluon plasma is created, gluonic topological fluctuations generate chirality imbalance, and very strong magnetic fields |Β→|~m2π are present during the early stage of such collisions. Significant efforts have been made to look for CME signals in heavy ion collision experiments. Lastly, in this contribution we give a brief overview on the status of such efforts.},

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  place        = {United States},

  year         = {Thu Dec 01 00:00:00 EST 2016},

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