2010
DOI: 10.1103/physrevc.81.054908
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Observation of charge-dependent azimuthal correlations and possible local strong parity violation in heavy-ion collisions

Abstract: Parity (P)-odd domains, corresponding to nontrivial topological solutions of the QCD vacuum, might be created during relativistic heavy-ion collisions. These domains are predicted to lead to charge separation of quarks along the orbital momentum of the system created in noncentral collisions. To study this effect, we investigate a three-particle mixed-harmonics azimuthal correlator which is a P-even observable, but directly sensitive to the charge-separation effect. We report measurements of this observable us… Show more

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“…Recent measurements [79] indicate that the observables that are sensitive to the chiral magnetic effect that were seen previously in high energy heavy ion collisions [80][81][82][83] persist robustly down to collision energies corresponding to baryon chemical potentials µ B > 0.3 GeV, meaning µ V > 0.1 GeV.…”
Section: Jhep10(2015)018mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Recent measurements [79] indicate that the observables that are sensitive to the chiral magnetic effect that were seen previously in high energy heavy ion collisions [80][81][82][83] persist robustly down to collision energies corresponding to baryon chemical potentials µ B > 0.3 GeV, meaning µ V > 0.1 GeV.…”
Section: Jhep10(2015)018mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In this situation, the magnetic field created by the spectator nucleons may initiate a charge separation relative to the reaction plane (parallel to the electro-magnetic field) [15]. The resulting charge asymmetry of quarks would become observable in terms of recombined hadrons (chiral-magnetic effect) [16,17]. The strength (and particularly the dependence on the collision energy) of this effect has been…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In this case, one can test a specific consequence of chiral anomaly for the transport of electric charge -the chiral magnetic effect (CME) [52], see [53,54] for reviews and additional references. Evidence for the CME and related phenomena has been reported by STAR Collaboration at RHIC [55][56][57] and ALICE Collaboration at the LHC [58]. Reaching an unambiguous conclusion on the existence of CME in heavy ion collisions however is a challenging task, as there are substantial backgrounds.…”
Section: Kharzeev: Chiral Matter In Qcd and Condensed Matter Physicsmentioning
confidence: 99%