Chiral Magnetic Effects in Nuclear Collisions

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2020
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The interplay of quantum anomalies with strong magnetic fields and vorticity in chiral systems could lead to novel transport phenomena, such as the chiral magnetic effect (CME), the chiral magnetic wave (CMW), and the chiral vortical effect (CVE). In high-energy nuclear collisions, these chiral effects may survive the expansion of a quark–gluon plasma fireball and be detected in experiments. The experimental searches for the CME, the CMW, and the CVE have aroused extensive interest over the past couple of decades. The main goal of this article is to review the latest experimental progress in the search for these novel chiral transport phenomena at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at Brookhaven National Laboratory and the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. Future programs to help reduce uncertainties and facilitate the interpretation of the data are also discussed.

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Li, Wei and Wang, Gang. "Chiral Magnetic Effects in Nuclear Collisions." Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Science, 70, (2020) Annual Reviews: 293-321. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-nucl-030220-065203.

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