Electric fields and chiral magnetic effect in Cu+Au collisions

Nov 11, 2014
7 pages
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  • Phys.Lett.B 742 (2015) 296-302
  • Published: Mar 6, 2015
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Abstract: (Elsevier)
The non-central Cu+Au collisions can create strong out-of-plane magnetic fields and in-plane electric fields. By using the HIJING model, we study the general properties of the electromagnetic fields in Cu+Au collisions at 200 GeV and their impacts on the charge-dependent two-particle correlator γq1q2=〈cos⁡(ϕ1+ϕ2−2ψRP)〉 (see main text for definition) which was used for the detection of the chiral magnetic effect (CME). Compared with Au+Au collisions, we find that the in-plane electric fields in Cu+Au collisions can strongly suppress the two-particle correlator or even reverse its sign if the lifetime of the electric fields is long. Combining with the expectation that if γq1q2 is induced by elliptic-flow driven effects we would not see such strong suppression or reversion, our results suggest to use Cu+Au collisions to test CME and understand the mechanisms that underlie γq1q2 .
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  • V1: 7 pages, 8 figures. V2: Add 2 new figures. Published version
  • 25.75.Ag
  • 24.10.Jv
  • 24.10.Lx
  • magnetic field: chiral
  • nucleus nucleus: scattering
  • correlation function: two-particle
  • effect: magnetic
  • heavy ion: scattering
  • electric field
  • electromagnetic field