Electric fields and chiral magnetic effect in Cu+Au collisions
Nov 11, 20147 pages
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- Phys.Lett.B 742 (2015) 296-302
- Published: Mar 6, 2015
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- 1411.2733 [nucl-th]
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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 .Note:
- 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
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