Quantitative Predictions for the Chiral Magnetic Effect with Event-By-Event Anomalous Viscous Fluid Dynamics from AuAu to Isobaric Collisions at RHIC

ORAL

Abstract

Chiral Magnetic Effect (CME) is the macroscopic manifestation of the fundamental chiral anomaly in a many-body system of chiral fermions, and emerges as a generic anomalous transport current in the hydrodynamic framework. The study of CME has attracted significant recent interest across many disciplines from condensed matter to nuclear physics. An experimental observation of CME in heavy ion collisions would further provide the tantalizing evidence for the chiral symmetry restoration as well as QCD topological fluctuations. Currently the most pressing theoretical challenge is the quantitative modeling of CME while also accounting for background contamination. We report a significant step forward toward this goal, by the development of the full-fledged Event-By-Event Anomalous Viscous Fluid Dynamics (EBE-AVFD) framework. We use the EBE-AVFD to generate millions of simulation events which are then analyzed with the same observables and methods as the experimental analysis. We present a systematic analysis of CME signals in CuCu, AuAu and UU collisions at RHIC. We also make state-of-the-art quantitative predictions for the CME signals in isobaric collisions (RuRu v.s. ZrZr) at RHIC. 

Presenters

  • Jinfeng Liao

    Indiana Univ - Bloomington

Authors

  • Jinfeng Liao

    Indiana Univ - Bloomington