Signatures of Chiral Magnetic Effect in the Collisions of Isobars

Understand

Quantum anomaly is a fundamental feature of chiral fermions.

• In chiral materials the microscopic anomaly leads to nontrivial macroscopic transport processes such as the Chiral Magnetic Effect (CME), which has been in the spotlight lately across disciplines of physics.
• The quark-gluon plasma (QGP) created in relativistic nuclear collisions provides the unique example of a chiral material consisting of intrinsically relativistic chiral fermions.
• Potential discovery of CME in QGP is of utmost significance, with extensive experimental searches carried out over the past decade.