Probing the Chiral Magnetic Wave with charge-dependent flow measurements in Pb-Pb collisions at the LHC

The ALICE collaboration
JHEP 12 (2023) 067, 2023.

Abstract
The Chiral Magnetic Wave (CMW) phenomenon is essential to provide insights into the strong interaction in QCD, the properties of the quark-gluon plasma, and the topological characteristics of the early universe, offering a deeper understanding of fundamental physics in high-energy collisions. Measurements of the charge-dependent anisotropic flow coefficients are studied in Pb-Pb collisions at center-of-mass energy per nucleon-nucleon collision sNN= 5.02 TeV to probe the CMW. In particular, the slope of the normalized difference in elliptic (v2) and triangular (v3) flow coefficients of positively and negatively charged particles as a function of their event-wise normalized number difference, is reported for inclusive and identified particles. The slope r3Norm is found to be larger than zero and to have a magnitude similar to r2Norm, thus pointing to a large background contribution for these measurements. Furthermore, r2Norm can be described by a blast wave model calculation that incorporates local charge conservation. In addition, using the event shape engineering technique yields a fraction of CMW (fCMW) contribution to this measurement which is compatible with zero. This measurement provides the very first upper limit for fCMW, and in the 10-60% centrality interval it is found to be 26% (38%) at 95% (99.7%) confidence level.

  • Table 1

    Data from Figure 4 (left panel).

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    Normalized Δv2 slope of charged hadrons as a function of centrality in Pb-Pb collisions at sNN = 5.02 TeV.

  • Table 2

    Data from Figure 4 (left panel).

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    Normalized Δv2 slope of kaons as a function of centrality in Pb-Pb collisions at sNN = 5.02 TeV.

  • Table 3

    Data from Figure 4 (left panel).

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    Normalized Δv2 slope of pions as a function of centrality in Pb-Pb collisions at sNN = 5.02 TeV.

  • Table 4

    Data from Figure 4 (left panel).

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    Normalized Δv2 slope of protons as a function of centrality in Pb-Pb collisions at sNN = 5.02 TeV.

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    Data from Figure 4 (right panel).

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    Normalized Δv3 slope of charged hadrons as a function of centrality in Pb-Pb collisions at sNN = 5.02 TeV.

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    Data from Figure 4 (right panel).

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    Normalized Δv3 slope of kaons as a function of centrality in Pb-Pb collisions at sNN = 5.02 TeV.

  • Table 7

    Data from Figure 4 (right panel).

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    Normalized Δv3 slope of pions as a function of centrality in Pb-Pb collisions at sNN = 5.02 TeV.

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    Data from Figure 4 (right panel).

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    Normalized Δv3 slope of protons as a function of centrality in Pb-Pb collisions at sNN = 5.02 TeV.

  • Table 9

    Data from Figure 5 (top left panel).

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    Delta Integral Covariance as function of v2 in 0-10% Pb-Pb collisions at sNN = 5.02 TeV.

  • Table 10

    Data from Figure 5 (top middle panel).

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    Delta Integral Covariance as function of v2 in 10-20% Pb-Pb collisions at sNN = 5.02 TeV.

  • Table 11

    Data from Figure 5 (top right panel).

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    Delta Integral Covariance as function of v2 in 20-30% Pb-Pb collisions at sNN = 5.02 TeV.

  • Table 12

    Data from Figure 5 (bottom left panel).

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    Delta Integral Covariance as function of v2 in 30-40% Pb-Pb collisions at sNN = 5.02 TeV.

  • Table 13

    Data from Figure 5 (bottom middle panel).

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    Delta Integral Covariance as function of v2 in 40-50% Pb-Pb collisions at sNN = 5.02 TeV.

  • Table 14

    Data from Figure 5 (bottom right panel).

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    Delta Integral Covariance as function of v2 in 50-60% Pb-Pb collisions at sNN = 5.02 TeV.

  • Table 15

    Data from Figure 6.

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    fCMW as function of CENTRALITY in Pb-Pb collisions at sNN = 5.02 TeV.

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