Testing the chiral magnetic effect with isobaric collisions
Testing the chiral magnetic effect with isobaric collisions
The quark-gluon matter produced in relativistic heavy-ion collisions may contain local domains in which parity ($\mathcal{P}$) and combined charge conjugation and parity ($\mathcal{C}\mathcal{P}$) symmetries are not preserved. When coupled with an external magnetic field, such $\mathcal{P}$- and $\mathcal{C}\mathcal{P}$-odd domains will generate electric currents along the magnetic field---a phenomenon called the …