Pair invariant mass to isolate background in the search for the chiral magnetic effect in Au + Au collisions at √sNN=200 GeV
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Result on the web
<a href="https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.106.034908" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.106.034908</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.106.034908" target="_blank" >10.1103/PhysRevC.106.034908</a>
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Pair invariant mass to isolate background in the search for the chiral magnetic effect in Au + Au collisions at √sNN=200 GeV
Original language description
Quark interactions with topological gluon configurations can induce local chirality imbalance and parity violation in quantum chromodynamics, which can lead to the chiral magnetic effect (CME)-an electric charge separation along the strong magnetic field in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. The CME-sensitive azimuthal correlator observable (Delta gamma) is contaminated by background arising, in part, from resonance decays coupled with elliptic anisotropy (v(2)). We report here differential measurements of the correlator as a function of the pair invariant mass (m(inv)) in 20-50% centrality Au + Au collisions at root s(NN) = 200 GeV by the STAR experiment at the BNL Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider. Strong resonance background contributions to Delta gamma. are observed. At large m(inv) where this background is significantly reduced, the Delta gamma. value is found to be significantly smaller. An event-shape-engineering technique is deployed to determine the v(2) background shape as a function of m(inv). We extract a v(2)-independent and m(inv)-averaged signal Delta gamma(sig) = (0.03 +/- 0.06 +/- 0.08) x 10(-4), or (2 +/- 4 +/- 5)% of the inclusive Delta gamma (m(inv) > 0.4 GeV/c(2)) = (1.58 +/- 0.02 +/- 0.02) x 10(-4), within pion p(T) = 0.2-0.8 GeV/c and averaged over pseudorapidity ranges of -1 < eta < -0.05 and 0.05 < eta < 1. This represents an upper limit of 0.23 x 10(-4), or 15% of the inclusive result, at 95% confidence level for the m(inv)-integrated CME contribution.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10303 - Particles and field physics
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/LTT18002" target="_blank" >LTT18002: Study of new properties of nuclear matter in the international experiment STAR</a><br>
Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2022
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Physical Review C
ISSN
2469-9985
e-ISSN
2469-9993
Volume of the periodical
106
Issue of the periodical within the volume
3
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
10
Pages from-to
034908
UT code for WoS article
000884773300001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85140575557