Charge asymmetry dependence of flow and a novel correlator to detect the chiral magnetic wave in a multiphase transport model

Abstract

In a multiphase transport model with the initial electric quadrupole moment, we studied and discussed the charge asymmetry ($A_{\mathrm{ch}}$) dependence of flow at varied kinematic windows in semi-central Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\mathrm{NN}}}$ = 200 GeV. We then proposed a novel correlator $W$ which specially focuses on the difference of elliptic flow between positively and negatively charged hadrons induced by the chiral magnetic wave and, more importantly, is irrelevant to the ambiguous $A_{\mathrm{ch}}$. We found that the distribution of the second order correlator $W_2$ displays a convex structure in the absence of the quadrupole and a concave shape in the presence of the quadrupole. We also studied the response of $W_n$ for both signal and resonance background in a toy model and in analytical calculation. Such a method provides a new way to detect the chiral magnetic wave.

arXiv commentWe correct the constant factor 2 in the sub-distribution function f1, f2 on the numerator of Eqa. (16) in previous version. Published version to be appeared in physical review c

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