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

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 $\sqrt{s_{\mathrm{NN}}}=$ 5.02 TeV to probe the CMW. In particular, the slope of the normalized difference in elliptic ($v_2$) and triangular ($v_3$) 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 $r_3^{\mathrm{Norm}}$ is found to be larger than zero and to have a magnitude similar to $r_2^{\mathrm{Norm}}$, thus pointing to a large background contribution for these measurements. Furthermore, $r_2^{\mathrm{Norm}}$ 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 ($f_{\mathrm{CMW}}$) contribution to this measurement which is compatible with zero. This measurement provides the very first upper limit for $f_{\mathrm{CMW}}$, and in the 10-60% centrality interval it is found to be 26% (38%) at 95% (99.7%) confidence level.

26 pages, 6 captioned figures, 2 tables, authors from page 20, published version, figures at http://alice-publications.web.cern.ch/node/9603

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