# Quark Matter 2017

5-11 February 2017
Hyatt Regency Chicago
America/Chicago timezone

## Event-by-event charge separation in Au+Au collisions at $\it {\sqrt{s_{NN}}}$ = 200 GeV with the STAR detector at RHIC

Not scheduled
2h 30m
Hyatt Regency Chicago

#### Hyatt Regency Chicago

151 East Wacker Drive Chicago, Illinois, USA, 60601
Board: L01
Poster

### Speaker

Anjali Attri (Panjab University)

### Description

Theoretical studies predict that some metastable states leading to the local parity violation may be created in relativistic heavy-ion collisions [1]. The interaction of the strong magnetic field produced in the non-central heavy-ion collisions and the deconfined state created in these collisions causes the separation of charges along the axis of the magnetic field. This phenomenon of the charge separation along the axis of the magnetic field and perpendicular to the reaction plane is called the Chiral Magnetic Effect (CME) [2]. We investigated the event-by-event charge separation using Sliding Dumbbell Method (SDM), similar to the Sliding Window Method [3]. In this method, we evaluate Db$_{+-}$, which is defined as:

$Db_{+-} = \frac{N^L_{+}}{(N^L_{+} + N^L_{-})} + \frac{N^R_{-}}{(N^R_{+} + N^R_{-})}$ ,

where, N$^L_{+}$ and N$^L_{-}$, respectively, are the numbers of positively and negatively charged particles on the left side of the dumbbell, whereas N$^R_{+}$ and N$^R_{-}$, respectively, are the numbers of positively and negatively charged particles on the right side of the dumbbell. The whole azimuthal plane is scanned by sliding the ${\Delta \phi}$ =$90^{\circ}$ dumbbell in steps of ${\delta \phi}$ =$1^{\circ}$ and calculating the observable Db$_{+-}$ for each ${\Delta \phi}$ region to extract the maximum value of Db$_{+-}$ in each event. We have analysed the events with higher values of Db$_{+-}$ and some interesting events displaying back to back charge separation are found. The data has been analysed for different dumbbell sizes i.e., ${\Delta\phi}$ =90$^{\circ}$, 60$^{\circ}$ and 40$^{\circ}$ and the results will be presented.

References

[1] D. E. Kharzeev, L. D. McLerran and H. J. Warringa, Nucl. Phys. A 803, 227.

[2] D. E. Kharzeev, J. Liao, S. A. Voloshin, G. Wang, Prog. Part. Nucl. Phys. 88, 1-28 (2016).

[3] M.M. Aggarwal, G. Sood, Y.P. Viyogi, Phys. Lett. B 638, 39 (2006).

Preferred Track Collective Dynamics STAR

### Primary author

Anjali Attri (Panjab University)

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