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Validation of the Chiral Magnetic Effect (CME) in the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) produced in heavy-ion collisions can provide key insights into anomalous transport in QGP and the connections between chiral symmetry restoration, axial anomaly and gluonic topology. Recently, a charge-sensitive correlator, $\mathrm{R_{\Psi_m}(\Delta S)}$ [1], designed to discern between background- and CME-driven charge separation was used to carry out a detailed set of charge separation measurements, relative to both the $2^{\mathrm{nd}}$- ($\Psi_2$) and $3^{\mathrm{rd}}$-order ($\Psi_3$) event planes for several collision systems (A+A(B)). The measurements indicate nearly flat to convex $\mathrm{R_{\Psi_m}(\Delta S)}$ distributions for the measurements relative to $\Psi_3$ and those relative to $\Psi_2$ for the p(d)+Au systems, consistent with the essentially random $\vec{B}$-field orientations for these measurements. By contrast, the A+A measurements relative to $\Psi_2$ show concave-shaped $\mathrm{R_{\Psi_2}(\Delta S)}$ distributions suggestive of a CME-driven charge separation. Results for U+U collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$= 193 GeV and p(d)+Au, Cu+Au, Cu+Cu and Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}=$ 200 GeV will be presented and discussed in this poster.
[1] N. Magdy, et al., Phys. Rev. C 97 (2018) 061901.
