Phenomenology of anomalous chiral transports in heavy-ion collisions

TL;DR

This paper explores how strong magnetic fields and vorticity in heavy-ion collisions induce novel chiral transport phenomena like the chiral magnetic and vortical effects, revealing potential parity violation in hot quark-gluon matter.

Contribution

It provides a detailed discussion of the mechanisms behind anomalous chiral transports and their implications in the context of heavy-ion collision experiments.

Findings

Identification of chiral magnetic and vortical effects in heavy-ion collisions

Potential evidence for parity violation in hot QCD matter

Insights into the role of magnetic fields and vorticity in quark-gluon plasma

Abstract

High-energy Heavy-ion collisions can generate extremely hot quark-gluon matter and also extremely strong magnetic fields and fluid vorticity. Once coupled to chiral anomaly, the magnetic fields and fluid vorticity can induce a variety of novel transport phenomena, including the chiral magnetic effect, chiral vortical effect, etc. Some of them require the environmental violation of parity and thus provide a means to test the possible parity violation in hot strongly interacting matter. We will discuss the underlying mechanism and implications of these anomalous chiral transports in heavy-ion collisions.