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Upper limit on the chiral magnetic effect in isobar collisions at the Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider

M. I. Abdulhamid4, B. E. Aboona56, J. Adam16, J. R. Adams41, G. Agakishiev31, I. Aggarwal42, M. M. Aggarwal42, Z. Ahammed62, A. Aitbaev31 et al. (STAR Collaboration)

A. Aitbaev31, I. Alekseev2,38, E. Alpatov38, A. Aparin31, S. Aslam27, J. Atchison1, G. S. Averichev31, V. Bairathi54, J. G. Ball Cap23, K. Barish11, P. Bhagat30, A. Bhasin30, S. Bhatta53, S. R. Bhosale18, I. G. Bordyuzhin2, J. D. Brandenburg41, A. V. Brandin38, C. Broodo23, X. Z. Cai51, H. Caines65, M. Calderón de la Barca Sánchez9, D. Cebra9, J. Ceska16, I. Chakaberia34, B. K. Chan10, Z. Chang28, A. Chatterjee17, D. Chen11, J. Chen50, J. H. Chen20, Z. Chen50, J. Cheng58, Y. Cheng10, S. Choudhury20, W. Christie6, X. Chu6, H. J. Crawford8, G. Dale-Gau13, A. Das16, T. G. Dedovich31, I. M. Deppner22, A. A. Derevschikov43, A. Dhamija42, P. Dixit25, X. Dong34, J. L. Drachenberg1, E. Duckworth32, J. C. Dunlop6, J. Engelage8, G. Eppley45, S. Esumi59, O. Evdokimov13, O. Eyser6, R. Fatemi33, S. Fazio7, C. J. Feng40, Y. Feng44, E. Finch52, Y. Fisyak6, F. A. Flor65, C. Fu29, T. Gao50, F. Geurts45, N. Ghimire55, A. Gibson61, K. Gopal26, X. Gou50, D. Grosnick61, A. Gupta30, A. Hamed4, Y. Han45, M. D. Harasty9, J. W. Harris65, H. Harrison-Smith33, W. He20, X. H. He29, Y. He50, C. Hu60, Q. Hu29, Y. Hu34, H. Huang40, H. Z. Huang10, S. L. Huang53, T. Huang13, X. Huang58, Y. Huang58, Y. Huang12, T. J. Humanic41, M. Isshiki59, W. W. Jacobs28, A. Jalotra30, C. Jena26, Y. Ji34, J. Jia6,53, C. Jin45, X. Ju47, E. G. Judd8, S. Kabana54, D. Kalinkin33, K. Kang58, D. Kapukchyan11, K. Kauder6, D. Keane32, A. Kechechyan31, A. Khanal63, A. Kiselev6, A. G. Knospe35, H. S. Ko34, L. Kochenda38, A. A. Korobitsin31, A. Yu. Kraeva38, P. Kravtsov38, L. Kumar42, M. C. Labonte9, R. Lacey53, J. M. Landgraf6, A. Lebedev6, R. Lednicky31, J. H. Lee6, Y. H. Leung22, N. Lewis6, C. Li50, D. Li47, H-S. Li44, H. Li64, W. Li45, X. Li47, Y. Li47, Y. Li58, Z. Li47, X. Liang11, Y. Liang32, T. Lin50, Y. Lin21, C. Liu29, G. Liu48, H. Liu12, L. Liu12, T. Liu65, X. Liu41, Y. Liu56, Z. Liu12, T. Ljubicic45, O. Lomicky16, R. S. Longacre6, E. M. Loyd11, T. Lu29, J. Luo47, X. F. Luo12, V. B. Luong31, L. Ma20, R. Ma6, Y. G. Ma20, N. Magdy53, R. Manikandhan23, S. Margetis32, H. S. Matis34, G. McNamara63, O. Mezhanska16, K. Mi12, N. G. Minaev43, B. Mohanty39, M. M. Mondal39, I. Mooney65, D. A. Morozov43, A. Mudrokh31, M. I. Nagy18, A. S. Nain42, J. D. Nam55, M. Nasim25, E. Nedorezov31, D. Neff10, J. M. Nelson8, D. B. Nemes65, M. Nie50, G. Nigmatkulov13, T. Niida59, L. V. Nogach43, T. Nonaka59, G. Odyniec34, A. Ogawa6, S. Oh49, V. A. Okorokov38, K. Okubo59, B. S. Page6, R. Pak6, S. Pal16, A. Pandav34, A. K. Pandey29, Y. Panebratsev31, T. Pani46, P. Parfenov38, A. Paul11, C. Perkins8, B. R. Pokhrel55, M. Posik55, A. Povarov38, T. Protzman35, N. K. Pruthi42, J. Putschke63, Z. Qin58, H. Qiu29, C. Racz11, S. K. Radhakrishnan32, A. Rana42, R. L. Ray57, H. G. Ritter34, C. W. Robertson44, O. V. Rogachevsky31, M. A. Rosales Aguilar33, D. Roy46, L. Ruan6, A. K. Sahoo25, N. R. Sahoo26, H. Sako59, S. Salur46, E. Samigullin2, S. Sato59, B. C. Schaefer35, W. B. Schmidke6,*, N. Schmitz36, J. Seger15, R. Seto11, P. Seyboth36, N. Shah27, E. Shahaliev31, P. V. Shanmuganathan6, T. Shao20, M. Sharma30, N. Sharma25, R. Sharma26, S. R. Sharma26, A. I. Sheikh32, D. Shen50, D. Y. Shen20, K. Shen47, S. S. Shi12, Y. Shi50, Q. Y. Shou20, F. Si47, J. Singh42, S. Singha29, P. Sinha26, M. J. Skoby5,44, Y. Söhngen22, Y. Song65, B. Srivastava44, T. D. S. Stanislaus61, D. J. Stewart63, M. Strikhanov38, B. Stringfellow44, Y. Su47, C. Sun53, X. Sun29, Y. Sun47, Y. Sun24, B. Surrow55, D. N. Svirida2, Z. W. Sweger9, A. C. Tamis65, A. H. Tang6, Z. Tang47, A. Taranenko38, T. Tarnowsky37, J. H. Thomas34, D. Tlusty15, T. Todoroki59, M. V. Tokarev31, S. Trentalange10, P. Tribedy6, O. D. Tsai10,6, C. Y. Tsang32,6, Z. Tu6, J. Tyler56, T. Ullrich6, D. G. Underwood3,61, I. Upsal47, G. Van Buren6, A. N. Vasiliev43,38, V. Verkest63, F. Videbæk6, S. Vokal31, S. A. Voloshin63, F. Wang44, G. Wang10, J. S. Wang24, J. Wang50, K. Wang47, X. Wang50, Y. Wang47, Y. Wang12, Y. Wang58, Z. Wang50, J. C. Webb6, P. C. Weidenkaff22, G. D. Westfall37, H. Wieman34, G. Wilks13, S. W. Wissink28, J. Wu12, J. Wu29, X. Wu10, Wu X.47, B. Xi20, Z. G. Xiao58, G. Xie60, W. Xie44, H. Xu24, N. Xu34, Q. H. Xu50, Y. Xu50, Y. Xu12, Z. Xu32, Z. Xu10, G. Yan50, Z. Yan53, C. Yang50, Q. Yang50, S. Yang48, Y. Yang40, Z. Ye45, Z. Ye34, L. Yi50, K. Yip6, Y. Yu50, W. Zha47, C. Zhang20, D. Zhang48, J. Zhang50, S. Zhang14, W. Zhang48, X. Zhang29, Y. Zhang29, Y. Zhang47, Y. Zhang50, Y. Zhang12, Z. J. Zhang40, Z. Zhang6, Z. Zhang13, F. Zhao29, J. Zhao20, M. Zhao6, J. Zhou47, S. Zhou12, Y. Zhou12, X. Zhu58, M. Zurek3,6, and M. Zyzak19 (STAR Collaboration)

  • 1Abilene Christian University, Abilene, Texas 79699
  • 2Alikhanov Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics NRC “Kurchatov Institute”, Moscow 117218
  • 3Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439
  • 4American University in Cairo, New Cairo 11835, Egypt
  • 5Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana 47306
  • 6Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973
  • 7University of Calabria & INFN-Cosenza, Rende 87036, Italy
  • 8University of California, Berkeley, California 94720
  • 9University of California, Davis, California 95616
  • 10University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095
  • 11University of California, Riverside, California 92521
  • 12Central China Normal University, Wuhan, Hubei 430079
  • 13University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60607
  • 14Chongqing University, Chongqing, 401331
  • 15Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska 68178
  • 16Czech Technical University in Prague, FNSPE, Prague 115 19, Czech Republic
  • 17National Institute of Technology Durgapur, Durgapur - 713209, India
  • 18ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary H-1117
  • 19Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies FIAS, Frankfurt 60438, Germany
  • 20Fudan University, Shanghai, 200433
  • 21Guangxi Normal University, Guilin 541004
  • 22University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg 69120, Germany
  • 23University of Houston, Houston, Texas 77204
  • 24Huzhou University, Huzhou, Zhejiang 313000
  • 25Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Berhampur 760010, India
  • 26Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Tirupati, Tirupati 517507, India
  • 27Indian Institute Technology, Patna, Bihar 801106, India
  • 28Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47408
  • 29Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, Gansu 730000
  • 30University of Jammu, Jammu 180001, India
  • 31Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna 141 980
  • 32Kent State University, Kent, Ohio 44242
  • 33University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky 40506-0055
  • 34Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720
  • 35Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania 18015
  • 36Max-Planck-Institut für Physik, Munich 80805, Germany
  • 37Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824
  • 38National Research Nuclear University MEPhI, Moscow 115409
  • 39National Institute of Science Education and Research, HBNI, Jatni 752050, India
  • 40National Cheng Kung University, Tainan 70101
  • 41The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210
  • 42Panjab University, Chandigarh 160014, India
  • 43NRC “Kurchatov Institute”, Institute of High Energy Physics, Protvino 142281
  • 44Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907
  • 45Rice University, Houston, Texas 77251
  • 46Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854
  • 47University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026
  • 48South China Normal University, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510631
  • 49Sejong University, Seoul, 05006, South Korea
  • 50Shandong University, Qingdao, Shandong 266237
  • 51Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201800
  • 52Southern Connecticut State University, New Haven, Connecticut 06515
  • 53State University of New York, Stony Brook, New York 11794
  • 54Instituto de Alta Investigación, Universidad de Tarapacá, Arica 1000000, Chile
  • 55Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19122
  • 56Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843
  • 57University of Texas, Austin, Texas 78712
  • 58Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
  • 59University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8571, Japan
  • 60University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 101408
  • 61Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, Indiana 46383
  • 62Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Kolkata 700064, India
  • 63Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan 48201
  • 64Wuhan University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei 430065
  • 65Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520

  • *Deceased.

Phys. Rev. Research 6, L032005 – Published 9 July, 2024

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.6.L032005

Abstract

The chiral magnetic effect (CME) is a phenomenon that arises from the QCD anomaly in the presence of an external magnetic field. The experimental search for its evidence has been one of the key goals of the physics program of the Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider. The STAR Collaboration has previously presented the results of a blind analysis of isobar collisions (Ru4496+Ru4496, Zr4096+Zr4096) in the search for the CME. The isobar ratio (Y) of CME-sensitive observable, charge separation scaled by elliptic anisotropy, is close to but systematically larger than the inverse multiplicity ratio, the naive background baseline. This indicates the potential existence of a CME signal and the presence of remaining nonflow background due to two- and three-particle correlations, which are different between the isobars. In this postblind analysis, we estimate the contributions from those nonflow correlations as a background baseline to Y, utilizing the isobar data as well as Heavy Ion Jet Interaction Generator simulations. This baseline is found consistent with the isobar ratio measurement, and an upper limit of 10% at 95% confidence level is extracted for the CME fraction in the charge separation measurement in isobar collisions at sNN=200 GeV.

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