Title: Search for the Chiral Magnetic Effects at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider

Abstract: Relativistic heavy ion collisions (HICs) at the modern accelerators like the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider the Large Hadron Collider provide unique testing ground for the Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) at high energies. The early stages of such collisions generate highest densities allowed by QCD and eventually leads to the formation of a liquid-like quark-gluon matter that filled the microsecond-old universe. Interestingly, the early stages of HICs also generate the strongest known electromagnetic fields (10^18 Gauss) in the universe. The quantum fluctuations in the early stages of such collisions amidst such strong fields can lead to violation of local P and CP symmetries of strong interactions. As a consequence of such extreme conditions one expects to observe novel phenomena such as the Chiral Magnetic Effect (CME). In this talk I will give an overview of the recent experimental efforts at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at Brookhaven National Laboratory towards a decisive experimental test of this phenomena.

Host: Vladimir Skokov