Azimuthal charged-particle correlations and possible local strong parity violation. uri icon

abstract

  • Parity-odd domains, corresponding to nontrivial topological solutions of the QCD vacuum, might be created during relativistic heavy-ion collisions. These domains are predicted to lead to charge separation of quarks along the system's orbital momentum axis. We investigate a three-particle azimuthal correlator which is a P even observable, but directly sensitive to the charge separation effect. We report measurements of charged hadrons near center-of-mass rapidity with this observable in Au + Au and Cu + Cu collisions at square root of s(NN) = 200 GeV using the STAR detector. A signal consistent with several expectations from the theory is detected. We discuss possible contributions from other effects that are not related to parity violation.

published proceedings

  • Phys Rev Lett

altmetric score

  • 18

author list (cited authors)

  • Abelev, B. I., Aggarwal, M. M., Ahammed, Z., Alakhverdyants, A. V., Anderson, B. D., Arkhipkin, D., ... STAR Collaboration.

citation count

  • 374

complete list of authors

  • Abelev, BI||Aggarwal, MM||Ahammed, Z||Alakhverdyants, AV||Anderson, BD||Arkhipkin, D||Averichev, GS||Balewski, J||Barannikova, O||Barnby, LS||Baumgart, S||Beavis, DR||Bellwied, R||Benedosso, F||Betancourt, MJ||Betts, RR||Bhasin, A||Bhati, AK||Bichsel, H||Bielcik, J||Bielcikova, J||Biritz, B||Bland, LC||Bnzarov, I||Bonner, BE||Bouchet, J||Braidot, E||Brandin, AV||Bridgeman, A||Bruna, E||Bueltmann, S||Burton, TP||Cai, XZ||Caines, H||Calderón de la Barca Sánchez, M||Catu, O||Cebra, D||Cendejas, R||Cervantes, MC||Chajecki, Z||Chaloupka, P||Chattopadhyay, S||Chen, HF||Chen, JH||Chen, JY||Cheng, J||Cherney, M||Chikanian, A||Choi, KE||Christie, W||Chung, P||Clarke, RF||Codrington, MJM||Corliss, R||Cormier, TM||Cosentino, MR||Cramer, JG||Crawford, HJ||Das, D||Dash, S||Daugherity, M||De Silva, LC||Dedovich, TG||DePhillips, M||Derevschikov, AA||Derradi de Souza, R||Didenko, L||Djawotho, P||Dzhordzhadze, V||Dogra, SM||Dong, X||Drachenberg, JL||Draper, JE||Dunlop, JC||Dutta Mazumdar, MR||Efimov, LG||Elhalhuli, E||Elnimr, M||Engelage, J||Eppley, G||Erazmus, B||Estienne, M||Eun, L||Fachini, P||Fatemi, R||Fedorisin, J||Feng, A||Filip, P||Finch, E||Fine, V||Fisyak, Y||Gagliardi, CA||Gangadharan, DR||Ganti, MS||Garcia-Solis, EJ||Geromitsos, A||Geurts, F||Ghazikhanian, V||Ghosh, P||Gorbunov, YN||Gordon, A||Grebenyuk, O||Grosnick, D||Grube, B||Guertin, SM||Guimaraes, KSFF||Gupta, A||Gupta, N||Guryn, W||Haag, B||Hallman, TJ||Hamed, A||Harris, JW||Heinz, M||Heppelmann, S||Hirsch, A||Hjort, E||Hoffman, AM||Hoffmann, GW||Hofman, DJ||Hollis, RS||Huang, HZ||Humanic, TJ||Huo, L||Igo, G||Iordanova, A||Jacobs, P||Jacobs, WW||Jakl, P||Jena, C||Jin, F||Jones, CL||Jones, PG||Joseph, J||Judd, EG||Kabana, S||Kajimoto, K||Kang, K||Kapitan, J||Kauder, K||Keane, D||Kechechyan, A||Kettler, D||Khodyrev, V Yu||Kikola, DP||Kiryluk, J||Kisiel, A||Klein, SR||Knospe, AG||Kocoloski, A||Koetke, DD||Konzer, J||Kopytine, M||Koralt, I||Korsch, W||Kotchenda, L||Kouchpil, V||Kravtsov, P||Kravtsov, VI||Krueger, K||Krus, M||Kumar, L||Kurnadi, P||Lamont, MAC||Landgraf, JM||LaPointe, S||Lauret, J||Lebedev, A||Lednicky, R||Lee, C-H||Lee, JH||Leight, W||LeVine, MJ||Li, C||Li, N||Li, Y||Lin, G||Lindenbaum, SJ||Lisa, MA||Liu, F||Liu, H||Liu, J||Liu, L||Ljubicic, T||Llope, WJ||Longacre, RS||Love, WA||Lu, Y||Ludlam, T||Ma, GL||Ma, YG||Mahapatra, DP||Majka, R||Mall, OI||Mangotra, LK||Manweiler, R||Margetis, S||Markert, C||Masui, H||Matis, HS||Matulenko, Yu A||McDonald, D||McShane, TS||Meschanin, A||Milner, R||Minaev, NG||Mioduszewski, S||Mischke, A||Mohanty, B||Morozov, DA||Munhoz, MG||Nandi, BK||Nattrass, C||Nayak, TK||Nelson, JM||Netrakanti, PK||Ng, MJ||Nogach, LV||Nurushev, SB||Odyniec, G||Ogawa, A||Okada, H||Okorokov, V||Olson, D||Pachr, M||Page, BS||Pal, SK||Pandit, Y||Panebratsev, Y||Pawlak, T||Peitzmann, T||Perevoztchikov, V||Perkins, C||Peryt, W||Phatak, SC||Pile, P||Planinic, M||Ploskon, MA||Pluta, J||Plyku, D||Poljak, N||Poskanzer, AM||Potukuchi, BVKS||Prindle, D||Pruneau, C||Pruthi, NK||Pujahari, PR||Putschke, J||Raniwala, R||Raniwala, S||Ray, RL||Redwine, R||Reed, R||Ridiger, A||Ritter, HG||Roberts, JB||Rogachevskiy, OV||Romero, JL||Rose, A||Roy, C||Ruan, L||Russcher, MJ||Sahoo, R||Sakai, S||Sakrejda, I||Sakuma, T||Salur, S||Sandweiss, J||Schambach, J||Scharenberg, RP||Schmitz, N||Seele, J||Seger, J||Selyuzhenkov, I||Semertzidis, Y||Seyboth, P||Shahaliev, E||Shao, M||Sharma, M||Shi, SS||Shi, X-H||Sichtermann, EP||Simon, F||Singaraju, RN||Skoby, MJ||Smirnov, N||Sorensen, P||Sowinski, J||Spinka, HM||Srivastava, B||Stanislaus, TDS||Staszak, D||Strikhanov, M||Stringfellow, B||Suaide, AAP||Suarez, MC||Subba, NL||Sumbera, M||Sun, XM||Sun, Y||Sun, Z||Surrow, B||Symons, TJM||Szanto de Toledo, A||Takahashi, J||Tang, AH||Tang, Z||Tarini, LH||Tarnowsky, T||Thein, D||Thomas, JH||Tian, J||Timmins, AR||Timoshenko, S||Tlusty, D||Tokarev, M||Tram, VN||Trentalange, S||Tribble, RE||Tsai, OD||Ulery, J||Ullrich, T||Underwood, DG||Van Buren, G||van Nieuwenhuizen, G||Vanfossen, JA||Varma, R||Vasconcelos, GMS||Vasiliev, AN||Videbaek, F||Viyogi, YP||Vokal, S||Voloshin, SA||Wada, M||Walker, M||Wang, F||Wang, G||Wang, H||Wang, JS||Wang, Q||Wang, X||Wang, XL||Wang, Y||Webb, G||Webb, JC||Westfall, GD||Whitten, C||Wieman, H||Wissink, SW||Witt, R||Wu, Y||Xie, W||Xu, N||Xu, QH||Xu, Y||Xu, Z||Yang, Y||Yepes, P||Yip, K||Yoo, I-K||Yue, Q||Zawisza, M||Zbroszczyk, H||Zhan, W||Zhang, S||Zhang, WM||Zhang, XP||Zhang, Y||Zhang, ZP||Zhao, Y||Zhong, C||Zhou, J||Zhu, X||Zoulkarneev, R||Zoulkarneeva, Y||Zuo, JX

publication date

  • December 2009