Exploring the chiral magnetic effect in Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}=7.7-200$ GeV through Chiral Anomaly Transport

Abstract

High-energy heavy-ion collisions have the potential to create local domains of chirality-imbalanced quarks, reflecting the topological characteristics of quantum chromodynamics. This phenomenon can potentially induce local $\mathcal{P}$ and $\mathcal{CP}$ violations in the quark-gluon plasma. The Chiral Magnetic Effect (CME) predicts an electric charge separation along the intense magnetic field generated during these collisions, which is typically investigated through charge-dependent azimuthal correlations ($Δγ$). In this work, we investigate the CME in Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}} = 7.7 - 200$ GeV using a multiphase transport (AMPT) model equipped with a Chiral Anomaly Transport (CAT) module. we employ two independent methods: direct subtraction of the correlator $\langle N_{part}Δγ\rangle$ between simulations with zero and finite chiral chemical potential $μ_5$, and the event-shape-selection (ESS) approach. Our results reveal a significant CME signal within the energy range of 11.5-27 GeV and the centrality range of $20-50\%$, where the AMPT model aligns well with STAR experimental data. Furthermore, the CME fractions extracted by both methods are consistent within uncertainties across these energies. However, the CME signal disappears at both 7.7 and 200 GeV. These findings underscore that the observability of the CME critically depends on both the dynamic evolution of the magnetic field and the chemical freeze-out time of the partonic phase, which vary significantly with collision energy.