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Chiral Magnetic Effect

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Experimental measurements of the Chiral Magnetic Effect (CME). An illustration of the hadron angular correlation pattern in the (x-y) plane transverse to the beam axis z in a heavy-ion collision. The CME induces an asymmetry in the emission of positive and negative hadrons along the axis of magnetic field.

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Dmitri E. Kharzeev and Jinfeng Liao / Nature Reviews Physics

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