A brief discussion on the chiral magnetic effect

Bin Wang

Published 2017-03-22Version 1

The prerequisite of the chiral magnetic effect is the existence of net chiral charge in the quark gluon plasma (QGP). If we assume the quarks and anti-quarks contribute equally to the net chiral charge, the CME will induce a flow of the quark chemical potential, and the QGP will have three distinctive layers characterised by different compositions of quark chemical potentials. This phenomenon may bring new measurable quantities and help us assert the existence of CME.