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2024年10月30日

Cover Story (Issue 8, 2024) | Applyingdeep learning technique to chiral magnetic wave search

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Cover Story (Issue 8, 2024) | Applying deep learning technique to chiral magnetic wave search

Author: Prof. Huan Zhong Huang (University of California, Los Angeles)

     It is well known that in stronginteraction the parity symmetry (left-right mirror symmetry) is conserved. However, Quantum Chromo Dynamics (QCD), the fundamental quantumfield theory of strong interaction, permits in its Lagrange terms which, while conserving parity on average, allow for local violations of parity. It has been proposed that heavy ion collisions offer a unique opportunity to detect these parity-violating fluctuations in strong interaction. In these collisions, heavy nuclei like gold and lead are colliding with each other at a speed near the speed of the light, creating drops of quark-gluon plasma (QGP). In QGP topological domains of unbalanced quark chirality (unequal number ofleft-handed and right-handed quarks) may be created due to collective gluonexcitations. In addition, a strong magnetic field as large as 1018 Gauss may be generated at the collision volume from protons in the colliding beams. The coupling of the chirality imbalanced quarks and the magnetic fieldwould yield a Chiral Magnetic Effect (CME) leading to a charge separation of the final state charged particles along the direction of the magnetic field. The CME creating a dipole moment which explicitly violates the parity symmetry. The time dependence of the CME could also lead to a Chiral Magnetic Wave (CMW). The CMW could induce a charge quadrupole distribution and result in differences in elliptic flows of positively and negatively charged pions. Experimental searches for these quark chirality effects have been a major scientific objective for heavy ion research programs at RHIC and LHC. 

     The experimental searches for the quark chirality effects of CME and CMW proved to be extremely challenging due to background contributions.

    In their work [1], Zhao and Huang proposed using neural networks to search for CMW signal independent of specific observables used previously in the experiments. They demonstrated that after training on simulated data containing CMW-like features, the neural network canreliably identify CMW events. They also assessed the robustness of the neural network approach using simulation data of different beam energies, types ofcolliding nuclei, and collision centralities. Zhao and Huang suggested a novel approach to experimentally search for the CMW. Similar approaches could be extended to search for other chiral effects such as chiral vortical effects and chiral vortical waves.

  

[1] Y. S. Zhao and X. G. Huang, Chinese Physics C 48, 084103 (2024), arXiv: 2407.00926 [nucl-th].