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The Chiral MagnetoHydroDynamics of QCD fluid at RHIC and LHC
The experimental results on heavy ion collisions at RHIC and LHC indicate
that QCD plasma behaves as a nearly perfect fluid described by relativistic
hydrodynamics. Hydrodynamics is an effective low-energy Theory Of Everything
stating that the response of a system to external perturbations is dictated by
conservation laws that are a consequence of the symmetries of the underlying
theory. In the case of QCD fluid produced in heavy ion collisions, this theory
possesses anomalies, so some of the apparent classical symmetries are broken by
quantum effects. Even though the anomalies appear as a result of UV
regularization and so look like a short distance phenomenon, it has been
realized recently that they also affect the large distance, macroscopic
behavior in hydrodynamics. One of the manifestations of anomalies in
relativistic hydrodynamics is the Chiral Magnetic Effect (CME). At this
conference, a number of evidences for CME have been presented, including i) the
disappearance of charge asymmetry fluctuations in the low-energy RHIC data
where the energy density is thought to be below the critical one for
deconfinement; ii) the observation of charge asymmetry fluctuations in Pb-Pb
collisions at the LHC. Here I give a three-page summary of some of the recent
theoretical and experimental developments and of the future tests that may
allow to establish (or to refute) the CME as the origin of the observed charge
asymmetry fluctuations.Comment: 4 pages, talk at Quark Matter 2011 Conference, Annecy, France, 23-28
May 201