EXPERIMENTAL SIGNATURES OF SUPERSTRONG MAGNETIC FIELDS IN HEAVY-ION COLLISIONS

We review some experimental consequences of the presence of superstrong magnetic fields of order of the nuclear scale in noncentral heavy-ion collisions. We present lattice estimates for the strength of the Chiral Magnetic Effect (CME) for different quark flavours and argue that the dependence of the anisotropy of the distribution of emitted hadrons on their flavor content might be used as another experimental evidence of the CME.