Estimate of background baseline and upper limit on the chiral magnetic effect in isobar collisions at sNN=200 GeV at the BNL Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider

A. Kisiel,D. Kalinkin,G. Agakishiev,M. Aggarwal,A. Ogawa,A. Aitbaev,I. Alekseev,E. Alpatov,A. Aparin,S. Aslam,J. Atchison,R. Stock,V. Bairathi,J. Ball,K. Barish,P. Bhagat,A. Pop,Somadutta Bhatta,S. Bhosale,I. Bordyuzhin,J. Thomas,A. Brandin,C. Broodo,X. Cai,H. Caines,M. Sánchez,Lincoln Carr,J. Ceska,I. Chakaberia,B. Chan,Z. Chang,A. Johnson,D. Chen,J. Chen,M. Kelsey,Z. Chen,J. Cheng,Y. Cheng,S. Choudhury,W. Christie,X. Chu,H. Crawford,G. Dale-Gau,Arpita Das,T. Dedovich,G. Eppley,X. Dong,A. Dhamija,P. Dixit,J. Drachenberg,E. Duckworth,J. Dunlop,Ł. Fulek,O. Evdokimov,S. Trentalange,S. Fazio,L. Feligioni,S. Jabeen,L. Yi,Y. Fisyak,Fernando Flor,Changbo Fu,Ting Gao,B. Pawlik,N. Ghimire,A. Gibson,K. Gopal,X. Gou,A. Gupta,A. Hamed,Y. Han,M. Harasty,J. Harris,H. Harrison-Smith,Hao Li,X. He,Yan He,C. Hu,Xu Cao,Y. Hu,H. Huang,S. Huang,Tao Huang,X. Huang,Yanyan Huang,Y. Huang,T. Humanic,M. Isshiki,W. Jacobs,Ashish Jalotra,D. Blau,Y. Ji,J. Jia,Jin Chang,X. Ju,S. Kabana,Yang Chi,D. Kapukchyan,H. Ke,D. Keane,A. Kechechyan,A. Khanal,T. Peitzmann,H. Ko,L. Kochenda,A. Korobitsin,A. Kraeva,K. Krueger,L. Kumar,M. Labonte,S. Brandt,J. Landgraf,A. Lebedev,R. Lednický,Y. Leung,X. Li,M. Lisa,D. Li,H-S. Li,H. Li,W. Li,Y. Li,Z. Li,Xixin Liang,Y. Liang,T. Lin,C. Liu,G. Liu,H. Liu,L. Liu,H. Lubatti,X. Liu,Y. Liu,Zhenan Liu,T. Ljubicic,O. Lomicky,G. Igo,E. Loyd,Tingting Lu,Jingyu Luo,V. Luong,J. Bielčík,Y. G.,Manikandhan Ramanathan,S. Margetis,H. Matis,G. McNamara,O. Mezhanska,K. Mi,N. Minaev,B. Surrow,M. Mondal,D. Mishra,D. Morozov,A. Mudrokh,G. Pásżtor,A. Nain,J. Nam,J. Nelson,E. Nedorezov,M. Nie,T. Niida,T. Nonaka,G. Odyniec,S. Oh,K. Okubo,A. Pandey,A. Pandav,Y. Panebratsev,T. Pani,A. Paul,C. Perkins,B. Pokhrel,M. Przybycień,A. Povarov,T. Protzman,R. Raniwala,Z. Qin,H. Qiu,C. Racz,S. Radhakrishnan,Ajay Rana,R. Ray,J. Romero,Charles Robertson,O. Rogachevsky,M. Aguilar,A. Roy,A. Sahoo,H. Sako,S. Salur,E. Samigullin,S. Sato,Brian Schaefer,W. Schmidke,N. Schmitz,J. Seger,P. Seyboth,E. Shahaliev,M. Shao,T. Shao,N. Sharma,K. Ranjan,S. Sharma,A. Sheikh,D. Shen,K. Shen,Y. Shi,R. Sikora,F. Si,J. Singh,S. Singha,P. Sinha,P. Sørensen,Y. Söhngen,Y. Song,B. Srivastava,A. Suaide,Yang Su,Chang Sun,X. Sun,B. Sun,Z. Sweger,A. Tamis,Z. Tang,A. Taranenko,M. Tokarev,P. Tribedy,O. Tsai,C. Tsang,Z. Tu,J. Tyler,T. Ullrich,D. Underwood,I. Upsal,G. Buren,A. Vasiliev,V. Verkest,A. Vossen,F. Wang,H. Wang,J Wang,K. Wang,Y. Wang,Z. Wang,H. Wieman,P. Weidenkaff,G. Westfall,G. Wilks,S. Wissink,J. Wu,Xiaofeng Wu,B. Xi,Z. Xiao,Gaogang Xie,Wei Xie,H. Xu,N. Xu,Q. Xu,Z. Xu,Yan Gao,Zhao Yan,K. Yip,I.-K. Yoo,Y. Yu,W. Zha,C. Zhang,D. Zhang,J. Zhang,S. Zhang,W. Zhang,X. Zhang,Y. Zhang,Z. Zhang,Fengyi Zhao,J. Zhao,J. Zhou,S. Zhou,X. Zhu,M. Żurek,M. Zyzak,Olga Evdokimov,Lorenzo Feligioni,Kristján Gulbrandsen,Q. Hu,A. Jalotra,Małgorzata Janik,Jiangyong Jia,Xiangyang Ju,Yue Lai,R. Sá,Gabriella Pásztor,T. Nayak,Mariusz Przybycień,Ashim Roy,Natasha Sharma,Jasbir Singh,Alexandre Suaide,Barbara Trzeciak,Sergey Voloshin,W. Xu,Zijun Xu,In Yoo,Z. Yang,Zhicai Zhang