The hot and dense medium created in relativistic heavy-ion collisions has been conjectured to be accompanied by an imbalance of axial charge leading to a difference in the number of right-handed and left-handed quarks. Such an imbalance leads to a separation of electric charges in the direction of the extremely strong (10^18 Gauss) magnetic field (B) produced by the protons in the colliding heavy ions. This phenomenon is known as the Chiral Magnetic Effect (CME) and finding a conclusive experimental signature of it has become one of the major scientific goals of the heavy-ion physics program at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC). In this talk, I will give an overview of the recent experimental results from the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at the Brookhaven National Laboratory in the context of the search for CME.
