1203.4578 (Scott Pratt)

Identifying the Charge Carriers of the Quark-Gluon Plasma    [PDF]

Scott Pratt

Charge correlations in lattice gauge calculations suggest that up, down and strange charges move independently in the QGP (quark-gluon plasma), and that the density of such charges is similar to what is expected from simple thermal arguments. Here, we show how specific elements of the charge-charge correlation matrix in the QGP survive hadronization and become manifest in final-state charge-charge correlation measurements.

View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1203.4578