title: Clocking hadronization in relativistic heavy-Ion collisions with balance functions
abstract: A novel state of matter has been hypothesized to exist during the early stage of relativistic heavy-ion collisions, with normal hadrons not appearing until several fm/c after the start of the reaction. To test this hypothesis, correlations between charges and their associated anticharges are evaluated with the use of balance functions. It is shown that late-stage hadronization is characterized by tightly correlated charge-anticharge pairs when measured as a function of relative rapidity.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics and Astronomy and National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA.
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Bass
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Danielewicz
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Pratt