title: Identifying the charge carriers of the quark-gluon plasma.
abstract: Charge correlations in lattice gauge calculations suggest that up, down, and strange charges move independently in the 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 quark-gluon plasma survive hadronization and become manifest in final-state charge-charge correlation measurements.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics and Astronomy and National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA.
authors.forename: Scott
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Pratt