Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 2689–2692 (2000)Clocking Hadronization in Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions with Balance FunctionsReceived 15 May 2000; published in the issue dated 25 September 2000 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. © 2000 The American Physical Society URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.85.2689
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.85.2689
PACS:
24.85.+p, 25.75.Gz
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