@article{0828826f7f504577b80d46f38d46b1e1,
title = "Search for Charged Strange Quark Matter Produced in 11.5 A GeV/c Au + Pb Collisions",
abstract = "We present results of a search for strange quark matter (strangelets) in 11.5 A GeV/c Au+Pb collisions from the 1994 and 1995 runs of experiment E864 at Brookhaven{\textquoteright}s AGS. We observe no strangelet candidates and set a 90% confidence level upper limit of approximately 3×10**-8 per 10% central interaction for the production of |Z|=1 and |Z|=2 strangelets over a large mass range and with metastable lifetimes of about 50 ns or more. These results place constraints primarily on quark-gluon plasma based production models for strangelets.",
author = "{The E864 Collaboration} and Armstrong, {T. A.} and Barish, {K. N.} and Bennett, {M. J.} and Bennett, {S. J.} and A. Chikanian and Coe, {S. D.} and Cormier, {T. M.} and R. Davies and {De Cataldo}, G. and P. Dee and Diebold, {G. E.} and Dover, {C. B.} and P. Fachini and Finch, {L. E.} and George, {N. K.} and N. Giglietto and Greene, {S. V.} and P. Haridas and Hill, {J. C.} and Hirsch, {A. S.} and Hoversten, {R. A.} and Huang, {H. Z.} and B. Kim and Kumar, {B. S.} and T. Lainis and Lajoie, {J. G.} and Lewis, {R. A.} and Q. Li and B. Libby and Majka, {R. D.} and Munhoz, {M. G.} and Nagle, {J. L.} and Pless, {I. A.} and Pope, {J. K.} and Porile, {N. T.} and Pruneau, {C. A.} and Rabin, {M. S.Z.} and A. Raino and Reid, {J. D.} and A. Rimai and Rotondo, {F. S.} and J. Sandweiss and Scharenberg, {R. P.} and Slaughter, {A. J.} and Smith, {G. A.} and P. Spinelli and Srivastava, {B. K.} and Tincknell, {M. L.} and Toothacker, {W. S.} and {Van Buren}, G.",
year = "1997",
month = nov,
day = "10",
doi = "10.1103/PhysRevLett.79.3612",
language = "English",
volume = "79",
pages = "3612--3616",
journal = "Physical Review Letters",
issn = "0031-9007",
publisher = "American Physical Society",
number = "19",
}