@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",
}