SEARCH FOR STRANGE QUARK MATTER WITH THE BNL-E864 SPECTROMETER

The results of the charged strange quark matter search from central 11 .6 A GeV/c Au+Pb collisions in experiment E864 at the BNL-AGS are pres ented. We have analysed the approximately 6 billion central interactio ns sampled during the 1995 run for positively and negatively charged s trangelet candidates. The results of the 1995 analysis, in which our f ull calorimeter and high-mass trigger system were used, are nearly thr ee orders of magnitude more sensitive than our 1994 results, and are t he best and most model independent sensitivities at AGS energies.