Delta phi Delta eta Correlations in Central Au+Au Collisions at s(NN)**(1/2) = 200-Gev

We report charged-particle pair correlation analyses in thespace of Delta -phi (azimuth) and Delta-eta (pseudo-rapidity), forcentral Au + Au collisions at sqrt sNN = 200 GeV in the STAR detector.The analysis involves unlike-sign charge pairs and like-sign chargepairs, which are transformed into charge-dependent (CD) signals andcharge-independent (CI) signals. We present detailed parameterizations ofthe data. A model featuring dense gluonic hot spots as first proposed byvan Hove predicts that the observables under investigation would havesensitivity to such a substructure should it occur, and the model alsomotivates selection of transverse momenta in the range 0.8