Charge balance functions have been proposed to study the quark-gluon plasma hypothesized to form in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. Motivated by previous work, a microscopic model is developed that considers the evolution of thermal quark-antiquark pairs in the quark-gluon plasma to calculate hadronic balance functions based on the chemical properties of the plasma. This involves modeling the generation of the quarks given the hydrodynamic properties of the quark-gluon plasma combined with what we know about its chemistry from lattice quantum chromodynamics, as well as modeling the separation of these quarks and their hadronization. After feeding the resulting hadrons into a cascade where they scatter and decay, the balance function for any combination of hadrons species can be calculated.
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