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Chattopadhyay C, Ott J, Schäfer T, Skokov VV. Simulations of Stochastic Fluid Dynamics near a Critical Point in the Phase Diagram. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2024; 133:032301. [PMID: 39094138 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.133.032301] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/25/2024] [Accepted: 06/20/2024] [Indexed: 08/04/2024]
Abstract
We present simulations of stochastic fluid dynamics in the vicinity of a critical endpoint belonging to the universality class of the Ising model. This study is motivated by the challenge of modeling the dynamics of critical fluctuations near a conjectured critical endpoint in the phase diagram of quantum chromodynamics (QCD). We focus on the interaction of shear modes with a conserved scalar density, which is known as model H. We show that the observed dynamical scaling behavior depends on the correlation length and the shear viscosity of the fluid. As the correlation length is increased or the viscosity is decreased we observe a crossover from the dynamical exponent of critical diffusion, z≃4, to the expected scaling exponent of model H, z≃3. We use our method to investigate the time-dependent correlation function of non-Gaussian moments M^{n}(t) of the order parameter. We find that the relaxation time depends in a nontrivial manner on the power n.
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Abdulhamid MI, Aboona BE, Adam J, Adams JR, Agakishiev G, Aggarwal I, Aggarwal MM, Ahammed Z, Aitbaev A, Alekseev I, Anderson DM, Aparin A, Aslam S, Atchison J, Averichev GS, Bairathi V, Baker W, Ball Cap JG, Barish K, Bhagat P, Bhasin A, Bhatta S, Bordyuzhin IG, Brandenburg JD, Brandin AV, Cai XZ, Caines H, Calderón de la Barca Sánchez M, Cebra D, Ceska J, Chakaberia I, Chan BK, Chang Z, Chatterjee A, Chen D, Chen J, Chen JH, Chen Z, Cheng J, Cheng Y, Choudhury S, Christie W, Chu X, Crawford HJ, Dale-Gau G, Das A, Daugherity M, Dedovich TG, Deppner IM, Derevschikov AA, Dhamija A, Di Carlo L, Didenko L, Dixit P, Dong X, Drachenberg JL, Duckworth E, Dunlop JC, Engelage J, Eppley G, Esumi S, Evdokimov O, Ewigleben A, Eyser O, Fatemi R, Fazio S, Feng CJ, Feng Y, Finch E, Fisyak Y, Flor FA, Fu C, Geurts F, Ghimire N, Gibson A, Gopal K, Gou X, Grosnick D, Gupta A, Hamed A, Han Y, Harasty MD, Harris JW, Harrison-Smith H, He W, He XH, He Y, Hu C, Hu Q, Hu Y, Huang H, Huang HZ, Huang SL, Huang T, Huang X, Huang Y, Huang Y, Humanic TJ, Isenhower D, Isshiki M, Jacobs WW, Jalotra A, Jena C, Ji Y, Jia J, Jin C, Ju X, Judd EG, Kabana S, Kabir ML, Kalinkin D, Kang K, Kapukchyan D, Kauder K, Ke HW, Keane D, Kechechyan A, Kelsey M, Kimelman B, Kiselev A, Knospe AG, Ko HS, Kochenda L, Korobitsin AA, Kravtsov P, Kumar L, Kumar S, Kunnawalkam Elayavalli R, Lacey R, Landgraf JM, Lebedev A, Lednicky R, Lee JH, Leung YH, Lewis N, Li C, Li W, Li X, Li Y, Li Y, Li Z, Liang X, Liang Y, Lin T, Liu C, Liu F, Liu H, Liu H, Liu L, Liu T, Liu X, Liu Y, Liu Z, Ljubicic T, Llope WJ, Lomicky O, Longacre RS, Loyd EM, Lu T, Lukow NS, Luo XF, Luong VB, Ma L, Ma R, Ma YG, Magdy N, Mallick D, Margetis S, Matis HS, Mazer JA, McNamara G, Mi K, Minaev NG, Mohanty B, Mondal MM, Mooney I, Morozov DA, Mudrokh A, Nagy MI, Nain AS, Nam JD, Nasim M, Neff D, Nelson JM, Nemes DB, Nie M, Nigmatkulov G, Niida T, Nishitani R, Nogach LV, Nonaka T, Odyniec G, Ogawa A, Oh S, Okorokov VA, Okubo K, Page BS, Pak R, Pan J, Pandav A, Pandey AK, Panebratsev Y, Pani T, Parfenov P, Paul A, Perkins C, Pokhrel BR, Posik M, Protzman T, Pruthi NK, Putschke J, Qin Z, Qiu H, Quintero A, Racz C, Radhakrishnan SK, Raha N, Ray RL, Ritter HG, Robertson CW, Rogachevsky OV, Rosales Aguilar MA, Roy D, Ruan L, Sahoo AK, Sahoo NR, Sako H, Salur S, Samigullin E, Sato S, Schmidke WB, Schmitz N, Seger J, Seto R, Seyboth P, Shah N, Shahaliev E, Shanmuganathan PV, Shao T, Sharma M, Sharma N, Sharma R, Sharma SR, Sheikh AI, Shen DY, Shen K, Shi SS, Shi Y, Shou QY, Si F, Singh J, Singha S, Sinha P, Skoby MJ, Söhngen Y, Song Y, Srivastava B, Stanislaus TDS, Stewart DJ, Strikhanov M, Stringfellow B, Su Y, Sun C, Sun X, Sun Y, Sun Y, Surrow B, Svirida DN, Sweger ZW, Tamis A, Tang AH, Tang Z, Taranenko A, Tarnowsky T, Thomas JH, Tlusty D, Todoroki T, Tokarev MV, Tomkiel CA, Trentalange S, Tribble RE, Tribedy P, Tsai OD, Tsang CY, Tu Z, Ullrich T, Underwood DG, Upsal I, Van Buren G, Vasiliev AN, Verkest V, Videbæk F, Vokal S, Voloshin SA, Wang F, Wang G, Wang JS, Wang X, Wang Y, Wang Y, Wang Y, Wang Z, Webb JC, Weidenkaff PC, Westfall GD, Wieman H, Wilks G, Wissink SW, Wu J, Wu J, Wu X, Wu Y, Xi B, Xiao ZG, Xie G, Xie W, Xu H, Xu N, Xu QH, Xu Y, Xu Y, Xu Z, Xu Z, Yan G, Yan Z, Yang C, Yang Q, Yang S, Yang Y, Ye Z, Ye Z, Yi L, Yip K, Yu N, Yu Y, Zha W, Zhang C, Zhang D, Zhang J, Zhang S, Zhang X, Zhang Y, Zhang Y, Zhang Y, Zhang ZJ, Zhang Z, Zhang Z, Zhao F, Zhao J, Zhao M, Zhou C, Zhou J, Zhou S, Zhou Y, Zhu X, Zurek M, Zyzak M. Beam Energy Dependence of Triton Production and Yield Ratio (N_{t}×N_{p}/N_{d}^{2}) in Au+Au Collisions at RHIC. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2023; 130:202301. [PMID: 37267557 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.130.202301] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/20/2022] [Revised: 02/21/2023] [Accepted: 03/30/2023] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
Abstract
We report the triton (t) production in midrapidity (|y|<0.5) Au+Au collisions at sqrt[s_{NN}]=7.7-200 GeV measured by the STAR experiment from the first phase of the beam energy scan at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider. The nuclear compound yield ratio (N_{t}×N_{p}/N_{d}^{2}), which is predicted to be sensitive to the fluctuation of local neutron density, is observed to decrease monotonically with increasing charged-particle multiplicity (dN_{ch}/dη) and follows a scaling behavior. The dN_{ch}/dη dependence of the yield ratio is compared to calculations from coalescence and thermal models. Enhancements in the yield ratios relative to the coalescence baseline are observed in the 0%-10% most central collisions at 19.6 and 27 GeV, with a significance of 2.3σ and 3.4σ, respectively, giving a combined significance of 4.1σ. The enhancements are not observed in peripheral collisions or model calculations without critical fluctuation, and decreases with a smaller p_{T} acceptance. The physics implications of these results on the QCD phase structure and the production mechanism of light nuclei in heavy-ion collisions are discussed.
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- M I Abdulhamid
- American University of Cairo, New Cairo 11835, New Cairo, Egypt
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- Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843
| | - J Adam
- Czech Technical University in Prague, FNSPE, Prague 115 19, Czech Republic
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- The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210
| | - G Agakishiev
- Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna 141 980
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- Panjab University, Chandigarh 160014, India
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- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Kolkata 700064, India
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- Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna 141 980
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- Alikhanov Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics NRC "Kurchatov Institute," Moscow 117218
- National Research Nuclear University MEPhI, Moscow 115409
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- Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843
| | - A Aparin
- Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna 141 980
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- Indian Institute Technology, Patna, Bihar 801106, India
| | - J Atchison
- Abilene Christian University, Abilene, Texas 79699
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- Instituto de Alta Investigación, Universidad de Tarapacá, Arica 1000000, Chile
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- University of California, Riverside, California 92521
| | | | - K Barish
- University of California, Riverside, California 92521
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- University of Jammu, Jammu 180001, India
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- University of Jammu, Jammu 180001, India
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- State University of New York, Stony Brook, New York 11794
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- Alikhanov Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics NRC "Kurchatov Institute," Moscow 117218
| | | | - A V Brandin
- National Research Nuclear University MEPhI, Moscow 115409
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- Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201800
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- Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520
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- University of California, Davis, California 95616
| | - J Ceska
- Czech Technical University in Prague, FNSPE, Prague 115 19, Czech Republic
| | - I Chakaberia
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720
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- University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095
| | - Z Chang
- Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47408
| | - A Chatterjee
- National Institute of Technology Durgapur, Durgapur - 713209, India
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- University of California, Riverside, California 92521
| | - J Chen
- Shandong University, Qingdao, Shandong 266237
| | - J H Chen
- Fudan University, Shanghai, 200433
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- Shandong University, Qingdao, Shandong 266237
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- Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
| | - Y Cheng
- University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973
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- University of California, Berkeley, California 94720
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- University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60607
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- Czech Technical University in Prague, FNSPE, Prague 115 19, Czech Republic
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- Abilene Christian University, Abilene, Texas 79699
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- Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna 141 980
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- University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg 69120, Germany
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- NRC "Kurchatov Institute," Institute of High Energy Physics, Protvino 142281
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- Panjab University, Chandigarh 160014, India
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- Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan 48201
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973
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- Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Berhampur 760010, India
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973
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- University of California, Berkeley, California 94720
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- Rice University, Houston, Texas 77251
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- University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8571, Japan
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- University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60607
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- Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania 18015
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973
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- University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky 40506-0055
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- University of Calabria & INFN-Cosenza, Rende 87036, Italy
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- National Cheng Kung University, Tainan 70101
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- Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907
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- Southern Connecticut State University, New Haven, Connecticut 06515
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973
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- Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520
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- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, Hubei 430079
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- Rice University, Houston, Texas 77251
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- Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19122
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- Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, Indiana 46383
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- Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Tirupati, Tirupati 517507, India
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- Shandong University, Qingdao, Shandong 266237
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- Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, Indiana 46383
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- University of Jammu, Jammu 180001, India
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- American University of Cairo, New Cairo 11835, New Cairo, Egypt
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- Rice University, Houston, Texas 77251
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- University of California, Davis, California 95616
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- Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520
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- Fudan University, Shanghai, 200433
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- Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, Gansu 730000
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- Shandong University, Qingdao, Shandong 266237
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- Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, Gansu 730000
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- Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, Gansu 730000
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720
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- National Cheng Kung University, Tainan 70101
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- University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095
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- State University of New York, Stony Brook, New York 11794
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- University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60607
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- Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
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- Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
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- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, Hubei 430079
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- The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210
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- Abilene Christian University, Abilene, Texas 79699
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- University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8571, Japan
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- Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47408
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- University of Jammu, Jammu 180001, India
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- Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Tirupati, Tirupati 517507, India
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973
- State University of New York, Stony Brook, New York 11794
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- Rice University, Houston, Texas 77251
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- University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026
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- University of California, Berkeley, California 94720
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- Instituto de Alta Investigación, Universidad de Tarapacá, Arica 1000000, Chile
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- University of California, Riverside, California 92521
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- University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky 40506-0055
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- Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
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- University of California, Riverside, California 92521
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973
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- Kent State University, Kent, Ohio 44242
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- Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna 141 980
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- Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan 48201
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- University of California, Davis, California 95616
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973
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- Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania 18015
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720
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- National Research Nuclear University MEPhI, Moscow 115409
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- National Research Nuclear University MEPhI, Moscow 115409
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- Panjab University, Chandigarh 160014, India
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- Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, Gansu 730000
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- State University of New York, Stony Brook, New York 11794
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973
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- Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna 141 980
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973
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- University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg 69120, Germany
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973
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- Shandong University, Qingdao, Shandong 266237
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- Rice University, Houston, Texas 77251
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- University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026
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- University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026
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- Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
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- University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026
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- University of California, Riverside, California 92521
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- Kent State University, Kent, Ohio 44242
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- Shandong University, Qingdao, Shandong 266237
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- Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, Gansu 730000
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- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, Hubei 430079
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- Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47408
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- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, Hubei 430079
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- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, Hubei 430079
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- Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520
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- The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210
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- Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843
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- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, Hubei 430079
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973
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- Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan 48201
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- Czech Technical University in Prague, FNSPE, Prague 115 19, Czech Republic
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973
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- University of California, Riverside, California 92521
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- Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, Gansu 730000
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- Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19122
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- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, Hubei 430079
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- Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna 141 980
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- Fudan University, Shanghai, 200433
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973
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- Fudan University, Shanghai, 200433
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- State University of New York, Stony Brook, New York 11794
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- National Institute of Science Education and Research, HBNI, Jatni 752050, India
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720
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- Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854
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- Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan 48201
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- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, Hubei 430079
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- NRC "Kurchatov Institute," Institute of High Energy Physics, Protvino 142281
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- National Institute of Science Education and Research, HBNI, Jatni 752050, India
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- National Institute of Science Education and Research, HBNI, Jatni 752050, India
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- Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520
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- NRC "Kurchatov Institute," Institute of High Energy Physics, Protvino 142281
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- Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna 141 980
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- ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary H-1117
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- Panjab University, Chandigarh 160014, India
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- Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19122
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- Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Berhampur 760010, India
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- University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095
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- University of California, Berkeley, California 94720
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- Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520
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- Shandong University, Qingdao, Shandong 266237
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- National Research Nuclear University MEPhI, Moscow 115409
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- University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8571, Japan
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- University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8571, Japan
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- NRC "Kurchatov Institute," Institute of High Energy Physics, Protvino 142281
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- University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8571, Japan
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973
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- Sejong University, Seoul, 05006, South Korea
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- National Research Nuclear University MEPhI, Moscow 115409
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- University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8571, Japan
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973
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- Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843
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- National Institute of Science Education and Research, HBNI, Jatni 752050, India
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- Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, Gansu 730000
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- Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854
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- National Research Nuclear University MEPhI, Moscow 115409
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- University of California, Riverside, California 92521
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- University of California, Berkeley, California 94720
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- Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19122
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- Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19122
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- Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania 18015
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- Panjab University, Chandigarh 160014, India
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- Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan 48201
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- Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
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- Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, Gansu 730000
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- Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19122
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- University of California, Riverside, California 92521
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- Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan 48201
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- University of Texas, Austin, Texas 78712
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720
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- Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973
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- Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Berhampur 760010, India
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- Shandong University, Qingdao, Shandong 266237
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- University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8571, Japan
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- Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854
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- Alikhanov Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics NRC "Kurchatov Institute," Moscow 117218
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- University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8571, Japan
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973
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- Max-Planck-Institut für Physik, Munich 80805, Germany
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- Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska 68178
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- University of California, Riverside, California 92521
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- Max-Planck-Institut für Physik, Munich 80805, Germany
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- Indian Institute Technology, Patna, Bihar 801106, India
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- Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna 141 980
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- Fudan University, Shanghai, 200433
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- University of Jammu, Jammu 180001, India
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- Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Berhampur 760010, India
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- Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Tirupati, Tirupati 517507, India
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- Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Tirupati, Tirupati 517507, India
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- Fudan University, Shanghai, 200433
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- University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026
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- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, Hubei 430079
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- Shandong University, Qingdao, Shandong 266237
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- Fudan University, Shanghai, 200433
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- University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026
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- Panjab University, Chandigarh 160014, India
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- Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, Gansu 730000
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- Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Tirupati, Tirupati 517507, India
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- Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana, 47306
- Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907
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- University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg 69120, Germany
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- Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520
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- Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907
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- Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan 48201
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- University of California, Riverside, California 92521
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973
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- University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973
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- Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, Gansu 730000
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973
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- University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026
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- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, Hubei 430079
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- Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
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- Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies FIAS, Frankfurt 60438, Germany
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Aboona BE, Adam J, Adamczyk L, Adams JR, Aggarwal I, Aggarwal MM, Ahammed Z, Anderson DM, Aschenauer EC, Atchison J, Bairathi V, Baker W, Ball Cap JG, Barish K, Bellwied R, Bhagat P, Bhasin A, Bhatta S, Bielcik J, Bielcikova J, Brandenburg JD, Cai XZ, Caines H, Calderón de la Barca Sánchez M, Cebra D, Ceska J, Chakaberia I, Chaloupka P, Chan BK, Chang Z, Chen D, Chen J, Chen JH, Chen Z, Cheng J, Cheng Y, Choudhury S, Christie W, Chu X, Crawford HJ, Csanád M, Dale-Gau G, Das A, Daugherity M, Deppner IM, Dhamija A, Di Carlo L, Didenko L, Dixit P, Dong X, Drachenberg JL, Duckworth E, Dunlop JC, Engelage J, Eppley G, Esumi S, Evdokimov O, Ewigleben A, Eyser O, Fatemi R, Fazio S, Feng CJ, Feng Y, Finch E, Fisyak Y, Flor FA, Fu C, Gagliardi CA, Galatyuk T, Geurts F, Ghimire N, Gibson A, Gopal K, Gou X, Grosnick D, Gupta A, Guryn W, Hamed A, Han Y, Harabasz S, Harasty MD, Harris JW, Harrison H, He W, He XH, He Y, Heppelmann S, Herrmann N, Holub L, Hu C, Hu Q, Hu Y, Huang H, Huang HZ, Huang SL, Huang T, Huang X, Huang Y, Huang Y, Humanic TJ, Isenhower D, Isshiki M, Jacobs WW, Jalotra A, Jena C, Jentsch A, Ji Y, Jia J, Jin C, Ju X, Judd EG, Kabana S, Kabir ML, Kagamaster S, Kalinkin D, Kang K, Kapukchyan D, Kauder K, Ke HW, Keane D, Kelsey M, Khyzhniak YV, Kikoła DP, Kimelman B, Kincses D, Kisel I, Kiselev A, Knospe AG, Ko HS, Kosarzewski LK, Kramarik L, Kumar L, Kumar S, Kunnawalkam Elayavalli R, Lacey R, Landgraf JM, Lauret J, Lebedev A, Lee JH, Leung YH, Lewis N, Li C, Li C, Li W, Li X, Li Y, Li Y, Li Z, Liang X, Liang Y, Licenik R, Lin T, Lisa MA, Liu C, Liu F, Liu H, Liu H, Liu L, Liu T, Liu X, Liu Y, Liu Z, Ljubicic T, Llope WJ, Lomicky O, Longacre RS, Loyd E, Lu T, Lukow NS, Luo XF, Ma L, Ma R, Ma YG, Magdy N, Mallick D, Margetis S, Markert C, Matis HS, Mazer JA, McNamara G, Mi K, Mioduszewski S, Mohanty B, Mooney I, Mukherjee A, Nagy MI, Nain AS, Nam JD, Nasim M, Neff D, Nelson JM, Nemes DB, Nie M, Niida T, Nishitani R, Nonaka T, Nunes AS, Odyniec G, Ogawa A, Oh S, Okubo K, Page BS, Pak R, Pan J, Pandav A, Pandey AK, Pani T, Paul A, Pawlik B, Pawlowska D, Perkins C, Pluta J, Pokhrel BR, Posik M, Protzman T, Prozorova V, Pruthi NK, Przybycien M, Putschke J, Qin Z, Qiu H, Quintero A, Racz C, Radhakrishnan SK, Raha N, Ray RL, Reed R, Ritter HG, Robertson CW, Robotkova M, Romero JL, Rosales Aguilar MA, Roy D, Roy Chowdhury P, Ruan L, Sahoo AK, Sahoo NR, Sako H, Salur S, Sato S, Schmidke WB, Schmitz N, Seck FJ, Seger J, Seto R, Seyboth P, Shah N, Shanmuganathan PV, Shao M, Shao T, Sharma M, Sharma N, Sharma R, Sharma SR, Sheikh AI, Shen DY, Shen K, Shi SS, Shi Y, Shou QY, Si F, Singh J, Singha S, Sinha P, Skoby MJ, Smirnov N, Söhngen Y, Song Y, Srivastava B, Stanislaus TDS, Stefaniak M, Stewart DJ, Stringfellow B, Su Y, Suaide AAP, Sumbera M, Sun C, Sun X, Sun Y, Sun Y, Surrow B, Sweger ZW, Szymanski P, Tamis A, Tang AH, Tang Z, Tarnowsky T, Thomas JH, Timmins AR, Tlusty D, Todoroki T, Tomkiel CA, Trentalange S, Tribble RE, Tribedy P, Truhlar T, Trzeciak BA, Tsai OD, Tsang CY, Tu Z, Ullrich T, Underwood DG, Upsal I, Van Buren G, Vanek J, Vassiliev I, Verkest V, Videbæk F, Voloshin SA, Wang F, Wang G, Wang JS, Wang X, Wang Y, Wang Y, Wang Y, Wang Z, Webb JC, Weidenkaff PC, Westfall GD, Wielanek D, Wieman H, Wilks G, Wissink SW, Witt R, Wu J, Wu J, Wu X, Wu Y, Xi B, Xiao ZG, Xie W, Xu H, Xu N, Xu QH, Xu Y, Xu Y, Xu Z, Xu Z, Yan G, Yan Z, Yang C, Yang Q, Yang S, Yang Y, Ye Z, Ye Z, Yi L, Yip K, Yu Y, Zbroszczyk H, Zha W, Zhang C, Zhang D, Zhang J, Zhang S, Zhang X, Zhang Y, Zhang Y, Zhang Y, Zhang ZJ, Zhang Z, Zhang Z, Zhao F, Zhao J, Zhao M, Zhou C, Zhou J, Zhou S, Zhou Y, Zhu X, Zurek M, Zyzak M. Beam Energy Dependence of Fifth- and Sixth-Order Net-Proton Number Fluctuations in Au+Au Collisions at RHIC. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2023; 130:082301. [PMID: 36898098 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.130.082301] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/22/2022] [Revised: 11/21/2022] [Accepted: 01/11/2023] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
Abstract
We report the beam energy and collision centrality dependence of fifth and sixth order cumulants (C_{5}, C_{6}) and factorial cumulants (κ_{5}, κ_{6}) of net-proton and proton number distributions, from center-of-mass energy (sqrt[s_{NN}]) 3 GeV to 200 GeV Au+Au collisions at RHIC. Cumulant ratios of net-proton (taken as proxy for net-baryon) distributions generally follow the hierarchy expected from QCD thermodynamics, except for the case of collisions at 3 GeV. The measured values of C_{6}/C_{2} for 0%-40% centrality collisions show progressively negative trend with decreasing energy, while it is positive for the lowest energy studied. These observed negative signs are consistent with QCD calculations (for baryon chemical potential, μ_{B}≤110 MeV) which contains the crossover transition range. In addition, for energies above 7.7 GeV, the measured proton κ_{n}, within uncertainties, does not support the two-component (Poisson+binomial) shape of proton number distributions that would be expected from a first-order phase transition. Taken in combination, the hyperorder proton number fluctuations suggest that the structure of QCD matter at high baryon density, μ_{B}∼750 MeV at sqrt[s_{NN}]=3 GeV is starkly different from those at vanishing μ_{B}∼24 MeV at sqrt[s_{NN}]=200 GeV and higher collision energies.
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- B E Aboona
- Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843
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- Czech Technical University in Prague, FNSPE, Prague 115 19, Czech Republic
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- AGH University of Science and Technology, FPACS, Cracow 30-059, Poland
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- Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210
| | - I Aggarwal
- Panjab University, Chandigarh 160014, India
| | | | - Z Ahammed
- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Kolkata 700064, India
| | - D M Anderson
- Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843
| | | | - J Atchison
- Abilene Christian University, Abilene, Texas 79699
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- Instituto de Alta Investigación, Universidad de Tarapacá, Arica 1000000, Chile
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- University of California, Riverside, California 92521
| | | | - K Barish
- University of California, Riverside, California 92521
| | - R Bellwied
- University of Houston, Houston, Texas 77204
| | - P Bhagat
- University of Jammu, Jammu 180001, India
| | - A Bhasin
- University of Jammu, Jammu 180001, India
| | - S Bhatta
- State University of New York, Stony Brook, New York 11794
| | - J Bielcik
- Czech Technical University in Prague, FNSPE, Prague 115 19, Czech Republic
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- Nuclear Physics Institute of the CAS, Rez 250 68, Czech Republic
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- Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201800
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- Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520
| | | | - D Cebra
- University of California, Davis, California 95616
| | - J Ceska
- Czech Technical University in Prague, FNSPE, Prague 115 19, Czech Republic
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720
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- Czech Technical University in Prague, FNSPE, Prague 115 19, Czech Republic
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- University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095
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- Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47408
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- University of California, Riverside, California 92521
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- Shandong University, Qingdao, Shandong 266237
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- Fudan University, Shanghai, 200433
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- Shandong University, Qingdao, Shandong 266237
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- Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
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- University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973
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- University of California, Berkeley, California 94720
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- ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary H-1117
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- University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60607
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- Czech Technical University in Prague, FNSPE, Prague 115 19, Czech Republic
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- Abilene Christian University, Abilene, Texas 79699
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- University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg 69120, Germany
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- Panjab University, Chandigarh 160014, India
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- Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan 48201
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973
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- Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Berhampur 760010, India
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973
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- University of California, Berkeley, California 94720
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- Rice University, Houston, Texas 77251
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- University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8571, Japan
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- University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60607
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- Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania 18015
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973
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- University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky 40506-0055
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- University of Calabria & INFN-Cosenza, Italy
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- National Cheng Kung University, Tainan 70101
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- Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907
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- Southern Connecticut State University, New Haven, Connecticut 06515
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973
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- Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520
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- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, Hubei 430079
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- Technische Universität Darmstadt, Darmstadt 64289, Germany
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- Rice University, Houston, Texas 77251
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- Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19122
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- Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, Indiana 46383
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- Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Tirupati, Tirupati 517507, India
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- Shandong University, Qingdao, Shandong 266237
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- Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, Indiana 46383
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- University of Jammu, Jammu 180001, India
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973
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- American University of Cairo, New Cairo 11835, New Cairo, Egypt
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- Rice University, Houston, Texas 77251
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- Technische Universität Darmstadt, Darmstadt 64289, Germany
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- University of California, Davis, California 95616
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- Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520
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- University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky 40506-0055
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- Fudan University, Shanghai, 200433
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- Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, Gansu 730000
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- Shandong University, Qingdao, Shandong 266237
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- University of California, Davis, California 95616
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- University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg 69120, Germany
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- Czech Technical University in Prague, FNSPE, Prague 115 19, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, Gansu 730000
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- Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, Gansu 730000
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720
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- National Cheng Kung University, Tainan 70101
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- University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095
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- State University of New York, Stony Brook, New York 11794
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- University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60607
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- Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
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- Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
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- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, Hubei 430079
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- Abilene Christian University, Abilene, Texas 79699
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- University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8571, Japan
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- Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47408
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- University of Jammu, Jammu 180001, India
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- Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Tirupati, Tirupati 517507, India
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973
- State University of New York, Stony Brook, New York 11794
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- Rice University, Houston, Texas 77251
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- University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026
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- University of California, Berkeley, California 94720
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- Instituto de Alta Investigación, Universidad de Tarapacá, Arica 1000000, Chile
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- University of California, Riverside, California 92521
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- Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania 18015
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973
- University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky 40506-0055
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- Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
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- University of California, Riverside, California 92521
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973
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- Kent State University, Kent, Ohio 44242
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- Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan 48201
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- Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw 00-661, Poland
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- University of California, Davis, California 95616
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- ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary H-1117
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- Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies FIAS, Frankfurt 60438, Germany
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973
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- Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania 18015
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720
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- Czech Technical University in Prague, FNSPE, Prague 115 19, Czech Republic
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- Czech Technical University in Prague, FNSPE, Prague 115 19, Czech Republic
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- Panjab University, Chandigarh 160014, India
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- Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, Gansu 730000
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- State University of New York, Stony Brook, New York 11794
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973
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- University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg 69120, Germany
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973
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- Shandong University, Qingdao, Shandong 266237
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- University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026
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- Rice University, Houston, Texas 77251
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- University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026
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- University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026
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- Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
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- University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026
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- University of California, Riverside, California 92521
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- Kent State University, Kent, Ohio 44242
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- Czech Technical University in Prague, FNSPE, Prague 115 19, Czech Republic
- Nuclear Physics Institute of the CAS, Rez 250 68, Czech Republic
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- Shandong University, Qingdao, Shandong 266237
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- Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210
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- Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, Gansu 730000
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- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, Hubei 430079
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- Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47408
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- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, Hubei 430079
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- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, Hubei 430079
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- Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520
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- Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210
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- Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843
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- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, Hubei 430079
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973
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- Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan 48201
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- Czech Technical University in Prague, FNSPE, Prague 115 19, Czech Republic
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973
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- University of California, Riverside, California 92521
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- Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, Gansu 730000
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- Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19122
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- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, Hubei 430079
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- Fudan University, Shanghai, 200433
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973
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- Fudan University, Shanghai, 200433
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- State University of New York, Stony Brook, New York 11794
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- National Institute of Science Education and Research, HBNI, Jatni 752050, India
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- University of Texas, Austin, Texas 78712
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720
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- Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854
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- Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan 48201
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- National Institute of Science Education and Research, HBNI, Jatni 752050, India
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- Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520
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- ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary H-1117
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- Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19122
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- Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Berhampur 760010, India
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- University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095
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- University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8571, Japan
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- University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8571, Japan
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- University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8571, Japan
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720
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- University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8571, Japan
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973
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- Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843
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- National Institute of Science Education and Research, HBNI, Jatni 752050, India
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- Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, Gansu 730000
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- Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854
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- University of California, Riverside, California 92521
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- Institute of Nuclear Physics PAN, Cracow 31-342, Poland
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- Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw 00-661, Poland
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- University of California, Berkeley, California 94720
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- Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw 00-661, Poland
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- Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19122
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- Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19122
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- Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania 18015
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- Czech Technical University in Prague, FNSPE, Prague 115 19, Czech Republic
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- Panjab University, Chandigarh 160014, India
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- AGH University of Science and Technology, FPACS, Cracow 30-059, Poland
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- Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan 48201
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- Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
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- Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, Gansu 730000
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- Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19122
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- University of California, Riverside, California 92521
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- University of Texas, Austin, Texas 78712
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- Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania 18015
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720
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- Czech Technical University in Prague, FNSPE, Prague 115 19, Czech Republic
- Nuclear Physics Institute of the CAS, Rez 250 68, Czech Republic
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- University of California, Davis, California 95616
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- Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973
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- Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Berhampur 760010, India
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- Shandong University, Qingdao, Shandong 266237
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- University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8571, Japan
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- Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854
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- University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8571, Japan
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973
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- Max-Planck-Institut für Physik, Munich 80805, Germany
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- Technische Universität Darmstadt, Darmstadt 64289, Germany
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- University of California, Riverside, California 92521
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- Max-Planck-Institut für Physik, Munich 80805, Germany
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- Indian Institute Technology, Patna, Bihar 801106, India
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- University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026
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- Fudan University, Shanghai, 200433
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- University of Jammu, Jammu 180001, India
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- Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Berhampur 760010, India
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- Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Tirupati, Tirupati 517507, India
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- Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Tirupati, Tirupati 517507, India
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- Fudan University, Shanghai, 200433
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- University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026
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- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, Hubei 430079
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- Shandong University, Qingdao, Shandong 266237
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- Fudan University, Shanghai, 200433
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- University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026
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- Panjab University, Chandigarh 160014, India
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- Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, Gansu 730000
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- Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Tirupati, Tirupati 517507, India
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- Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907
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- University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026
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- Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil 05314-970
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- Nuclear Physics Institute of the CAS, Rez 250 68, Czech Republic
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- State University of New York, Stony Brook, New York 11794
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- Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, Gansu 730000
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- University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026
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- Huzhou University, Huzhou, Zhejiang 313000
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- Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19122
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- University of California, Davis, California 95616
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- Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw 00-661, Poland
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- Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973
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- University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720
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- Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska 68178
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- University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8571, Japan
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- University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095
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- Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973
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- Czech Technical University in Prague, FNSPE, Prague 115 19, Czech Republic
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- Czech Technical University in Prague, FNSPE, Prague 115 19, Czech Republic
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973
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- Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, Indiana 46383
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973
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- Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies FIAS, Frankfurt 60438, Germany
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- Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan 48201
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973
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- University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095
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- University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973
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- Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824
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- Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw 00-661, Poland
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- United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland 21402
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- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, Hubei 430079
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- Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, Gansu 730000
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- University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095
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- University of California, Riverside, California 92521
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- Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201800
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- Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
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- Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907
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- Huzhou University, Huzhou, Zhejiang 313000
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720
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- Shandong University, Qingdao, Shandong 266237
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- Shandong University, Qingdao, Shandong 266237
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- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, Hubei 430079
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973
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- University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095
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- Shandong University, Qingdao, Shandong 266237
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- State University of New York, Stony Brook, New York 11794
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- Shandong University, Qingdao, Shandong 266237
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- Shandong University, Qingdao, Shandong 266237
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- South China Normal University, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510631
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- Rice University, Houston, Texas 77251
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- University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60607
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- Shandong University, Qingdao, Shandong 266237
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973
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- Shandong University, Qingdao, Shandong 266237
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- Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw 00-661, Poland
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- University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026
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- State University of New York, Stony Brook, New York 11794
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- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, Hubei 430079
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- Shandong University, Qingdao, Shandong 266237
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- University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026
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- Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, Gansu 730000
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- Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, Gansu 730000
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- University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026
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- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, Hubei 430079
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973
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- University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60607
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- Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, Gansu 730000
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- Fudan University, Shanghai, 200433
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973
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- University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026
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- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, Hubei 430079
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- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, Hubei 430079
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- Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
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- Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439
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- Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies FIAS, Frankfurt 60438, Germany
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Rustamov A. Deciphering the phases of QCD matter with fluctuations and correlations of conserved charges. EPJ WEB OF CONFERENCES 2023. [DOI: 10.1051/epjconf/202327601007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/05/2023] Open
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A review is given on recent experimental and theoretical/phenomenological developments regarding the phase structure of the strongly interacting matter. Specifically, evolution with collision energy of netproton number fluctuations as measured by several experiments are presented and their implications for the QCD phase diagram are outlined. In addition, theoretical calculations on correlations between conserved charges are presented and prospects for their experimental explorations are addressed.
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Pandav A. Seventh and eighth-order cumulants of net-proton multiplicity distributions in heavy-ion collisions at RHIC-STAR. EPJ WEB OF CONFERENCES 2023. [DOI: 10.1051/epjconf/202327601006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/05/2023] Open
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We report the first measurements of seventh and eighth-order cumulants of net-proton distributions in Au+Au collisions at √SNN=27,54.4, and 200 GeV. The measurements are performed at mid-rapidity |y| < 0.5 within 0.4 < pT < 2.0 GeV/c using the Time Projection Chamber and Time-of-Flight detector. Motivation for the measurements comes from lattice-QCD and QCD based model calculations that predict their negative signs for a crossover quark-hadron transition. While 0-40% centrality measurements at √SNN=54.4 and 200 GeV are consistent with zero within large uncertainties, at √SNN=27 GeV, they are negative with ≤ 1.4σ significance. The peripheral 70-80% measurements are either positive or consistent with zero for the three energies.
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Vovchenko V. Fluctuations of conserved charges in hydrodynamics and molecular dynamics. EPJ WEB OF CONFERENCES 2023. [DOI: 10.1051/epjconf/202327601027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/05/2023] Open
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We present an overview of recent theoretical results on fluctuations of conserved charges in heavy-ion collisions obtained in relativistic hydrodynamics and molecular dynamics frameworks. In particular, we discuss the constraints on the location of the QCD critical point based on comparisons of experimental data on proton number cumulants with precision calculations of noncritical contributions. We also cover recent developments on critical fluctuations in molecular dynamics simulations.
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Particle Multiplicity Fluctuations and Spatiotemporal Properties of Particle-Emitting Source of Strongly Interacting Matter for NICA and RHIC Energies. Symmetry (Basel) 2022. [DOI: 10.3390/sym14071316] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023] Open
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The results of the model analysis of hadron femtoscopic correlations and factorial moments of particle multiplicity in heavy ion collisions for the energy range of the Beam Energy Scan (BES) program at RHIC and future NICA collider are presented. For this purpose, the simulation of Au+Au collisions at center-of-mass energies 7.7 and 11.5 GeV per nucleon pair using the UrQMD, vHLLE+UrQMD (with the crossover and first-order equation of states), and HYDJET++ event generators was performed. The sensitivity of pion and kaon correlation radii and the dependence of the factorial moments on heavy ion beam energy to quark–hadron phase transition details was studied. In addition, the possible influence of some relevant detector effects on the corresponding experimental observables is discussed.
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Abdallah MS, Aboona BE, Adam J, Adamczyk L, Adams JR, Adkins JK, Agakishiev G, Aggarwal I, Aggarwal MM, Ahammed Z, Alekseev I, Anderson DM, Aparin A, Aschenauer EC, Ashraf MU, Atetalla FG, Attri A, Averichev GS, Bairathi V, Baker W, Ball Cap JG, Barish K, Behera A, Bellwied R, Bhagat P, Bhasin A, Bielcik J, Bielcikova J, Bordyuzhin IG, Brandenburg JD, Brandin AV, Bunzarov I, Cai XZ, Caines H, Calderón de la Barca Sánchez M, Cebra D, Chakaberia I, Chaloupka P, Chan BK, Chang FH, Chang Z, Chankova-Bunzarova N, Chatterjee A, Chattopadhyay S, Chen D, Chen J, Chen JH, Chen X, Chen Z, Cheng J, Chevalier M, Choudhury S, Christie W, Chu X, Crawford HJ, Csanád M, Daugherity M, Dedovich TG, Deppner IM, Derevschikov AA, Dhamija A, Di Carlo L, Didenko L, Dixit P, Dong X, Drachenberg JL, Duckworth E, Dunlop JC, Elsey N, Engelage J, Eppley G, Esumi S, Evdokimov O, Ewigleben A, Eyser O, Fatemi R, Fawzi FM, Fazio S, Federic P, Fedorisin J, Feng CJ, Feng Y, Filip P, Finch E, Fisyak Y, Francisco A, Fu C, Fulek L, Gagliardi CA, Galatyuk T, Geurts F, Ghimire N, Gibson A, Gopal K, Gou X, Grosnick D, Gupta A, Guryn W, Hamad AI, Hamed A, Han Y, Harabasz S, Harasty MD, Harris JW, Harrison H, He S, He W, He XH, He Y, Heppelmann S, Heppelmann S, Herrmann N, Hoffman E, Holub L, Hu Y, Huang H, Huang HZ, Huang SL, Huang T, Huang X, Huang Y, Humanic TJ, Igo G, Isenhower D, Jacobs WW, Jena C, Jentsch A, Ji Y, Jia J, Jiang K, Ju X, Judd EG, Kabana S, Kabir ML, Kagamaster S, Kalinkin D, Kang K, Kapukchyan D, Kauder K, Ke HW, Keane D, Kechechyan A, Kelsey M, Khyzhniak YV, Kikoła DP, Kim C, Kimelman B, Kincses D, Kisel I, Kiselev A, Knospe AG, Ko HS, Kochenda L, Kosarzewski LK, Kramarik L, Kravtsov P, Kumar L, Kumar S, Kunnawalkam Elayavalli R, Kwasizur JH, Lacey R, Lan S, Landgraf JM, Lauret J, Lebedev A, Lednicky R, Lee JH, Leung YH, Lewis N, Li C, Li C, Li W, Li X, Li Y, Liang X, Liang Y, Licenik R, Lin T, Lin Y, Lisa MA, Liu F, Liu H, Liu H, Liu P, Liu T, Liu X, Liu Y, Liu Z, Ljubicic T, Llope WJ, Longacre RS, Loyd E, Lukow NS, Luo XF, Ma L, Ma R, Ma YG, Magdy N, Mallick D, Margetis S, Markert C, Matis HS, Mazer JA, Minaev NG, Mioduszewski S, Mohanty B, Mondal MM, Mooney I, Morozov DA, Mukherjee A, Nagy M, Nam JD, Nasim M, Nayak K, Neff D, Nelson JM, Nemes DB, Nie M, Nigmatkulov G, Niida T, Nishitani R, Nogach LV, Nonaka T, Nunes AS, Odyniec G, Ogawa A, Oh S, Okorokov VA, Page BS, Pak R, Pan J, Pandav A, Pandey AK, Panebratsev Y, Parfenov P, Pawlik B, Pawlowska D, Perkins C, Pinsky L, Pluta J, Pokhrel BR, Ponimatkin G, Porter J, Posik M, Prozorova V, Pruthi NK, Przybycien M, Putschke J, Qiu H, Quintero A, Racz C, Radhakrishnan SK, Raha N, Ray RL, Reed R, Ritter HG, Robotkova M, Rogachevskiy OV, Romero JL, Roy D, Ruan L, Rusnak J, Sahoo AK, Sahoo NR, Sako H, Salur S, Sandweiss J, Sato S, Schmidke WB, Schmitz N, Schweid BR, Seck F, Seger J, Sergeeva M, Seto R, Seyboth P, Shah N, Shahaliev E, Shanmuganathan PV, Shao M, Shao T, Sheikh AI, Shen DY, Shi SS, Shi Y, Shou QY, Sichtermann EP, Sikora R, Simko M, Singh J, Singha S, Skoby MJ, Smirnov N, Söhngen Y, Solyst W, Song Y, Sorensen P, Spinka HM, Srivastava B, Stanislaus TDS, Stefaniak M, Stewart DJ, Strikhanov M, Stringfellow B, Suaide AAP, Sumbera M, Summa B, Sun XM, Sun X, Sun Y, Sun Y, Surrow B, Svirida DN, Sweger ZW, Szymanski P, Tang AH, Tang Z, Taranenko A, Tarnowsky T, Thomas JH, Timmins AR, Tlusty D, Todoroki T, Tokarev M, Tomkiel CA, Trentalange S, Tribble RE, Tribedy P, Tripathy SK, Truhlar T, Trzeciak BA, Tsai OD, Tu Z, Ullrich T, Underwood DG, Upsal I, Van Buren G, Vanek J, Vasiliev AN, Vassiliev I, Verkest V, Videbæk F, Vokal S, Voloshin SA, Wang F, Wang G, Wang JS, Wang P, Wang X, Wang Y, Wang Y, Wang Z, Webb JC, Weidenkaff PC, Wen L, Westfall GD, Wieman H, Wissink SW, Witt R, Wu J, Wu J, Wu Y, Xi B, Xiao ZG, Xie G, Xie W, Xu H, Xu N, Xu QH, Xu Y, Xu Z, Xu Z, Yan G, Yang C, Yang Q, Yang S, Yang Y, Ye Z, Ye Z, Yi L, Yip K, Yu Y, Zbroszczyk H, Zha W, Zhang C, Zhang D, Zhang J, Zhang S, Zhang S, Zhang XP, Zhang Y, Zhang Y, Zhang Y, Zhang ZJ, Zhang Z, Zhang Z, Zhao J, Zhou C, Zhou Y, Zhu X, Zurek M, Zyzak M. Measurements of Proton High-Order Cumulants in sqrt[s_{NN}]=3 GeV Au+Au Collisions and Implications for the QCD Critical Point. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2022; 128:202303. [PMID: 35657878 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.128.202303] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/02/2021] [Accepted: 04/11/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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We report cumulants of the proton multiplicity distribution from dedicated fixed-target Au+Au collisions at sqrt[s_{NN}]=3.0 GeV, measured by the STAR experiment in the kinematic acceptance of rapidity (y) and transverse momentum (p_{T}) within -0.5<y<0 and 0.4<p_{T}<2.0 GeV/c. In the most central 0%-5% collisions, a proton cumulant ratio is measured to be C_{4}/C_{2}=-0.85±0.09 (stat)±0.82 (syst), which is 2σ below the Poisson baseline with respect to both the statistical and systematic uncertainties. The hadronic transport UrQMD model reproduces our C_{4}/C_{2} in the measured acceptance. Compared to higher energy results and the transport model calculations, the suppression in C_{4}/C_{2} is consistent with fluctuations driven by baryon number conservation and indicates an energy regime dominated by hadronic interactions. These data imply that the QCD critical region, if created in heavy-ion collisions, could only exist at energies higher than 3 GeV.
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- M S Abdallah
- American University of Cairo, New Cairo 11835, New Cairo, Egypt
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- Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973
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- AGH University of Science and Technology, FPACS, Cracow 30-059, Poland
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- Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210
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- University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky 40506-0055
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- Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna 141 980
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- Panjab University, Chandigarh 160014, India
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- Nuclear Physics Institute of the CAS, Rez 250 68, Czech Republic
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- Nuclear Physics Institute of the CAS, Rez 250 68, Czech Republic
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973
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- National Institute of Science Education and Research, HBNI, Jatni 752050, India
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- NRC "Kurchatov Institute", Institute of High Energy Physics, Protvino 142281
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- National Institute of Science Education and Research, HBNI, Jatni 752050, India
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- State University of New York, Stony Brook, New York 11794
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- Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan 48201
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- NRC "Kurchatov Institute", Institute of High Energy Physics, Protvino 142281
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- ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary H-1117
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- ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary H-1117
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- Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Berhampur 760010, India
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- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, Hubei 430079
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- National Research Nuclear University MEPhI, Moscow 115409
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- University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8571, Japan
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- University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8571, Japan
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- NRC "Kurchatov Institute", Institute of High Energy Physics, Protvino 142281
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- University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8571, Japan
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973
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- National Institute of Science Education and Research, HBNI, Jatni 752050, India
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- University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8571, Japan
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- National Research Nuclear University MEPhI, Moscow 115409
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- Institute of Nuclear Physics PAN, Cracow 31-342, Poland
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- Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw 00-661, Poland
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- Nuclear Physics Institute of the CAS, Rez 250 68, Czech Republic
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973
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- Czech Technical University in Prague, FNSPE, Prague 115 19, Czech Republic
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- Czech Technical University in Prague, FNSPE, Prague 115 19, Czech Republic
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- Shandong University, Qingdao, Shandong 266237
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- Shandong University, Qingdao, Shandong 266237
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973
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- University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095
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- Shandong University, Qingdao, Shandong 266237
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- Shandong University, Qingdao, Shandong 266237
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- Shandong University, Qingdao, Shandong 266237
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- Rice University, Houston, Texas 77251
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- National Cheng Kung University, Tainan 70101
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- Rice University, Houston, Texas 77251
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- University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60607
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- Shandong University, Qingdao, Shandong 266237
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973
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- Shandong University, Qingdao, Shandong 266237
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- Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw 00-661, Poland
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- University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026
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- State University of New York, Stony Brook, New York 11794
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- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, Hubei 430079
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- Shandong University, Qingdao, Shandong 266237
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- University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60607
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- Fudan University, Shanghai, 200433
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- Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, Gansu 730000
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- University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026
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- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, Hubei 430079
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- National Cheng Kung University, Tainan 70101
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973
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- University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60607
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- Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907
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- Fudan University, Shanghai, 200433
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- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, Hubei 430079
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- Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
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- Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439
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- Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies FIAS, Frankfurt 60438, Germany
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Nagamiya S. Heavy-Ion Collisions toward High-Density Nuclear Matter. ENTROPY (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2022; 24:482. [PMID: 35455146 PMCID: PMC9030566 DOI: 10.3390/e24040482] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/28/2022] [Revised: 03/25/2022] [Accepted: 03/25/2022] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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In the present paper, the current efforts in heavy-ion collisions toward high-density nuclear matter will be discussed. First, the essential points learned from RHIC and LHC will be reviewed. Then, the present data from the STAR Beam Energy Scan are discussed. Finally, the current efforts, NICA, FAIR, HIAF, and J-PARC-HI (heavy ion) are described. In particular, the efforts of the J-PARC-HI project are described in detail.
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- Shoji Nagamiya
- KEK (High Energy Accelerator Research Organization), 1-1 Oho, Tsukuba-shi 305-0801, Japan;
- RIKEN (Institute for Physical and Chemical Research), 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako-shi 351-0198, Japan
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Borsányi S, Fodor Z, Giordano M, Katz SD, Nógrádi D, Pásztor A, Wong CH. Lattice simulations of the QCD chiral transition at real baryon density. Int J Clin Exp Med 2022. [DOI: 10.1103/physrevd.105.l051506] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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The objective of the compressed baryonic matter (CBM) experiment at the future Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research (FAIR) in Darmstadt, Germany, is the investigation of the fundamental properties of strongly interacting matter. Of particular interest for our understanding of compact stellar objects is the determination of the equation-of-state (EOS) at high baryon densities and the exploration of the microscopic degrees-of-freedom under these conditions. The results of these laboratory experiments will complement astronomical observations, which also constrain the high-density EOS. Recent results of QCD-based calculations suggest that a possible first-order chiral phase transition should be observable in heavy-ion collisions at FAIR energies. This article reviews relevant observables from heavy-ion collisions and describes the detector configuration and the physics performance of the CBM experiment.
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Tan H, Dore T, Dexheimer V, Noronha-Hostler J, Yunes N. Extreme matter meets extreme gravity: Ultraheavy neutron stars with phase transitions. Int J Clin Exp Med 2022. [DOI: 10.1103/physrevd.105.023018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Abdallah MS, Adam J, Adamczyk L, Adams JR, Adkins JK, Agakishiev G, Aggarwal I, Aggarwal MM, Ahammed Z, Alekseev I, Anderson DM, Aparin A, Aschenauer EC, Ashraf MU, Atetalla FG, Attri A, Averichev GS, Bairathi V, Baker W, Ball Cap JG, Barish K, Behera A, Bellwied R, Bhagat P, Bhasin A, Bielcik J, Bielcikova J, Bordyuzhin IG, Brandenburg JD, Brandin AV, Bunzarov I, Butterworth J, Cai XZ, Caines H, Calderón de la Barca Sánchez M, Cebra D, Chakaberia I, Chaloupka P, Chan BK, Chang FH, Chang Z, Chankova-Bunzarova N, Chatterjee A, Chattopadhyay S, Chen D, Chen J, Chen JH, Chen X, Chen Z, Cheng J, Chevalier M, Choudhury S, Christie W, Chu X, Crawford HJ, Csanád M, Daugherity M, Dedovich TG, Deppner IM, Derevschikov AA, Dhamija A, Di Carlo L, Didenko L, Dong X, Drachenberg JL, Duckworth E, Dunlop JC, Elsey N, Engelage J, Eppley G, Esumi S, Evdokimov O, Ewigleben A, Eyser O, Fatemi R, Fawzi FM, Fazio S, Federic P, Fedorisin J, Feng CJ, Feng Y, Filip P, Finch E, Fisyak Y, Francisco A, Fu C, Fulek L, Gagliardi CA, Galatyuk T, Geurts F, Ghimire N, Gibson A, Gopal K, Gou X, Grosnick D, Gupta A, Guryn W, Hamad AI, Hamed A, Han Y, Harabasz S, Harasty MD, Harris JW, Harrison H, He S, He W, He XH, He Y, Heppelmann S, Heppelmann S, Herrmann N, Hoffman E, Holub L, Hu Y, Huang H, Huang HZ, Huang SL, Huang T, Huang X, Huang Y, Humanic TJ, Igo G, Isenhower D, Jacobs WW, Jena C, Jentsch A, Ji Y, Jia J, Jiang K, Ju X, Judd EG, Kabana S, Kabir ML, Kagamaster S, Kalinkin D, Kang K, Kapukchyan D, Kauder K, Ke HW, Keane D, Kechechyan A, Khyzhniak YV, Kikoła DP, Kim C, Kimelman B, Kincses D, Kisel I, Kiselev A, Knospe AG, Kochenda L, Kosarzewski LK, Kramarik L, Kravtsov P, Kumar L, Kumar S, Kunnawalkam Elayavalli R, Kwasizur JH, Lacey R, Lan S, Landgraf JM, Lauret J, Lebedev A, Lednicky R, Lee JH, Leung YH, Li C, Li C, Li W, Li X, Li Y, Liang X, Liang Y, Licenik R, Lin T, Lin Y, Lisa MA, Liu F, Liu H, Liu H, Liu P, Liu T, Liu X, Liu Y, Liu Z, Ljubicic T, Llope WJ, Longacre RS, Loyd E, Lukow NS, Luo X, Ma L, Ma R, Ma YG, Magdy N, Majka R, Mallick D, Margetis S, Markert C, Matis HS, Mazer JA, Minaev NG, Mioduszewski S, Mohanty B, Mondal MM, Mooney I, Morozov DA, Mukherjee A, Nagy M, Nam JD, Nasim M, Nayak K, Neff D, Nelson JM, Nemes DB, Nie M, Nigmatkulov G, Niida T, Nishitani R, Nogach LV, Nonaka T, Nunes AS, Odyniec G, Ogawa A, Oh S, Okorokov VA, Page BS, Pak R, Pandav A, Pandey AK, Panebratsev Y, Parfenov P, Pawlik B, Pawlowska D, Pei H, Perkins C, Pinsky L, Pintér RL, Pluta J, Pokhrel BR, Ponimatkin G, Porter J, Posik M, Prozorova V, Pruthi NK, Przybycien M, Putschke J, Qiu H, Quintero A, Racz C, Radhakrishnan SK, Raha N, Ray RL, Reed R, Ritter HG, Robotkova M, Rogachevskiy OV, Romero JL, Ruan L, Rusnak J, Sahoo NR, Sako H, Salur S, Sandweiss J, Sato S, Schmidke WB, Schmitz N, Schweid BR, Seck F, Seger J, Sergeeva M, Seto R, Seyboth P, Shah N, Shahaliev E, Shanmuganathan PV, Shao M, Shao T, Sheikh AI, Shen D, Shi SS, Shi Y, Shou QY, Sichtermann EP, Sikora R, Simko M, Singh J, Singha S, Skoby MJ, Smirnov N, Söhngen Y, Solyst W, Sorensen P, Spinka HM, Srivastava B, Stanislaus TDS, Stefaniak M, Stewart DJ, Strikhanov M, Stringfellow B, Suaide AAP, Sumbera M, Summa B, Sun XM, Sun X, Sun Y, Sun Y, Surrow B, Svirida DN, Sweger ZW, Szymanski P, Tang AH, Tang Z, Taranenko A, Tarnowsky T, Thomas JH, Timmins AR, Tlusty D, Todoroki T, Tokarev M, Tomkiel CA, Trentalange S, Tribble RE, Tribedy P, Tripathy SK, Truhlar T, Trzeciak BA, Tsai OD, Tu Z, Ullrich T, Underwood DG, Upsal I, Van Buren G, Vanek J, Vasiliev AN, Vassiliev I, Verkest V, Videbæk F, Vokal S, Voloshin SA, Wang F, Wang G, Wang JS, Wang P, Wang Y, Wang Y, Wang Z, Webb JC, Weidenkaff PC, Wen L, Westfall GD, Wieman H, Wissink SW, Wu J, Wu Y, Xi B, Xiao ZG, Xie G, Xie W, Xu H, Xu N, Xu QH, Xu Y, Xu Z, Xu Z, Yang C, Yang Q, Yang S, Yang Y, Ye Z, Ye Z, Yi L, Yip K, Yu Y, Zbroszczyk H, Zha W, Zhang C, Zhang D, Zhang J, Zhang S, Zhang S, Zhang XP, Zhang Y, Zhang Y, Zhang Y, Zhang ZJ, Zhang Z, Zhang Z, Zhao J, Zhou C, Zhu X, Zhu Z, Zurek M, Zyzak M. Measurement of the Sixth-Order Cumulant of Net-Proton Multiplicity Distributions in Au+Au Collisions at sqrt[s_{NN}]=27, 54.4, and 200 GeV at RHIC. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2021; 127:262301. [PMID: 35029466 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.127.262301] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/31/2021] [Revised: 08/19/2021] [Accepted: 11/11/2021] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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According to first-principle lattice QCD calculations, the transition from quark-gluon plasma to hadronic matter is a smooth crossover in the region μ_{B}≤T_{c}. In this range the ratio, C_{6}/C_{2}, of net-baryon distributions are predicted to be negative. In this Letter, we report the first measurement of the midrapidity net-proton C_{6}/C_{2} from 27, 54.4, and 200 GeV Au+Au collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC). The dependence on collision centrality and kinematic acceptance in (p_{T}, y) are analyzed. While for 27 and 54.4 GeV collisions the C_{6}/C_{2} values are close to zero within uncertainties, it is observed that for 200 GeV collisions, the C_{6}/C_{2} ratio becomes progressively negative from peripheral to central collisions. Transport model calculations without critical dynamics predict mostly positive values except for the most central collisions within uncertainties. These observations seem to favor a smooth crossover in the high-energy nuclear collisions at top RHIC energy.
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- M S Abdallah
- American University of Cairo, New Cairo 11835, New Cairo, Egypt
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973
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- AGH University of Science and Technology, FPACS, Cracow 30-059, Poland
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- Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210
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- University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky 40506-0055
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- Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna 141 980, Russia
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- Panjab University, Chandigarh 160014, India
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- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Kolkata 700064, India
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- Alikhanov Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics NRC "Kurchatov Institute," Moscow 117218, Russia
- National Research Nuclear University MEPhI, Moscow 115409, Russia
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- Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843
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- Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna 141 980, Russia
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- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, Hubei 430079
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- Panjab University, Chandigarh 160014, India
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- Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna 141 980, Russia
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- Instituto de Alta Investigación, Universidad de Tarapacá, Arica 1000000, Chile
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- University of California, Riverside, California 92521
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- University of California, Riverside, California 92521
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- State University of New York, Stony Brook, New York 11794
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- University of Houston, Houston, Texas 77204
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- University of Jammu, Jammu 180001, India
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- University of Jammu, Jammu 180001, India
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- Czech Technical University in Prague, FNSPE, Prague 115 19, Czech Republic
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- Nuclear Physics Institute of the CAS, Rez 250 68, Czech Republic
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- Alikhanov Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics NRC "Kurchatov Institute," Moscow 117218, Russia
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- National Research Nuclear University MEPhI, Moscow 115409, Russia
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- Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna 141 980, Russia
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- Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201800
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- Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520
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- University of California, Davis, California 95616
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720
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- Czech Technical University in Prague, FNSPE, Prague 115 19, Czech Republic
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- University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095
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- National Cheng Kung University, Tainan 70101
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973
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- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, Hubei 430079
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- University of California, Riverside, California 92521
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- Shandong University, Qingdao, Shandong 266237
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- Fudan University, Shanghai, 200433
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- University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026
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- Shandong University, Qingdao, Shandong 266237
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- Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
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- University of California, Riverside, California 92521
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973
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- University of California, Berkeley, California 94720
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- ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary H-1117
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- Abilene Christian University, Abilene, Texas 79699
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- Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna 141 980, Russia
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- University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg 69120, Germany
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- NRC "Kurchatov Institute," Institute of High Energy Physics, Protvino 142281, Russia
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- Panjab University, Chandigarh 160014, India
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- Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan 48201
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973
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- Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan 48201
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- University of California, Berkeley, California 94720
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- Rice University, Houston, Texas 77251
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- University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8571, Japan
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- University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60607
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- Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania 18015
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973
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- University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky 40506-0055
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- American University of Cairo, New Cairo 11835, New Cairo, Egypt
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973
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- Nuclear Physics Institute of the CAS, Rez 250 68, Czech Republic
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- Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna 141 980, Russia
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- National Cheng Kung University, Tainan 70101
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- Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907
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- Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna 141 980, Russia
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- Southern Connecticut State University, New Haven, Connecticut 06515
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973
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- Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520
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- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, Hubei 430079
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- AGH University of Science and Technology, FPACS, Cracow 30-059, Poland
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- Technische Universität Darmstadt, Darmstadt 64289, Germany
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- Rice University, Houston, Texas 77251
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- Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19122
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- Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, Indiana 46383
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- Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Tirupati, Tirupati 517507, India
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- Shandong University, Qingdao, Shandong 266237
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- Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, Indiana 46383
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- University of Jammu, Jammu 180001, India
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973
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- Kent State University, Kent, Ohio 44242
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- American University of Cairo, New Cairo 11835, New Cairo, Egypt
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- Rice University, Houston, Texas 77251
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- Technische Universität Darmstadt, Darmstadt 64289, Germany
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- University of California, Davis, California 95616
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- Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520
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- University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky 40506-0055
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- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, Hubei 430079
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- Fudan University, Shanghai, 200433
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- Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, Gansu 730000
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- Shandong University, Qingdao, Shandong 266237
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- University of California, Davis, California 95616
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- Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802
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- University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg 69120, Germany
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- University of Houston, Houston, Texas 77204
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- Czech Technical University in Prague, FNSPE, Prague 115 19, Czech Republic
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- Fudan University, Shanghai, 200433
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- National Cheng Kung University, Tainan 70101
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- University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095
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- State University of New York, Stony Brook, New York 11794
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- National Cheng Kung University, Tainan 70101
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- Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
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- Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
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- University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095
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- Abilene Christian University, Abilene, Texas 79699
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- Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47408
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- Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Tirupati, Tirupati 517507, India
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973
- State University of New York, Stony Brook, New York 11794
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- University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026
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- University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026
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- University of California, Berkeley, California 94720
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- Instituto de Alta Investigación, Universidad de Tarapacá, Arica 1000000, Chile
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- University of California, Riverside, California 92521
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- Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania 18015
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973
- Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47408
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- Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
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- University of California, Riverside, California 92521
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973
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- Kent State University, Kent, Ohio 44242
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- Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna 141 980, Russia
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- National Research Nuclear University MEPhI, Moscow 115409, Russia
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- Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw 00-661, Poland
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- University of California, Riverside, California 92521
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- University of California, Davis, California 95616
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- ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary H-1117
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- Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies FIAS, Frankfurt 60438, Germany
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973
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- Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania 18015
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- National Research Nuclear University MEPhI, Moscow 115409, Russia
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- Czech Technical University in Prague, FNSPE, Prague 115 19, Czech Republic
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- Czech Technical University in Prague, FNSPE, Prague 115 19, Czech Republic
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- National Research Nuclear University MEPhI, Moscow 115409, Russia
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- Panjab University, Chandigarh 160014, India
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- Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, Gansu 730000
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- State University of New York, Stony Brook, New York 11794
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- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, Hubei 430079
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973
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- Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna 141 980, Russia
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720
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- Shandong University, Qingdao, Shandong 266237
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- University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026
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- Rice University, Houston, Texas 77251
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- University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026
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- Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
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- University of California, Riverside, California 92521
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- Kent State University, Kent, Ohio 44242
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- Nuclear Physics Institute of the CAS, Rez 250 68, Czech Republic
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- Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843
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- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, Hubei 430079
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- Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210
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- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, Hubei 430079
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- Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47408
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- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, Hubei 430079
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- State University of New York, Stony Brook, New York 11794
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- Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520
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- Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210
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- Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843
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- University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973
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- Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan 48201
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973
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- University of California, Riverside, California 92521
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- Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19122
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- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, Hubei 430079
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- Fudan University, Shanghai, 200433
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973
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- Fudan University, Shanghai, 200433
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- University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60607
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- Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520
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- National Institute of Science Education and Research, HBNI, Jatni 752050, India
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- University of Texas, Austin, Texas 78712
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720
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- Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854
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- NRC "Kurchatov Institute," Institute of High Energy Physics, Protvino 142281, Russia
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- National Institute of Science Education and Research, HBNI, Jatni 752050, India
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- State University of New York, Stony Brook, New York 11794
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- Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan 48201
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- NRC "Kurchatov Institute," Institute of High Energy Physics, Protvino 142281, Russia
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- ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary H-1117
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- ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary H-1117
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- Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19122
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- Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Berhampur 760010, India
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- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, Hubei 430079
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- University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095
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- University of California, Berkeley, California 94720
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- Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520
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- Shandong University, Qingdao, Shandong 266237
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- National Research Nuclear University MEPhI, Moscow 115409, Russia
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- University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8571, Japan
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- University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8571, Japan
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- NRC "Kurchatov Institute," Institute of High Energy Physics, Protvino 142281, Russia
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- University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8571, Japan
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720
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- National Research Nuclear University MEPhI, Moscow 115409, Russia
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973
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- National Institute of Science Education and Research, HBNI, Jatni 752050, India
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- University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8571, Japan
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- Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna 141 980, Russia
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- National Research Nuclear University MEPhI, Moscow 115409, Russia
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- Institute of Nuclear Physics PAN, Cracow 31-342, Poland
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- Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw 00-661, Poland
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- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, Hubei 430079
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- University of California, Berkeley, California 94720
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- University of Houston, Houston, Texas 77204
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- ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary H-1117
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- Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw 00-661, Poland
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- Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19122
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- Nuclear Physics Institute of the CAS, Rez 250 68, Czech Republic
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720
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- Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19122
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- Czech Technical University in Prague, FNSPE, Prague 115 19, Czech Republic
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- Panjab University, Chandigarh 160014, India
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- AGH University of Science and Technology, FPACS, Cracow 30-059, Poland
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- Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan 48201
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- Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, Gansu 730000
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- Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19122
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- University of California, Riverside, California 92521
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- Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan 48201
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- University of Texas, Austin, Texas 78712
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- Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania 18015
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720
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- Nuclear Physics Institute of the CAS, Rez 250 68, Czech Republic
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- University of California, Davis, California 95616
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973
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- Nuclear Physics Institute of the CAS, Rez 250 68, Czech Republic
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- Shandong University, Qingdao, Shandong 266237
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- University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8571, Japan
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- Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854
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- Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520
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- University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8571, Japan
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973
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- Max-Planck-Institut für Physik, Munich 80805, Germany
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- State University of New York, Stony Brook, New York 11794
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- Technische Universität Darmstadt, Darmstadt 64289, Germany
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- University of California, Riverside, California 92521
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- Max-Planck-Institut für Physik, Munich 80805, Germany
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- Indian Institute Technology, Patna, Bihar 801106, India
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- Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna 141 980, Russia
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- University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026
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- Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201800
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- Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201800
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- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, Hubei 430079
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- Shandong University, Qingdao, Shandong 266237
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- Fudan University, Shanghai, 200433
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720
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- AGH University of Science and Technology, FPACS, Cracow 30-059, Poland
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- Nuclear Physics Institute of the CAS, Rez 250 68, Czech Republic
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- Panjab University, Chandigarh 160014, India
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- Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, Gansu 730000
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- Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907
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- Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520
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- University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg 69120, Germany
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- Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47408
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973
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- Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439
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- Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907
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- Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw 00-661, Poland
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- Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520
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- National Research Nuclear University MEPhI, Moscow 115409, Russia
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- Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil 05314-970
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- Nuclear Physics Institute of the CAS, Rez 250 68, Czech Republic
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- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, Hubei 430079
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- University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60607
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- University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026
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- Huzhou University, Huzhou, Zhejiang 313000
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- Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19122
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- Alikhanov Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics NRC "Kurchatov Institute," Moscow 117218, Russia
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- University of California, Davis, California 95616
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- Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw 00-661, Poland
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973
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- University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026
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- National Research Nuclear University MEPhI, Moscow 115409, Russia
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- Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720
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- Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska 68178
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- University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8571, Japan
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- Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna 141 980, Russia
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- Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania 18015
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- University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095
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- Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973
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- ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary H-1117
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- Czech Technical University in Prague, FNSPE, Prague 115 19, Czech Republic
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- Czech Technical University in Prague, FNSPE, Prague 115 19, Czech Republic
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- University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973
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- Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973
- Shandong University, Qingdao, Shandong 266237
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973
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- Nuclear Physics Institute of the CAS, Rez 250 68, Czech Republic
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- NRC "Kurchatov Institute," Institute of High Energy Physics, Protvino 142281, Russia
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- Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies FIAS, Frankfurt 60438, Germany
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- Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan 48201
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973
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- Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna 141 980, Russia
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- Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907
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- University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095
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- Huzhou University, Huzhou, Zhejiang 313000
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- University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026
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- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, Hubei 430079
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- Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
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- Shandong University, Qingdao, Shandong 266237
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973
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- University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095
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- Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720
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- Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47408
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- Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, Gansu 730000
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- University of California, Riverside, California 92521
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- Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201800
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- Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720
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- Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907
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- Huzhou University, Huzhou, Zhejiang 313000
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720
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- Shandong University, Qingdao, Shandong 266237
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- Shandong University, Qingdao, Shandong 266237
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973
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- University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095
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- Shandong University, Qingdao, Shandong 266237
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- Shandong University, Qingdao, Shandong 266237
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- Rice University, Houston, Texas 77251
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- National Cheng Kung University, Tainan 70101
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- Rice University, Houston, Texas 77251
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- University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60607
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- Shandong University, Qingdao, Shandong 266237
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973
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- Shandong University, Qingdao, Shandong 266237
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- Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw 00-661, Poland
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- University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026
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- State University of New York, Stony Brook, New York 11794
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- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, Hubei 430079
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- Shandong University, Qingdao, Shandong 266237
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- University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60607
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- Fudan University, Shanghai, 200433
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- Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, Gansu 730000
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- University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026
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- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, Hubei 430079
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- National Cheng Kung University, Tainan 70101
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973
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- University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60607
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- Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907
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- Fudan University, Shanghai, 200433
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- Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
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- Shandong University, Qingdao, Shandong 266237
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720
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- Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies FIAS, Frankfurt 60438, Germany
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