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Abelev B, Adam J, Adamová D, Adare AM, Aggarwal MM, Aglieri Rinella G, Agocs AG, Agostinelli A, Aguilar Salazar S, Ahammed Z, Ahmad Masoodi A, Ahmad N, Ahn SA, Ahn SU, Akindinov A, Aleksandrov D, Alessandro B, Alfaro Molina R, Alici A, Alkin A, Almaráz Aviña E, Alme J, Alt T, Altini V, Altinpinar S, Altsybeev I, Andrei C, Andronic A, Anguelov V, Anielski J, Anson C, Antičić T, Antinori F, Antonioli P, Aphecetche L, Appelshäuser H, Arbor N, Arcelli S, Arend A, Armesto N, Arnaldi R, Aronsson T, Arsene IC, Arslandok M, Asryan A, Augustinus A, Averbeck R, Awes TC, Äystö J, Azmi MD, Bach M, Badalà A, Baek YW, Bailhache R, Bala R, Baldini Ferroli R, Baldisseri A, Baldit A, Baltasar Dos Santos Pedrosa F, Bán J, Baral RC, Barbera R, Barile F, Barnaföldi GG, Barnby LS, Barret V, Bartke J, Basile M, Bastid N, Basu S, Bathen B, Batigne G, Batyunya B, Baumann C, Bearden IG, Beck H, Behera NK, Belikov I, Bellini F, Bellwied R, Belmont-Moreno E, Bencedi G, Beole S, Berceanu I, Bercuci A, Berdnikov 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Measurement of inelastic, single- and double-diffraction cross sections in proton-proton collisions at the LHC with ALICE. Eur Phys J C Part Fields 2013; 73:2456. [PMID: 25814861 PMCID: PMC4371094 DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-013-2456-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/12/2012] [Revised: 01/28/2013] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
Abstract
Measurements of cross sections of inelastic and diffractive processes in proton-proton collisions at LHC energies were carried out with the ALICE detector. The fractions of diffractive processes in inelastic collisions were determined from a study of gaps in charged particle pseudorapidity distributions: for single diffraction (diffractive mass MX <200 GeV/c2) [Formula: see text], and [Formula: see text], respectively at centre-of-mass energies [Formula: see text]; for double diffraction (for a pseudorapidity gap Δη>3) σDD/σINEL=0.11±0.03,0.12±0.05, and [Formula: see text], respectively at [Formula: see text]. To measure the inelastic cross section, beam properties were determined with van der Meer scans, and, using a simulation of diffraction adjusted to data, the following values were obtained: [Formula: see text] mb at [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] at [Formula: see text]. The single- and double-diffractive cross sections were calculated combining relative rates of diffraction with inelastic cross sections. The results are compared to previous measurements at proton-antiproton and proton-proton colliders at lower energies, to measurements by other experiments at the LHC, and to theoretical models.
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Affiliation(s)
- B Abelev
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California United States
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- Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Nuclear Physics Institute, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Řež u Prahy, Czech Republic
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- Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut United States
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- Physics Department, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
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- KFKI Research Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
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- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Bologna, Italy
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- Instituto de Física, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
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- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Kolkata, India
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- Department of Physics Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India
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- Department of Physics Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India
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- Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information, Daejeon, South Korea
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- Gangneung-Wonju National University, Gangneung, South Korea
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- Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Moscow, Russia
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- Russian Research Centre Kurchatov Institute, Moscow, Russia
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- Instituto de Física, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
| | - A Alici
- Sezione INFN, Bologna, Italy ; Centro Fermi - Centro Studi e Ricerche e Museo Storico della Fisica "Enrico Fermi", Rome, Italy
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- Bogolyubov Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kiev, Ukraine
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- Instituto de Física, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
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- Faculty of Engineering, Bergen University College, Bergen, Norway
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- Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
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- Dipartimento Interateneo di Fisica 'M. Merlin' and Sezione INFN, Bari, Italy
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- Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
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- V. Fock Institute for Physics, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia
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- National Institute for Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Bucharest, Romania
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- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, Darmstadt, Germany
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- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Institut für Kernphysik, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Münster, Germany
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- Department of Physics, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio United States
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- Rudjer Bošković Institute, Zagreb, Croatia
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- SUBATECH, Ecole des Mines de Nantes, Université de Nantes, CNRS-IN2P3, Nantes, France
| | - H Appelshäuser
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
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- Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie (LPSC), Université Joseph Fourier, CNRS-IN2P3, Institut Polytechnique de Grenoble, Grenoble, France
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- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Bologna, Italy
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- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
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- Departamento de Física de Partículas and IGFAE, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
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- Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut United States
| | - I C Arsene
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, Darmstadt, Germany
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- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - A Asryan
- V. Fock Institute for Physics, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia
| | - A Augustinus
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
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- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, Darmstadt, Germany
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- Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee United States
| | - J Äystö
- Helsinki Institute of Physics (HIP) and University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland
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- Department of Physics Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India ; Physics Department, University of Cape Town, iThemba LABS, Cape Town, South Africa
| | - M Bach
- Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | | | - Y W Baek
- Laboratoire de Physique Corpusculaire (LPC), Clermont Université, Université Blaise Pascal, CNRS-IN2P3, Clermont-Ferrand, France ; Gangneung-Wonju National University, Gangneung, South Korea
| | - R Bailhache
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
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- Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
| | - R Baldini Ferroli
- Centro Fermi - Centro Studi e Ricerche e Museo Storico della Fisica "Enrico Fermi", Rome, Italy
| | - A Baldisseri
- Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique, IRFU, Saclay, France
| | - A Baldit
- Laboratoire de Physique Corpusculaire (LPC), Clermont Université, Université Blaise Pascal, CNRS-IN2P3, Clermont-Ferrand, France
| | | | - J Bán
- Institute of Experimental Physics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Košice, Slovakia
| | - R C Baral
- Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar, India
| | - R Barbera
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Catania, Italy
| | - F Barile
- Dipartimento Interateneo di Fisica 'M. Merlin' and Sezione INFN, Bari, Italy
| | - G G Barnaföldi
- KFKI Research Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
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- Laboratoire de Physique Corpusculaire (LPC), Clermont Université, Université Blaise Pascal, CNRS-IN2P3, Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- The Henryk Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Cracow, Poland
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- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Bologna, Italy
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- Laboratoire de Physique Corpusculaire (LPC), Clermont Université, Université Blaise Pascal, CNRS-IN2P3, Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Kolkata, India
| | - B Bathen
- Institut für Kernphysik, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Münster, Germany
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- SUBATECH, Ecole des Mines de Nantes, Université de Nantes, CNRS-IN2P3, Nantes, France
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- Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), Dubna, Russia
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- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
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- Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
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- Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT), Mumbai, India
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- Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien (IPHC), Université de Strasbourg, CNRS-IN2P3, Strasbourg, France
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- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Bologna, Italy
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- University of Houston, Houston, Texas United States
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- Instituto de Física, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
| | - G Bencedi
- KFKI Research Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
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- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
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- National Institute for Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Bucharest, Romania
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- National Institute for Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Bucharest, Romania
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- Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, Gatchina, Russia
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- KFKI Research Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
| | - A A E Bergognon
- SUBATECH, Ecole des Mines de Nantes, Université de Nantes, CNRS-IN2P3, Nantes, France
| | | | - L Betev
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - A Bhasin
- Physics Department, University of Jammu, Jammu, India
| | - A K Bhati
- Physics Department, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India
| | - J Bhom
- University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
| | - N Bianchi
- Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, INFN, Frascati, Italy
| | - L Bianchi
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
| | - C Bianchin
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università e Astronomia and Sezione INFN, Padova, Italy
| | - J Bielčík
- Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
| | - J Bielčíková
- Nuclear Physics Institute, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Řež u Prahy, Czech Republic
| | - A Bilandzic
- Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - S Bjelogrlic
- Nikhef, National Institute for Subatomic Physics and Institute for Subatomic Physics of Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
| | - F Blanco
- Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Medioambientales y Tecnológicas (CIEMAT), Madrid, Spain
| | - F Blanco
- University of Houston, Houston, Texas United States
| | - D Blau
- Russian Research Centre Kurchatov Institute, Moscow, Russia
| | - C Blume
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - M Boccioli
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - N Bock
- Department of Physics, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio United States
| | - S Böttger
- Institut für Informatik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - A Bogdanov
- Moscow Engineering Physics Institute, Moscow, Russia
| | - H Bøggild
- Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
| | | | - L Boldizsár
- KFKI Research Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
| | - M Bombara
- Faculty of Science, P.J. Šafárik University, Košice, Slovakia
| | - J Book
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - H Borel
- Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique, IRFU, Saclay, France
| | - A Borissov
- Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan United States
| | - S Bose
- Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata, India
| | - F Bossú
- Physics Department, University of Cape Town, iThemba LABS, Cape Town, South Africa ; Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
| | - M Botje
- Nikhef, National Institute for Subatomic Physics, Amsterdam, Netherlands
| | - E Botta
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
| | - B Boyer
- Institut de Physique Nucléaire d'Orsay (IPNO), Université Paris-Sud, CNRS-IN2P3, Orsay, France
| | - E Braidot
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California United States
| | - P Braun-Munzinger
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - M Bregant
- SUBATECH, Ecole des Mines de Nantes, Université de Nantes, CNRS-IN2P3, Nantes, France
| | - T Breitner
- Institut für Informatik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - T A Browning
- Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana United States
| | - M Broz
- Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia
| | - R Brun
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - E Bruna
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy ; Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
| | - G E Bruno
- Dipartimento Interateneo di Fisica 'M. Merlin' and Sezione INFN, Bari, Italy
| | - D Budnikov
- Russian Federal Nuclear Center (VNIIEF), Sarov, Russia
| | - H Buesching
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - S Bufalino
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy ; Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
| | - O Busch
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - Z Buthelezi
- Physics Department, University of Cape Town, iThemba LABS, Cape Town, South Africa
| | | | - D Caffarri
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università e Astronomia and Sezione INFN, Padova, Italy ; Sezione INFN, Padova, Italy
| | - X Cai
- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
| | - H Caines
- Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut United States
| | - E Calvo Villar
- Sección Física, Departamento de Ciencias, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima, Peru
| | - P Camerini
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Trieste, Italy
| | - V Canoa Roman
- Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados (CINVESTAV), Mexico City and Mérida, Mexico
| | | | - F Carena
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - W Carena
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | | | - F Carminati
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | | | | | - J F Castillo Hernandez
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - E A R Casula
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Cagliari, Italy
| | - V Catanescu
- National Institute for Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Bucharest, Romania
| | - C Cavicchioli
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - C Ceballos Sanchez
- Centro de Aplicaciones Tecnológicas y Desarrollo Nuclear (CEADEN), Havana, Cuba
| | - J Cepila
- Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
| | | | - B Chang
- Helsinki Institute of Physics (HIP) and University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland ; Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea
| | - S Chapeland
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - J L Charvet
- Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique, IRFU, Saclay, France
| | | | | | - I Chawla
- Physics Department, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India
| | - M Cherney
- Physics Department, Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska United States
| | - C Cheshkov
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland ; Université de Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, IPN-Lyon, Villeurbanne, France
| | - B Cheynis
- Université de Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, IPN-Lyon, Villeurbanne, France
| | | | - D D Chinellato
- Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas, Brazil
| | - P Chochula
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - M Chojnacki
- Nikhef, National Institute for Subatomic Physics and Institute for Subatomic Physics of Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
| | - S Choudhury
- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Kolkata, India
| | - P Christakoglou
- Nikhef, National Institute for Subatomic Physics, Amsterdam, Netherlands
| | - C H Christensen
- Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - P Christiansen
- Division of Experimental High Energy Physics, University of Lund, Lund, Sweden
| | - T Chujo
- University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
| | - S U Chung
- Pusan National University, Pusan, South Korea
| | | | - L Cifarelli
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Bologna, Italy ; European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland ; Centro Fermi - Centro Studi e Ricerche e Museo Storico della Fisica "Enrico Fermi", Rome, Italy
| | | | - J Cleymans
- Physics Department, University of Cape Town, iThemba LABS, Cape Town, South Africa
| | - F Coccetti
- Centro Fermi - Centro Studi e Ricerche e Museo Storico della Fisica "Enrico Fermi", Rome, Italy
| | - F Colamaria
- Dipartimento Interateneo di Fisica 'M. Merlin' and Sezione INFN, Bari, Italy
| | - D Colella
- Dipartimento Interateneo di Fisica 'M. Merlin' and Sezione INFN, Bari, Italy
| | - G Conesa Balbastre
- Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie (LPSC), Université Joseph Fourier, CNRS-IN2P3, Institut Polytechnique de Grenoble, Grenoble, France
| | | | - P Constantin
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - G Contin
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Trieste, Italy
| | - J G Contreras
- Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados (CINVESTAV), Mexico City and Mérida, Mexico
| | - T M Cormier
- Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan United States
| | | | - P Cortese
- Dipartimento di Scienze e Innovazione Tecnologica dell'Università del Piemonte Orientale and Gruppo Collegato INFN, Alessandria, Italy
| | | | - M R Cosentino
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California United States
| | - F Costa
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - M E Cotallo
- Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Medioambientales y Tecnológicas (CIEMAT), Madrid, Spain
| | - E Crescio
- Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados (CINVESTAV), Mexico City and Mérida, Mexico
| | - P Crochet
- Laboratoire de Physique Corpusculaire (LPC), Clermont Université, Université Blaise Pascal, CNRS-IN2P3, Clermont-Ferrand, France
| | - E Cruz Alaniz
- Instituto de Física, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
| | - E Cuautle
- Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
| | - L Cunqueiro
- Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, INFN, Frascati, Italy
| | - A Dainese
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università e Astronomia and Sezione INFN, Padova, Italy ; Sezione INFN, Padova, Italy
| | - H H Dalsgaard
- Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - A Danu
- Institute of Space Sciences (ISS), Bucharest, Romania
| | - D Das
- Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata, India
| | - K Das
- Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata, India
| | - I Das
- Institut de Physique Nucléaire d'Orsay (IPNO), Université Paris-Sud, CNRS-IN2P3, Orsay, France
| | - S Dash
- Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT), Mumbai, India
| | - A Dash
- Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas, Brazil
| | - S De
- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Kolkata, India
| | | | - A De Caro
- Dipartimento di Fisica 'E.R. Caianiello' dell'Università and Gruppo Collegato INFN, Salerno, Italy ; Centro Fermi - Centro Studi e Ricerche e Museo Storico della Fisica "Enrico Fermi", Rome, Italy
| | | | - J de Cuveland
- Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - A De Falco
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Cagliari, Italy
| | - D De Gruttola
- Dipartimento di Fisica 'E.R. Caianiello' dell'Università and Gruppo Collegato INFN, Salerno, Italy
| | - H Delagrange
- SUBATECH, Ecole des Mines de Nantes, Université de Nantes, CNRS-IN2P3, Nantes, France
| | - A Deloff
- Soltan Institute for Nuclear Studies, Warsaw, Poland
| | - V Demanov
- Russian Federal Nuclear Center (VNIIEF), Sarov, Russia
| | | | - E Dénes
- KFKI Research Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
| | - S De Pasquale
- Dipartimento di Fisica 'E.R. Caianiello' dell'Università and Gruppo Collegato INFN, Salerno, Italy
| | - A Deppman
- Universidade de São Paulo (USP), São Paulo, Brazil
| | - G D Erasmo
- Dipartimento Interateneo di Fisica 'M. Merlin' and Sezione INFN, Bari, Italy
| | - R de Rooij
- Nikhef, National Institute for Subatomic Physics and Institute for Subatomic Physics of Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
| | - M A Diaz Corchero
- Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Medioambientales y Tecnológicas (CIEMAT), Madrid, Spain
| | - D Di Bari
- Dipartimento Interateneo di Fisica 'M. Merlin' and Sezione INFN, Bari, Italy
| | - T Dietel
- Institut für Kernphysik, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Münster, Germany
| | - C Di Giglio
- Dipartimento Interateneo di Fisica 'M. Merlin' and Sezione INFN, Bari, Italy
| | | | - A Di Mauro
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - P Di Nezza
- Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, INFN, Frascati, Italy
| | - R Divià
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - Ø Djuvsland
- Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
| | - A Dobrin
- Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan United States ; Division of Experimental High Energy Physics, University of Lund, Lund, Sweden
| | - T Dobrowolski
- Soltan Institute for Nuclear Studies, Warsaw, Poland
| | - I Domínguez
- Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
| | - B Dönigus
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - O Dordic
- Department of Physics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
| | - O Driga
- SUBATECH, Ecole des Mines de Nantes, Université de Nantes, CNRS-IN2P3, Nantes, France
| | - A K Dubey
- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Kolkata, India
| | - A Dubla
- Nikhef, National Institute for Subatomic Physics and Institute for Subatomic Physics of Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
| | - L Ducroux
- Université de Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, IPN-Lyon, Villeurbanne, France
| | - P Dupieux
- Laboratoire de Physique Corpusculaire (LPC), Clermont Université, Université Blaise Pascal, CNRS-IN2P3, Clermont-Ferrand, France
| | | | | | - D Elia
- Sezione INFN, Bari, Italy
| | - D Emschermann
- Institut für Kernphysik, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Münster, Germany
| | - H Engel
- Institut für Informatik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - B Erazmus
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland ; SUBATECH, Ecole des Mines de Nantes, Université de Nantes, CNRS-IN2P3, Nantes, France
| | - H A Erdal
- Faculty of Engineering, Bergen University College, Bergen, Norway
| | - B Espagnon
- Institut de Physique Nucléaire d'Orsay (IPNO), Université Paris-Sud, CNRS-IN2P3, Orsay, France
| | - M Estienne
- SUBATECH, Ecole des Mines de Nantes, Université de Nantes, CNRS-IN2P3, Nantes, France
| | - S Esumi
- University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
| | - D Evans
- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
| | - G Eyyubova
- Department of Physics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
| | - D Fabris
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università e Astronomia and Sezione INFN, Padova, Italy ; Sezione INFN, Padova, Italy
| | - J Faivre
- Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie (LPSC), Université Joseph Fourier, CNRS-IN2P3, Institut Polytechnique de Grenoble, Grenoble, France
| | - D Falchieri
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Bologna, Italy
| | - A Fantoni
- Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, INFN, Frascati, Italy
| | - M Fasel
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - R Fearick
- Physics Department, University of Cape Town, iThemba LABS, Cape Town, South Africa
| | - A Fedunov
- Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), Dubna, Russia
| | - D Fehlker
- Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
| | - L Feldkamp
- Institut für Kernphysik, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Münster, Germany
| | - D Felea
- Institute of Space Sciences (ISS), Bucharest, Romania
| | - B Fenton-Olsen
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California United States
| | - G Feofilov
- V. Fock Institute for Physics, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia
| | | | - A Ferretti
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
| | - R Ferretti
- Dipartimento di Scienze e Innovazione Tecnologica dell'Università del Piemonte Orientale and Gruppo Collegato INFN, Alessandria, Italy
| | - A Festanti
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università e Astronomia and Sezione INFN, Padova, Italy
| | - J Figiel
- The Henryk Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Cracow, Poland
| | | | - S Filchagin
- Russian Federal Nuclear Center (VNIIEF), Sarov, Russia
| | - D Finogeev
- Institute for Nuclear Research, Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
| | - F M Fionda
- Dipartimento Interateneo di Fisica 'M. Merlin' and Sezione INFN, Bari, Italy
| | - E M Fiore
- Dipartimento Interateneo di Fisica 'M. Merlin' and Sezione INFN, Bari, Italy
| | - M Floris
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - S Foertsch
- Physics Department, University of Cape Town, iThemba LABS, Cape Town, South Africa
| | - P Foka
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - S Fokin
- Russian Research Centre Kurchatov Institute, Moscow, Russia
| | | | - A Francescon
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland ; Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università e Astronomia and Sezione INFN, Padova, Italy
| | - U Frankenfeld
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - U Fuchs
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - C Furget
- Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie (LPSC), Université Joseph Fourier, CNRS-IN2P3, Institut Polytechnique de Grenoble, Grenoble, France
| | - M Fusco Girard
- Dipartimento di Fisica 'E.R. Caianiello' dell'Università and Gruppo Collegato INFN, Salerno, Italy
| | - J J Gaardhøje
- Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - M Gagliardi
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
| | - A Gago
- Sección Física, Departamento de Ciencias, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima, Peru
| | - M Gallio
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
| | - D R Gangadharan
- Department of Physics, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio United States
| | - P Ganoti
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee United States
| | - C Garabatos
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, Darmstadt, Germany
| | | | - I Garishvili
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California United States
| | - J Gerhard
- Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - M Germain
- SUBATECH, Ecole des Mines de Nantes, Université de Nantes, CNRS-IN2P3, Nantes, France
| | - C Geuna
- Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique, IRFU, Saclay, France
| | - M Gheata
- Institute of Space Sciences (ISS), Bucharest, Romania ; European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - A Gheata
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - B Ghidini
- Dipartimento Interateneo di Fisica 'M. Merlin' and Sezione INFN, Bari, Italy
| | - P Ghosh
- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Kolkata, India
| | - P Gianotti
- Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, INFN, Frascati, Italy
| | - M R Girard
- Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland
| | - P Giubellino
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - E Gladysz-Dziadus
- The Henryk Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Cracow, Poland
| | - P Glässel
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - R Gomez
- Universidad Autónoma de Sinaloa, Culiacán, Mexico ; Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados (CINVESTAV), Mexico City and Mérida, Mexico
| | - E G Ferreiro
- Departamento de Física de Partículas and IGFAE, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
| | - L H González-Trueba
- Instituto de Física, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
| | - P González-Zamora
- Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Medioambientales y Tecnológicas (CIEMAT), Madrid, Spain
| | - S Gorbunov
- Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - A Goswami
- Physics Department, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur, India
| | - S Gotovac
- Technical University of Split FESB, Split, Croatia
| | - V Grabski
- Instituto de Física, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
| | | | - R Grajcarek
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - A Grelli
- Nikhef, National Institute for Subatomic Physics and Institute for Subatomic Physics of Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
| | - C Grigoras
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - A Grigoras
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - V Grigoriev
- Moscow Engineering Physics Institute, Moscow, Russia
| | - S Grigoryan
- Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), Dubna, Russia
| | | | - B Grinyov
- Bogolyubov Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kiev, Ukraine
| | - N Grion
- Sezione INFN, Trieste, Italy
| | - P Gros
- Division of Experimental High Energy Physics, University of Lund, Lund, Sweden
| | | | - J-Y Grossiord
- Université de Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, IPN-Lyon, Villeurbanne, France
| | - R Grosso
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - F Guber
- Institute for Nuclear Research, Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
| | - R Guernane
- Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie (LPSC), Université Joseph Fourier, CNRS-IN2P3, Institut Polytechnique de Grenoble, Grenoble, France
| | - C Guerra Gutierrez
- Sección Física, Departamento de Ciencias, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima, Peru
| | - B Guerzoni
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Bologna, Italy
| | - M Guilbaud
- Université de Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, IPN-Lyon, Villeurbanne, France
| | - K Gulbrandsen
- Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - T Gunji
- University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
| | - A Gupta
- Physics Department, University of Jammu, Jammu, India
| | - R Gupta
- Physics Department, University of Jammu, Jammu, India
| | - H Gutbrod
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - Ø Haaland
- Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
| | - C Hadjidakis
- Institut de Physique Nucléaire d'Orsay (IPNO), Université Paris-Sud, CNRS-IN2P3, Orsay, France
| | - M Haiduc
- Institute of Space Sciences (ISS), Bucharest, Romania
| | | | - G Hamar
- KFKI Research Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
| | - B H Han
- Department of Physics, Sejong University, Seoul, South Korea
| | - L D Hanratty
- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
| | - A Hansen
- Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
| | | | - J W Harris
- Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut United States
| | - M Hartig
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - D Hasegan
- Institute of Space Sciences (ISS), Bucharest, Romania
| | | | - A Hayrapetyan
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland ; Yerevan Physics Institute, Yerevan, Armenia
| | - S T Heckel
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - M Heide
- Institut für Kernphysik, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Münster, Germany
| | - H Helstrup
- Faculty of Engineering, Bergen University College, Bergen, Norway
| | - A Herghelegiu
- National Institute for Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Bucharest, Romania
| | - G Herrera Corral
- Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados (CINVESTAV), Mexico City and Mérida, Mexico
| | - N Herrmann
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - B A Hess
- Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
| | - K F Hetland
- Faculty of Engineering, Bergen University College, Bergen, Norway
| | - B Hicks
- Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut United States
| | - P T Hille
- Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut United States
| | - B Hippolyte
- Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien (IPHC), Université de Strasbourg, CNRS-IN2P3, Strasbourg, France
| | | | - Y Hori
- University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
| | - P Hristov
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - I Hřivnáčová
- Institut de Physique Nucléaire d'Orsay (IPNO), Université Paris-Sud, CNRS-IN2P3, Orsay, France
| | - M Huang
- Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
| | - T J Humanic
- Department of Physics, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio United States
| | - D S Hwang
- Department of Physics, Sejong University, Seoul, South Korea
| | - R Ichou
- Laboratoire de Physique Corpusculaire (LPC), Clermont Université, Université Blaise Pascal, CNRS-IN2P3, Clermont-Ferrand, France
| | - R Ilkaev
- Russian Federal Nuclear Center (VNIIEF), Sarov, Russia
| | - I Ilkiv
- Soltan Institute for Nuclear Studies, Warsaw, Poland
| | - M Inaba
- University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
| | - E Incani
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Cagliari, Italy
| | - P G Innocenti
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - G M Innocenti
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
| | - M Ippolitov
- Russian Research Centre Kurchatov Institute, Moscow, Russia
| | - M Irfan
- Department of Physics Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India
| | - C Ivan
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - A Ivanov
- V. Fock Institute for Physics, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia
| | - M Ivanov
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - V Ivanov
- Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, Gatchina, Russia
| | - O Ivanytskyi
- Bogolyubov Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kiev, Ukraine
| | - A Jachołkowski
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Catania, Italy
| | - P M Jacobs
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California United States
| | - H J Jang
- Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information, Daejeon, South Korea
| | - R Janik
- Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia
| | - M A Janik
- Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland
| | | | - S Jena
- Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT), Mumbai, India
| | - D M Jha
- Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan United States
| | - R T Jimenez Bustamante
- Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
| | - L Jirden
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - P G Jones
- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
| | - H Jung
- Gangneung-Wonju National University, Gangneung, South Korea
| | - A Jusko
- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
| | - A B Kaidalov
- Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Moscow, Russia
| | - V Kakoyan
- Yerevan Physics Institute, Yerevan, Armenia
| | - S Kalcher
- Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - P Kaliňák
- Institute of Experimental Physics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Košice, Slovakia
| | - T Kalliokoski
- Helsinki Institute of Physics (HIP) and University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland
| | - A Kalweit
- Institut für Kernphysik, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany ; European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - J H Kang
- Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea
| | - V Kaplin
- Moscow Engineering Physics Institute, Moscow, Russia
| | - A Karasu Uysal
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland ; Yildiz Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey
| | - O Karavichev
- Institute for Nuclear Research, Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
| | - T Karavicheva
- Institute for Nuclear Research, Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
| | - E Karpechev
- Institute for Nuclear Research, Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
| | - A Kazantsev
- Russian Research Centre Kurchatov Institute, Moscow, Russia
| | - U Kebschull
- Institut für Informatik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - R Keidel
- Zentrum für Technologietransfer und Telekommunikation (ZTT), Fachhochschule Worms, Worms, Germany
| | - P Khan
- Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata, India
| | - S A Khan
- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Kolkata, India
| | - M M Khan
- Department of Physics Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India
| | - A Khanzadeev
- Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, Gatchina, Russia
| | - Y Kharlov
- Institute for High Energy Physics, Protvino, Russia
| | - B Kileng
- Faculty of Engineering, Bergen University College, Bergen, Norway
| | - S Kim
- Department of Physics, Sejong University, Seoul, South Korea
| | - B Kim
- Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea
| | - T Kim
- Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea
| | - D J Kim
- Helsinki Institute of Physics (HIP) and University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland
| | - D W Kim
- Gangneung-Wonju National University, Gangneung, South Korea
| | - J H Kim
- Department of Physics, Sejong University, Seoul, South Korea
| | - J S Kim
- Gangneung-Wonju National University, Gangneung, South Korea
| | - M Kim
- Gangneung-Wonju National University, Gangneung, South Korea
| | - M Kim
- Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea
| | - S Kirsch
- Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - I Kisel
- Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - S Kiselev
- Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Moscow, Russia
| | - A Kisiel
- Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland
| | - J L Klay
- California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, California United States
| | - J Klein
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - C Klein-Bösing
- Institut für Kernphysik, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Münster, Germany
| | - M Kliemant
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - A Kluge
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - M L Knichel
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - A G Knospe
- Physics Department, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX United States
| | - K Koch
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - M K Köhler
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - T Kollegger
- Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - A Kolojvari
- V. Fock Institute for Physics, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia
| | - V Kondratiev
- V. Fock Institute for Physics, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia
| | - N Kondratyeva
- Moscow Engineering Physics Institute, Moscow, Russia
| | - A Konevskikh
- Institute for Nuclear Research, Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
| | - A Korneev
- Russian Federal Nuclear Center (VNIIEF), Sarov, Russia
| | - R Kour
- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
| | - M Kowalski
- The Henryk Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Cracow, Poland
| | - S Kox
- Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie (LPSC), Université Joseph Fourier, CNRS-IN2P3, Institut Polytechnique de Grenoble, Grenoble, France
| | | | - J Kral
- Helsinki Institute of Physics (HIP) and University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland
| | - I Králik
- Institute of Experimental Physics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Košice, Slovakia
| | - F Kramer
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - I Kraus
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - T Krawutschke
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany ; Fachhochschule Köln, Köln, Germany
| | - M Krelina
- Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
| | - M Kretz
- Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - M Krivda
- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom ; Institute of Experimental Physics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Košice, Slovakia
| | - F Krizek
- Helsinki Institute of Physics (HIP) and University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland
| | - M Krus
- Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
| | - E Kryshen
- Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, Gatchina, Russia
| | - M Krzewicki
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - Y Kucheriaev
- Russian Research Centre Kurchatov Institute, Moscow, Russia
| | - T Kugathasan
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - C Kuhn
- Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien (IPHC), Université de Strasbourg, CNRS-IN2P3, Strasbourg, France
| | - P G Kuijer
- Nikhef, National Institute for Subatomic Physics, Amsterdam, Netherlands
| | - I Kulakov
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - J Kumar
- Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT), Mumbai, India
| | - P Kurashvili
- Soltan Institute for Nuclear Studies, Warsaw, Poland
| | - A B Kurepin
- Institute for Nuclear Research, Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
| | - A Kurepin
- Institute for Nuclear Research, Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
| | - A Kuryakin
- Russian Federal Nuclear Center (VNIIEF), Sarov, Russia
| | - V Kushpil
- Nuclear Physics Institute, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Řež u Prahy, Czech Republic
| | - S Kushpil
- Nuclear Physics Institute, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Řež u Prahy, Czech Republic
| | - H Kvaerno
- Department of Physics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
| | - M J Kweon
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - Y Kwon
- Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea
| | - P Ladrón de Guevara
- Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
| | - I Lakomov
- Institut de Physique Nucléaire d'Orsay (IPNO), Université Paris-Sud, CNRS-IN2P3, Orsay, France
| | - R Langoy
- Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
| | - S L La Pointe
- Nikhef, National Institute for Subatomic Physics and Institute for Subatomic Physics of Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
| | - C Lara
- Institut für Informatik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - A Lardeux
- SUBATECH, Ecole des Mines de Nantes, Université de Nantes, CNRS-IN2P3, Nantes, France
| | - P La Rocca
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Catania, Italy
| | - R Lea
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Trieste, Italy
| | - Y Le Bornec
- Institut de Physique Nucléaire d'Orsay (IPNO), Université Paris-Sud, CNRS-IN2P3, Orsay, France
| | - M Lechman
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - S C Lee
- Gangneung-Wonju National University, Gangneung, South Korea
| | - G R Lee
- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
| | - K S Lee
- Gangneung-Wonju National University, Gangneung, South Korea
| | - F Lefèvre
- SUBATECH, Ecole des Mines de Nantes, Université de Nantes, CNRS-IN2P3, Nantes, France
| | - J Lehnert
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - M Lenhardt
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, Darmstadt, Germany
| | | | - H León
- Instituto de Física, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
| | | | | | - H León Vargas
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - P Lévai
- KFKI Research Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
| | - J Lien
- Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
| | - R Lietava
- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
| | - S Lindal
- Department of Physics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
| | - V Lindenstruth
- Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - C Lippmann
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, Darmstadt, Germany ; European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - M A Lisa
- Department of Physics, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio United States
| | - L Liu
- Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
| | - V R Loggins
- Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan United States
| | - V Loginov
- Moscow Engineering Physics Institute, Moscow, Russia
| | - S Lohn
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - D Lohner
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - C Loizides
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California United States
| | - K K Loo
- Helsinki Institute of Physics (HIP) and University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland
| | - X Lopez
- Laboratoire de Physique Corpusculaire (LPC), Clermont Université, Université Blaise Pascal, CNRS-IN2P3, Clermont-Ferrand, France
| | - E López Torres
- Centro de Aplicaciones Tecnológicas y Desarrollo Nuclear (CEADEN), Havana, Cuba
| | - G Løvhøiden
- Department of Physics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
| | - X-G Lu
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - P Luettig
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - M Lunardon
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università e Astronomia and Sezione INFN, Padova, Italy
| | - J Luo
- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
| | - G Luparello
- Nikhef, National Institute for Subatomic Physics and Institute for Subatomic Physics of Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
| | - L Luquin
- SUBATECH, Ecole des Mines de Nantes, Université de Nantes, CNRS-IN2P3, Nantes, France
| | - C Luzzi
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - K Ma
- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
| | - R Ma
- Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut United States
| | | | - A Maevskaya
- Institute for Nuclear Research, Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
| | - M Mager
- Institut für Kernphysik, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany ; European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | | | - A Maire
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - M Malaev
- Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, Gatchina, Russia
| | - I Maldonado Cervantes
- Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
| | - L Malinina
- Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), Dubna, Russia
| | - M V D Mal'Kevich
- Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Moscow, Russia
| | - P Malzacher
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - A Mamonov
- Russian Federal Nuclear Center (VNIIEF), Sarov, Russia
| | - L Mangotra
- Physics Department, University of Jammu, Jammu, India
| | - V Manko
- Russian Research Centre Kurchatov Institute, Moscow, Russia
| | - F Manso
- Laboratoire de Physique Corpusculaire (LPC), Clermont Université, Université Blaise Pascal, CNRS-IN2P3, Clermont-Ferrand, France
| | | | - Y Mao
- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
| | - M Marchisone
- Laboratoire de Physique Corpusculaire (LPC), Clermont Université, Université Blaise Pascal, CNRS-IN2P3, Clermont-Ferrand, France ; Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
| | - J Mareš
- Institute of Physics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic
| | - G V Margagliotti
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Trieste, Italy ; Sezione INFN, Trieste, Italy
| | | | - A Marín
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - C A Marin Tobon
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - C Markert
- Physics Department, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX United States
| | - M Marquard
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - I Martashvili
- University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee United States
| | - P Martinengo
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - M I Martínez
- Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Puebla, Mexico
| | - A Martínez Davalos
- Instituto de Física, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
| | - G Martínez García
- SUBATECH, Ecole des Mines de Nantes, Université de Nantes, CNRS-IN2P3, Nantes, France
| | - Y Martynov
- Bogolyubov Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kiev, Ukraine
| | - A Mas
- SUBATECH, Ecole des Mines de Nantes, Université de Nantes, CNRS-IN2P3, Nantes, France
| | - S Masciocchi
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - M Masera
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
| | | | - L Massacrier
- SUBATECH, Ecole des Mines de Nantes, Université de Nantes, CNRS-IN2P3, Nantes, France
| | - A Mastroserio
- Dipartimento Interateneo di Fisica 'M. Merlin' and Sezione INFN, Bari, Italy
| | - Z L Matthews
- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
| | - A Matyja
- The Henryk Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Cracow, Poland ; SUBATECH, Ecole des Mines de Nantes, Université de Nantes, CNRS-IN2P3, Nantes, France
| | - C Mayer
- The Henryk Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Cracow, Poland
| | - J Mazer
- University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee United States
| | | | - F Meddi
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università 'La Sapienza' and Sezione INFN, Rome, Italy
| | - A Menchaca-Rocha
- Instituto de Física, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
| | - J Mercado Pérez
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - M Meres
- Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia
| | - Y Miake
- University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
| | - L Milano
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
| | - J Milosevic
- Department of Physics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
| | - A Mischke
- Nikhef, National Institute for Subatomic Physics and Institute for Subatomic Physics of Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
| | - A N Mishra
- Physics Department, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur, India
| | - D Miśkowiec
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, Darmstadt, Germany ; European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - C Mitu
- Institute of Space Sciences (ISS), Bucharest, Romania
| | - J Mlynarz
- Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan United States
| | - B Mohanty
- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Kolkata, India
| | - L Molnar
- KFKI Research Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary ; European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - L Montaño Zetina
- Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados (CINVESTAV), Mexico City and Mérida, Mexico
| | | | - E Montes
- Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Medioambientales y Tecnológicas (CIEMAT), Madrid, Spain
| | - T Moon
- Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea
| | - M Morando
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università e Astronomia and Sezione INFN, Padova, Italy
| | | | - S Moretto
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università e Astronomia and Sezione INFN, Padova, Italy
| | - A Morsch
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - V Muccifora
- Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, INFN, Frascati, Italy
| | - E Mudnic
- Technical University of Split FESB, Split, Croatia
| | - S Muhuri
- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Kolkata, India
| | - M Mukherjee
- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Kolkata, India
| | - H Müller
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - M G Munhoz
- Universidade de São Paulo (USP), São Paulo, Brazil
| | - L Musa
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | | | - B K Nandi
- Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT), Mumbai, India
| | - R Nania
- Sezione INFN, Bologna, Italy
| | | | - C Nattrass
- University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee United States
| | - N P Naumov
- Russian Federal Nuclear Center (VNIIEF), Sarov, Russia
| | - S Navin
- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
| | - T K Nayak
- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Kolkata, India
| | - S Nazarenko
- Russian Federal Nuclear Center (VNIIEF), Sarov, Russia
| | - G Nazarov
- Russian Federal Nuclear Center (VNIIEF), Sarov, Russia
| | - A Nedosekin
- Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Moscow, Russia
| | - M Nicassio
- Dipartimento Interateneo di Fisica 'M. Merlin' and Sezione INFN, Bari, Italy
| | - M Niculescu
- Institute of Space Sciences (ISS), Bucharest, Romania ; European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - B S Nielsen
- Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - T Niida
- University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
| | - S Nikolaev
- Russian Research Centre Kurchatov Institute, Moscow, Russia
| | - V Nikolic
- Rudjer Bošković Institute, Zagreb, Croatia
| | - S Nikulin
- Russian Research Centre Kurchatov Institute, Moscow, Russia
| | - V Nikulin
- Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, Gatchina, Russia
| | - B S Nilsen
- Physics Department, Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska United States
| | - M S Nilsson
- Department of Physics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
| | - F Noferini
- Sezione INFN, Bologna, Italy ; Centro Fermi - Centro Studi e Ricerche e Museo Storico della Fisica "Enrico Fermi", Rome, Italy
| | - P Nomokonov
- Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), Dubna, Russia
| | - G Nooren
- Nikhef, National Institute for Subatomic Physics and Institute for Subatomic Physics of Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
| | - N Novitzky
- Helsinki Institute of Physics (HIP) and University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland
| | - A Nyanin
- Russian Research Centre Kurchatov Institute, Moscow, Russia
| | - A Nyatha
- Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT), Mumbai, India
| | - C Nygaard
- Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - J Nystrand
- Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
| | - A Ochirov
- V. Fock Institute for Physics, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia
| | - H Oeschler
- Institut für Kernphysik, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany ; European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - S Oh
- Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut United States
| | - S K Oh
- Gangneung-Wonju National University, Gangneung, South Korea
| | - J Oleniacz
- Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland
| | | | - A Ortiz Velasquez
- Division of Experimental High Energy Physics, University of Lund, Lund, Sweden ; Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
| | - G Ortona
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
| | - A Oskarsson
- Division of Experimental High Energy Physics, University of Lund, Lund, Sweden
| | - P Ostrowski
- Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland
| | - J Otwinowski
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - K Oyama
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - K Ozawa
- University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
| | - Y Pachmayer
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - M Pachr
- Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
| | - F Padilla
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
| | - P Pagano
- Dipartimento di Fisica 'E.R. Caianiello' dell'Università and Gruppo Collegato INFN, Salerno, Italy
| | - G Paić
- Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
| | - F Painke
- Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - C Pajares
- Departamento de Física de Partículas and IGFAE, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
| | - S K Pal
- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Kolkata, India
| | - A Palaha
- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
| | | | - V Papikyan
- Yerevan Physics Institute, Yerevan, Armenia
| | | | - W J Park
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - A Passfeld
- Institut für Kernphysik, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Münster, Germany
| | - B Pastirčák
- Institute of Experimental Physics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Košice, Slovakia
| | | | | | - A Pavlinov
- Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan United States
| | - T Pawlak
- Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland
| | - T Peitzmann
- Nikhef, National Institute for Subatomic Physics and Institute for Subatomic Physics of Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
| | | | | | - D Peresunko
- Russian Research Centre Kurchatov Institute, Moscow, Russia
| | - C E Pérez Lara
- Nikhef, National Institute for Subatomic Physics, Amsterdam, Netherlands
| | - E Perez Lezama
- Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
| | - D Perini
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - D Perrino
- Dipartimento Interateneo di Fisica 'M. Merlin' and Sezione INFN, Bari, Italy
| | - W Peryt
- Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland
| | - A Pesci
- Sezione INFN, Bologna, Italy
| | - V Peskov
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland ; Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
| | - Y Pestov
- Budker Institute for Nuclear Physics, Novosibirsk, Russia
| | - V Petráček
- Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
| | - M Petran
- Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
| | - M Petris
- National Institute for Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Bucharest, Romania
| | - P Petrov
- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
| | - M Petrovici
- National Institute for Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Bucharest, Romania
| | - C Petta
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Catania, Italy
| | - S Piano
- Sezione INFN, Trieste, Italy
| | | | - M Pikna
- Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia
| | - P Pillot
- SUBATECH, Ecole des Mines de Nantes, Université de Nantes, CNRS-IN2P3, Nantes, France
| | - O Pinazza
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - L Pinsky
- University of Houston, Houston, Texas United States
| | - N Pitz
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | | | - M Planinic
- Rudjer Bošković Institute, Zagreb, Croatia
| | - M Płoskoń
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California United States
| | - J Pluta
- Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland
| | - T Pocheptsov
- Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), Dubna, Russia
| | - S Pochybova
- KFKI Research Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
| | | | - M G Poghosyan
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland ; Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
| | - K Polák
- Institute of Physics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic
| | | | - A Pop
- National Institute for Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Bucharest, Romania
| | - S Porteboeuf-Houssais
- Laboratoire de Physique Corpusculaire (LPC), Clermont Université, Université Blaise Pascal, CNRS-IN2P3, Clermont-Ferrand, France
| | - V Pospíšil
- Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
| | - B Potukuchi
- Physics Department, University of Jammu, Jammu, India
| | - S K Prasad
- Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan United States
| | - R Preghenella
- Sezione INFN, Bologna, Italy ; Centro Fermi - Centro Studi e Ricerche e Museo Storico della Fisica "Enrico Fermi", Rome, Italy
| | | | - C A Pruneau
- Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan United States
| | - I Pshenichnov
- Institute for Nuclear Research, Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
| | - S Puchagin
- Russian Federal Nuclear Center (VNIIEF), Sarov, Russia
| | - G Puddu
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Cagliari, Italy
| | - A Pulvirenti
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Catania, Italy
| | - V Punin
- Russian Federal Nuclear Center (VNIIEF), Sarov, Russia
| | - M Putiš
- Faculty of Science, P.J. Šafárik University, Košice, Slovakia
| | - J Putschke
- Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan United States ; Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut United States
| | - E Quercigh
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - H Qvigstad
- Department of Physics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
| | | | - A Rademakers
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - T S Räihä
- Helsinki Institute of Physics (HIP) and University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland
| | - J Rak
- Helsinki Institute of Physics (HIP) and University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland
| | | | - L Ramello
- Dipartimento di Scienze e Innovazione Tecnologica dell'Università del Piemonte Orientale and Gruppo Collegato INFN, Alessandria, Italy
| | - A Ramírez Reyes
- Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados (CINVESTAV), Mexico City and Mérida, Mexico
| | - S Raniwala
- Physics Department, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur, India
| | - R Raniwala
- Physics Department, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur, India
| | - S S Räsänen
- Helsinki Institute of Physics (HIP) and University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland
| | - B T Rascanu
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - D Rathee
- Physics Department, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India
| | - K F Read
- University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee United States
| | - J S Real
- Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie (LPSC), Université Joseph Fourier, CNRS-IN2P3, Institut Polytechnique de Grenoble, Grenoble, France
| | - K Redlich
- Soltan Institute for Nuclear Studies, Warsaw, Poland ; Institut of Theoretical Physics, University of Wroclaw, Wroclaw, Poland
| | - P Reichelt
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - M Reicher
- Nikhef, National Institute for Subatomic Physics and Institute for Subatomic Physics of Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
| | - R Renfordt
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - A R Reolon
- Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, INFN, Frascati, Italy
| | - A Reshetin
- Institute for Nuclear Research, Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
| | - F Rettig
- Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - J-P Revol
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - K Reygers
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | | | - R A Ricci
- Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro, INFN, Legnaro, Italy
| | - T Richert
- Division of Experimental High Energy Physics, University of Lund, Lund, Sweden
| | - M Richter
- Department of Physics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
| | - P Riedler
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - W Riegler
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - F Riggi
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Catania, Italy ; Sezione INFN, Catania, Italy
| | | | | | - A Rodriguez Manso
- Nikhef, National Institute for Subatomic Physics, Amsterdam, Netherlands
| | - K Røed
- Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
| | - D Rohr
- Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - D Röhrich
- Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
| | - R Romita
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - F Ronchetti
- Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, INFN, Frascati, Italy
| | - P Rosnet
- Laboratoire de Physique Corpusculaire (LPC), Clermont Université, Université Blaise Pascal, CNRS-IN2P3, Clermont-Ferrand, France
| | - S Rossegger
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - A Rossi
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland ; Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università e Astronomia and Sezione INFN, Padova, Italy
| | - P Roy
- Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata, India
| | - C Roy
- Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien (IPHC), Université de Strasbourg, CNRS-IN2P3, Strasbourg, France
| | - A J Rubio Montero
- Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Medioambientales y Tecnológicas (CIEMAT), Madrid, Spain
| | - R Rui
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Trieste, Italy
| | - R Russo
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
| | - E Ryabinkin
- Russian Research Centre Kurchatov Institute, Moscow, Russia
| | - A Rybicki
- The Henryk Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Cracow, Poland
| | - S Sadovsky
- Institute for High Energy Physics, Protvino, Russia
| | - K Šafařík
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - R Sahoo
- Indian Institute of Technology Indore (IIT), Indore, India
| | - P K Sahu
- Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar, India
| | - J Saini
- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Kolkata, India
| | | | - S Sakai
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California United States
| | - D Sakata
- University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
| | - C A Salgado
- Departamento de Física de Partículas and IGFAE, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
| | - J Salzwedel
- Department of Physics, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio United States
| | - S Sambyal
- Physics Department, University of Jammu, Jammu, India
| | - V Samsonov
- Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, Gatchina, Russia
| | - X Sanchez Castro
- Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien (IPHC), Université de Strasbourg, CNRS-IN2P3, Strasbourg, France
| | - L Šándor
- Institute of Experimental Physics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Košice, Slovakia
| | - A Sandoval
- Instituto de Física, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
| | - M Sano
- University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
| | - S Sano
- University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
| | - R Santo
- Institut für Kernphysik, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Münster, Germany
| | - R Santoro
- Sezione INFN, Bari, Italy ; European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland ; Centro Fermi - Centro Studi e Ricerche e Museo Storico della Fisica "Enrico Fermi", Rome, Italy
| | - J Sarkamo
- Helsinki Institute of Physics (HIP) and University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland
| | | | - F Scarlassara
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università e Astronomia and Sezione INFN, Padova, Italy
| | | | - C Schiaua
- National Institute for Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Bucharest, Romania
| | - R Schicker
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - C Schmidt
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - H R Schmidt
- Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
| | - S Schreiner
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - S Schuchmann
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - J Schukraft
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - Y Schutz
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland ; SUBATECH, Ecole des Mines de Nantes, Université de Nantes, CNRS-IN2P3, Nantes, France
| | - K Schwarz
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - K Schweda
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, Darmstadt, Germany ; Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - G Scioli
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Bologna, Italy
| | | | - R Scott
- University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee United States
| | - G Segato
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università e Astronomia and Sezione INFN, Padova, Italy
| | - I Selyuzhenkov
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - S Senyukov
- Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien (IPHC), Université de Strasbourg, CNRS-IN2P3, Strasbourg, France
| | - J Seo
- Pusan National University, Pusan, South Korea
| | - S Serci
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Cagliari, Italy
| | - E Serradilla
- Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Medioambientales y Tecnológicas (CIEMAT), Madrid, Spain ; Instituto de Física, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
| | - A Sevcenco
- Institute of Space Sciences (ISS), Bucharest, Romania
| | - A Shabetai
- SUBATECH, Ecole des Mines de Nantes, Université de Nantes, CNRS-IN2P3, Nantes, France
| | - G Shabratova
- Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), Dubna, Russia
| | - R Shahoyan
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - N Sharma
- Physics Department, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India
| | - S Sharma
- Physics Department, University of Jammu, Jammu, India
| | - S Rohni
- Physics Department, University of Jammu, Jammu, India
| | - K Shigaki
- Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan
| | | | - K Shtejer
- Centro de Aplicaciones Tecnológicas y Desarrollo Nuclear (CEADEN), Havana, Cuba
| | - Y Sibiriak
- Russian Research Centre Kurchatov Institute, Moscow, Russia
| | - M Siciliano
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
| | - E Sicking
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | | | - T Siemiarczuk
- Soltan Institute for Nuclear Studies, Warsaw, Poland
| | - D Silvermyr
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee United States
| | - C Silvestre
- Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie (LPSC), Université Joseph Fourier, CNRS-IN2P3, Institut Polytechnique de Grenoble, Grenoble, France
| | - G Simatovic
- Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico ; Rudjer Bošković Institute, Zagreb, Croatia
| | - G Simonetti
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - R Singaraju
- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Kolkata, India
| | - R Singh
- Physics Department, University of Jammu, Jammu, India
| | - S Singha
- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Kolkata, India
| | - V Singhal
- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Kolkata, India
| | - B C Sinha
- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Kolkata, India
| | - T Sinha
- Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata, India
| | - B Sitar
- Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia
| | - M Sitta
- Dipartimento di Scienze e Innovazione Tecnologica dell'Università del Piemonte Orientale and Gruppo Collegato INFN, Alessandria, Italy
| | - T B Skaali
- Department of Physics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
| | - K Skjerdal
- Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
| | - R Smakal
- Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
| | - N Smirnov
- Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut United States
| | - R J M Snellings
- Nikhef, National Institute for Subatomic Physics and Institute for Subatomic Physics of Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
| | - C Søgaard
- Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - R Soltz
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California United States
| | - H Son
- Department of Physics, Sejong University, Seoul, South Korea
| | - M Song
- Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea
| | - J Song
- Pusan National University, Pusan, South Korea
| | - C Soos
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - F Soramel
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università e Astronomia and Sezione INFN, Padova, Italy
| | - I Sputowska
- The Henryk Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Cracow, Poland
| | | | - B K Srivastava
- Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana United States
| | - J Stachel
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - I Stan
- Institute of Space Sciences (ISS), Bucharest, Romania
| | - I Stan
- Institute of Space Sciences (ISS), Bucharest, Romania
| | - G Stefanek
- Soltan Institute for Nuclear Studies, Warsaw, Poland
| | - M Steinpreis
- Department of Physics, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio United States
| | - E Stenlund
- Division of Experimental High Energy Physics, University of Lund, Lund, Sweden
| | - G Steyn
- Physics Department, University of Cape Town, iThemba LABS, Cape Town, South Africa
| | - J H Stiller
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - D Stocco
- SUBATECH, Ecole des Mines de Nantes, Université de Nantes, CNRS-IN2P3, Nantes, France
| | | | - K Strabykin
- Russian Federal Nuclear Center (VNIIEF), Sarov, Russia
| | - P Strmen
- Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia
| | - A A P Suaide
- Universidade de São Paulo (USP), São Paulo, Brazil
| | | | | | - C Suire
- Institut de Physique Nucléaire d'Orsay (IPNO), Université Paris-Sud, CNRS-IN2P3, Orsay, France
| | - M Sukhorukov
- Russian Federal Nuclear Center (VNIIEF), Sarov, Russia
| | - R Sultanov
- Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Moscow, Russia
| | - M Šumbera
- Nuclear Physics Institute, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Řež u Prahy, Czech Republic
| | - T Susa
- Rudjer Bošković Institute, Zagreb, Croatia
| | - T J M Symons
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California United States
| | | | - I Szarka
- Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia
| | - A Szczepankiewicz
- The Henryk Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Cracow, Poland ; European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - A Szostak
- Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
| | - M Szymański
- Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland
| | - J Takahashi
- Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas, Brazil
| | - J D Tapia Takaki
- Institut de Physique Nucléaire d'Orsay (IPNO), Université Paris-Sud, CNRS-IN2P3, Orsay, France
| | - A Tauro
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - G Tejeda Muñoz
- Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Puebla, Mexico
| | - A Telesca
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - C Terrevoli
- Dipartimento Interateneo di Fisica 'M. Merlin' and Sezione INFN, Bari, Italy
| | - J Thäder
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - D Thomas
- Nikhef, National Institute for Subatomic Physics and Institute for Subatomic Physics of Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
| | - R Tieulent
- Université de Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, IPN-Lyon, Villeurbanne, France
| | - A R Timmins
- University of Houston, Houston, Texas United States
| | - D Tlusty
- Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
| | - A Toia
- Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany ; Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università e Astronomia and Sezione INFN, Padova, Italy ; Sezione INFN, Padova, Italy
| | - H Torii
- University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
| | | | - V Trubnikov
- Bogolyubov Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kiev, Ukraine
| | - D Truesdale
- Department of Physics, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio United States
| | - W H Trzaska
- Helsinki Institute of Physics (HIP) and University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland
| | - T Tsuji
- University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
| | - A Tumkin
- Russian Federal Nuclear Center (VNIIEF), Sarov, Russia
| | | | - T S Tveter
- Department of Physics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
| | - J Ulery
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - K Ullaland
- Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
| | - J Ulrich
- Kirchhoff-Institut für Physik, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany ; Institut für Informatik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - A Uras
- Université de Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, IPN-Lyon, Villeurbanne, France
| | - J Urbán
- Faculty of Science, P.J. Šafárik University, Košice, Slovakia
| | | | - G L Usai
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Cagliari, Italy
| | - M Vajzer
- Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic ; Nuclear Physics Institute, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Řež u Prahy, Czech Republic
| | - M Vala
- Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), Dubna, Russia ; Institute of Experimental Physics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Košice, Slovakia
| | - L Valencia Palomo
- Institut de Physique Nucléaire d'Orsay (IPNO), Université Paris-Sud, CNRS-IN2P3, Orsay, France
| | - S Vallero
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - P Vande Vyvre
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - M van Leeuwen
- Nikhef, National Institute for Subatomic Physics and Institute for Subatomic Physics of Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
| | - L Vannucci
- Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro, INFN, Legnaro, Italy
| | - A Vargas
- Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Puebla, Mexico
| | - R Varma
- Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT), Mumbai, India
| | - M Vasileiou
- Physics Department, University of Athens, Athens, Greece
| | - A Vasiliev
- Russian Research Centre Kurchatov Institute, Moscow, Russia
| | - V Vechernin
- V. Fock Institute for Physics, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia
| | - M Veldhoen
- Nikhef, National Institute for Subatomic Physics and Institute for Subatomic Physics of Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
| | - M Venaruzzo
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Trieste, Italy
| | - E Vercellin
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
| | - S Vergara
- Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Puebla, Mexico
| | - R Vernet
- Centre de Calcul de l'IN2P3, Villeurbanne, France
| | - M Verweij
- Nikhef, National Institute for Subatomic Physics and Institute for Subatomic Physics of Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
| | - L Vickovic
- Technical University of Split FESB, Split, Croatia
| | - G Viesti
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università e Astronomia and Sezione INFN, Padova, Italy
| | | | - Z Vilakazi
- Physics Department, University of Cape Town, iThemba LABS, Cape Town, South Africa
| | - O Villalobos Baillie
- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
| | - Y Vinogradov
- Russian Federal Nuclear Center (VNIIEF), Sarov, Russia
| | - A Vinogradov
- Russian Research Centre Kurchatov Institute, Moscow, Russia
| | - L Vinogradov
- V. Fock Institute for Physics, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia
| | - T Virgili
- Dipartimento di Fisica 'E.R. Caianiello' dell'Università and Gruppo Collegato INFN, Salerno, Italy
| | - Y P Viyogi
- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Kolkata, India
| | - A Vodopyanov
- Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), Dubna, Russia
| | - S Voloshin
- Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan United States
| | - K Voloshin
- Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Moscow, Russia
| | - G Volpe
- Dipartimento Interateneo di Fisica 'M. Merlin' and Sezione INFN, Bari, Italy ; European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - B von Haller
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - D Vranic
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - G Øvrebekk
- Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
| | - J Vrláková
- Faculty of Science, P.J. Šafárik University, Košice, Slovakia
| | - B Vulpescu
- Laboratoire de Physique Corpusculaire (LPC), Clermont Université, Université Blaise Pascal, CNRS-IN2P3, Clermont-Ferrand, France
| | - A Vyushin
- Russian Federal Nuclear Center (VNIIEF), Sarov, Russia
| | - V Wagner
- Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
| | - B Wagner
- Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
| | - R Wan
- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
| | - M Wang
- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
| | - D Wang
- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
| | - Y Wang
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
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- University of Houston, Houston, Texas United States
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland ; Institut für Kernphysik, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Münster, Germany
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- Institut für Kernphysik, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Münster, Germany
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- Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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- Department of Physics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- Institut für Kernphysik, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Münster, Germany
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- Institut für Kernphysik, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Münster, Germany
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- Soltan Institute for Nuclear Studies, Warsaw, Poland
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- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan United States
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- Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique, IRFU, Saclay, France
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- Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
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- Russian Research Centre Kurchatov Institute, Moscow, Russia
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- Pusan National University, Pusan, South Korea
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- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
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- Pusan National University, Pusan, South Korea
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- Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea
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- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
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- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
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- Russian Research Centre Kurchatov Institute, Moscow, Russia
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- Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), Dubna, Russia
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- V. Fock Institute for Physics, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia
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- Institute of Physics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Russian Federal Nuclear Center (VNIIEF), Sarov, Russia
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- Institut für Informatik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
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- Institute of Space Sciences (ISS), Bucharest, Romania
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- Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, Gatchina, Russia
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- Laboratoire de Physique Corpusculaire (LPC), Clermont Université, Université Blaise Pascal, CNRS-IN2P3, Clermont-Ferrand, France ; Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
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- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
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- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
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- Nikhef, National Institute for Subatomic Physics and Institute for Subatomic Physics of Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
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- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
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- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
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- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
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- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
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- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Bologna, Italy ; Centro Fermi - Centro Studi e Ricerche e Museo Storico della Fisica "Enrico Fermi", Rome, Italy
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- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Bogolyubov Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kiev, Ukraine
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- Université de Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, IPN-Lyon, Villeurbanne, France
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- Bogolyubov Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kiev, Ukraine
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- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
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Wagner V, Wagner B, Wan R, Wang M, Wang D, Wang Y, Wang Y, Watanabe K, Weber M, Wessels JP, Westerhoff U, Wiechula J, Wikne J, Wilde M, Wilk G, Wilk A, Williams MCS, Windelband B, Xaplanteris Karampatsos L, Yaldo CG, Yamaguchi Y, Yang H, Yang S, Yasnopolskiy S, Yi J, Yin Z, Yoo IK, Yoon J, Yu W, Yuan X, Yushmanov I, Zach C, Zampolli C, Zaporozhets S, Zarochentsev A, Závada P, Zaviyalov N, Zbroszczyk H, Zelnicek P, Zgura IS, Zhalov M, Zhang X, Zhang H, Zhou F, Zhou D, Zhou Y, Zhu J, Zhu J, Zhu X, Zichichi A, Zimmermann A, Zinovjev G, Zoccarato Y, Zynovyev M, Zyzak M. Net-charge fluctuations in Pb-Pb collisions at sqrt[sNN]=2.76 TeV. Phys Rev Lett 2013; 110:152301. [PMID: 25167254 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.110.152301] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/26/2012] [Revised: 02/04/2013] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
Abstract
We report the first measurement of the net-charge fluctuations in Pb-Pb collisions at sqrt[sNN]=2.76 TeV, measured with the ALICE detector at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. The dynamical fluctuations per unit entropy are observed to decrease when going from peripheral to central collisions. An additional reduction in the amount of fluctuations is seen in comparison to the results from lower energies. We examine the dependence of fluctuations on the pseudorapidity interval, which may account for the dilution of fluctuations during the evolution of the system. We find that the fluctuations at the LHC are smaller compared to the measurements at the BNL Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider, and as such, closer to what has been theoretically predicted for the formation of a quark-gluon plasma.
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Affiliation(s)
- B Abelev
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California, USA
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- Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Nuclear Physics Institute, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Řež u Prahy, Czech Republic
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- Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
| | - M M Aggarwal
- Physics Department, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
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- KFKI Research Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
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- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Bologna, Italy
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- Instituto de Física, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
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- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Kolkata, India
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- Department of Physics Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India
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- Department of Physics Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India
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- Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information, Daejeon, South Korea
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- Laboratoire de Physique Corpusculaire (LPC), Clermont Université, Université Blaise Pascal, CNRS-IN2P3, Clermont-Ferrand, France and Gangneung-Wonju National University, Gangneung, South Korea
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- Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Moscow, Russia
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- Russian Research Centre Kurchatov Institute, Moscow, Russia
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- Instituto de Física, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
| | - A Alici
- Sezione INFN, Bologna, Italy and Centro Fermi-Centro Studi e Ricerche e Museo Storico della Fisica "Enrico Fermi," Rome, Italy
| | - A Alkin
- Bogolyubov Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kiev, Ukraine
| | - E Almaráz Aviña
- Instituto de Física, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
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- Faculty of Engineering, Bergen University College, Bergen, Norway
| | - T Alt
- Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
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- Dipartimento Interateneo di Fisica "M. Merlin" and Sezione INFN, Bari, Italy
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- Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
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- V. Fock Institute for Physics, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia
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- National Institute for Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Bucharest, Romania
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- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, Darmstadt, Germany
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- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - J Anielski
- Institut für Kernphysik, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Münster, Germany
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- Department of Physics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA
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- Rudjer Bošković Institute, Zagreb, Croatia
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- SUBATECH, Ecole des Mines de Nantes, Université de Nantes, CNRS-IN2P3, Nantes, France
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- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
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- Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie (LPSC), Université Joseph Fourier, CNRS-IN2P3, Institut Polytechnique de Grenoble, Grenoble, France
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- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Bologna, Italy
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- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
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- Departamento de Física de Partículas and IGFAE, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
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- Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
| | - I C Arsene
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, Darmstadt, Germany
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- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
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- V. Fock Institute for Physics, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
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- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, Darmstadt, Germany
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- Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA
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- Helsinki Institute of Physics (HIP) and University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland
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- Department of Physics Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India
| | - M Bach
- Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | | | - Y W Baek
- Laboratoire de Physique Corpusculaire (LPC), Clermont Université, Université Blaise Pascal, CNRS-IN2P3, Clermont-Ferrand, France and Gangneung-Wonju National University, Gangneung, South Korea
| | - R Bailhache
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - R Bala
- Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
| | - R Baldini Ferroli
- Centro Fermi-Centro Studi e Ricerche e Museo Storico della Fisica "Enrico Fermi," Rome, Italy
| | - A Baldisseri
- Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique, IRFU, Saclay, France
| | - A Baldit
- Laboratoire de Physique Corpusculaire (LPC), Clermont Université, Université Blaise Pascal, CNRS-IN2P3, Clermont-Ferrand, France
| | | | - J Bán
- Institute of Experimental Physics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Košice, Slovakia
| | - R C Baral
- Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar, India
| | - R Barbera
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Catania, Italy
| | - F Barile
- Dipartimento Interateneo di Fisica "M. Merlin" and Sezione INFN, Bari, Italy
| | - G G Barnaföldi
- KFKI Research Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
| | - L S Barnby
- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
| | - V Barret
- Laboratoire de Physique Corpusculaire (LPC), Clermont Université, Université Blaise Pascal, CNRS-IN2P3, Clermont-Ferrand, France
| | - J Bartke
- The Henryk Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Cracow, Poland
| | - M Basile
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Bologna, Italy
| | - N Bastid
- Laboratoire de Physique Corpusculaire (LPC), Clermont Université, Université Blaise Pascal, CNRS-IN2P3, Clermont-Ferrand, France
| | - S Basu
- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Kolkata, India
| | - B Bathen
- Institut für Kernphysik, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Münster, Germany
| | - G Batigne
- SUBATECH, Ecole des Mines de Nantes, Université de Nantes, CNRS-IN2P3, Nantes, France
| | - B Batyunya
- Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), Dubna, Russia
| | - C Baumann
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - I G Bearden
- Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - H Beck
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - N K Behera
- Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT), Mumbai, India
| | - I Belikov
- Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien (IPHC), Université de Strasbourg, CNRS-IN2P3, Strasbourg, France
| | - F Bellini
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Bologna, Italy
| | - R Bellwied
- University of Houston, Houston, Texas, USA
| | - E Belmont-Moreno
- Instituto de Física, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
| | - G Bencedi
- KFKI Research Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
| | - S Beole
- Dipartimento di Fisica Sperimentale dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
| | - I Berceanu
- National Institute for Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Bucharest, Romania
| | - A Bercuci
- National Institute for Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Bucharest, Romania
| | - Y Berdnikov
- Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, Gatchina, Russia
| | - D Berenyi
- KFKI Research Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
| | - A A E Bergognon
- SUBATECH, Ecole des Mines de Nantes, Université de Nantes, CNRS-IN2P3, Nantes, France
| | | | - L Betev
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - A Bhasin
- Physics Department, University of Jammu, Jammu, India
| | - A K Bhati
- Physics Department, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India
| | - J Bhom
- University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
| | - L Bianchi
- Dipartimento di Fisica Sperimentale dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
| | - N Bianchi
- Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, INFN, Frascati, Italy
| | - C Bianchin
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Padova, Italy
| | - J Bielčík
- Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
| | - J Bielčíková
- Nuclear Physics Institute, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Řež u Prahy, Czech Republic
| | - A Bilandzic
- Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark and Nikhef, National Institute for Subatomic Physics, Amsterdam, Netherlands
| | - S Bjelogrlic
- Nikhef, National Institute for Subatomic Physics and Institute for Subatomic Physics of Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
| | - F Blanco
- Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Medioambientales y Tecnológicas (CIEMAT), Madrid, Spain
| | - F Blanco
- University of Houston, Houston, Texas, USA
| | - D Blau
- Russian Research Centre Kurchatov Institute, Moscow, Russia
| | - C Blume
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - M Boccioli
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - N Bock
- Department of Physics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA
| | - S Böttger
- Institut für Informatik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - A Bogdanov
- Moscow Engineering Physics Institute, Moscow, Russia
| | - H Bøggild
- Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
| | | | - L Boldizsár
- KFKI Research Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
| | - M Bombara
- Faculty of Science, P.J. Šafárik University, Košice, Slovakia
| | - J Book
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - H Borel
- Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique, IRFU, Saclay, France
| | - A Borissov
- Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, USA
| | - S Bose
- Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata, India
| | - F Bossú
- Dipartimento di Fisica Sperimentale dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
| | - M Botje
- Nikhef, National Institute for Subatomic Physics, Amsterdam, Netherlands
| | - B Boyer
- Institut de Physique Nucléaire d'Orsay (IPNO), Université Paris-Sud, CNRS-IN2P3, Orsay, France
| | - E Braidot
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, USA
| | - P Braun-Munzinger
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - M Bregant
- SUBATECH, Ecole des Mines de Nantes, Université de Nantes, CNRS-IN2P3, Nantes, France
| | - T Breitner
- Institut für Informatik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | | | - M Broz
- Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia
| | - R Brun
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - E Bruna
- Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy and Dipartimento di Fisica Sperimentale dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
| | - G E Bruno
- Dipartimento Interateneo di Fisica "M. Merlin" and Sezione INFN, Bari, Italy
| | - D Budnikov
- Russian Federal Nuclear Center (VNIIEF), Sarov, Russia
| | - H Buesching
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - S Bufalino
- Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy and Dipartimento di Fisica Sperimentale dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
| | - K Bugaiev
- Bogolyubov Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kiev, Ukraine
| | - O Busch
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - Z Buthelezi
- Physics Department, University of Cape Town, iThemba LABS, Cape Town, South Africa
| | | | - D Caffarri
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Padova, Italy
| | - X Cai
- Hua-Zhong Normal University, Wuhan, China
| | - H Caines
- Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
| | - E Calvo Villar
- Sección Física, Departamento de Ciencias, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima, Peru
| | - P Camerini
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Trieste, Italy
| | - V Canoa Roman
- Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados (CINVESTAV), Mexico City and Mérida, Mexico and Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Puebla, Mexico
| | | | - F Carena
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - W Carena
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | | | - F Carminati
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | | | | | | | - J F Castillo Hernandez
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - E A R Casula
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Cagliari, Italy
| | - V Catanescu
- National Institute for Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Bucharest, Romania
| | - C Cavicchioli
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - C Ceballos Sanchez
- Centro de Aplicaciones Tecnológicas y Desarrollo Nuclear (CEADEN), Havana, Cuba
| | - J Cepila
- Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
| | | | - B Chang
- Helsinki Institute of Physics (HIP) and University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland and Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea
| | - S Chapeland
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - J L Charvet
- Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique, IRFU, Saclay, France
| | | | | | - I Chawla
- Physics Department, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India
| | - M Cherney
- Physics Department, Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska, USA
| | - C Cheshkov
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland and Université de Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, IPN-Lyon, Villeurbanne, France
| | - B Cheynis
- Université de Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, IPN-Lyon, Villeurbanne, France
| | | | - D D Chinellato
- Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas, Brazil
| | - P Chochula
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - M Chojnacki
- Nikhef, National Institute for Subatomic Physics and Institute for Subatomic Physics of Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
| | - S Choudhury
- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Kolkata, India
| | - P Christakoglou
- Nikhef, National Institute for Subatomic Physics, Amsterdam, Netherlands and Nikhef, National Institute for Subatomic Physics and Institute for Subatomic Physics of Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
| | - C H Christensen
- Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - P Christiansen
- Division of Experimental High Energy Physics, University of Lund, Lund, Sweden
| | - T Chujo
- University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
| | - S U Chung
- Pusan National University, Pusan, South Korea
| | | | - L Cifarelli
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland and Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Bologna, Italy and Centro Fermi-Centro Studi e Ricerche e Museo Storico della Fisica "Enrico Fermi," Rome, Italy
| | | | - J Cleymans
- Physics Department, University of Cape Town, iThemba LABS, Cape Town, South Africa
| | - F Coccetti
- Centro Fermi-Centro Studi e Ricerche e Museo Storico della Fisica "Enrico Fermi," Rome, Italy
| | - F Colamaria
- Dipartimento Interateneo di Fisica "M. Merlin" and Sezione INFN, Bari, Italy
| | - D Colella
- Dipartimento Interateneo di Fisica "M. Merlin" and Sezione INFN, Bari, Italy
| | - G Conesa Balbastre
- Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie (LPSC), Université Joseph Fourier, CNRS-IN2P3, Institut Polytechnique de Grenoble, Grenoble, France
| | | | - P Constantin
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - G Contin
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Trieste, Italy
| | - J G Contreras
- Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados (CINVESTAV), Mexico City and Mérida, Mexico
| | - T M Cormier
- Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, USA
| | - Y Corrales Morales
- Dipartimento di Fisica Sperimentale dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
| | - P Cortese
- Dipartimento di Scienze e Innovazione Tecnologica dell'Università del Piemonte Orientale and Gruppo Collegato INFN, Alessandria, Italy
| | | | - M R Cosentino
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, USA
| | - F Costa
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - M E Cotallo
- Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Medioambientales y Tecnológicas (CIEMAT), Madrid, Spain
| | - E Crescio
- Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados (CINVESTAV), Mexico City and Mérida, Mexico
| | - P Crochet
- Laboratoire de Physique Corpusculaire (LPC), Clermont Université, Université Blaise Pascal, CNRS-IN2P3, Clermont-Ferrand, France
| | - E Cruz Alaniz
- Instituto de Física, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
| | - E Cuautle
- Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
| | - L Cunqueiro
- Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, INFN, Frascati, Italy
| | - A Dainese
- Sezione INFN, Padova, Italy and Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Padova, Italy
| | - H H Dalsgaard
- Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - A Danu
- Institute of Space Sciences (ISS), Bucharest, Romania
| | - D Das
- Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata, India
| | - I Das
- Institut de Physique Nucléaire d'Orsay (IPNO), Université Paris-Sud, CNRS-IN2P3, Orsay, France
| | - K Das
- Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata, India
| | - S Dash
- Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT), Mumbai, India
| | - A Dash
- Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas, Brazil
| | - S De
- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Kolkata, India
| | | | - A De Caro
- Centro Fermi-Centro Studi e Ricerche e Museo Storico della Fisica "Enrico Fermi," Rome, Italy and Dipartimento di Fisica "E.R. Caianiello" dell'Università and Gruppo Collegato INFN, Salerno, Italy
| | | | - J de Cuveland
- Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - A De Falco
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Cagliari, Italy
| | - D De Gruttola
- Dipartimento di Fisica "E.R. Caianiello" dell'Università and Gruppo Collegato INFN, Salerno, Italy
| | - H Delagrange
- SUBATECH, Ecole des Mines de Nantes, Université de Nantes, CNRS-IN2P3, Nantes, France
| | - A Deloff
- Soltan Institute for Nuclear Studies, Warsaw, Poland
| | - V Demanov
- Russian Federal Nuclear Center (VNIIEF), Sarov, Russia
| | | | - E Dénes
- KFKI Research Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
| | - S De Pasquale
- Dipartimento di Fisica "E.R. Caianiello" dell'Università and Gruppo Collegato INFN, Salerno, Italy
| | - A Deppman
- Universidade de São Paulo (USP), São Paulo, Brazil
| | - G D Erasmo
- Dipartimento Interateneo di Fisica "M. Merlin" and Sezione INFN, Bari, Italy
| | - R de Rooij
- Nikhef, National Institute for Subatomic Physics and Institute for Subatomic Physics of Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
| | - M A Diaz Corchero
- Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Medioambientales y Tecnológicas (CIEMAT), Madrid, Spain
| | - D Di Bari
- Dipartimento Interateneo di Fisica "M. Merlin" and Sezione INFN, Bari, Italy
| | - T Dietel
- Institut für Kernphysik, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Münster, Germany
| | | | - A Di Mauro
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - P Di Nezza
- Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, INFN, Frascati, Italy
| | - R Divià
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - Ø Djuvsland
- Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
| | - A Dobrin
- Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, USA and Division of Experimental High Energy Physics, University of Lund, Lund, Sweden
| | - T Dobrowolski
- Soltan Institute for Nuclear Studies, Warsaw, Poland
| | - I Domínguez
- Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
| | - B Dönigus
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - O Dordic
- Department of Physics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
| | - O Driga
- SUBATECH, Ecole des Mines de Nantes, Université de Nantes, CNRS-IN2P3, Nantes, France
| | - A K Dubey
- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Kolkata, India
| | - L Ducroux
- Université de Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, IPN-Lyon, Villeurbanne, France
| | - P Dupieux
- Laboratoire de Physique Corpusculaire (LPC), Clermont Université, Université Blaise Pascal, CNRS-IN2P3, Clermont-Ferrand, France
| | | | | | - D Elia
- Sezione INFN, Bari, Italy
| | - D Emschermann
- Institut für Kernphysik, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Münster, Germany
| | - H Engel
- Institut für Informatik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - H A Erdal
- Faculty of Engineering, Bergen University College, Bergen, Norway
| | - B Espagnon
- Institut de Physique Nucléaire d'Orsay (IPNO), Université Paris-Sud, CNRS-IN2P3, Orsay, France
| | - M Estienne
- SUBATECH, Ecole des Mines de Nantes, Université de Nantes, CNRS-IN2P3, Nantes, France
| | - S Esumi
- University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
| | - D Evans
- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
| | - G Eyyubova
- Department of Physics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
| | - D Fabris
- Sezione INFN, Padova, Italy and Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Padova, Italy
| | - J Faivre
- Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie (LPSC), Université Joseph Fourier, CNRS-IN2P3, Institut Polytechnique de Grenoble, Grenoble, France
| | - D Falchieri
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Bologna, Italy
| | - A Fantoni
- Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, INFN, Frascati, Italy
| | - M Fasel
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - R Fearick
- Physics Department, University of Cape Town, iThemba LABS, Cape Town, South Africa
| | - A Fedunov
- Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), Dubna, Russia
| | - D Fehlker
- Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
| | - L Feldkamp
- Institut für Kernphysik, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Münster, Germany
| | - D Felea
- Institute of Space Sciences (ISS), Bucharest, Romania
| | - B Fenton-Olsen
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, USA
| | - G Feofilov
- V. Fock Institute for Physics, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia
| | | | - A Ferretti
- Dipartimento di Fisica Sperimentale dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
| | - R Ferretti
- Dipartimento di Scienze e Innovazione Tecnologica dell'Università del Piemonte Orientale and Gruppo Collegato INFN, Alessandria, Italy
| | - J Figiel
- The Henryk Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Cracow, Poland
| | | | - S Filchagin
- Russian Federal Nuclear Center (VNIIEF), Sarov, Russia
| | - D Finogeev
- Institute for Nuclear Research, Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
| | - F M Fionda
- Dipartimento Interateneo di Fisica "M. Merlin" and Sezione INFN, Bari, Italy
| | - E M Fiore
- Dipartimento Interateneo di Fisica "M. Merlin" and Sezione INFN, Bari, Italy
| | - M Floris
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - S Foertsch
- Physics Department, University of Cape Town, iThemba LABS, Cape Town, South Africa
| | - P Foka
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - S Fokin
- Russian Research Centre Kurchatov Institute, Moscow, Russia
| | | | - U Frankenfeld
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - U Fuchs
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - C Furget
- Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie (LPSC), Université Joseph Fourier, CNRS-IN2P3, Institut Polytechnique de Grenoble, Grenoble, France
| | - M Fusco Girard
- Dipartimento di Fisica "E.R. Caianiello" dell'Università and Gruppo Collegato INFN, Salerno, Italy
| | - J J Gaardhøje
- Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - M Gagliardi
- Dipartimento di Fisica Sperimentale dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
| | - A Gago
- Sección Física, Departamento de Ciencias, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima, Peru
| | - M Gallio
- Dipartimento di Fisica Sperimentale dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
| | - D R Gangadharan
- Department of Physics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA
| | - P Ganoti
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA
| | - C Garabatos
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, Darmstadt, Germany
| | | | - I Garishvili
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California, USA
| | - J Gerhard
- Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - M Germain
- SUBATECH, Ecole des Mines de Nantes, Université de Nantes, CNRS-IN2P3, Nantes, France
| | - C Geuna
- Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique, IRFU, Saclay, France
| | - A Gheata
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - M Gheata
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland and Institute of Space Sciences (ISS), Bucharest, Romania
| | - B Ghidini
- Dipartimento Interateneo di Fisica "M. Merlin" and Sezione INFN, Bari, Italy
| | - P Ghosh
- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Kolkata, India
| | - C Di Giglio
- Dipartimento Interateneo di Fisica "M. Merlin" and Sezione INFN, Bari, Italy
| | - P Gianotti
- Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, INFN, Frascati, Italy
| | - M R Girard
- Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland
| | - P Giubellino
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - E Gladysz-Dziadus
- The Henryk Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Cracow, Poland
| | - P Glässel
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - R Gomez
- Universidad Autónoma de Sinaloa, Culiacán, Mexico
| | - A Gonschior
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - E G Ferreiro
- Departamento de Física de Partículas and IGFAE, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
| | - L H González-Trueba
- Instituto de Física, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
| | - P González-Zamora
- Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Medioambientales y Tecnológicas (CIEMAT), Madrid, Spain
| | - S Gorbunov
- Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - A Goswami
- Physics Department, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur, India
| | - S Gotovac
- Technical University of Split FESB, Split, Croatia
| | - V Grabski
- Instituto de Física, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
| | | | - R Grajcarek
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - A Grelli
- Nikhef, National Institute for Subatomic Physics and Institute for Subatomic Physics of Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
| | - C Grigoras
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - A Grigoras
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - V Grigoriev
- Moscow Engineering Physics Institute, Moscow, Russia
| | | | - S Grigoryan
- Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), Dubna, Russia
| | - B Grinyov
- Bogolyubov Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kiev, Ukraine
| | - N Grion
- Sezione INFN, Trieste, Italy
| | - P Gros
- Division of Experimental High Energy Physics, University of Lund, Lund, Sweden
| | | | - J-Y Grossiord
- Université de Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, IPN-Lyon, Villeurbanne, France
| | - R Grosso
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - F Guber
- Institute for Nuclear Research, Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
| | - R Guernane
- Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie (LPSC), Université Joseph Fourier, CNRS-IN2P3, Institut Polytechnique de Grenoble, Grenoble, France
| | - C Guerra Gutierrez
- Sección Física, Departamento de Ciencias, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima, Peru
| | - B Guerzoni
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Bologna, Italy
| | - M Guilbaud
- Université de Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, IPN-Lyon, Villeurbanne, France
| | - K Gulbrandsen
- Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - T Gunji
- University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
| | - A Gupta
- Physics Department, University of Jammu, Jammu, India
| | - R Gupta
- Physics Department, University of Jammu, Jammu, India
| | - H Gutbrod
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - Ø Haaland
- Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
| | - C Hadjidakis
- Institut de Physique Nucléaire d'Orsay (IPNO), Université Paris-Sud, CNRS-IN2P3, Orsay, France
| | - M Haiduc
- Institute of Space Sciences (ISS), Bucharest, Romania
| | | | - G Hamar
- KFKI Research Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
| | - B H Han
- Department of Physics, Sejong University, Seoul, South Korea
| | - L D Hanratty
- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
| | - A Hansen
- Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - Z Harmanova
- Faculty of Science, P.J. Šafárik University, Košice, Slovakia
| | - J W Harris
- Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
| | - M Hartig
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - D Hasegan
- Institute of Space Sciences (ISS), Bucharest, Romania
| | | | - A Hayrapetyan
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland and Yerevan Physics Institute, Yerevan, Armenia
| | - S T Heckel
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - M Heide
- Institut für Kernphysik, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Münster, Germany
| | - H Helstrup
- Faculty of Engineering, Bergen University College, Bergen, Norway
| | - A Herghelegiu
- National Institute for Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Bucharest, Romania
| | - G Herrera Corral
- Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados (CINVESTAV), Mexico City and Mérida, Mexico
| | - N Herrmann
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - B A Hess
- Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
| | - K F Hetland
- Faculty of Engineering, Bergen University College, Bergen, Norway
| | - B Hicks
- Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
| | - P T Hille
- Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
| | - B Hippolyte
- Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien (IPHC), Université de Strasbourg, CNRS-IN2P3, Strasbourg, France
| | | | - Y Hori
- University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
| | - P Hristov
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - I Hřivnáčová
- Institut de Physique Nucléaire d'Orsay (IPNO), Université Paris-Sud, CNRS-IN2P3, Orsay, France
| | - M Huang
- Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
| | - T J Humanic
- Department of Physics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA
| | - D S Hwang
- Department of Physics, Sejong University, Seoul, South Korea
| | - R Ichou
- Laboratoire de Physique Corpusculaire (LPC), Clermont Université, Université Blaise Pascal, CNRS-IN2P3, Clermont-Ferrand, France
| | - R Ilkaev
- Russian Federal Nuclear Center (VNIIEF), Sarov, Russia
| | - I Ilkiv
- Soltan Institute for Nuclear Studies, Warsaw, Poland
| | - M Inaba
- University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
| | - E Incani
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Cagliari, Italy
| | - G M Innocenti
- Dipartimento di Fisica Sperimentale dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
| | - P G Innocenti
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - M Ippolitov
- Russian Research Centre Kurchatov Institute, Moscow, Russia
| | - M Irfan
- Department of Physics Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India
| | - C Ivan
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - V Ivanov
- Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, Gatchina, Russia
| | - M Ivanov
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - A Ivanov
- V. Fock Institute for Physics, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia
| | - O Ivanytskyi
- Bogolyubov Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kiev, Ukraine
| | - A Jachołkowski
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - P M Jacobs
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, USA
| | - H J Jang
- Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information, Daejeon, South Korea
| | - S Jangal
- Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien (IPHC), Université de Strasbourg, CNRS-IN2P3, Strasbourg, France
| | - M A Janik
- Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland
| | - R Janik
- Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia
| | | | - S Jena
- Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT), Mumbai, India
| | - D M Jha
- Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, USA
| | - R T Jimenez Bustamante
- Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
| | - L Jirden
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - P G Jones
- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
| | - H Jung
- Gangneung-Wonju National University, Gangneung, South Korea
| | - A Jusko
- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
| | - A B Kaidalov
- Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Moscow, Russia
| | - V Kakoyan
- Yerevan Physics Institute, Yerevan, Armenia
| | - S Kalcher
- Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - P Kaliňák
- Institute of Experimental Physics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Košice, Slovakia
| | - T Kalliokoski
- Helsinki Institute of Physics (HIP) and University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland
| | - A Kalweit
- Institut für Kernphysik, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - K Kanaki
- Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
| | - J H Kang
- Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea
| | - V Kaplin
- Moscow Engineering Physics Institute, Moscow, Russia
| | - A Karasu Uysal
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland and Yildiz Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey
| | - O Karavichev
- Institute for Nuclear Research, Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
| | - T Karavicheva
- Institute for Nuclear Research, Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
| | - E Karpechev
- Institute for Nuclear Research, Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
| | - A Kazantsev
- Russian Research Centre Kurchatov Institute, Moscow, Russia
| | - U Kebschull
- Institut für Informatik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - R Keidel
- Zentrum für Technologietransfer und Telekommunikation (ZTT), Fachhochschule Worms, Worms, Germany
| | - P Khan
- Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata, India
| | - M M Khan
- Department of Physics Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India
| | - S A Khan
- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Kolkata, India
| | - A Khanzadeev
- Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, Gatchina, Russia
| | - Y Kharlov
- Institute for High Energy Physics, Protvino, Russia
| | - B Kileng
- Faculty of Engineering, Bergen University College, Bergen, Norway
| | - D W Kim
- Gangneung-Wonju National University, Gangneung, South Korea
| | - M Kim
- Gangneung-Wonju National University, Gangneung, South Korea
| | - M Kim
- Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea
| | - S H Kim
- Gangneung-Wonju National University, Gangneung, South Korea
| | - D J Kim
- Helsinki Institute of Physics (HIP) and University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland
| | - S Kim
- Department of Physics, Sejong University, Seoul, South Korea
| | - J H Kim
- Department of Physics, Sejong University, Seoul, South Korea
| | - J S Kim
- Gangneung-Wonju National University, Gangneung, South Korea
| | - B Kim
- Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea
| | - T Kim
- Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea
| | - S Kirsch
- Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - I Kisel
- Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - S Kiselev
- Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Moscow, Russia
| | - A Kisiel
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland and Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland
| | - J L Klay
- California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, California, USA
| | - J Klein
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - C Klein-Bösing
- Institut für Kernphysik, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Münster, Germany
| | - M Kliemant
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - A Kluge
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - M L Knichel
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - A G Knospe
- The University of Texas at Austin, Physics Department, Austin, Texas, USA
| | - K Koch
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - M K Köhler
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - A Kolojvari
- V. Fock Institute for Physics, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia
| | - V Kondratiev
- V. Fock Institute for Physics, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia
| | - N Kondratyeva
- Moscow Engineering Physics Institute, Moscow, Russia
| | - A Konevskikh
- Institute for Nuclear Research, Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
| | - A Korneev
- Russian Federal Nuclear Center (VNIIEF), Sarov, Russia
| | - R Kour
- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
| | - M Kowalski
- The Henryk Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Cracow, Poland
| | - S Kox
- Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie (LPSC), Université Joseph Fourier, CNRS-IN2P3, Institut Polytechnique de Grenoble, Grenoble, France
| | | | - J Kral
- Helsinki Institute of Physics (HIP) and University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland
| | - I Králik
- Institute of Experimental Physics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Košice, Slovakia
| | - F Kramer
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - I Kraus
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - T Krawutschke
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany and Fachhochschule Köln, Köln, Germany
| | - M Krelina
- Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
| | - M Kretz
- Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - M Krivda
- Institute of Experimental Physics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Košice, Slovakia and School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
| | - F Krizek
- Helsinki Institute of Physics (HIP) and University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland
| | - M Krus
- Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
| | - E Kryshen
- Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, Gatchina, Russia
| | - M Krzewicki
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - Y Kucheriaev
- Russian Research Centre Kurchatov Institute, Moscow, Russia
| | - C Kuhn
- Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien (IPHC), Université de Strasbourg, CNRS-IN2P3, Strasbourg, France
| | - P G Kuijer
- Nikhef, National Institute for Subatomic Physics, Amsterdam, Netherlands
| | - I Kulakov
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - J Kumar
- Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT), Mumbai, India
| | - P Kurashvili
- Soltan Institute for Nuclear Studies, Warsaw, Poland
| | - A B Kurepin
- Institute for Nuclear Research, Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
| | - A Kurepin
- Institute for Nuclear Research, Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
| | - A Kuryakin
- Russian Federal Nuclear Center (VNIIEF), Sarov, Russia
| | - V Kushpil
- Nuclear Physics Institute, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Řež u Prahy, Czech Republic
| | - S Kushpil
- Nuclear Physics Institute, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Řež u Prahy, Czech Republic
| | - H Kvaerno
- Department of Physics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
| | - M J Kweon
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - Y Kwon
- Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea
| | - P Ladrón de Guevara
- Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
| | - I Lakomov
- Institut de Physique Nucléaire d'Orsay (IPNO), Université Paris-Sud, CNRS-IN2P3, Orsay, France
| | - R Langoy
- Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
| | - S L La Pointe
- Nikhef, National Institute for Subatomic Physics and Institute for Subatomic Physics of Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
| | - C Lara
- Institut für Informatik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - A Lardeux
- SUBATECH, Ecole des Mines de Nantes, Université de Nantes, CNRS-IN2P3, Nantes, France
| | - P La Rocca
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Catania, Italy
| | - C Lazzeroni
- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
| | - R Lea
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Trieste, Italy
| | - Y Le Bornec
- Institut de Physique Nucléaire d'Orsay (IPNO), Université Paris-Sud, CNRS-IN2P3, Orsay, France
| | - M Lechman
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - S C Lee
- Gangneung-Wonju National University, Gangneung, South Korea
| | - K S Lee
- Gangneung-Wonju National University, Gangneung, South Korea
| | - G R Lee
- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
| | - F Lefèvre
- SUBATECH, Ecole des Mines de Nantes, Université de Nantes, CNRS-IN2P3, Nantes, France
| | - J Lehnert
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - L Leistam
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - M Lenhardt
- SUBATECH, Ecole des Mines de Nantes, Université de Nantes, CNRS-IN2P3, Nantes, France
| | | | - H León
- Instituto de Física, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
| | | | | | - H León Vargas
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - P Lévai
- KFKI Research Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
| | - J Lien
- Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
| | - R Lietava
- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
| | - S Lindal
- Department of Physics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
| | - V Lindenstruth
- Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - C Lippmann
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland and Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - M A Lisa
- Department of Physics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA
| | - L Liu
- Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
| | - P I Loenne
- Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
| | - V R Loggins
- Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, USA
| | - V Loginov
- Moscow Engineering Physics Institute, Moscow, Russia
| | - S Lohn
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - D Lohner
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - C Loizides
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, USA
| | - K K Loo
- Helsinki Institute of Physics (HIP) and University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland
| | - X Lopez
- Laboratoire de Physique Corpusculaire (LPC), Clermont Université, Université Blaise Pascal, CNRS-IN2P3, Clermont-Ferrand, France
| | - E López Torres
- Centro de Aplicaciones Tecnológicas y Desarrollo Nuclear (CEADEN), Havana, Cuba
| | - G Løvhøiden
- Department of Physics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
| | - X-G Lu
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - P Luettig
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - M Lunardon
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Padova, Italy
| | - J Luo
- Hua-Zhong Normal University, Wuhan, China
| | - G Luparello
- Nikhef, National Institute for Subatomic Physics and Institute for Subatomic Physics of Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
| | - L Luquin
- SUBATECH, Ecole des Mines de Nantes, Université de Nantes, CNRS-IN2P3, Nantes, France
| | - C Luzzi
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - R Ma
- Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
| | - K Ma
- Hua-Zhong Normal University, Wuhan, China
| | | | - A Maevskaya
- Institute for Nuclear Research, Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
| | - M Mager
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland and Institut für Kernphysik, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany
| | | | - A Maire
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - M Malaev
- Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, Gatchina, Russia
| | - I Maldonado Cervantes
- Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
| | - L Malinina
- Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), Dubna, Russia
| | - D Mal'Kevich
- Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Moscow, Russia
| | - P Malzacher
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - A Mamonov
- Russian Federal Nuclear Center (VNIIEF), Sarov, Russia
| | | | - L Mangotra
- Physics Department, University of Jammu, Jammu, India
| | - V Manko
- Russian Research Centre Kurchatov Institute, Moscow, Russia
| | - F Manso
- Laboratoire de Physique Corpusculaire (LPC), Clermont Université, Université Blaise Pascal, CNRS-IN2P3, Clermont-Ferrand, France
| | | | - Y Mao
- Hua-Zhong Normal University, Wuhan, China
| | - M Marchisone
- Laboratoire de Physique Corpusculaire (LPC), Clermont Université, Université Blaise Pascal, CNRS-IN2P3, Clermont-Ferrand, France and Dipartimento di Fisica Sperimentale dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
| | - J Mareš
- Institute of Physics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic
| | - G V Margagliotti
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Trieste, Italy and Sezione INFN, Trieste, Italy
| | | | - A Marín
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - C A Marin Tobon
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - C Markert
- The University of Texas at Austin, Physics Department, Austin, Texas, USA
| | | | - P Martinengo
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - M I Martínez
- Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Puebla, Mexico
| | - A Martínez Davalos
- Instituto de Física, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
| | - G Martínez García
- SUBATECH, Ecole des Mines de Nantes, Université de Nantes, CNRS-IN2P3, Nantes, France
| | - Y Martynov
- Bogolyubov Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kiev, Ukraine
| | - A Mas
- SUBATECH, Ecole des Mines de Nantes, Université de Nantes, CNRS-IN2P3, Nantes, France
| | - S Masciocchi
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - M Masera
- Dipartimento di Fisica Sperimentale dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
| | | | - L Massacrier
- SUBATECH, Ecole des Mines de Nantes, Université de Nantes, CNRS-IN2P3, Nantes, France and Université de Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, IPN-Lyon, Villeurbanne, France
| | | | - A Mastroserio
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland and Dipartimento Interateneo di Fisica "M. Merlin" and Sezione INFN, Bari, Italy
| | - Z L Matthews
- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
| | - A Matyja
- SUBATECH, Ecole des Mines de Nantes, Université de Nantes, CNRS-IN2P3, Nantes, France and The Henryk Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Cracow, Poland
| | - D Mayani
- Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
| | - C Mayer
- The Henryk Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Cracow, Poland
| | - J Mazer
- University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
| | | | - F Meddi
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università "La Sapienza" and Sezione INFN, Rome, Italy
| | - A Menchaca-Rocha
- Instituto de Física, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
| | - J Mercado Pérez
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - M Meres
- Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia
| | - Y Miake
- University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
| | - L Milano
- Dipartimento di Fisica Sperimentale dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
| | - J Milosevic
- Department of Physics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
| | - A Mischke
- Nikhef, National Institute for Subatomic Physics and Institute for Subatomic Physics of Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
| | - A N Mishra
- Physics Department, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur, India
| | - D Miśkowiec
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland and Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - C Mitu
- Institute of Space Sciences (ISS), Bucharest, Romania
| | - J Mlynarz
- Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, USA
| | - B Mohanty
- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Kolkata, India
| | - A K Mohanty
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - L Molnar
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - L Montaño Zetina
- Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados (CINVESTAV), Mexico City and Mérida, Mexico
| | | | - E Montes
- Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Medioambientales y Tecnológicas (CIEMAT), Madrid, Spain
| | - T Moon
- Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea
| | - M Morando
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Padova, Italy
| | | | - S Moretto
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Padova, Italy
| | - A Morsch
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - V Muccifora
- Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, INFN, Frascati, Italy
| | - E Mudnic
- Technical University of Split FESB, Split, Croatia
| | - S Muhuri
- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Kolkata, India
| | - M Mukherjee
- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Kolkata, India
| | - H Müller
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - M G Munhoz
- Universidade de São Paulo (USP), São Paulo, Brazil
| | - L Musa
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | | | - B K Nandi
- Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT), Mumbai, India
| | - R Nania
- Sezione INFN, Bologna, Italy
| | | | - C Nattrass
- University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
| | - N P Naumov
- Russian Federal Nuclear Center (VNIIEF), Sarov, Russia
| | - S Navin
- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
| | - T K Nayak
- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Kolkata, India
| | - S Nazarenko
- Russian Federal Nuclear Center (VNIIEF), Sarov, Russia
| | - G Nazarov
- Russian Federal Nuclear Center (VNIIEF), Sarov, Russia
| | - A Nedosekin
- Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Moscow, Russia
| | - M Nicassio
- Dipartimento Interateneo di Fisica "M. Merlin" and Sezione INFN, Bari, Italy
| | - M Niculescu
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland and Institute of Space Sciences (ISS), Bucharest, Romania
| | - B S Nielsen
- Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - T Niida
- University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
| | - S Nikolaev
- Russian Research Centre Kurchatov Institute, Moscow, Russia
| | - V Nikolic
- Rudjer Bošković Institute, Zagreb, Croatia
| | - S Nikulin
- Russian Research Centre Kurchatov Institute, Moscow, Russia
| | - V Nikulin
- Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, Gatchina, Russia
| | - B S Nilsen
- Physics Department, Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska, USA
| | - M S Nilsson
- Department of Physics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
| | - F Noferini
- Sezione INFN, Bologna, Italy and Centro Fermi-Centro Studi e Ricerche e Museo Storico della Fisica "Enrico Fermi," Rome, Italy
| | - P Nomokonov
- Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), Dubna, Russia
| | - G Nooren
- Nikhef, National Institute for Subatomic Physics and Institute for Subatomic Physics of Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
| | - N Novitzky
- Helsinki Institute of Physics (HIP) and University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland
| | - A Nyanin
- Russian Research Centre Kurchatov Institute, Moscow, Russia
| | - A Nyatha
- Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT), Mumbai, India
| | - C Nygaard
- Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - J Nystrand
- Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
| | - A Ochirov
- V. Fock Institute for Physics, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia
| | - H Oeschler
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland and Institut für Kernphysik, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - S Oh
- Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
| | - S K Oh
- Gangneung-Wonju National University, Gangneung, South Korea
| | - J Oleniacz
- Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland
| | | | - A Ortiz Velasquez
- Division of Experimental High Energy Physics, University of Lund, Lund, Sweden and Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
| | - G Ortona
- Dipartimento di Fisica Sperimentale dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
| | - A Oskarsson
- Division of Experimental High Energy Physics, University of Lund, Lund, Sweden
| | - P Ostrowski
- Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland
| | - J Otwinowski
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - K Oyama
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - K Ozawa
- University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
| | - Y Pachmayer
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - M Pachr
- Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
| | - F Padilla
- Dipartimento di Fisica Sperimentale dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
| | - P Pagano
- Dipartimento di Fisica "E.R. Caianiello" dell'Università and Gruppo Collegato INFN, Salerno, Italy
| | - G Paić
- Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
| | - F Painke
- Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - C Pajares
- Departamento de Física de Partículas and IGFAE, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
| | - S Pal
- Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique, IRFU, Saclay, France
| | - S K Pal
- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Kolkata, India
| | - A Palaha
- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
| | | | - V Papikyan
- Yerevan Physics Institute, Yerevan, Armenia
| | | | - W J Park
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - A Passfeld
- Institut für Kernphysik, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Münster, Germany
| | - B Pastirčák
- Institute of Experimental Physics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Košice, Slovakia
| | | | | | - A Pavlinov
- Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, USA
| | - T Pawlak
- Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland
| | - T Peitzmann
- Nikhef, National Institute for Subatomic Physics and Institute for Subatomic Physics of Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
| | | | | | - D Peresunko
- Russian Research Centre Kurchatov Institute, Moscow, Russia
| | - C E Pérez Lara
- Nikhef, National Institute for Subatomic Physics, Amsterdam, Netherlands
| | - E Perez Lezama
- Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
| | - D Perini
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - D Perrino
- Dipartimento Interateneo di Fisica "M. Merlin" and Sezione INFN, Bari, Italy
| | - W Peryt
- Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland
| | - A Pesci
- Sezione INFN, Bologna, Italy
| | - V Peskov
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland and Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
| | - Y Pestov
- Budker Institute for Nuclear Physics, Novosibirsk, Russia
| | - V Petráček
- Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
| | - M Petran
- Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
| | - M Petris
- National Institute for Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Bucharest, Romania
| | - P Petrov
- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
| | - M Petrovici
- National Institute for Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Bucharest, Romania
| | - C Petta
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Catania, Italy
| | - S Piano
- Sezione INFN, Trieste, Italy
| | | | - M Pikna
- Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia
| | - P Pillot
- SUBATECH, Ecole des Mines de Nantes, Université de Nantes, CNRS-IN2P3, Nantes, France
| | - O Pinazza
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - L Pinsky
- University of Houston, Houston, Texas, USA
| | - N Pitz
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | | | - M Płoskoń
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, USA
| | - J Pluta
- Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland
| | - T Pocheptsov
- Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), Dubna, Russia
| | - S Pochybova
- KFKI Research Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
| | | | - M G Poghosyan
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland and Dipartimento di Fisica Sperimentale dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
| | - K Polák
- Institute of Physics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic
| | | | - A Pop
- National Institute for Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Bucharest, Romania
| | - S Porteboeuf-Houssais
- Laboratoire de Physique Corpusculaire (LPC), Clermont Université, Université Blaise Pascal, CNRS-IN2P3, Clermont-Ferrand, France
| | - V Pospíšil
- Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
| | - B Potukuchi
- Physics Department, University of Jammu, Jammu, India
| | - S K Prasad
- Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, USA
| | - R Preghenella
- Sezione INFN, Bologna, Italy and Centro Fermi-Centro Studi e Ricerche e Museo Storico della Fisica "Enrico Fermi," Rome, Italy
| | | | - C A Pruneau
- Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, USA
| | - I Pshenichnov
- Institute for Nuclear Research, Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
| | - S Puchagin
- Russian Federal Nuclear Center (VNIIEF), Sarov, Russia
| | - G Puddu
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Cagliari, Italy
| | - J Pujol Teixido
- Institut für Informatik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - A Pulvirenti
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland and Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Catania, Italy
| | - V Punin
- Russian Federal Nuclear Center (VNIIEF), Sarov, Russia
| | - M Putiš
- Faculty of Science, P.J. Šafárik University, Košice, Slovakia
| | - J Putschke
- Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA and Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, USA
| | - E Quercigh
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - H Qvigstad
- Department of Physics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
| | | | - A Rademakers
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - S Radomski
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - T S Räihä
- Helsinki Institute of Physics (HIP) and University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland
| | - J Rak
- Helsinki Institute of Physics (HIP) and University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland
| | | | - L Ramello
- Dipartimento di Scienze e Innovazione Tecnologica dell'Università del Piemonte Orientale and Gruppo Collegato INFN, Alessandria, Italy
| | - A Ramírez Reyes
- Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados (CINVESTAV), Mexico City and Mérida, Mexico
| | - S Raniwala
- Physics Department, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur, India
| | - R Raniwala
- Physics Department, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur, India
| | - S S Räsänen
- Helsinki Institute of Physics (HIP) and University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland
| | - B T Rascanu
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - D Rathee
- Physics Department, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India
| | - K F Read
- University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
| | - J S Real
- Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie (LPSC), Université Joseph Fourier, CNRS-IN2P3, Institut Polytechnique de Grenoble, Grenoble, France
| | - K Redlich
- Soltan Institute for Nuclear Studies, Warsaw, Poland and Institute of Theoretical Physics, University of Wroclaw, Wroclaw, Poland
| | - P Reichelt
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - M Reicher
- Nikhef, National Institute for Subatomic Physics and Institute for Subatomic Physics of Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
| | - R Renfordt
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - A R Reolon
- Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, INFN, Frascati, Italy
| | - A Reshetin
- Institute for Nuclear Research, Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
| | - F Rettig
- Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - J-P Revol
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - K Reygers
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | | | - R A Ricci
- Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro, INFN, Legnaro, Italy
| | - T Richert
- Division of Experimental High Energy Physics, University of Lund, Lund, Sweden
| | - M Richter
- Department of Physics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
| | - P Riedler
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - W Riegler
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - F Riggi
- Sezione INFN, Catania, Italy and Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Catania, Italy
| | | | | | - A Rodriguez Manso
- Nikhef, National Institute for Subatomic Physics, Amsterdam, Netherlands
| | - K Røed
- Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
| | - D Rohr
- Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - D Röhrich
- Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
| | - R Romita
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - F Ronchetti
- Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, INFN, Frascati, Italy
| | - P Rosnet
- Laboratoire de Physique Corpusculaire (LPC), Clermont Université, Université Blaise Pascal, CNRS-IN2P3, Clermont-Ferrand, France
| | - S Rossegger
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - A Rossi
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland and Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Padova, Italy
| | - C Roy
- Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien (IPHC), Université de Strasbourg, CNRS-IN2P3, Strasbourg, France
| | - P Roy
- Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata, India
| | - A J Rubio Montero
- Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Medioambientales y Tecnológicas (CIEMAT), Madrid, Spain
| | - R Rui
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Trieste, Italy
| | - E Ryabinkin
- Russian Research Centre Kurchatov Institute, Moscow, Russia
| | - A Rybicki
- The Henryk Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Cracow, Poland
| | - S Sadovsky
- Institute for High Energy Physics, Protvino, Russia
| | - K Šafařík
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - R Sahoo
- Indian Institute of Technology Indore (IIT), Indore, India
| | - P K Sahu
- Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar, India
| | - J Saini
- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Kolkata, India
| | | | - S Sakai
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, USA
| | - D Sakata
- University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
| | - C A Salgado
- Departamento de Física de Partículas and IGFAE, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
| | - J Salzwedel
- Department of Physics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA
| | - S Sambyal
- Physics Department, University of Jammu, Jammu, India
| | - V Samsonov
- Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, Gatchina, Russia
| | - X Sanchez Castro
- Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien (IPHC), Université de Strasbourg, CNRS-IN2P3, Strasbourg, France
| | - L Šándor
- Institute of Experimental Physics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Košice, Slovakia
| | - A Sandoval
- Instituto de Física, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
| | - S Sano
- University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
| | - M Sano
- University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
| | - R Santo
- Institut für Kernphysik, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Münster, Germany
| | - R Santoro
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland and Centro Fermi-Centro Studi e Ricerche e Museo Storico della Fisica "Enrico Fermi," Rome, Italy and Sezione INFN, Bari, Italy
| | - J Sarkamo
- Helsinki Institute of Physics (HIP) and University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland
| | | | - F Scarlassara
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Padova, Italy
| | | | - C Schiaua
- National Institute for Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Bucharest, Romania
| | - R Schicker
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - C Schmidt
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - H R Schmidt
- Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
| | - S Schreiner
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - S Schuchmann
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - J Schukraft
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - Y Schutz
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland and SUBATECH, Ecole des Mines de Nantes, Université de Nantes, CNRS-IN2P3, Nantes, France
| | - K Schwarz
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - K Schweda
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, Darmstadt, Germany and Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - G Scioli
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Bologna, Italy
| | | | - R Scott
- University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
| | - P A Scott
- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
| | - G Segato
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Padova, Italy
| | - I Selyuzhenkov
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - S Senyukov
- Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien (IPHC), Université de Strasbourg, CNRS-IN2P3, Strasbourg, France and Dipartimento di Scienze e Innovazione Tecnologica dell'Università del Piemonte Orientale and Gruppo Collegato INFN, Alessandria, Italy
| | - J Seo
- Pusan National University, Pusan, South Korea
| | - S Serci
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Cagliari, Italy
| | - E Serradilla
- Instituto de Física, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico and Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Medioambientales y Tecnológicas (CIEMAT), Madrid, Spain
| | - A Sevcenco
- Institute of Space Sciences (ISS), Bucharest, Romania
| | - A Shabetai
- SUBATECH, Ecole des Mines de Nantes, Université de Nantes, CNRS-IN2P3, Nantes, France
| | - G Shabratova
- Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), Dubna, Russia
| | - R Shahoyan
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - N Sharma
- Physics Department, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India
| | - S Sharma
- Physics Department, University of Jammu, Jammu, India
| | - S Rohni
- Physics Department, University of Jammu, Jammu, India
| | - K Shigaki
- Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan
| | | | - K Shtejer
- Centro de Aplicaciones Tecnológicas y Desarrollo Nuclear (CEADEN), Havana, Cuba
| | - Y Sibiriak
- Russian Research Centre Kurchatov Institute, Moscow, Russia
| | - M Siciliano
- Dipartimento di Fisica Sperimentale dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
| | - E Sicking
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | | | - T Siemiarczuk
- Soltan Institute for Nuclear Studies, Warsaw, Poland
| | - D Silvermyr
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA
| | - C Silvestre
- Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie (LPSC), Université Joseph Fourier, CNRS-IN2P3, Institut Polytechnique de Grenoble, Grenoble, France
| | - G Simatovic
- Rudjer Bošković Institute, Zagreb, Croatia and Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
| | - G Simonetti
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - R Singaraju
- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Kolkata, India
| | - R Singh
- Physics Department, University of Jammu, Jammu, India
| | - S Singha
- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Kolkata, India
| | - V Singhal
- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Kolkata, India
| | - T Sinha
- Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata, India
| | - B C Sinha
- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Kolkata, India
| | - B Sitar
- Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia
| | - M Sitta
- Dipartimento di Scienze e Innovazione Tecnologica dell'Università del Piemonte Orientale and Gruppo Collegato INFN, Alessandria, Italy
| | - T B Skaali
- Department of Physics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
| | - K Skjerdal
- Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
| | - R Smakal
- Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
| | - N Smirnov
- Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
| | - R J M Snellings
- Nikhef, National Institute for Subatomic Physics and Institute for Subatomic Physics of Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
| | - C Søgaard
- Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - R Soltz
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California, USA
| | - H Son
- Department of Physics, Sejong University, Seoul, South Korea
| | - M Song
- Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea
| | - J Song
- Pusan National University, Pusan, South Korea
| | - C Soos
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - F Soramel
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Padova, Italy
| | - I Sputowska
- The Henryk Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Cracow, Poland
| | | | | | - J Stachel
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - I Stan
- Institute of Space Sciences (ISS), Bucharest, Romania
| | - I Stan
- Institute of Space Sciences (ISS), Bucharest, Romania
| | - G Stefanek
- Soltan Institute for Nuclear Studies, Warsaw, Poland
| | - T Steinbeck
- Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - M Steinpreis
- Department of Physics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA
| | - E Stenlund
- Division of Experimental High Energy Physics, University of Lund, Lund, Sweden
| | - G Steyn
- Physics Department, University of Cape Town, iThemba LABS, Cape Town, South Africa
| | - J H Stiller
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - D Stocco
- SUBATECH, Ecole des Mines de Nantes, Université de Nantes, CNRS-IN2P3, Nantes, France
| | | | - K Strabykin
- Russian Federal Nuclear Center (VNIIEF), Sarov, Russia
| | - P Strmen
- Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia
| | - A A P Suaide
- Universidade de São Paulo (USP), São Paulo, Brazil
| | - M A Subieta Vásquez
- Dipartimento di Fisica Sperimentale dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
| | | | - C Suire
- Institut de Physique Nucléaire d'Orsay (IPNO), Université Paris-Sud, CNRS-IN2P3, Orsay, France
| | - M Sukhorukov
- Russian Federal Nuclear Center (VNIIEF), Sarov, Russia
| | - R Sultanov
- Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Moscow, Russia
| | - M Šumbera
- Nuclear Physics Institute, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Řež u Prahy, Czech Republic
| | - T Susa
- Rudjer Bošković Institute, Zagreb, Croatia
| | | | - I Szarka
- Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia
| | - A Szczepankiewicz
- The Henryk Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Cracow, Poland
| | - A Szostak
- Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
| | - M Szymanski
- Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland
| | - J Takahashi
- Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas, Brazil
| | - J D Tapia Takaki
- Institut de Physique Nucléaire d'Orsay (IPNO), Université Paris-Sud, CNRS-IN2P3, Orsay, France
| | - A Tauro
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - G Tejeda Muñoz
- Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Puebla, Mexico
| | - A Telesca
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - C Terrevoli
- Dipartimento Interateneo di Fisica "M. Merlin" and Sezione INFN, Bari, Italy
| | - J Thäder
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - D Thomas
- Nikhef, National Institute for Subatomic Physics and Institute for Subatomic Physics of Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
| | - R Tieulent
- Université de Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, IPN-Lyon, Villeurbanne, France
| | | | - D Tlusty
- Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
| | - A Toia
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland and Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - H Torii
- University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
| | | | - D Truesdale
- Department of Physics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA
| | - W H Trzaska
- Helsinki Institute of Physics (HIP) and University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland
| | - T Tsuji
- University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
| | - A Tumkin
- Russian Federal Nuclear Center (VNIIEF), Sarov, Russia
| | | | - T S Tveter
- Department of Physics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
| | - J Ulery
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - K Ullaland
- Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
| | - J Ulrich
- Institut für Informatik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany and Kirchhoff-Institut für Physik, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - A Uras
- Université de Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, IPN-Lyon, Villeurbanne, France
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- Faculty of Science, P.J. Šafárik University, Košice, Slovakia
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- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Cagliari, Italy
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- Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic and Nuclear Physics Institute, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Řež u Prahy, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Experimental Physics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Košice, Slovakia and Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), Dubna, Russia
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- Institut de Physique Nucléaire d'Orsay (IPNO), Université Paris-Sud, CNRS-IN2P3, Orsay, France
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- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Nikhef, National Institute for Subatomic Physics, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
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- Nikhef, National Institute for Subatomic Physics and Institute for Subatomic Physics of Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
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- Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro, INFN, Legnaro, Italy
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- Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Puebla, Mexico
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- Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT), Mumbai, India
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- Physics Department, University of Athens, Athens, Greece
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- Russian Research Centre Kurchatov Institute, Moscow, Russia
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- V. Fock Institute for Physics, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia
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- Nikhef, National Institute for Subatomic Physics and Institute for Subatomic Physics of Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
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- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Trieste, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica Sperimentale dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
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- Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Puebla, Mexico
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- Centre de Calcul de l'IN2P3, Villeurbanne, France
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- Nikhef, National Institute for Subatomic Physics and Institute for Subatomic Physics of Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
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- Technical University of Split FESB, Split, Croatia
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- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Padova, Italy
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- Physics Department, University of Cape Town, iThemba LABS, Cape Town, South Africa
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
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- Russian Research Centre Kurchatov Institute, Moscow, Russia
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- V. Fock Institute for Physics, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia
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- Russian Federal Nuclear Center (VNIIEF), Sarov, Russia
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- Dipartimento di Fisica "E.R. Caianiello" dell'Università and Gruppo Collegato INFN, Salerno, Italy
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- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Kolkata, India
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- Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), Dubna, Russia
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- Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Moscow, Russia
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- Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, USA
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland and Dipartimento Interateneo di Fisica "M. Merlin" and Sezione INFN, Bari, Italy
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
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- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, Darmstadt, Germany
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- Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
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- Faculty of Science, P.J. Šafárik University, Košice, Slovakia
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- Laboratoire de Physique Corpusculaire (LPC), Clermont Université, Université Blaise Pascal, CNRS-IN2P3, Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- Russian Federal Nuclear Center (VNIIEF), Sarov, Russia
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- Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
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- Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien (IPHC), Université de Strasbourg, CNRS-IN2P3, Strasbourg, France and Hua-Zhong Normal University, Wuhan, China
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- Hua-Zhong Normal University, Wuhan, China
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- Hua-Zhong Normal University, Wuhan, China
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- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Hua-Zhong Normal University, Wuhan, China
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- University of Houston, Houston, Texas, USA
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland and Institut für Kernphysik, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Münster, Germany
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- Institut für Kernphysik, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Münster, Germany
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- Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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- Department of Physics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- Institut für Kernphysik, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Münster, Germany
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- Soltan Institute for Nuclear Studies, Warsaw, Poland
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- Institut für Kernphysik, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Münster, Germany
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- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, USA
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- Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique, IRFU, Saclay, France
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- Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
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- Russian Research Centre Kurchatov Institute, Moscow, Russia
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- Pusan National University, Pusan, South Korea
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- Hua-Zhong Normal University, Wuhan, China
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- Pusan National University, Pusan, South Korea
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- Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea
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- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
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- Hua-Zhong Normal University, Wuhan, China
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- Russian Research Centre Kurchatov Institute, Moscow, Russia
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- Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), Dubna, Russia
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- V. Fock Institute for Physics, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia
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- Institute of Physics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Russian Federal Nuclear Center (VNIIEF), Sarov, Russia
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- Institut für Informatik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
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- Institute of Space Sciences (ISS), Bucharest, Romania
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- Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, Gatchina, Russia
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- Laboratoire de Physique Corpusculaire (LPC), Clermont Université, Université Blaise Pascal, CNRS-IN2P3, Clermont-Ferrand, France and Hua-Zhong Normal University, Wuhan, China
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- Hua-Zhong Normal University, Wuhan, China
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- Hua-Zhong Normal University, Wuhan, China
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- Hua-Zhong Normal University, Wuhan, China
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- Nikhef, National Institute for Subatomic Physics and Institute for Subatomic Physics of Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
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- Hua-Zhong Normal University, Wuhan, China
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- Hua-Zhong Normal University, Wuhan, China
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- Hua-Zhong Normal University, Wuhan, China
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- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Bologna, Italy and Centro Fermi-Centro Studi e Ricerche e Museo Storico della Fisica "Enrico Fermi," Rome, Italy
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- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Bogolyubov Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kiev, Ukraine
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- Université de Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, IPN-Lyon, Villeurbanne, France
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- Bogolyubov Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kiev, Ukraine
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- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
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JP, Westerhoff U, Wiechula J, Wikne J, Wilde M, Wilk G, Wilk A, Williams MCS, Windelband B, Xaplanteris Karampatsos L, Yaldo CG, Yamaguchi Y, Yang H, Yang S, Yasnopolskiy S, Yi J, Yin Z, Yoo IK, Yoon J, Yu W, Yuan X, Yushmanov I, Zach C, Zampolli C, Zaporozhets S, Zarochentsev A, Závada P, Zaviyalov N, Zbroszczyk H, Zelnicek P, Zgura IS, Zhalov M, Zhang H, Zhang X, Zhou Y, Zhou D, Zhou F, Zhu J, Zhu J, Zhu X, Zichichi A, Zimmermann A, Zinovjev G, Zoccarato Y, Zynovyev M, Zyzak M. Charge separation relative to the reaction plane in Pb-Pb collisions at sqrt[s(NN)] = 2.76 TeV. Phys Rev Lett 2013; 110:012301. [PMID: 23383780 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.110.012301] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/05/2012] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
Abstract
Measurements of charge-dependent azimuthal correlations with the ALICE detector at the LHC are reported for Pb-Pb collisions at sqrt[s(NN)] = 2.76 TeV. Two- and three-particle charge-dependent azimuthal correlations in the pseudorapidity range |η| < 0.8 are presented as a function of the collision centrality, particle separation in pseudorapidity, and transverse momentum. A clear signal compatible with a charge-dependent separation relative to the reaction plane is observed, which shows little or no collision energy dependence when compared to measurements at RHIC energies. This provides a new insight for understanding the nature of the charge-dependent azimuthal correlations observed at RHIC and LHC energies.
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- B Abelev
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California, USA
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Wang D, Wang Y, Watanabe K, Weber M, Wessels JP, Westerhoff U, Wiechula J, Wikne J, Wilde M, Wilk A, Wilk G, Williams MCS, Windelband B, Xaplanteris Karampatsos L, Yaldo CG, Yamaguchi Y, Yang S, Yang H, Yasnopolskiy S, Yi J, Yin Z, Yoo IK, Yoon J, Yu W, Yuan X, Yushmanov I, Zaccolo V, Zach C, Zampolli C, Zaporozhets S, Zarochentsev A, Závada P, Zaviyalov N, Zbroszczyk H, Zelnicek P, Zgura IS, Zhalov M, Zhang H, Zhang X, Zhou D, Zhou Y, Zhou F, Zhu J, Zhu X, Zhu J, Zichichi A, Zimmermann A, Zinovjev G, Zoccarato Y, Zynovyev M, Zyzak M. Pion, kaon, and proton production in central Pb-Pb collisions at sqrt[s(NN)] = 2.76 TeV. Phys Rev Lett 2012; 109:252301. [PMID: 23368453 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.109.252301] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/14/2012] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
Abstract
In this Letter we report the first results on π(±), K(±), p, and p production at midrapidity (|y|<0.5) in central Pb-Pb collisions at sqrt[s(NN)] = 2.76 TeV, measured by the ALICE experiment at the LHC. The p(T) distributions and yields are compared to previous results at sqrt[s(NN)] = 200 GeV and expectations from hydrodynamic and thermal models. The spectral shapes indicate a strong increase of the radial flow velocity with sqrt[s(NN)], which in hydrodynamic models is expected as a consequence of the increasing particle density. While the K/π ratio is in line with predictions from the thermal model, the p/π ratio is found to be lower by a factor of about 1.5. This deviation from thermal model expectations is still to be understood.
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- B Abelev
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California, USA
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Abelev B, Adam J, Adamová D, Adare AM, Aggarwal MM, Aglieri Rinella G, Agocs AG, Agostinelli A, Aguilar Salazar S, Ahammed Z, Ahmad Masoodi A, Ahmad N, Ahn SU, Akindinov A, Aleksandrov D, Alessandro B, Alfaro Molina R, Alici A, Alkin A, Almaráz Aviña E, Alme J, Alt T, Altini V, Altinpinar S, Altsybeev I, Andrei C, Andronic A, Anguelov V, Anielski J, Antičić T, Antinori F, Antonioli P, Aphecetche L, Appelshäuser H, Arbor N, Arcelli S, Arend A, Armesto N, Arnaldi R, Aronsson T, Arsene IC, Arslandok M, Augustinus A, Averbeck R, Awes TC, Aystö J, Azmi MD, Bach M, Badalà A, Baek YW, Bailhache R, Bala R, Baldini Ferroli R, Baldisseri A, Baldit A, Baltasar Dos Santos Pedrosa F, Bán J, Baral RC, Barbera R, Barile F, Barnaföldi GG, Barnby LS, Barret V, Bartke J, Basile M, Bastid N, Basu S, Bathen B, Batigne G, Batyunya B, Baumann C, Bearden IG, Beck H, Belikov I, Bellini F, Bellwied R, Belmont-Moreno E, Bencedi G, Beole S, Berceanu I, Bercuci A, Berdnikov Y, Berenyi D, Berzano D, Betev L, 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I, Zach C, Zampolli C, Zaporozhets S, Zarochentsev A, Závada P, Zaviyalov N, Zbroszczyk H, Zelnicek P, Zgura IS, Zhalov M, Zhang H, Zhang X, Zhou D, Zhou F, Zhou Y, Zhu J, Zhu X, Zichichi A, Zimmermann A, Zinovjev G, Zoccarato Y, Zynovyev M. Measurement of the cross section for electromagnetic dissociation with neutron emission in Pb-Pb collisions at sqrt[s(NN)] = 2.76 TeV. Phys Rev Lett 2012; 109:252302. [PMID: 23368454 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.109.252302] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/13/2012] [Revised: 06/12/2012] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
Abstract
The first measurement of neutron emission in electromagnetic dissociation of ^{208}Pb nuclei at the LHC is presented. The measurement is performed using the neutron zero degree calorimeters of the ALICE experiment, which detect neutral particles close to beam rapidity. The measured cross sections of single and mutual electromagnetic dissociation of Pb nuclei at sqrt[s(NN)]=2.76 TeV with neutron emission are σ(singleEMD)=187.4 ± 0.2(stat)(-11.2)(+13.2) (syst) b and σ(mutualEMD) = 5.7 ± 0.1(stat) ± 0.4(syst) b, respectively. The experimental results are compared to the predictions from a relativistic electromagnetic dissociation model.
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- B Abelev
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California, USA
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Abelev B, Adam J, Adamová D, Adare AM, Aggarwal MM, Aglieri Rinella G, Agocs AG, Agostinelli A, Aguilar Salazar S, Ahammed Z, Ahmad Masoodi A, Ahmad N, Ahn SA, Ahn SU, Akindinov A, Aleksandrov D, Alessandro B, Alfaro Molina R, Alici A, Alkin A, Almaráz Aviña E, Alme J, Alt T, Altini V, Altinpinar S, Altsybeev I, Andrei C, Andronic A, Anguelov V, Anielski J, Anson C, Antičić T, Antinori F, Antonioli P, Aphecetche L, Appelshäuser H, Arbor N, Arcelli S, Arend A, Armesto N, Arnaldi R, Aronsson T, Arsene IC, Arslandok M, Asryan A, Augustinus A, Averbeck R, Awes TC, Äystö J, Azmi MD, Bach M, Badalà A, Baek YW, Bailhache R, Bala R, Baldini Ferroli R, Baldisseri A, Baldit A, Baltasar Dos Santos Pedrosa F, Bán J, Baral RC, Barbera R, Barile F, Barnaföldi GG, Barnby LS, Barret V, Bartke J, Basile M, Bastid N, Basu S, Bathen B, Batigne G, Batyunya B, Baumann C, Bearden IG, Beck H, Belikov I, Bellini F, Bellwied R, Belmont-Moreno E, Bencedi G, Beole S, Berceanu I, Bercuci A, Berdnikov Y, Berenyi D, Bergognon AAE, Berzano D, Betev L, Bhasin A, Bhati AK, Bhom J, Bianchi L, Bianchi N, Bianchin C, Bielčík J, Bielčíková J, Bilandzic A, Bjelogrlic S, Blanco F, Blanco F, Blau D, Blume C, Boccioli M, Bock N, Böttger S, Bogdanov A, Bøggild H, Bogolyubsky M, Boldizsár L, Bombara M, Book J, Borel H, Borissov A, Bose S, Bossú F, Botje M, Boyer B, Braidot E, Braun-Munzinger P, Bregant M, Breitner T, Browning TA, Broz M, Brun R, Bruna E, Bruno GE, Budnikov D, Buesching H, Bufalino S, Bugaiev K, Busch O, Buthelezi Z, Caballero Orduna D, Caffarri D, Cai X, Caines H, Calvo Villar E, Camerini P, Canoa Roman V, Cara Romeo G, Carena F, Carena W, Carlin Filho N, Carminati F, Carrillo Montoya CA, Casanova Díaz A, Castillo Castellanos J, Castillo Hernandez JF, Casula EAR, Catanescu V, Cavicchioli C, Ceballos Sanchez C, Cepila J, Cerello P, Chang B, Chapeland S, Charvet JL, Chattopadhyay S, Chattopadhyay S, Chawla I, Cherney M, Cheshkov C, Cheynis B, Chibante Barroso V, Chinellato DD, Chochula P, Chojnacki M, Choudhury S, Christakoglou P, Christensen CH, Christiansen P, Chujo T, Chung SU, Cicalo C, Cifarelli L, Cindolo F, Cleymans J, Coccetti F, Colamaria F, Colella D, Conesa Balbastre G, Conesa del Valle Z, Constantin P, Contin G, Contreras JG, Cormier TM, Corrales Morales Y, Cortese P, Cortés Maldonado I, Cosentino MR, Costa F, Cotallo ME, Crescio E, Crochet P, Cruz Alaniz E, Cuautle E, Cunqueiro L, Dainese A, Dalsgaard HH, Danu A, Das D, Das I, Das K, Dash S, Dash A, De S, de Barros GOV, De Caro A, de Cataldo G, de Cuveland J, De Falco A, De Gruttola D, Delagrange H, Deloff A, Demanov V, De Marco N, Dénes E, De Pasquale S, Deppman A, Erasmo GD, de Rooij R, Diaz Corchero MA, Di Bari D, Dietel T, Di Liberto S, Di Mauro A, Di Nezza P, Divià R, Djuvsland Ø, Dobrin A, Dobrowolski T, Domínguez I, Dönigus B, Dordic O, Driga O, Dubey AK, Ducroux L, Dupieux P, Dutta Majumdar MR, Dutta Majumdar AK, Elia D, Emschermann D, Engel H, Erdal HA, Espagnon B, Estienne M, Esumi S, Evans D, 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Wan R, Wang M, Wang D, Wang Y, Wang Y, Watanabe K, Weber M, Wessels JP, Westerhoff U, Wiechula J, Wikne J, Wilde M, Wilk G, Wilk A, Williams MCS, Windelband B, Xaplanteris Karampatsos L, Yaldo CG, Yamaguchi Y, Yang H, Yang S, Yasnopolskiy S, Yi J, Yin Z, Yoo IK, Yoon J, Yu W, Yuan X, Yushmanov I, Zach C, Zampolli C, Zaporozhets S, Zarochentsev A, Závada P, Zaviyalov N, Zbroszczyk H, Zelnicek P, Zgura IS, Zhalov M, Zhang X, Zhang H, Zhou F, Zhou D, Zhou Y, Zhu J, Zhu J, Zhu X, Zichichi A, Zimmermann A, Zinovjev G, Zoccarato Y, Zynovyev M, Zyzak M. Production of muons from heavy flavor decays at forward rapidity in pp and Pb-Pb collisions at sqrt[s(NN)]=2.76 TeV. Phys Rev Lett 2012; 109:112301. [PMID: 23005621 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.109.112301] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/04/2012] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
Abstract
The ALICE Collaboration has measured the inclusive production of muons from heavy-flavor decays at forward rapidity, 2.5<y<4, in pp and Pb-Pb collisions at sqrt[s(NN)]=2.76 TeV. The p(t)-differential inclusive cross section of muons from heavy-flavor decays in pp collisions is compared to perturbative QCD calculations. The nuclear modification factor is studied as a function of p(t) and collision centrality. A weak suppression is measured in peripheral collisions. In the most central collisions, a suppression of a factor of about 3-4 is observed in 6<p(t)<10 GeV/c. The suppression shows no significant p(t) dependence.
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- B Abelev
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California, USA
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Abelev B, Adam J, Adamová D, Adare AM, Aggarwal MM, Aglieri Rinella G, Agocs AG, Agostinelli A, Aguilar Salazar S, Ahammed Z, Ahmad Masoodi A, Ahmad N, Ahn SU, Akindinov A, Aleksandrov D, Alessandro B, Alfaro Molina R, Alici A, Alkin A, Almaráz Aviña E, Alme J, Alt T, Altini V, Altinpinar S, Altsybeev I, Andrei C, Andronic A, Anguelov V, Anielski J, Anson C, Antičić T, Antinori F, Antonioli P, Aphecetche L, Appelshäuser H, Arbor N, Arcelli S, Arend A, Armesto N, Arnaldi R, Aronsson T, Arsene IC, Arslandok M, Asryan A, Augustinus A, Averbeck R, Awes TC, Aystö J, Azmi MD, Bach M, Badalà A, Baek YW, Bailhache R, Bala R, Baldini Ferroli R, Baldisseri A, Baldit A, Baltasar Dos Santos Pedrosa F, Bán J, Baral RC, Barbera R, Barile F, Barnaföldi GG, Barnby LS, Barret V, Bartke J, Basile M, Bastid N, Bathen B, Batigne G, Batyunya B, Baumann C, Bearden IG, Beck H, Belikov I, Bellini F, Bellwied R, Belmont-Moreno E, Bencedi G, Beole S, Berceanu I, Bercuci A, Berdnikov Y, Berenyi D, Bergmann C, 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Windelband B, Xaplanteris Karampatsos L, Yang H, Yang S, Yasnopolskiy S, Yi J, Yin Z, Yokoyama H, Yoo IK, Yoon J, Yu W, Yuan X, Yushmanov I, Zach C, Zampolli C, Zaporozhets S, Zarochentsev A, Závada P, Zaviyalov N, Zbroszczyk H, Zelnicek P, Zgura IS, Zhalov M, Zhang X, Zhou D, Zhou Y, Zhou F, Zhu X, Zichichi A, Zimmermann A, Zinovjev G, Zoccarato Y, Zynovyev M. J/ψ suppression at forward rapidity in Pb-Pb collisions at √s(NN) = 2.76 TeV. Phys Rev Lett 2012; 109:072301. [PMID: 23006362 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.109.072301] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/08/2012] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
Abstract
The ALICE experiment has measured the inclusive J/ψ production in Pb-Pb collisions at √s(NN) = 2.76 TeV down to zero transverse momentum in the rapidity range 2.5 < y < 4. A suppression of the inclusive J/ψ yield in Pb-Pb is observed with respect to the one measured in pp collisions scaled by the number of binary nucleon-nucleon collisions. The nuclear modification factor, integrated over the 0%-80% most central collisions, is 0.545 ± 0.032(stat) ± 0.083(syst) and does not exhibit a significant dependence on the collision centrality. These features appear significantly different from measurements at lower collision energies. Models including J/ψ production from charm quarks in a deconfined partonic phase can describe our data.
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- B Abelev
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, California, United States
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Aamodt K, Abelev B, Abrahantes Quintana A, Adamová D, Adare AM, Aggarwal MM, Aglieri Rinella G, Agocs AG, Agostinelli A, Aguilar Salazar S, Ahammed Z, Ahmad N, Ahmad Masoodi A, Ahn SU, Akindinov A, Aleksandrov D, Alessandro B, Alfaro Molina R, Alici A, Alkin A, Almaráz Aviña E, Alme J, Alt T, Altini V, Altinpinar S, Altsybeev I, Andrei C, Andronic A, Anguelov V, Anielski J, Antičić T, Antinori F, Antonioli P, Aphecetche L, Appelshäuser H, Arbor N, Arcelli S, Arend A, Armesto N, Arnaldi R, Aronsson T, Arsene IC, Arslandok M, Asryan A, Augustinus A, Averbeck R, Awes TC, Äystö J, Azmi MD, Bach M, Badalà A, Baek YW, Bailhache R, Bala R, Baldini Ferroli R, Baldisseri A, Baldit A, Baltasar Dos Santos Pedrosa F, Bán J, Baral RC, Barbera R, Barile F, Barnaföldi GG, Barnby LS, Barret V, Bartke J, Basile M, Bastid N, Bathen B, Batigne G, Batyunya B, Baumann C, Bearden IG, Beck H, Belikov I, Bellini F, Bellwied R, Belmont-Moreno E, Beole S, Berceanu I, Bercuci A, Berdnikov Y, Berenyi D, Bergmann 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Particle-yield modification in jetlike azimuthal dihadron correlations in Pb-Pb collisions at √s(NN)=2.76 TeV. Phys Rev Lett 2012; 108:092301. [PMID: 22463626 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.108.092301] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/01/2011] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
Abstract
The yield of charged particles associated with high-p(t) trigger particles (8<p(t)<15 GeV/c) is measured with the ALICE detector in Pb-Pb collisions at √s(NN)=2.76 TeV relative to proton-proton collisions at the same energy. The conditional per-trigger yields are extracted from the narrow jetlike correlation peaks in azimuthal dihadron correlations. In the 5% most central collisions, we observe that the yield of associated charged particles with transverse momenta p(t)>3 GeV/c on the away side drops to about 60% of that observed in pp collisions, while on the near side a moderate enhancement of 20%-30% is found.
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Affiliation(s)
- K Aamodt
- Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
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J/ψ polarization in pp collisions at √s=7 TeV. Phys Rev Lett 2012; 108:082001. [PMID: 22463524 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.108.082001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/08/2011] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
Abstract
The ALICE Collaboration has studied J/ψ production in pp collisions at √s=7 TeV at the LHC through its muon pair decay. The polar and azimuthal angle distributions of the decay muons were measured, and results on the J/ψ polarization parameters λ(θ) and λ(φ) were obtained. The study was performed in the kinematic region 2.5<y<4, 2<p(t)<8 GeV/c, in the helicity and Collins-Soper reference frames. In both frames, the polarization parameters are compatible with zero, within uncertainties.
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Affiliation(s)
- B Abelev
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California, USA
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Aamodt K, Abelev B, Abrahantes Quintana A, Adamová D, Adare AM, Aggarwal MM, Aglieri Rinella G, Agocs AG, Agostinelli A, Aguilar Salazar S, Ahammed Z, Ahmad N, Ahmad Masoodi A, Ahn SU, Akindinov A, Aleksandrov D, Alessandro B, Alfaro Molina R, Alici A, Alkin A, Almaráz Aviña E, Alt T, Altini V, Altsybeev I, Andrei C, Andronic A, Anguelov V, Anson C, Antičić T, Antinori F, Antonioli P, Aphecetche L, Appelshäuser H, Arbor N, Arcelli S, Arend A, Armesto N, Arnaldi R, Aronsson T, Arsene IC, Arslandok M, Asryan A, Augustinus A, Averbeck R, Awes TC, Äystö J, Azmi MD, Bach M, Badalà A, Baek YW, Bailhache R, Bala R, Baldini Ferroli R, Baldisseri A, Baldit A, Bán J, Baral RC, Barbera R, Barile F, Barnaföldi GG, Barnby LS, Barret V, Bartke J, Basile M, Bastid N, Bathen B, Batigne G, Batyunya B, Baumann C, Bearden IG, Beck H, Belikov I, Bellini F, Bellwied R, Belmont-Moreno E, Beole S, Berceanu I, Bercuci A, Berdermann E, Berdnikov Y, Bergmann C, Betev L, Bhasin A, Bhati AK, Bianchi L, Bianchi N, 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Higher harmonic anisotropic flow measurements of charged particles in Pb-Pb collisions at sqrt(s(NN)) = 2.76 TeV. Phys Rev Lett 2011; 107:032301. [PMID: 21838350 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.107.032301] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/19/2011] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
Abstract
We report on the first measurement of the triangular v3, quadrangular v4, and pentagonal v5 charged particle flow in Pb-Pb collisions at sqrt(s(NN)) = 2.76 TeV measured with the ALICE detector at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. We show that the triangular flow can be described in terms of the initial spatial anisotropy and its fluctuations, which provides strong constraints on its origin. In the most central events, where the elliptic flow v2 and v3 have similar magnitude, a double peaked structure in the two-particle azimuthal correlations is observed, which is often interpreted as a Mach cone response to fast partons. We show that this structure can be naturally explained from the measured anisotropic flow Fourier coefficients.
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Affiliation(s)
- K Aamodt
- Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
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Aamodt K, Abelev B, Quintana AA, Adamová D, Adare AM, Aggarwal MM, Rinella GA, Agocs AG, Salazar SA, Ahammed Z, Masoodi AA, Ahmad N, Ahn SU, Akindinov A, Aleksandrov D, Alessandro B, Molina RA, Alici A, Alkin A, Aviña EA, Alt T, Altini V, Altinpinar S, Altsybeev I, Andrei C, Andronic A, Anguelov V, Anson C, Antičić T, Antinori F, Antonioli P, Aphecetche L, Appelshäuser H, Arbor N, Arcelli S, Arend A, Armesto N, Arnaldi R, Aronsson T, Arsene IC, Asryan A, Augustinus A, Averbeck R, Awes TC, Aystö J, Azmi MD, Bach M, Badalà A, Baek YW, Bagnasco S, Bailhache R, Bala R, Ferroli RB, Baldisseri A, Baldit A, Pedrosa FBDS, Bán J, Barbera R, Barile F, Barnaföldi GG, Barnby LS, Barret V, Bartke J, Basile M, Bastid N, Bathen B, Batigne G, Batyunya B, Baumann C, Bearden IG, Beck H, Belikov I, Bellini F, Bellwied R, Belmont-Moreno E, Beole S, Berceanu I, Bercuci A, Berdermann E, Berdnikov Y, Bergmann C, Betev L, Bhasin A, Bhati AK, Bianchi L, Bianchi N, Bianchin C, Bielčík J, Bielčíková J, Bilandzic 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Elliptic flow of charged particles in Pb-Pb collisions at sqrt[S(NN)] = 2.76 TeV. Phys Rev Lett 2010; 105:252302. [PMID: 21231580 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.105.252302] [Citation(s) in RCA: 84] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/18/2010] [Indexed: 05/30/2023]
Abstract
We report the first measurement of charged particle elliptic flow in Pb-Pb collisions at sqrt[S(NN)] =2.76 TeV with the ALICE detector at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. The measurement is performed in the central pseudorapidity region (|η|<0.8) and transverse momentum range 0.2<p t<5.0 GeV/c. The elliptic flow signal v₂, measured using the 4-particle correlation method, averaged over transverse momentum and pseudorapidity is 0.087 ± 0.002(stat) ± 0.003(syst) in the 40%-50% centrality class. The differential elliptic flow v₂ p t reaches a maximum of 0.2 near p t =3 GeV/c. Compared to RHIC Au-Au collisions at sqrt[S(NN)] 200 GeV, the elliptic flow increases by about 30%. Some hydrodynamic model predictions which include viscous corrections are in agreement with the observed increase.
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Affiliation(s)
- K Aamodt
- Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
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Aamodt K, Abelev B, Quintana AA, Adamová D, Adare AM, Aggarwal MM, Rinella GA, Agocs AG, Salazar SA, Ahammed Z, Masoodi AA, Ahmad N, Ahn SU, Akindinov A, Aleksandrov D, Alessandro B, Molina RA, Alici A, Alkin A, Aviña EA, Alt T, Altini V, Altinpinar S, Altsybeev I, Andrei C, Andronic A, Anguelov V, Anson C, Antičić T, Antinori F, Antonioli P, Aphecetche L, Appelshäuser H, Arbor N, Arcelli S, Arend A, Armesto N, Arnaldi R, Aronsson T, Arsene IC, Asryan A, Augustinus A, Averbeck R, Awes TC, Aystö J, Azmi MD, Bach M, Badalà A, Baek YW, Bagnasco S, Bailhache R, Bala R, Ferroli RB, Baldisseri A, Baldit A, Pedrosa FBDS, Bán J, Barbera R, Barile F, Barnaföldi GG, Barnby LS, Barret V, Bartke J, Basile M, Bastid N, Bathen B, Batigne G, Batyunya B, Baumann C, Bearden IG, Beck H, Belikov I, Bellini F, Bellwied R, Belmont-Moreno E, Beole S, Berceanu I, Bercuci A, Berdermann E, Berdnikov Y, Bergmann C, Betev L, Bhasin A, Bhati AK, Bianchi L, Bianchi N, Bianchin C, Bielčík J, Bielčíková J, Bilandzic A, Biolcati E, Blanc A, Blanco F, Blanco F, Blau D, Blume C, Boccioli M, Bock N, Bogdanov A, Bøggild H, Bogolyubsky M, Boldizsár L, Bombara M, Bombonati C, Book J, Borel H, Borissov A, Bortolin C, Bose S, Bossú F, Botje M, Böttger S, Boyer B, Braun-Munzinger P, Bravina L, Bregant M, Breitner T, Broz M, Brun R, Bruna E, Bruno GE, Budnikov D, Buesching H, Bugaiev K, Busch O, Buthelezi Z, Caffarri D, Cai X, Caines H, Villar EC, Camerini P, Roman VC, Romeo GC, Carena F, Carena W, Carminati F, Díaz AC, Caselle M, Castellanos JC, Catanescu V, Cavicchioli C, Cepila J, Cerello P, Chang B, Chapeland S, Charvet JL, Chattopadhyay S, Chattopadhyay S, Cherney M, Cheshkov C, Cheynis B, Chiavassa E, Barroso VC, Chinellato DD, Chochula P, Chojnacki M, Christakoglou P, Christensen CH, Christiansen P, Chujo T, Cicalo C, Cifarelli L, Cindolo F, Cleymans J, Coccetti F, Coffin JP, Coli S, Balbastre GC, Del Valle ZC, Constantin P, Contin G, Contreras JG, Cormier TM, Morales YC, Maldonado IC, Cortese P, 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Charged-particle multiplicity density at midrapidity in central Pb-Pb collisions at sqrt[S(NN)] = 2.76 TeV. Phys Rev Lett 2010; 105:252301. [PMID: 21231579 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.105.252301] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/19/2010] [Indexed: 05/30/2023]
Abstract
The first measurement of the charged-particle multiplicity density at midrapidity in Pb-Pb collisions at a center-of-mass energy per nucleon pair √ S NN = 2.76 TeV is presented. For an event sample corresponding to the most central 5% of the hadronic cross section, the pseudorapidity density of primary charged particles at midrapidity is 1584 ± 4(stat) ± 76(syst), which corresponds to 8.3 ± 0.4(syst) per participating nucleon pair. This represents an increase of about a factor 1.9 relative to pp collisions at similar collision energies, and about a factor 2.2 to central Au-Au collisions at √ S NN = 2.76 TeV. This measurement provides the first experimental constraint for models of nucleus-nucleus collisions at LHC energies.
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Affiliation(s)
- K Aamodt
- Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
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