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Zou S, Chen Z, Tan Y, Tan M, Guo W, Wu S, Liu J, Song S, Peng Y, Wang M, Liang K. Microbiomes detected by cerebrospinal fluid metagenomic next-generation sequencing among patients with and without HIV with suspected central nervous system infection. HIV Med 2024. [PMID: 38515324 DOI: 10.1111/hiv.13634] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/17/2023] [Accepted: 03/02/2024] [Indexed: 03/23/2024]
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BACKGROUND Opportunistic infections in the central nervous system (CNS) can be a serious threat to people living with HIV. Early aetiological diagnosis and targeted treatment are crucial but difficult. Metagenomic next-generation sequencing (mNGS) has significant advantages over traditional detection methods. However, differences in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) microbiome profiles of patients living with and without HIV with suspected CNS infections using mNGS and conventional testing methods have not yet been adequately evaluated. METHODS We conducted a retrospective cohort study in the first hospital of Changsha between January 2019 and June 2022 to investigate the microbiomes detected using mNGS of the CSF of patients living with and without HIV with suspected CNS infections. The pathogens causing CNS infections were concurrently identified using both mNGS and traditional detection methods. The spectrum of pathogens identified was compared between the two groups. RESULTS Overall, 173 patients (140 with and 33 without HIV) with suspected CNS infection were enrolled in our study. In total, 106 (75.7%) patients with and 16 (48.5%) patients without HIV tested positive with mNGS (p = 0.002). Among the enrolled patients, 71 (50.7%) with HIV and five (15.2%) without HIV tested positive for two or more pathogens (p < 0.001). Patients with HIV had significantly higher proportions of fungus (20.7% vs. 3.0%, p = 0.016) and DNA virus (59.3% vs. 21.2%, p < 0.001) than those without HIV. Epstein-Barr virus (33.6%) was the most commonly identified potential pathogen in the CSF of patients living with HIV using mNGS, followed by cytomegalovirus (20.7%) and torque teno virus (13.8%). The top three causative pathogens identified in patients without HIV were Streptococcus (18.2%), Epstein-Barr virus (12.1%), and Mycobacterium tuberculosis (9.1%). In total, 113 patients living with HIV were diagnosed as having CNS infections. The rate of pathogen detection in people living with HIV with a CNS infection was significantly higher with mNGS than with conventional methods (93.8% vs. 15.0%, p < 0.001). CONCLUSION CSF microbiome profiles differ between patients living with and without HIV with suspected CNS infection. mNGS is a powerful tool for the diagnosis of CNS infection among people living with HIV, especially in those with mixed infections.
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- Shi Zou
- Department of Infectious Diseases, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
- Wuhan Research Center for Infectious Diseases and Cancer, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Wuhan, China
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- The Institute of HIV/AIDS, The First Hospital of Changsha, Changsha, China
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
- Wuhan Research Center for Infectious Diseases and Cancer, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Wuhan, China
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
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- Department of Pathology, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
- Department of Pathology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
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- Wuhan Research Center for Infectious Diseases and Cancer, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Wuhan, China
- Department of Nosocomial Infection Management, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
- Wuhan Research Center for Infectious Diseases and Cancer, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Wuhan, China
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
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- Graduate Collaborative Training Base of the First Hospital of Changsha, Hengyang Medical School, Uni-versity of South China, Hengyang, China
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- The Institute of HIV/AIDS, The First Hospital of Changsha, Changsha, China
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
- Wuhan Research Center for Infectious Diseases and Cancer, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Wuhan, China
- Department of Nosocomial Infection Management, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
- Hubei Engineering Center for Infectious Disease Prevention, Control and Treatment, Wuhan, China
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Liu J, Tan Y, Song S, Liu J, Zou S, Luo M, Guo W, Liang K. Case Report: Giant Oral Ulcers Attributed to Cytomegalovirus Infection in a Patient with AIDS. Am J Trop Med Hyg 2023; 109:1274-1276. [PMID: 37972321 DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.22-0775] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/13/2022] [Accepted: 08/07/2023] [Indexed: 11/19/2023] Open
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Oral ulcers are often neglected in patients with AIDS. However, giant oral ulcers are uncommon and are usually suspected to be malignant lesions. Our study presents a case of giant ulcers in an AIDS patient that were initially suspected to be oral cancer. To assist with diagnosis, conventional microbiological tests, metagenomic next-generation sequencing, and a pathological examination were conducted on oral lesion biopsy specimens. The case was finally confirmed via hematoxylin-eosin staining and immunohistochemical staining to be a cytomegalovirus infection.
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- Jinli Liu
- Department of Infectious Diseases, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
- Wuhan Research Center for Infectious Diseases and Cancer, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Wuhan, China
- Hubei Engineering Center for Infectious Disease Prevention, Control, and Treatment, Wuhan, China
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
- Wuhan Research Center for Infectious Diseases and Cancer, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Wuhan, China
- Hubei Engineering Center for Infectious Disease Prevention, Control, and Treatment, Wuhan, China
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
- Wuhan Research Center for Infectious Diseases and Cancer, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Wuhan, China
- Hubei Engineering Center for Infectious Disease Prevention, Control, and Treatment, Wuhan, China
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
- Wuhan Research Center for Infectious Diseases and Cancer, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Wuhan, China
- Hubei Engineering Center for Infectious Disease Prevention, Control, and Treatment, Wuhan, China
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
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- Department of Pathology, Wuhan University Taikang Medical School (School of Basic Medical Sciences), Wuhan, China
- Pathology Department, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
- Wuhan Research Center for Infectious Diseases and Cancer, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Wuhan, China
- Hubei Engineering Center for Infectious Disease Prevention, Control, and Treatment, Wuhan, China
- Department of Nosocomial Infection Management, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
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Tan Y, Wu S, Guo W, Liu J, Ming F, Zou S, Tang W, Liang K, Yang J. Are people living with HIV have a low vulnerability to omicron variant infection: results from a cross-sectional study in China. BMC Infect Dis 2023; 23:795. [PMID: 37964230 PMCID: PMC10647165 DOI: 10.1186/s12879-023-08768-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/03/2023] [Accepted: 10/30/2023] [Indexed: 11/16/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND A surge of more than 80 million Omicron variant infected cases was reported in China less than a month after the "zero COVID" strategy ended on December 7, 2022. In this circumstance, whether people living with HIV (PLWH) in China experience a similar risk is not clear. METHODS A cross-sectional study was conducted in the Wuchang District of Wuhan between December 20, 2022, and January 18, 2023 through a self-administered online survey. PLWH and HIV-negative people aged ≥ 18 years old who volunteered for this survey were eligible. The prevalence of Omicron variant infection between PLWH and HIV-negative people was compared, and the factors associated with the Omicron variant infection among PLWH and HIV-negative people were further evaluated, respectively. RESULTS In total, 890 PLWH and 1,364 HIV-negative adults from Wuchang District were enrolled. Among these participants, 690 PLWH (77.5%) and 1163 HIV-negative people (85.3%) reported SARS-CoV-2 infection. Gender, chronic disease conditions, and COVID-19 vaccination status significantly differed between the two groups. After adjusting gender, age, comorbidities, and COVID-19 vaccination status, the risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection among PLWH was significantly lower than among HIV-negative people (aOR 0.56, 95%CI 0.42-0.76). Multivariable logistic regression analysis showed that PLWH with older age and detectable HIV-viral load (HIV-VL) had decreased risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection (aOR 0.98, 95%CI 0.96-0.99; aOR 0.59, 95%CI 0.36-0.97). Compared with PLWH receiving one/two doses of COVID-19 vaccines, no significant differences in the risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection were observed among PLWH receiving three doses of inactivated vaccines and four doses of vaccines (three doses of inactivated vaccines plus one dose of inhaled recombinant adenovirus type 5 (AD5)-vectored vaccine). Among HIV-negative people, those receiving four doses of COVID-19 vaccines had a lower risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection than those receiving one/two doses (aOR 0.14, 95%CI 0.08-0.25). CONCLUSIONS Our study proves that PLWH have a lower risk of Omicron variant infection than HIV-negative people. However, even PLWH with younger age and virological suppression should strengthen the prevention against SARS-CoV-2 infection. Three doses of inactivated vaccines plus one dose of inhaled recombinant AD5-vectored COVID-19 vaccine may provide better protection for HIV-negative people.
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- Yuting Tan
- Department of Infectious Diseases, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, 430071, China
- Wuhan Research Center for Infectious Diseases and Cancer, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Wuhan, China
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- Department of Nosocomial Infection Management, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
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- Department of Pathology, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
- Department of Pathology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, 430071, China
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- Wuchang District Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Wuhan, China
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, 430071, China
- Wuhan Research Center for Infectious Diseases and Cancer, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Wuhan, China
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- University of North Carolina Project-China, Guangzhou, China
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, 430071, China.
- Wuhan Research Center for Infectious Diseases and Cancer, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Wuhan, China.
- Department of Nosocomial Infection Management, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China.
- Hubei Engineering Center for Infectious Disease Prevention, Control and Treatment, Wuhan, China.
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- Jiangnan University Medical Center, Wuxi, 214122, China.
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Wang H, Li T, Jiang Y, Chen S, Zou S, Bonewald LF, Duan P. Force-Loaded Cementocytes Regulate Osteoclastogenesis via S1P/S1PR1/Rac1 Axis. J Dent Res 2023; 102:1376-1386. [PMID: 37735908 DOI: 10.1177/00220345231195765] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 09/23/2023] Open
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Orthodontically induced inflammatory root resorption (OIIRR) is the major iatrogenic complication of orthodontic treatment, seriously endangering tooth longevity and impairing masticatory function. Osteoclasts are thought to be the primary effector cells that initiate the pathological process of OIIRR; however, the cellular and molecular mechanisms responsible for OIIRR remain unclear. Our previous studies revealed that cementocytes, the major mechanically responsive cells in cementum, respond to compressive stress to activate and influence osteoclasts locally. For this study, we hypothesized that the sphingosine-1-phosphate (S1P) signaling pathway, a key mechanotransduction pathway in cementocytes, may regulate osteoclasts under the different magnitudes of either physiologic compressive stress that causes tooth movement or pathologic stress that causes OIIRR. Here, we show a biphasic effect of higher compression force stimulating the synthesis and secretion of S1P, whereas lower compression force reduced signaling in IDG-CM6 cementocytes. Using conditioned media from force-loaded cementocytes, we verified the cell-to-cell communication between cementocytes and osteoclasts and show that selective knockdown of S1PR1 and Rac1 plays a role in cementocyte-driven osteoclastogenesis via the S1P/S1PR1/Rac1 axis. Most importantly, the use of inhibitors of this axis reduced or prevented the pathological process of OIIRR. The intercellular communication mechanisms between cementocytes and osteoclasts may serve as a promising therapeutic target for OIIRR.
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- H Wang
- State Key Laboratory of Oral Diseases and National Center for Stomatology and National Clinical Research Center for Oral Diseases;Department of Orthodontics, West China Hospital of Stomatology, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Oral Diseases and National Center for Stomatology and National Clinical Research Center for Oral Diseases;Department of Orthodontics, West China Hospital of Stomatology, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China
- Department of Orthodontics, Shanghai Ninth People's Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine; College of Stomatology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University; National Center for Stomatology; National Clinical Research Center for Oral Diseases; Shanghai Key Laboratory of Stomatology; Shanghai Research Institute of Stomatology
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- State Key Laboratory of Oral Diseases and National Center for Stomatology and National Clinical Research Center for Oral Diseases;Department of Orthodontics, West China Hospital of Stomatology, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Oral Diseases and National Center for Stomatology and National Clinical Research Center for Oral Diseases;Department of Orthodontics, West China Hospital of Stomatology, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Oral Diseases and National Center for Stomatology and National Clinical Research Center for Oral Diseases;Department of Orthodontics, West China Hospital of Stomatology, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China
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- Departments of Anatomy, Cell Biology & Physiology and Orthopaedic Surgery, Indiana Center for Musculoskeletal Health, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA
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- State Key Laboratory of Oral Diseases and National Center for Stomatology and National Clinical Research Center for Oral Diseases;Department of Orthodontics, West China Hospital of Stomatology, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China
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Tan Y, Chen Z, Zeng Z, Wu S, Liu J, Zou S, Wang M, Liang K. Microbiomes Detected by Bronchoalveolar Lavage Fluid Metagenomic Next-Generation Sequencing among HIV-Infected and Uninfected Patients with Pulmonary Infection. Microbiol Spectr 2023; 11:e0000523. [PMID: 37436163 PMCID: PMC10434007 DOI: 10.1128/spectrum.00005-23] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/07/2023] [Accepted: 06/25/2023] [Indexed: 07/13/2023] Open
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Comparison of lung microbiomes between HIV-infected and uninfected patients with pulmonary infection by metagenomic next-generation sequencing (mNGS) has not been described in China. The lung microbiomes detected in bronchoalveolar fluid (BALF) by mNGS among HIV-infected and uninfected patients with pulmonary infection were reviewed in the First Hospital of Changsha between January 2019 and June 2022. In total, 476 HIV-infected and 280 uninfected patients with pulmonary infection were enrolled. Compared with HIV-uninfected patients, the proportions of Mycobacterium (P = 0.011), fungi (P < 0.001), and viruses (P < 0.001) were significantly higher in HIV-infected patients. The higher positive rate of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB; P = 0.018), higher positive rates of Pneumocystis jirovecii and Talaromyces marneffei (all P < 0.001), and higher positive rate of cytomegalovirus (P < 0.001) contributed to the increased proportions of Mycobacterium, fungi, and viruses among HIV-infected patients, respectively. The constituent ratios of Streptococcus pneumoniae (P = 0.007) and Tropheryma whipplei (P = 0.002) in the bacteria spectrum were significantly higher, while the constituent ratio of Klebsiella pneumoniae (P = 0.005) was significantly lower in HIV-infected patients than in HIV-uninfected patients. Compared with HIV-uninfected patients, the constituent ratios of P. jirovecii and T. marneffei (all P < 0.001) in the fungal spectrum were significantly higher, while the constituent ratios of Candida and Aspergillus (all P < 0.001) were significantly lower in HIV-infected patients. In comparison to HIV-infected patients without antiretroviral therapy (ART), the proportions of T. whipplei (P = 0.001), MTB (P = 0.024), P. jirovecii (P < 0.001), T. marneffei (P < 0.001), and cytomegalovirus (P = 0.008) were significantly lower in HIV-infected patients on ART. Significant differences in lung microbiomes exist between HIV-infected and uninfected patients with pulmonary infection, and ART influences the lung microbiomes among HIV-infected patients with pulmonary infection. IMPORTANCE A better understanding of lung microorganisms is conducive to early diagnosis and treatment and will improve the prognosis of HIV-infected patients with pulmonary infection. Currently, few studies have systematically described the spectrum of pulmonary infection among HIV-infected patients. This study is the first to provide comprehensive information on the lung microbiomes of HIV-infected patients with pulmonary infection (as assessed by more sensitive metagenomic next-generation sequencing of bronchoalveolar fluid) compared with those from HIV-uninfected patients, which could provide a reference for the etiology of pulmonary infection among HIV-infected patients.
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- Yuting Tan
- Department of Infectious Diseases, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
- Wuhan Research Center for Infectious Diseases and Cancer, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Wuhan, China
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- Department of Infection and Immunology, The First Hospital of Changsha City, Changsha, China
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- Graduate Collaborative Training Base of the First Hospital of Changsha, Hengyang Medical School, University of South China, Hengyang, China
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- Wuhan Research Center for Infectious Diseases and Cancer, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Wuhan, China
- Department of Nosocomial Infection Management, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
- Wuhan Research Center for Infectious Diseases and Cancer, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Wuhan, China
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- Department of Infection and Immunology, The First Hospital of Changsha City, Changsha, China
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
- Wuhan Research Center for Infectious Diseases and Cancer, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Wuhan, China
- Department of Nosocomial Infection Management, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
- Hubei Engineering Center for Infectious Disease Prevention, Control and Treatment, Wuhan, China
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Tan Y, Guo W, Zhu Q, Song S, Xiang Y, Wu S, Zou S, Yan Y, Feng L, Luo M, Shen L, Feng Y, Liang K. Characterization of peripheral cytokine-secreting cells responses in HIV/TB co-infection. Front Cell Infect Microbiol 2023; 13:1162420. [PMID: 37483385 PMCID: PMC10359493 DOI: 10.3389/fcimb.2023.1162420] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/09/2023] [Accepted: 06/08/2023] [Indexed: 07/25/2023] Open
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Background Currently the responses of peripheral cytokine-secreting cells in the natural course of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and tuberculosis (TB) co-infection haven't been fully elucidated. Methods The function of peripheral proinflammatory, regulatory and cytotoxic cytokine-secreting cells were investigated by direct intracellular cytokine staining (ICS) and flow cytometry, additionally, the absolute numbers of different cytokine-secreting cells were measured among patients with HIV/TB co-infection (HT group), and compared them with the healthy controls (HC group), patients with TB (TB group) and patients with HIV infection (HIV group). After one week's anti-TB treatment, the changes of the percentages of cytokine-secreting cells were further evaluated in TB and HT groups. Results Totally 26 individuals in the HC group, 51 in the TB group, 26 in the HIV group and 29 in the HT group were enrolled. The HT. HT group exhibited significantly lower absolute numbers of IFN-γ+CD4+, IFN-γ+CD8+, TNF-α+CD4+, IL17A+CD4+ T cells and TNF-α+CD14+ monocytes than the TB and HIV groups. Compared with the TB group, the percentages of CD8+ T cells secreting IFN-γ and perforin (p=0.010; p=0.043) were significantly lower among the HT group. Compared with the HIV group, the percentages of CD4+, CD8+ T cells and CD14+ monocytes secreting TNF-α (p=0.013; p=0.001; p<0.001) were significantly decreased, and the percentage of CD8+ T cells secreting IL-17A (p=0.015) was significantly increased among the HT group. Both the percentages of CD4+ T cells secreting TGF-β (p<0.001; p=0.001), and CD4+ and CD8+ T cells secreting granzyme A (all p<0.001), were significantly higher among the HT group than among the TB group and HIV group. After one week's anti-TB treatment, an increased percentage of CD4+ T cells secreting TNF-α (p=0.003) was found in the TB group, and an increased percentage of CD8+ T cells secreting TNF-α (p=0.029) was found in the HT group. Conclusion Significantly different functional profiles of peripheral proinflammatory, regulatory, and cytotoxic cytokine-secreting cells were observed in the natural course of HIV/TB co-infection compared to TB and HIV infection alone, even though the absolute numbers of those cells were significantly lower in HIV/TB co-infection. TNF-α-secreting CD8+ T cells may be a more sensitive marker for early evaluation of anti-TB treatment efficacy in patients with HIV/TB co-infection.
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- Yuting Tan
- Department of Infectious Diseases, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
- Wuhan Research Center for Infectious Diseases and Cancer, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Wuhan, China
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- Department of Pathology, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
- Department of Pathology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
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- Wuhan Pulmonary Hospital, Wuhan Institute for Tuberculosis Control, Wuhan, China
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
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- Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Yichang Central People’s Hospital, Yichang, Hubei, China
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- Wuhan Research Center for Infectious Diseases and Cancer, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Wuhan, China
- Department of Nosocomial Infection Management, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
- Wuhan Research Center for Infectious Diseases and Cancer, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Wuhan, China
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Center for Primate Biomedical Research, University of Illinois College of Medicine, Chicago, IL, United States
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- Department of Medical Microbiology, Wuhan University School of Basic Medical Sciences, Wuhan, China
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
- Wuhan Research Center for Infectious Diseases and Cancer, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Wuhan, China
- Department of Nosocomial Infection Management, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
- Hubei Engineering Center for Infectious Disease Prevention, Control and Treatment, Wuhan, China
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Tan Y, Zou S, Ming F, Wu S, Guo W, Wu M, Tang W, Liang K. A tale of two conditions: when people living with HIV meet three doses of inactivated COVID-19 vaccines. Front Immunol 2023; 14:1174379. [PMID: 37404815 PMCID: PMC10315467 DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2023.1174379] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/26/2023] [Accepted: 05/31/2023] [Indexed: 07/06/2023] Open
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Background Currently, data on long-term immune responses to a homogenous booster dose of the inactivated COVID-19 vaccine are still limited among people living with HIV (PLWH). Methods A prospective cohort study with a 13-month follow-up was conducted in China between March 2021 and August 2022 to evaluate the dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 specific humoral and cellular immunity against three doses of the inactivated COVID-19 vaccine from before the first dose until 6 months after the booster dose vaccination among PLWH in comparison to healthy controls (HC). Results 43 PLWH on antiretroviral therapy (ART) and 23 HC were enrolled. Compared with HC, the neutralizing antibodies (nAbs) levels among PLWH were significantly lower on days 14, 30, 60, 90, and 120 after the booster dose vaccination. Among PLWH, the nAbs titers on days 14, 30, and 60 after the booster dose were significantly higher than the peak of the second dose. However, on day 180 after the booster dose, the nAbs titers were similar to the peak of the second dose vaccination. Compared with HC, the frequencies of IFN-γ-secreting and TNF-α-secreting CD4+ and CD8+ T cells among PLWH were lower on days 14 and 180 after the booster dose vaccination. Among PLWH, increased T cell immunity was induced by the booster dose of the vaccine and kept stable on day 180 after the booster dose vaccination. Conclusion Although a homogenous booster dose following two doses of the inactivated COVID-19 vaccine among PLWH could elicit higher nAb titers, reduce antibody decay, and maintain T cell responses even 6 months after vaccination, the overall immunogenicity of the booster dose was found to be lower among PLWH than among healthy controls. Further strategies are needed to improve immunogenicity to the inactivated COVID-19 vaccine among PLWH.
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- Yuting Tan
- Department of Infectious Diseases, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
- Wuhan Research Center for Infectious Diseases and Cancer, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Wuhan, China
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
- Wuhan Research Center for Infectious Diseases and Cancer, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Wuhan, China
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- Wuchang District Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Wuhan, China
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- Wuhan Research Center for Infectious Diseases and Cancer, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Wuhan, China
- Department of Nosocomial Infection Management, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
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- Department of Pathology, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
- Department of Pathology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
- Wuhan Research Center for Infectious Diseases and Cancer, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Wuhan, China
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- Institute for Healthcare Artificial Intelligence, Guangdong No.2 Provincial People's Hospital, Guangzhou, China
- The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Project-China, Guangzhou, China
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
- Wuhan Research Center for Infectious Diseases and Cancer, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Wuhan, China
- Department of Nosocomial Infection Management, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
- Hubei Engineering Center for Infectious Disease Prevention, Control and Treatment, Wuhan, China
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Tan Y, Wu S, Yan Y, Zou S, Feng L, Guo W, Wu M, Luo M, Liang K. Adverse pregnancy outcomes associated with antiretroviral therapy initiated before pregnancy and during pregnancy: a retrospective study in Hubei province, China. Front Med (Lausanne) 2023; 10:1158962. [PMID: 37275371 PMCID: PMC10232830 DOI: 10.3389/fmed.2023.1158962] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/04/2023] [Accepted: 05/03/2023] [Indexed: 06/07/2023] Open
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Background Antiretroviral therapy (ART) initiation before pregnancy was reported to have an increased risk of adverse pregnancy outcomes (APOs) than ART initiation during pregnancy. However, the risks of APOs associated with different ART regimens initiated before or during pregnancy remain unknown. Methods Pregnant women living with HIV (PWLHIV) from Hubei Province, China, were retrospectively enrolled between January 1, 2004, and December 31, 2021. The trends of ART initiation time and application of different ART regimens were evaluated over time, separately. Using no ART exposure before and during pregnancy as control, the risks of APOs associated with protease inhibitor (PI) based regimens and non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NNRTIs) based regimens initiated before pregnancy were analyzed; and the risks of APOs associated with PI-based regimens, NNRTIs based regimens and zidovudine (AZT) monotherapy initiated during pregnancy were analyzed. APOs, including low birthweight (LBW), stillbirth, preterm birth (PTB) and early miscarriage, were reviewed. Results Among 781 PWLHIV including 1,010 pregnancies, 522 pregnancies (51.7%) were exposed to ART before or during pregnancy. Of them, the proportion of ART initiation before pregnancy per year increased from around 20% in the early period to more than 60% after 2019. Efavirenz (EFV)-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NRTIs) (32.2%), LPV/r-NRTIs (31.2%), and nevirapine (NVP)-NRTIs (27.4%) were the most commonly used regimens, and the proportion of LPV/r-NRTIs used per year has increased to around 50.0% in recent years. LPV/r-NRTIs was associated with higher risks of LBW whether initiated before pregnancy [adjusted OR (aOR) = 2.59, 95%CI 1.04-6.45, p = 0.041] or during pregnancy (aOR = 2.19, 95%CI 1.03-4.67, p = 0.041), compared with no exposure to ART before and during pregnancy. However, no matter initiated before or during pregnancy, LPV/r-NRTIs had no significantly increased risks of stillbirth, PTB and early miscarriage, and EFV /NVP-NRTIs and AZT monotherapy had no significantly increased risks of LBW, stillbirth, PTB and early miscarriage when compared with no exposure to ART before and during pregnancy. Conclusion Our data suggests that LPV/r-NRTIs has been widely used among PWLHIV in recent years. However, the potential risk of LBW should be continuously monitored among PWLHIV whether LPV/r-NRTIs is initiated before or during pregnancy.
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- Yuting Tan
- Department of Infectious Diseases, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
- Wuhan Research Center for Infectious Diseases and Cancer, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Wuhan, China
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- Department of Nosocomial Infection Management, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
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- Department of Pathology, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
- Department of Pathology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
- Wuhan Research Center for Infectious Diseases and Cancer, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Wuhan, China
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
- Wuhan Research Center for Infectious Diseases and Cancer, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Wuhan, China
- Department of Nosocomial Infection Management, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
- Hubei Engineering Center for Infectious Disease Prevention, Control and Treatment, Wuhan, China
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Deng L, Li Q, Hu W, Chen X, Chen T, Song S, Mo P, Zou S, Zhang Y, Gao S, Chen L, Zhuang K, Yang R, Xiong Y. Metagenomic next-generation sequencing versus traditional laboratory methods for the diagnosis of central nervous system opportunistic infections in HIV-infected Chinese adults. Sci Rep 2023; 13:4921. [PMID: 36966258 PMCID: PMC10039683 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-31974-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/05/2023] [Accepted: 03/20/2023] [Indexed: 03/27/2023] Open
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To evaluate clinical value of metagenomic next-generation sequencing (mNGS) in people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) who had CNS disorders. Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) samples from 48 PLWHA presenting with CNS disorders were sequenced using mNGS and compared with clinical conventional diagnostic methods. In total, 36/48 ss(75%) patients were diagnosed with pathogen(s) infection by mNGS, and the positive detection proportion by mNGS was higher than that by clinical conventional diagnostic methods (75% vs 52.1%, X2 = 5.441, P = 0.020). Thirteen out of 48 patients (27.1%) were detected with 3-7 pathogens by mNGS. Moreover, 77 pathogen strains were detected, of which 94.8% (73/77) by mNGS and 37.0% (30/77) by clinical conventional methods (X2 = 54.206, P < 0.001). The sensitivity and specificity of pathogens detection by mNGS were 63.9% (23/36) and 66.7% (8/12), respectively, which were superior to that by clinical conventional methods (23/36 vs 9/25, X2 = 4.601, P = 0.032; 8/12 vs 5/23, X2 = 5.029, P = 0.009). The application of mNGS was superior for its ability to detect a variety of unknown pathogens and multiple pathogens infection, and relatively higher sensitivity and specificity in diagnosis of CNS disorders in PLWHA.
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- Liping Deng
- Department of Infectious Diseases, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, China
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, China
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, China
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, China
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, China
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, China
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, China
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, China
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, China
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, China
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine, Zhongnan Hospital, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, China
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- ABSL-III Laboratory at the Center for Animal Experiment, State Key Laboratory of Virology, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, China
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, China.
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, China.
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Tan Y, Zhang Z, Wu M, Zou S, Guo W, Liang K. Unusual disseminated Talaromyces marneffei infection presenting with fever and diarrhea in an AIDS patient: a case report and literature review. Acta Clin Belg 2023; 78:67-70. [PMID: 35467497 DOI: 10.1080/17843286.2022.2067957] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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BACKGROUND Gastrointestinal symptoms are not uncommon in patients infected with Talaromyces marneffei (T. marneffei). However, the reports on intestinal T. marneffei infection were rare. We report a case of disseminated T. marneffei infection with intestine involvement. CASE PRESENTATION A 41-year-old female with acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) was admitted to our hospital for long-term fever, followed by abdominal pain and diarrhea. The colonoscopy performed in our hospital revealed ulcerative lesions in the colon and terminal ileum. Periodic acid-Schiff (PAS) staining of intestinal ulcer revealed that the small dots distributed inside and outside of the macrophages were yeast microorganisms. Further culture of bone marrow sample was confirmed T. marneffei positive. A diagnosis of disseminated T. marneffei infection was made, with intestine involvement. We also summarized the clinical characteristics, endoscopic findings and histopathological features of intestinal T. marneffei by literature review. CONCLUSION In HIV-infected and other immunocompromised patients with gastrointestinal symptoms and/or associated abdominal imaging abnormalities, intestinal T. marneffei infection should be taken into consideration. Serious manifestations such as intestinal obstruction and intestinal perforation may occur. Early diagnosis is of great significance to prevent the deterioration of the illness and improve the prognosis. Histopathological examination and culture of intestinal lesions are helpful to improve the diagnosis of intestinal T. marneffei infection. ABBREVIATIONS AIDS: acquired immune deficiency syndrome; ART: antiretroviral therapy; ESR: erythrocyte sedimentation rate; PPD:purified protein derivative; HE: Hematoxylin and eosin; PAS: Periodic acid-Schiff; CMV: cytomegalovirus; GMS:Gomori's methenamine silver nitrate.
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- Yuting Tan
- Department of Infectious Diseases, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, China
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, China
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, China
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, China
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- Pathology Department, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, China
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, China.,Department of Nosocomial Infection Management, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Hubei, China.,Wuhan Research Center for Infectious Diseases and Cancer, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Wuhan, Hubei, China.,Center of Preventing Mother-to-child Transmission for Infectious Diseases, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, China
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Wu S, Zou S, Ming F, Wu M, Guo W, Xing Z, Zhang Z, Liu J, Tang W, Liang K. Humoral immune response to inactivated COVID-19 vaccination at the 3rd month among people living with HIV. BMC Infect Dis 2023; 23:34. [PMID: 36670363 PMCID: PMC9854032 DOI: 10.1186/s12879-023-07982-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/12/2022] [Accepted: 01/03/2023] [Indexed: 01/22/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Research on the immune response to inactivated COVID-19 vaccination among people living with HIV (PLWH) is limited, especially among those with low CD4+ T lymphocyte (CD4 cell) count. This prospective cohort study aimed to assess the humoral immune response to inactivated COVID-19 vaccination among PLWH compared to HIV negative controls (HNCs) and to determine the impact of CD4 cell count on vaccine response among PLWH. METHODS The neutralizing antibodies (nAbs) and the specific IgM and IgG-binding antibody responses to the inactivated COVID-19 vaccine at the third month after the second dose of inactivated COVID-19 vaccination were measured among 138 PLWH and 35 HNCs. Multivariable logistic regression and multiple linear regression models were conducted to identify factors associated with the seroconversion rate of antibodies and the magnitude of anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibody titers, respectively. RESULTS At the end of the third month after two doses of vaccination, the seroconversion rates of IgG were comparable between PLWH (44.9%; 95% CI 36.5-53.3%) and HNCs (60.0%; 95% CI 42.9-77.1%), respectively. The median titers and seroconversion rate of nAbs among PLWH were 0.57 (IQR: 0.30-1.11) log10 BAU/mL and 29.0% (95% CI 21.3-36.8%), respectively, both lower than those in HNCs (P < 0.05). After adjusting for age, sex, comorbidities, and CD4 cell count, the titers and seroconversion rate of nAbs were comparable between PLWH and HNCs (P > 0.05). Multivariable regression analyses showed that CD4 cell count < 200/μL was independently associated with lower titers and seroconversion rate of nAbs among PLWH (P < 0.05). A positive correlation was observed between the CD4 cell count and nAbs titers in PLWH (Spearman's ρ = 0.25, P = 0.0034). CONCLUSION Our study concluded that the immune response to inactivated COVID-19 vaccination among PLWH was independently associated with CD4 cell count, PLWH with lower CD4 cell count showed a weaker humoral immune response, especially those with CD4 cell count < 200/μL. This finding suggests that expanding COVID-19 vaccination coverage among PLWH is impendency. In addition, aggressive ART should be carried out for PLWH, especially for those with low CD4 cell count, to improve the immune response to vaccines.
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- Songjie Wu
- Department of Nosocomial Infection Management, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Hubei, China
- Wuhan Research Center for Infectious Diseases and Cancer, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Wuhan, China
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- Wuhan Research Center for Infectious Diseases and Cancer, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Wuhan, China
- Department of Infectious Diseases, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, 430071, Hubei, China
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- Wuchang District Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Wuhan, Hubei, China
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- Wuhan Research Center for Infectious Diseases and Cancer, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Wuhan, China
- Department of Infectious Diseases, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, 430071, Hubei, China
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- Department of Pathology, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
- Department of Pathology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
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- School of Basic Medical Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
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- School of Basic Medical Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, 430071, Hubei, China
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- Guangdong No. 2 Provincial People's Hospital, Guangzhou, China.
- The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Project-China, Guangzhou, 510095, China.
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- Department of Nosocomial Infection Management, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Hubei, China.
- Wuhan Research Center for Infectious Diseases and Cancer, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Wuhan, China.
- Department of Infectious Diseases, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, 430071, Hubei, China.
- Hubei Engineering Center for Infectious Disease Prevention, Control and Treatment, Wuhan, China.
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Zou S, Xiang Y, Guo W, Zhu Q, Wu S, Tan Y, Yan Y, Shen L, Feng Y, Liang K. Phenotype and function of peripheral blood γδ T cells in HIV infection with tuberculosis. Front Cell Infect Microbiol 2022; 12:1071880. [PMID: 36619740 PMCID: PMC9816428 DOI: 10.3389/fcimb.2022.1071880] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/17/2022] [Accepted: 12/12/2022] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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Background Although γδ T cells play an essential role in immunity against Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) or Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB), they are poorly described in HIV infection with tuberculosis (TB). Methods The phenotypic and functional properties of peripheral blood γδ T cells in patients with HIV/TB co-infection were analyzed compared to healthy controls and patients with HIV mono-infection or TB by direct intracellular cytokine staining (ICS). Results The percentage of Vδ1 subset in HIV/TB group was significantly higher than that in TB group, while the decreased frequency of the Vδ2 and Vγ2Vδ2 subsets were observed in HIV/TB group than in TB group. The percentage of CD4+CD8- Vδ2 subset in HIV/TB group was markedly lower than in TB group. However, the percentage of CD4+CD8+ Vδ2 subset in HIV/TB group was markedly higher than HIV group or TB group. A lower percentage TNF-α and a higher percentage of IL-17A of Vδ2 subset were observed in HIV/TB group than that in HIV mono-infection. The percentage of perforin-producing Vδ2 subset was significantly lower in HIV/TB group than that in HIV group and TB group. Conclusions Our data suggested that HIV/TB co-infection altered the balance of γδ T cell subsets. The influence of HIV/TB co-infection on the function of γδ T cells to produce cytokines was complicated, which will shed light on further investigations on the mechanisms of the immune response against HIV and/or MTB infection.
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- Shi Zou
- Department of Infectious Diseases, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China,Wuhan Research Center for Infectious Diseases and Cancer, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Wuhan, China
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- Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Yichang Central People's Hospital, Yichang, China
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- Wuhan Research Center for Infectious Diseases and Cancer, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Wuhan, China,Department of Pathology, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China,Department of Pathology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
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- Wuhan Pulmonary Hospital, Wuhan Institute for Tuberculosis Control, Wuhan, China
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- Wuhan Research Center for Infectious Diseases and Cancer, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Wuhan, China,Department of Nosocomial Infection Management, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China,Wuhan Research Center for Infectious Diseases and Cancer, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Wuhan, China
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Center for Primate Biomedical Research, University of Illinois College of Medicine, Chicago, United States,*Correspondence: Ling Shen, ; Yong Feng, ; Ke Liang,
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- Department of Medical Microbiology, Wuhan University School of Basic Medical Sciences, Wuhan, China,*Correspondence: Ling Shen, ; Yong Feng, ; Ke Liang,
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China,Wuhan Research Center for Infectious Diseases and Cancer, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Wuhan, China,Department of Nosocomial Infection Management, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China,Hubei Engineering Center for Infectious Disease Prevention, Control and Treatment, Wuhan, China,*Correspondence: Ling Shen, ; Yong Feng, ; Ke Liang,
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Zou S, Zhu Q, Guo YN, Xiang PZ, Mo GL, Chen JH, Liu K, Liang K. [Dynamic analysis of tuberculosis specific mononuclear cells in peripheral blood of HIV patients with tuberculosis]. Zhonghua Jie He He Hu Xi Za Zhi 2022; 45:1109-1116. [PMID: 36344228 DOI: 10.3760/cma.j.cn112147-20220823-00710] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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Objective: To evaluate the response of peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) in patients with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) combined with active tuberculosis (TB) to TB-specific antigen stimulation. Methods: From January to December, 2018, individuals infected with both HIV and TB (HIV/TB group) were taken as the study subjects. Individuals infected with HIV alone (HIV group), individuals infected with TB alone (TB group) and healthy people (Health control group, HC group) were taken as the control groups. PBMCs were isolated and stimulated with purified protein derivative of bacillus calmette-guerin (BCG-PPD). The expression of surface molecules in T cells (CD3+, CD4+, CD8+) and monocytes (CD14+) and the percentages of Interferon (IFN)-γ and tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-α were detected by cell surface molecular staining, direct intracellular cytokine staining and flow cytometry (CD3- lymphocytes were mainly B lymphocytes and NK cells). Analysis of non-parametric data was used to compare the data between the two groups, and paired t-test was used to compare the data before and after PPD stimulation in each group. Results: Before PPD stimulation, the percentage of IFN-γ+ CD8+ cells in the peripheral blood of HIV/TB group(mean 0.52%) was significantly lower than that in TB group(mean 0.94%, P=0.010). The TNF-α+cell percentages in CD3+, CD4+, CD8+, or CD14+ cells in the HIV/TB group(mean 19.2%) were significantly lower than those in the HIV group(mean 31.9%, P=0.002). The percentage of TNF-α secreted by monocytes in the HIV group was significantly lower than that in the HC group. The percentages of IFN-γ+ CD8+ and IFN-γ+ CD3- cells in the peripheral blood of the TB group (mean 0.94%) were significantly higher than thoset in the HC group(mean 0.51%, P=0.020), while the percentages of TNF-α+ cells in each subsets of PBMCs were significantly lower than those in the HC group. After PPD stimulation, the percentage of IFN-γ+ CD8+ cells in the HIV/TB group was significantly lower than that in the TB group(P=0.008), and the change was more marked than that before stimulation. The percentage of IFN-γ+ CD8+ cells in the HIV group(mean 0.20%) was lower than that in the HC group (mean 0.52%, P=0.044). The percentage of IFN-γ+ CD3- in the TB group was significantly higher than in the HC group. There were no significant differences in TNF-α+ cell percentages in the 3 groups compared with the control group after PPD stimulation. The percentages of IFN-γ+ CD4+ cells in the HC and the TB groups were significantly increased after PPD stimulation in each group (P=0.002, P=0.001, respectively). However, there were no significant differences of IFN-γ+ CD4+ cell percentages in the HIV/TB group and the HIV group. The percentages of TNF-α production by monocytes were significantly increased after PPD stimulation in all groups. Conclusions: Chronic Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) infection reduced the ability of PBMCs to produce TNF-α. For patients with TB infection, the production of TNF-α was reduced when combined with HIV infection. The capacity of CD8+ and CD3- lymphocytes to produce IFN-γ was increased in TB patients, while the capacity of CD8+ T cells to produce IFN-γ was decreased with co-infection of HIV. Infection of HIV weakened the immune response to MTB infection, which made the clinical diagnosis and treatment of TB more difficult.
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- S Zou
- Department of Infectious Diseases, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan 430071, China
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- Department of Tuberculosis, Wuhan Pulmonary Hospital, Wuhan 430030, China
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- Department of Pathology, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan 430071, China
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan 430071, China
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan 430071, China
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- Department of Tuberculosis, Wuhan Pulmonary Hospital, Wuhan 430030, China
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- Department of Tuberculosis, Wuhan Pulmonary Hospital, Wuhan 430030, China
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan 430071, China
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Zou S, Guo W, Wu S, Ming F, Tan Y, Wu M, Tang W, Liang K. Six-month humoral immune response to inactivated COVID-19 vaccine among people living with HIV. Front Immunol 2022; 13:988304. [PMID: 36325346 PMCID: PMC9618892 DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2022.988304] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/07/2022] [Accepted: 10/04/2022] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Longitudinal humoral immune response to inactivated COVID-19 vaccines among people living with HIV (PLWH) have not yet been systematically investigated. We conducted a 6-month longitudinal study among vaccinated PLWH and HIV-Negative Controls (HNC) to determine whether the humoral immune response effects of the inactivated COVID-19 vaccine are different between the two groups of people. Totally, 46 PLWH and 38 HNC who received the inactivated COVID-19 vaccine on days 0 and 28 were enrolled. The SARS-CoV-2 neutralizing antibodies (nAbs) and total specific IgM and IgG antibodies were examined on Day 0-Day190. The level and positive seroconversion rate of nAbs peaked on Day 42 in HNC while peaked on Day 70 in PLWH, then decreased gradually with the extension of the vaccination period after the peaks. The peak level of nAbs in PLWH on Day 70, (GMC 8.07 BAU/mL, 95% CI 5.67-11.48) was significantly lower than in HNC on Day 42 (GMC 18.28 BAU/mL, 95% CI 10.33-32.33, P =0.03). The decrease in the geometric mean concentrations (GMCs) of nAbs was observed as 42.9% in PLWH after peak level, which decreased from 8.07 BAU/mL [95% CI: 5.67-11.48] on Day 70 to 4.61 BAU/mL [95% CI: 3.35-6.34] on Day 190 (p = 0.02). On Day 190, only seven (18%, [95% CI: 6-40]) HNC and five (11%, [95% CI: 4-25]) PLWH maintained positive nAbs response respectively. The geometric mean ELISA units (GMEUs) and positive seroconversion rate of IgG in PLWH dropped significantly from Day 70 (GMEUs, 0.20 EU/mL, [95% CI: 0.13-0.34]; seroconversion, 52%, [95% CI: 34-69]) to Day 190 (GMEUs, 0.05 EU/mL, [95% CI: 0.03-0.08], P<0.001; seroconversion, 18%, [95% CI: 8-33], P<0.001). There was no significant difference in levels and seroconversion rates of nAbs and IgG between the two groups on Day 190. The peak immunogenicity of the inactivated COVID-19 vaccine was delayed and inferior in PLWH compared to HNC, while no significant difference was found in six-month immunogenicity between the two groups.
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- Shi Zou
- Department of Infectious Diseases, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
- Wuhan Research Center for Infectious Diseases and Cancer, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Wuhan, China
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- Department of Pathology, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
- Department of Pathology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
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- Wuhan Research Center for Infectious Diseases and Cancer, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Wuhan, China
- Department of Nosocomial Infection Management, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
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- Wuchang District Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Wuhan, China
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
- Wuhan Research Center for Infectious Diseases and Cancer, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Wuhan, China
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
- Wuhan Research Center for Infectious Diseases and Cancer, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Wuhan, China
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- Guangdong No. 2 Provincial People’s Hospital, Guangzhou, China
- The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Project-China, Guangzhou, China
- *Correspondence: Weiming Tang, ; Ke Liang,
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
- Wuhan Research Center for Infectious Diseases and Cancer, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Wuhan, China
- Department of Nosocomial Infection Management, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
- Hubei Engineering Center for Infectious Disease Prevention, Control and Treatment, Wuhan, China
- *Correspondence: Weiming Tang, ; Ke Liang,
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Zou S, Wu M, Ming F, Wu S, Guo W, Marley G, Xing Z, Zhang Z, Zeng M, Sun C, Zhang J, Tang W, Liang K. Immune response and safety to inactivated COVID-19 vaccine: a comparison between people living with HIV and HIV-naive individuals. AIDS Res Ther 2022; 19:33. [PMID: 35791004 PMCID: PMC9253234 DOI: 10.1186/s12981-022-00459-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/05/2022] [Accepted: 06/16/2022] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
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Background Multi-types COVID-19 vaccines have shown safety and efficacy against COVID-19 in adults. Although current guidelines encourage people living with HIV (PLWH) to take COVID-19 vaccines, whether their immune response to COVID-19 vaccines is distinct from HIV-free individuals is still unclear. Methods Between March to June 2021, 48 PLWH and 40 HNC, aged 18 to 59 years, were enrolled in the study in Wuchang district of Wuhan city. All of them received inactivated COVID-19 vaccine (Sinopharm, WIBP-CorV, Wuhan Institute of Biological Products Co. Ltd) at day 0 and the second dose at day 28. The primary safety outcome was the combined adverse reactions within 7 days after each injection. The primary immunogenicity outcomes were SARS-CoV-2 neutralizing antibodies (nAbs) responses by chemiluminescence and total specific IgM and IgG antibodies responses by ELISA and colloidal gold at baseline (day 0), day 14, day 28, day 42, and day 70. Results In total, the study included 46 PLWH and 38 HNC who finished 70 days’ follow-up. The frequency of adverse reactions to the first and second dose was not different between PLWH (30% and 11%) vs. HNC (32% and 24%). NAbs responses among PLWH peaked at day 70, while among HNC peaked at day 42. At day 42, the geometric mean concentration (GMC) and seroconversion rate of nAbs among PLWH were 4.46 binding antibody units (BAU)/mL (95% CI 3.18–5.87) and 26% (95% CI 14–41), which were lower than that among HNC [GMC (18.28 BAU/mL, 95% CI 10.33–32.33), seroconversion rate (63%, 95% CI 44–79)]. IgG responses among both PLWH and HNC peaked at day 70. At day 70, the geometric mean ELISA units (GMEU) and seroconversion rate of IgG among PLWH were 0.193 ELISA units (EU)/mL (95% CI 0.119–0.313) and 51% (95% CI 34–69), which was lower than that among HNC [GMEU (0.379 EU/mL, 95% CI 0.224–0.653), seroconversion rate (86%, 95% CI 64–97)]. There were no serious adverse events. Conclusions Early humoral immune response to the inactivated COVID-19 vaccine was weaker and delayed among the PLWH population than that among HNC. This observation remained consistent regardless of a high CD4 count with effective antiretroviral therapy. Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12981-022-00459-y.
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Tan Y, Zou S, Ming F, Zhang Z, Xing Z, Wu S, Guo W, Tang W, Liang K. Early Efficacy and Safety of the Third Dose Inactivated COVID-19 Vaccine Among People Living With HIV. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 2022; 90:e1-e3. [PMID: 35298450 DOI: 10.1097/qai.0000000000002953] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/06/2022] [Accepted: 03/14/2022] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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- Yuting Tan
- Department of Infectious Diseases, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, China
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, China
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- Wuchang District Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Wuhan, Hubei, China
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- School of Basic Medical Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, China
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- School of Basic Medical Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, China
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- Department of Nosocomial Infection Management, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Hubei, China
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- Department of Pathology, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
- Department of Pathology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
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- Guangdong No.2 Provincial People's Hospital, Guangzhou, China
- The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Project-China, Guangzhou, China
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, China
- Department of Nosocomial Infection Management, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Hubei, China
- Wuhan Research Center for Infectious Diseases and Cancer, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Wuhan, China
- Center of Preventing Mother-to-child Transmission for Infectious Diseases, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
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Wu S, Zou S, Ming F, Wu M, Guo W, Xing Z, Zhang Z, Liu J, Tang W, Liang K. Humoral Immune Response to Inactivated COVID-19 Vaccination at the 3rd Month among People Living with HIV. Res Sq 2022:rs.3.rs-1750225. [PMID: 35794897 PMCID: PMC9258300 DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-1750225/v1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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Background: Research on the immune response to inactivated COVID-19 vaccination among people living with HIV (PLWH) is limited, especially among those with low CD4+ T lymphocyte (CD4 cell) count. This cross-sectional study aimed to assess the humoral immune response to inactivated COVID-19 vaccination among PLWH compared to HIV negative controls (HNC) and to determine the impact of CD4 cell count on vaccine response among PLWH. Methods: The neutralizing antibodies (nAbs) and the specific IgM and IgG-binding antibody responses to the inactivated COVID-19 vaccine at the third month after the second dose of inactivated COVID-19 vaccination were measured among 138 PLWH and 35 HNC. Multivariable logistic regression and multiple linear regression models were conducted to identify factors associated with the seroconversion rate of antibodies and the magnitude of anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibody titers, respectively. Results: At the end of the third month after two doses of vaccination, the seroconversion rates of IgG were comparable between PLWH (8.7%; 95%CI, 3.9-13.5%) and HNC (11.4%; 95%CI, 0.3-22.5%), respectively. The median titers and seroconversion rate of nAbs among PLWH were 0.57 (IQR: 0.30-1.11) log 10 BAU/mL and 29.0% (95%CI: 21.3-36.8%), respectively, both lower than those in HNC ( P <0.05). After adjusting for age, sex, comorbidities, and CD4 cell count, the titers and seroconversion rate of nAbs were comparable between PLWH and HNC (P>0.05). Multivariable regression analyses showed that CD4 cell count<200 /μL was independently associated with lower titers and seroconversion rate of nAbs among PLWH ( P <0.05). A positive correlation was observed between the CD4 cell count and nAbs titers in PLWH (Spearman'sρ=0.25, P =0.034). Conclusion: Our study concluded that the immune response to inactivated COVID-19 vaccination among PLWH was independently associated with CD4 cell count, PLWH with lower CD4 cell count showed a weaker humoral immune response, especially those with CD4 cell count<200 /μL. This finding suggests that expanding COVID-19 vaccination coverage among PLWH is impendency. In addition, aggressive ART should be carried out for PLWH, especially for those with low CD4 cell count, to improve the immune response to vaccines.
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- Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University
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- Wuchang District Center for Disease Control and Prevention
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- The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Project-China
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- Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University
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Zou S, Tan Y, Xiang Y, Liu Y, Zhu Q, Wu S, Guo W, Luo M, Shen L, Liang K. The Role of CD4+CD8+ T Cells in HIV Infection With Tuberculosis. Front Public Health 2022; 10:895179. [PMID: 35712309 PMCID: PMC9195591 DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2022.895179] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/13/2022] [Accepted: 04/25/2022] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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Background Tuberculosis (TB) is an important opportunistic infection in acquired immunodeficiency diseases (AIDS). Although the frequency of CD4+CD8+ double-positive (DP) T cells has been observed to increase in pathological conditions, their role (phenotypic and functional) is poorly described, especially in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection with TB (HIV/TB (HT) coinfection). Methods The percentage and phenotypic and functional properties of peripheral blood DP T cells in patients with HT coinfection in comparison to uninfected controls and to patients with HIV or TB mono-infection were analyzed by direct intracellular cytokine staining (ICS). Results Total and CD4lowCD8high DP T cells were significantly increased in patients with both HIV and TB mono-infection, especially in patients with HT coinfection. Compared with healthy controls (HCs), the percentage of DP T cells expressing chemokine receptor 5 (CCR5) in patients with HT coinfection was significantly higher. Compared with HCs and patients with TB, a lower percentage of tumor necrosis factor α (TNF-α) secreting DP T cells and a higher percentage of granzyme A-secreting DP T cells were observed in patients with HIV mono-infection and HT coinfection, respectively. In addition, DP T cells expressed more cytolytic markers (granzyme A and perforin) than CD4+ T cells, but similarly to CD8+ T cells in patients with HT coinfection. Conclusions Our data suggested that HT coinfection resulted in a marked increase in DP T cells, especially the CD4lowCD8high subpopulation. DP T cells may be susceptible to HT coinfection, and have the same cytotoxic function as CD8+ T cells.
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- Shi Zou
- Department of Infectious Diseases, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
- Wuhan Research Center for Infectious Diseases and Cancer, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Wuhan, China
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
- Wuhan Research Center for Infectious Diseases and Cancer, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Wuhan, China
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- Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Yichang Central People's Hospital, Yichang, China
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- Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
- School of Economics and Management, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
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- Wuhan Pulmonary Hospital, Wuhan Institute for Tuberculosis Control, Wuhan, China
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- Wuhan Research Center for Infectious Diseases and Cancer, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Wuhan, China
- Department of Nosocomial Infection Management, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
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- Wuhan Research Center for Infectious Diseases and Cancer, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Wuhan, China
- Department of Pathology, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
- Department of Pathology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Center for Primate Biomedical Research, University of Illinois College of Medicine, Chicago, IL, United States
- *Correspondence: Ling Shen
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
- Wuhan Research Center for Infectious Diseases and Cancer, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Wuhan, China
- Department of Nosocomial Infection Management, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
- Hubei Engineering Center for Infectious Disease Prevention, Control and Treatment, Wuhan, China
- Ke Liang
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Wu S, Ming F, Xing Z, Zhang Z, Zhu S, Guo W, Zou S, Liu J, Liu Y, Liang K. COVID-19 Vaccination Willingness Among People Living With HIV in Wuhan, China. Front Public Health 2022; 10:883453. [PMID: 35615040 PMCID: PMC9124942 DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2022.883453] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/25/2022] [Accepted: 03/25/2022] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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Vaccination is essential to controlling the pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). People living with HIV (PLWH) were considered more vulnerable to the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection compared with the general population. Therefore, it is urgent to protect PLWH from SARS-CoV-2 infection. For PLWH, vaccine hesitancy could be more common and may compromise vaccine coverage. Our study aimed to investigate the willingness to receive the COVID-19 vaccination among PLWH and associated factors. A cross-sectional online survey was performed among PLWH and the general population from 4 April to 18 April 2021 in Wuhan, China. The multivariable logistic regression was used to analyze associated factors for COVID-19 vaccination willingness among PLWH. A total of 556 PLWH and 570 individuals from the general population were enrolled. The COVID-19 vaccine willingness among PLWH was 60.8%, which was relatively lower than that in the general population (80.9%) (P < 0.001). The results of multivariable analysis indicated that PLWH with comorbidities (OR = 2.07, 95% CI: 1.25–3.45), those who had idea about PLWH would be more serious if they were infected with SARS-CoV-2 (OR = 1.67, 95% CI: 1.11–2.51) and those who thought their antiretroviral therapy (ART) would be affected by COVID-19 epidemic (OR = 2.04, 95% CI: 1.22–3.42) had higher willingness to receive COVID-19 vaccination. PLWH who had a monthly income over 5,000 RMB (OR = 0.64, 95% CI: 0.45–0.92) and had a sex orientation as non-homosexual (OR = 0.67, 95% CI: 0.47–0.96) were associated with lower willingness for COVID-19 vaccination. Our findings showed that the PLWH had a lower willingness for COVID-19 vaccination compared with the general population in Wuhan. Targeted interventions such as health education should be conducted to increase the willingness for COVID-19 vaccination among PLWH, thus enhancing COVID-19 vaccine uptake among PLWH.
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- Songjie Wu
- Department of Nosocomial Infection Management, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
- Hubei Engineering Center for Infectious Disease Prevention, Control and Treatment, Wuhan, China
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- Wuchang District Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Wuhan, China
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- School of Basic Medical Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
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- School of Basic Medical Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
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- Medical Department, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
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- Department of Pathology, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
- Department of Pathology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
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- Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
- School of Economics and Management, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
- *Correspondence: Yang Liu
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- Department of Nosocomial Infection Management, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
- Hubei Engineering Center for Infectious Disease Prevention, Control and Treatment, Wuhan, China
- Department of Infectious Diseases, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
- Wuhan Research Center for Infectious Diseases and Cancer, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Wuhan, China
- Ke Liang
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Shimizu S, Nagao Y, Shimizu T, Higashi Y, Aratake T, Zou S, Yamamoto M, Saito M. Aging exacerbates hypertension related testicular injury in rats. J Sex Med 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jsxm.2022.03.410] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Shimizu T, Zou S, Shimizu S, Aratake T, Higashi Y, Yamamoto M, Saito M. Hydrogen sulfide has a role as an endogenous relaxation factor in the rat prostate. J Sex Med 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jsxm.2022.03.564] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Zou S, Wang Z, Bhura M, Tang K. Association of multimorbidity of non-communicable diseases with mortality: a 10-year prospective study of 0.5 million Chinese adults. Public Health 2022; 205:63-71. [DOI: 10.1016/j.puhe.2022.01.021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/23/2021] [Revised: 01/11/2022] [Accepted: 01/21/2022] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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Wu M, Yan Y, Zou S, Wu S, Feng L, Liu Y, Guo W, Tang W, Liang K. Adverse pregnancy outcomes among pregnant women living with HIV in Hubei province, China: prevalence and risk factors. AIDS Care 2022; 35:351-358. [PMID: 35187997 DOI: 10.1080/09540121.2022.2039358] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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Mother-to-child transmission of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) has been greatly reduced with the advance of intervention technology. However, adverse pregnancy outcomes (APOs) are still common, and little is known about the driving forces of APOs among pregnant women living with HIV in China. Between January 2004 and December 2020, a total of 638 pregnancies among pregnant women living with HIV were enrolled in this study, 84 (13.2%) pregnancies with 87 APOs were reported. Preterm birth (3.8%), ectopic pregnancy (3.4%), spontaneous abortion (2.0%), and embryo arrest (1.7%) were the most common APOs in pregnant women living with HIV. Exposure to antiretroviral drugs (ARVs) during the first trimester (RR = 4.077, 95% CI: 0.521, 1.484, P<0.001) and the first CD4+ T lymphocyte count (CD4 count)≤ 350/μl (RR = 2.227, 95% CI: 0.063, 0.991, P = 0.026) were risk factors of APOs. The age≤ 30 years (RR = -2.513, 95% CI: -1.067, -0.132, P = 0.012) was associated with the decreasing of APOs. Encouraging people to initiate combination antiretroviral therapy and reach a high CD4 count level before pregnancy would be helpful to prevent APOs. Pregnant women exposed to ARVs in the first trimester needed more attention for APOs.
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- Mengmeng Wu
- Department of Infectious Diseases, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Nosocomial Infection Management, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Pathology, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, People's Republic of China.,Department of Pathology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, People's Republic of China
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- Guangdong Second Provincial General Hospital, Guangzhou, People's Republic of China.,University of North Carolina Project-China, Guangzhou, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, People's Republic of China.,Department of Nosocomial Infection Management, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, People's Republic of China.,Wuhan Research Center for Infectious Diseases and Cancer, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Wuhan, People's Republic of China.,Hubei Engineering Center for Infectious Disease Prevention, Control and Treatment, Wuhan, People's Republic of China
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Wu S, Zhang Y, Ming F, Zou S, Wu M, Guo W, Tang W, Liang K. Adverse events of inactivated COVID-19 vaccine in HIV-infected adults. AIDS Res Ther 2021; 18:92. [PMID: 34863210 PMCID: PMC8643182 DOI: 10.1186/s12981-021-00416-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/19/2021] [Accepted: 11/17/2021] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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This study aims to evaluate the safety of inactivated COVID-19 vaccine among adult people living with HIV (PLWH). In total, 259 PLWH who received at least one dose of inactivated COVID-19 vaccine were enrolled, and post-vaccination adverse events (AEs) were evaluated seven days following each vaccination dose. The overall AE frequency was 22.8% after dose one, which was higher than after dose two (10.2%) (P < 0.001). No severe side event or vaccine safety concern was observed. Our finding was essential in reducing vaccine hesitancy among PLWH.
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Du Y, Yang X, Li J, Sokolova V, Zou S, Han M, Yan H, Wey K, Lu M, Dittmer U, Yang D, Epple M, Wu J. Delivery of toll-like receptor 3 ligand poly(I:C) to the liver by calcium phosphate nanoparticles conjugated with an F4/80 antibody exerts an anti-hepatitis B virus effect in a mouse model. Acta Biomater 2021; 133:297-307. [PMID: 33540061 DOI: 10.1016/j.actbio.2021.01.045] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/05/2020] [Revised: 01/22/2021] [Accepted: 01/26/2021] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Hepatitis B virus (HBV) is a global health issue, but currently available anti-HBV drugs have limited success. Previously, introduction of the Toll-like receptor (TLR)-3 ligand poly(I:C) to the liver via hydrodynamic injection (HI) was shown to effectively suppress HBV replication in a chronic HBV replication mouse model. However, this method cannot be applied in human beings. To improve the liver targeting of poly(I:C) via intravenous injection, calcium phosphate nanoparticles (CPNs) carrying poly(I:C) with or without antibodies were constructed, and their anti-HBV effects were investigated. We found that significantly more anti-F4/80-conjugated and IgG2α-conjugated nanoparticles were taken up in liver cells both in vivo and in vitro. In addition, these nanoparticles produced pronounced immunostimulatory effects in vitro in primary liver cells. Importantly, treatment with nanoparticles carrying poly(I:C) increased the production of intrahepatic cytokines and chemokines and enhanced T cell responses, significantly reducing HBsAg, HBeAg and HBV DNA levels in the mice. Compared to nonconjugated and isotype-antibody-conjugated nanoparticles, the anti-F4/80-conjugated nanoparticles demonstrated the strongest anti-HBV effects. In summary, nanoparticles carrying poly(I:C) conjugated with an F4/80 antibody promoted liver targeting, and they may represent a suitable alternative to HI for future anti-HBV treatment. STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE: HBV chronically infects approximately 250 million individuals worldwide but current anti-HBV drugs have limited success. Introduction of toll-like receptor 3 ligand poly(I:C) into liver by hydrodynamic injection has been proven to promote HBV clearance in mouse model. However, this technique is not clinically suitable for human patients. We have constructed calcium phosphate nanoparticles carrying poly(I:C) with specific antibody targeting liver nonparenchymal cells. The uptake into relevant liver cells and the anti-HBV effects were studied. After intravenous injection into mice, the uptake rate of anti-F4/80-conjugated nanoparticels was enhanced in liver, and these nanoparticles exert effective anti-HBV effects in vivo. This may provide important insight into future HBV immunotherapy based on nanoparticle-mediated drug delivery.
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- Yanqin Du
- Department of Infectious Diseases, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Jiefang Avenue 1277, Wuhan 430022, P. R. China; Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University Hospital of Essen, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen 45147, Germany
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Jiefang Avenue 1277, Wuhan 430022, P. R. China
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Jiefang Avenue 1277, Wuhan 430022, P. R. China
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- Inorganic Chemistry and Center for Nanointegration Duisburg-Essen (CeNIDE), University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen 45117, Germany
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Jiefang Avenue 1277, Wuhan 430022, P. R. China
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Jiefang Avenue 1277, Wuhan 430022, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Virology, Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430071, P. R. China
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- Inorganic Chemistry and Center for Nanointegration Duisburg-Essen (CeNIDE), University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen 45117, Germany
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- Institute for Virology, University Hospital of Essen, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen 45122, Germany
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- Institute for Virology, University Hospital of Essen, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen 45122, Germany
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Jiefang Avenue 1277, Wuhan 430022, P. R. China
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- Inorganic Chemistry and Center for Nanointegration Duisburg-Essen (CeNIDE), University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen 45117, Germany
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Jiefang Avenue 1277, Wuhan 430022, P. R. China.
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Zou S, Zhang Q, Gao S, Luo M, Gan X, Liang K. Electrocardiogram manifestations of hyponatraemia. Cardiovasc J Afr 2021; 33:98-100. [PMID: 34546285 DOI: 10.5830/cvja-2021-036] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/20/2021] [Accepted: 07/12/2021] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Electrolytes play a vital role in myocardial electrophysiological activities in the human body. Electrolyte disturbances can affect depolarisation and repolarisation of myocardial cells and thus result in arrhythmia. The most common electrolyte disturbance among hospitalised patients is hyponatraemia. We report on a case of an acquired immune deficiency syndrome patient with decompensated cirrhosis, who developed sinus arrest from hyponatraemia. The electrocardiogram manifestations at different sodium concentrations were also recorded in subsequent therapeutic processes.
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- Shi Zou
- Department of Infectious Diseases, Zhongnan Hospital, Wuhan University, Hubei, China
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- Qingshan District Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Wuhan, China
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Zhongnan Hospital, Wuhan University, Hubei, China
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Zhongnan Hospital, Wuhan University, Hubei, China
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- Department of Cardiology, Zhongnan Hospital, Wuhan University, Hubei, China.
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Zhongnan Hospital, Wuhan University, Hubei, China; Department of Nosocomial Infection Management; Center of Preventing Mother-to-Child Transmission for Infectious Diseases, Zhongnan Hospital, Wuhan University, Hubei; Wuhan Research Center for Infectious Diseases and Cancer, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Wuhan, China.
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Du Y, Yan H, Zou S, Khera T, Li J, Han M, Yang X, Wang B, Liu J, Sun S, Zheng X, Dittmer U, Lu M, Yang D, Wedemeyer H, Wu J. Natural Killer Cells Regulate the Maturation of Liver Sinusoidal Endothelial Cells Thereby Promoting Intrahepatic T-Cell Responses in a Mouse Model. Hepatol Commun 2021; 5:865-881. [PMID: 34027274 PMCID: PMC8122378 DOI: 10.1002/hep4.1676] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/06/2020] [Revised: 12/14/2020] [Accepted: 01/04/2021] [Indexed: 01/21/2023] Open
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Functional maturation of liver sinusoidal endothelial cells (LSECs) plays an important role in intrahepatic T-cell activation and control of viral infections. Natural killer (NK) cells have been reported to prompt the maturation of antigen-presenting cells (APCs), especially for dendritic cells (DCs), but the interaction between NK cells and LSECs is elusive. Here, we investigated whether and how NK cells are involved in regulating LSEC maturation and if this has a role in controlling hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection in a mouse model. A chronic HBV replication mouse model was established by hydrodynamic injection (HI) of 6 µg adeno-associated virus plasmid (pAAV)/HBV 1.2. The nucleotide-binding oligomerization domain-containing protein 1 (NOD1) ligand diaminopemelic acid (DAP) was imported into liver by HI at day 14 after plasmid injection. We found that HI of DAP recruited conventional NK cells (cNK) into the liver and promoted tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-α) and interferon-gamma (IFN-γ) production of NK cells in a chemokine (C-X-C motif) receptor 3 (CXCR3)-dependent manner. Importantly, the maturation of LSECs and the anti-HBV effects of DAP were impaired in CXCR3-/- mice; this possibly was associated with the decreased number of intrahepatic cNK cells. Consistently, depleting cNK cells but not liver-resident NK cells also impaired the maturation and antigen-presenting function of LSECs, which reduced intrahepatic HBV-specific T-cell responses and thus inhibited HBV clearance both in wild-type and in Rag1-/- mice. Moreover, TNF-α or IFN-γ stimulation as well as coculture with intrahepatic NK cells partly promoted LSEC phenotypic and functional maturation in vitro. Conclusion: NOD1-triggered NK cell activation may lead to the enhancement of intrahepatic T-cell responses by promoting maturation of LSECs through soluble cytokines and cell-cell contact, thereby controlling HBV replication and expression.
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- Yanqin Du
- Department of Infectious DiseasesUnion HospitalTongji Medical CollegeHuazhong University of Science and TechnologyWuhanChina.,Department of Gastroenterology and HepatologyUniversity Hospital of EssenUniversity of Duisburg-EssenEssenGermany
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- Mucosal Immunity Research GroupState Key Laboratory of VirologyWuhan Institute of VirologyChinese Academy of SciencesWuhanChina
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- Department of Infectious DiseasesUnion HospitalTongji Medical CollegeHuazhong University of Science and TechnologyWuhanChina
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- Department of Gastroenterology and HepatologyUniversity Hospital of EssenUniversity of Duisburg-EssenEssenGermany.,Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and EndocrinologyHannover Medical SchoolHannoverGermany
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- Department of Infectious DiseasesUnion HospitalTongji Medical CollegeHuazhong University of Science and TechnologyWuhanChina
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- Department of Infectious DiseasesUnion HospitalTongji Medical CollegeHuazhong University of Science and TechnologyWuhanChina
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- Department of Infectious DiseasesUnion HospitalTongji Medical CollegeHuazhong University of Science and TechnologyWuhanChina
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- Department of Infectious DiseasesUnion HospitalTongji Medical CollegeHuazhong University of Science and TechnologyWuhanChina
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- Department of Infectious DiseasesUnion HospitalTongji Medical CollegeHuazhong University of Science and TechnologyWuhanChina
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- Department of Infectious Diseasesthe Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang UniversityNanchangChina
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- Department of Infectious DiseasesUnion HospitalTongji Medical CollegeHuazhong University of Science and TechnologyWuhanChina
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- Institute for VirologyUniversity Hospital of EssenUniversity of Duisburg-EssenEssenGermany
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- Institute for VirologyUniversity Hospital of EssenUniversity of Duisburg-EssenEssenGermany
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- Department of Infectious DiseasesUnion HospitalTongji Medical CollegeHuazhong University of Science and TechnologyWuhanChina
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- Department of Gastroenterology and HepatologyUniversity Hospital of EssenUniversity of Duisburg-EssenEssenGermany.,Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and EndocrinologyHannover Medical SchoolHannoverGermany.,German Center for Infection Research, Partner Site Hannover-BraunschweigBraunschweigGermany
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- Department of Infectious DiseasesUnion HospitalTongji Medical CollegeHuazhong University of Science and TechnologyWuhanChina
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Zou S, Liu P, Yu S, Cui Y, He J, Afedo SY, Zhang H, Niayale R, Zhao K. Hsp60 expression and localization in different tissues and testis development of male cattle (cattle-yak and yak). Folia Morphol (Warsz) 2021; 80:857-869. [PMID: 33749800 DOI: 10.5603/fm.a2020.0126] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/05/2019] [Revised: 11/04/2019] [Accepted: 11/11/2019] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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BACKGROUND Heat shock protein 60 (Hsp60) play important roles in protecting testicular development and production of sperms. This study was conducted to investigate Hsp60 gene expression and localization in testicular development to ascertain its influence on infertility and in different tissues of the male cattle-yak and yak. A total of 54 cattle (24 cattle-yak and 30 yak) were examined. MATERIALS AND METHODS Hsp60 mRNA of cattle-yak was cloned first and amino acid variations were found leading to differences at protein spatial structure compare with the yak. Real-time quantitative PCR (RT-qPCR) analysis revealed that Hsp60 mRNAs expression were different in cattle-yak and yak. RESULTS The results showed disparity in Hsp60 expression among different tissues and in different developmental stages of the testis. High Hsp60 expression was observed in juvenile and adult testicles. Moreover, Hsp60 expression in cattle-yak was significantly higher than yak (p < 0.01). The location of Hsp60 in tissue and testis was detected by immunohistochemistry (IHC) and immunofluorescence (IF). The results demonstrated that Hsp60 proteins located in epithelial cells, spermatocytes, sperm cells and mesenchymal cells. CONCLUSIONS The Hsp60 proteins are expressed in different tissues, and the highest expression level was observed in the testis of the cattle-yak, which suggests that infertility of cattle-yak have some correlation with up-regulation of Hsp60.
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- YangZhou University, College of Veterinary Medicine, YangZhou University, YangZhou Jiangsu, 225009 YangZhou, China.
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Fu F, Guo Y, Lu X, Zhao P, Zou S, Wang H, Gao R, Pei C. Forensic analysis of soman exposure using characteristic fragment ions from protein adducts. Hum Exp Toxicol 2021; 40:1519-1527. [PMID: 33729033 DOI: 10.1177/09603271211001111] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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The verification of exposure to nerve agents is a serious challenge, especially in cases of soman (GD) poisoning. Protein adducts are reliable biomarkers, that provide forensic information and evidence during incidents of terrorism or sporadic poisoning. Mass spectrometry, coupled with a proteomics approach, was established for the forensic analysis of GD-based protein adducts. The fragmentation pathways of GD-based protein adducts were investigated for the first time using electrospray ionization tandem mass spectrometry. Three abundant natural loss product ions, [M+2H-54]2+ (loss of two carbon cations), [M+2H-72]2+ (loss of tert-butyl and methyl moieties), and [M+2H-84]2+ (loss of the pinacolyl moieties), were observed in each of the GD-labeled adducts, and the product ions were independent of protein structure and exposure route. A unique mechanism for the formation of product ions involving GD-protein adducts is proposed here. These findings support the development of a simple and precise forensic analysis technique to rapidly verify GD poisoning using these three GD-related product ions.
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- 535871State Key Laboratory of NBC Protection for Civilian, Beijing, China
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- 535871State Key Laboratory of NBC Protection for Civilian, Beijing, China
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- 535871State Key Laboratory of NBC Protection for Civilian, Beijing, China
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- 535871State Key Laboratory of NBC Protection for Civilian, Beijing, China
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- 535871State Key Laboratory of NBC Protection for Civilian, Beijing, China
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- 535871State Key Laboratory of NBC Protection for Civilian, Beijing, China
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- 535871State Key Laboratory of NBC Protection for Civilian, Beijing, China
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- 535871State Key Laboratory of NBC Protection for Civilian, Beijing, China
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Du Y, Zou S, Khera T, Littwitz Salomon E, Han M, Li J, Dittmer U, Lu M, Yang D, Wedemeyer H, Wu J. NK cells regulate LSEC to promote the HBV-specific T cells response. ZEITSCHRIFT FÜR GASTROENTEROLOGIE 2020. [DOI: 10.1055/s-0039-3402202] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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- Y Du
- University Hospital Essen, Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Essen, Germany
- Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Department of Infectious Diseases, Wuhan, China
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- Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Department of Infectious Diseases, Wuhan, China
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- University Hospital Essen, Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Essen, Germany
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- Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Department of Infectious Diseases, Wuhan, China
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- Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Department of Infectious Diseases, Wuhan, China
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- University Hospital Essen, Institute of Virology, Essen, Germany
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- University Hospital Essen, Institute of Virology, Essen, Germany
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- Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Department of Infectious Diseases, Wuhan, China
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- University Hospital Essen, Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Essen, Germany
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- Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Department of Infectious Diseases, Wuhan, China
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Yin X, Li J, Li Y, Zou S. Maternal alcohol consumption and oral clefts: a meta-analysis. Br J Oral Maxillofac Surg 2019; 57:839-846. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bjoms.2019.08.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/18/2019] [Accepted: 08/16/2019] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Huang J, Li H, Lan C, Zou S, Weng H. CONCOMITANT SEVERE INFLUENZA AND CRYPTOCOCCAL INFECTION: A CASE REPORT AND LITERATURE REVIEW. Chest 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.chest.2019.02.356] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022] Open
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Azimuthal Anisotropy of Heavy-Flavor Decay Electrons in p-Pb Collisions at sqrt[s_{NN}]=5.02 TeV. Phys Rev Lett 2019; 122:072301. [PMID: 30848618 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.122.072301] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/07/2018] [Revised: 10/16/2018] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
Abstract
Angular correlations between heavy-flavor decay electrons and charged particles at midrapidity (|η|<0.8) are measured in p-Pb collisions at sqrt[s_{NN}]=5.02 TeV. The analysis is carried out for the 0%-20% (high) and 60%-100% (low) multiplicity ranges. The jet contribution in the correlation distribution from high-multiplicity events is removed by subtracting the distribution from low-multiplicity events. An azimuthal modulation remains after removing the jet contribution, similar to previous observations in two-particle angular correlation measurements for light-flavor hadrons. A Fourier decomposition of the modulation results in a positive second-order coefficient (v_{2}) for heavy-flavor decay electrons in the transverse momentum interval 1.5<p_{T}<4 GeV/c in high-multiplicity events, with a significance larger than 5σ. The results are compared with those of charged particles at midrapidity and those of inclusive muons at forward rapidity. The v_{2} measurement of open heavy-flavor particles at midrapidity in small collision systems could provide crucial information to help interpret the anisotropies observed in such systems.
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- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Kolkata, India
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- Nuclear Physics Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Řež u Prahy, Czech Republic
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- Lund University Department of Physics, Division of Particle Physics, Lund, Sweden
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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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- Dipartimento DISAT del Politecnico and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
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- Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT), Mumbai, India
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- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Kolkata, India
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- Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information, Daejeon, Republic of Korea
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- Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
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- Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Moscow, Russia
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- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
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- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Kolkata, India
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- National Research Centre Kurchatov Institute, Moscow, Russia
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- Instituto de Física, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
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- COMSATS Institute of Information Technology (CIIT), Islamabad, Pakistan
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- Centro Fermi - Museo Storico della Fisica e Centro Studi e Ricerche "Enrico Fermi", Rome, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Bologna, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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- Bogolyubov Institute for Theoretical Physics, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine
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- Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
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- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
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- Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
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- St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia
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- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
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- Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Bucharest, Romania
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
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- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
- Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Institut für Kernphysik, Münster, Germany
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
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- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska, USA
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- Rudjer Bošković Institute, Zagreb, Croatia
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- University of Houston, Houston, Texas, USA
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, USA
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- SUBATECH, IMT Atlantique, 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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- Physik Department, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
- Technische Universität München, Excellence Cluster "Universe," Munich, Germany
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- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, IPHC UMR 7178, F-67000 Strasbourg, France, Strasbourg, France
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- Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
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- University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
- INFN, Sezione di Torino, Turin, Italy
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
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- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Kolkata, India
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- Physics Department, University of Jammu, Jammu, India
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- Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT), Mumbai, India
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- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
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- University of Houston, Houston, Texas, USA
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- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Frascati, Italy
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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 of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Řež u Prahy, Czech Republic
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- Physik Department, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
- Technische Universität München, Excellence Cluster "Universe," Munich, Germany
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- Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
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- Bose Institute, Department of Physics and Centre for Astroparticle Physics and Space Science (CAPSS), Kolkata, India
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- Faculty of Science, P.J. Šafárik University, Košice, Slovakia
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- Università di Brescia, Brescia, Italy
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
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- Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Institut für Kernphysik, Münster, Germany
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- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
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- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
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- Universidade de São Paulo (USP), São Paulo, Brazil
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- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
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- Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Helsinki Institute of Physics (HIP), Helsinki, Finland
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- INFN, Sezione di Torino, Turin, Italy
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- Dipartimento Interateneo di Fisica "M. Merlin" and Sezione INFN, Bari, Italy
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
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- Russian Federal Nuclear Center (VNIIEF), Sarov, Russia
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- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
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- Dipartimento DISAT del Politecnico and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
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- Stefan Meyer Institut für Subatomare Physik (SMI), Vienna, Austria
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
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- University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
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- iThemba LABS, National Research Foundation, Somerset West, South Africa
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- COMSATS Institute of Information Technology (CIIT), Islamabad, Pakistan
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- Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA
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- Technical University of Košice, Košice, Slovakia
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- Nikhef, National institute for subatomic physics, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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- Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
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- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
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- Sección Física, Departamento de Ciencias, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima, Peru
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- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Trieste, Italy
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- 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
- Centro Fermi - Museo Storico della Fisica e Centro Studi e Ricerche "Enrico Fermi", Rome, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica "E.R. Caianiello" dell'Università and Gruppo Collegato INFN, Salerno, Italy
| | | | - S De Pasquale
- Dipartimento di Fisica "E.R. Caianiello" dell'Università and Gruppo Collegato INFN, Salerno, Italy
| | - R D De Souza
- Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas, Brazil
| | | | - A Deisting
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - A Deloff
- National Centre for Nuclear Research, Warsaw, Poland
| | - S Delsanto
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
| | - C Deplano
- Nikhef, National institute for subatomic physics, Amsterdam, Netherlands
| | - P Dhankher
- Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT), Mumbai, India
| | - D Di Bari
- Dipartimento Interateneo di Fisica "M. Merlin" and Sezione INFN, Bari, Italy
| | - A Di Mauro
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | | | - R A Diaz
- Centro de Aplicaciones Tecnológicas y Desarrollo Nuclear (CEADEN), Havana, Cuba
| | - T Dietel
- University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
| | - P Dillenseger
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - Y Ding
- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
| | - R Divià
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - Ø Djuvsland
- Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
| | - A Dobrin
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | | | - B Dönigus
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - O Dordic
- Department of Physics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
| | - L V R Doremalen
- Institute for Subatomic Physics, Utrecht University/Nikhef, Utrecht, Netherlands
| | - A K Dubey
- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Kolkata, India
| | - A Dubla
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - L Ducroux
- Université de Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, IPN-Lyon, Villeurbanne, Lyon, France
| | - S Dudi
- Physics Department, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India
| | - A K Duggal
- Physics Department, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India
| | - M Dukhishyam
- National Institute of Science Education and Research, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Jatni, India
| | - P Dupieux
- Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS/IN2P3, LPC, Clermont-Ferrand, France
| | - R J Ehlers
- Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
| | - D Elia
- INFN, Sezione di Bari, Bari, Italy
| | - E Endress
- Sección Física, Departamento de Ciencias, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima, Peru
| | - H Engel
- Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe Universität Frankfurt Institut für Informatik, Fachbereich Informatik und Mathematik, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - E Epple
- Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
| | - B Erazmus
- SUBATECH, IMT Atlantique, Université de Nantes, CNRS-IN2P3, Nantes, France
| | - F Erhardt
- Physics department, Faculty of science, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
| | - M R Ersdal
- Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
| | - B Espagnon
- Institut de Physique Nucléaire d'Orsay (IPNO), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules (IN2P3/CNRS), Université de Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, Orsay, France
| | - G Eulisse
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - J Eum
- Department of Physics, Pusan National University, Pusan, Republic of Korea
| | - D Evans
- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
| | - S Evdokimov
- NRC Kurchatov Institute IHEP, Protvino, Russia
| | - L Fabbietti
- Physik Department, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
- Technische Universität München, Excellence Cluster "Universe," Munich, Germany
| | - M Faggin
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Padova, Italy
| | - J Faivre
- Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie, Université Grenoble-Alpes, CNRS-IN2P3, Grenoble, France
| | - A Fantoni
- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Frascati, Italy
| | - M Fasel
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA
| | - L Feldkamp
- Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Institut für Kernphysik, Münster, Germany
| | | | - G Feofilov
- St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia
| | - A Fernández Téllez
- High Energy Physics Group, Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Puebla, Mexico
| | - A Ferretti
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
| | - A Festanti
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - V J G Feuillard
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - 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
- Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
| | | | - F Flor
- University of Houston, Houston, Texas, USA
| | - M Floris
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - S Foertsch
- iThemba LABS, National Research Foundation, Somerset West, South Africa
| | - P Foka
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - S Fokin
- National Research Centre Kurchatov Institute, Moscow, Russia
| | | | - A Francescon
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - A Francisco
- SUBATECH, IMT Atlantique, Université de Nantes, CNRS-IN2P3, Nantes, France
| | - U Frankenfeld
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - G G Fronze
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
| | - U Fuchs
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - C Furget
- Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie, Université Grenoble-Alpes, CNRS-IN2P3, Grenoble, France
| | - A Furs
- Institute for Nuclear Research, Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
| | - 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 M Gago
- Sección Física, Departamento de Ciencias, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima, Peru
| | - K Gajdosova
- Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - M Gallio
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
| | - C D Galvan
- Universidad Autónoma de Sinaloa, Culiacán, Mexico
| | - P Ganoti
- National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, School of Science, Department of Physics, Athens, Greece
| | - C Garabatos
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | | | - K Garg
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Catania, Italy
| | - C Gargiulo
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - P Gasik
- Physik Department, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
- Technische Universität München, Excellence Cluster "Universe," Munich, Germany
| | - E F Gauger
- The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, USA
| | - M B Gay Ducati
- Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, Brazil
| | - M Germain
- SUBATECH, IMT Atlantique, Université de Nantes, CNRS-IN2P3, Nantes, France
| | - J Ghosh
- Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Kolkata, India
| | - P Ghosh
- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Kolkata, India
| | - S K Ghosh
- Bose Institute, Department of Physics and Centre for Astroparticle Physics and Space Science (CAPSS), Kolkata, India
| | - P Gianotti
- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Frascati, Italy
| | - P Giubellino
- INFN, Sezione di Torino, Turin, Italy
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - P Giubilato
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Padova, Italy
| | - P Glässel
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - D M Goméz Coral
- Instituto de Física, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
| | - A Gomez Ramirez
- Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe Universität Frankfurt Institut für Informatik, Fachbereich Informatik und Mathematik, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - V Gonzalez
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - P González-Zamora
- High Energy Physics Group, Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Puebla, Mexico
| | - S Gorbunov
- Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - L Görlich
- The Henryk Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Cracow, Poland
| | - S Gotovac
- Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture, University of Split, Split, Croatia
| | - V Grabski
- Instituto de Física, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
| | | | - K L Graham
- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
| | - L Greiner
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, USA
| | - A Grelli
- Institute for Subatomic Physics, Utrecht University/Nikhef, Utrecht, Netherlands
| | - C Grigoras
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - V Grigoriev
- NRNU Moscow Engineering Physics Institute, Moscow, Russia
| | - A Grigoryan
- A.I. Alikhanyan National Science Laboratory (Yerevan Physics Institute) Foundation, Yerevan, Armenia
| | - S Grigoryan
- Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), Dubna, Russia
| | - J M Gronefeld
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - F Grosa
- Dipartimento DISAT del Politecnico and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
| | | | - R Grosso
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - R Guernane
- Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie, Université Grenoble-Alpes, CNRS-IN2P3, Grenoble, France
| | - B Guerzoni
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Bologna, Italy
| | - M Guittiere
- SUBATECH, IMT Atlantique, Université de Nantes, CNRS-IN2P3, Nantes, 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
| | - I B Guzman
- High Energy Physics Group, Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Puebla, Mexico
| | - R Haake
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - M K Habib
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - C Hadjidakis
- Institut de Physique Nucléaire d'Orsay (IPNO), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules (IN2P3/CNRS), Université de Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, Orsay, France
| | - H Hamagaki
- Nagasaki Institute of Applied Science, Nagasaki, Japan
| | - G Hamar
- Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
| | - M Hamid
- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
| | - J C Hamon
- Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, IPHC UMR 7178, F-67000 Strasbourg, France, Strasbourg, France
| | - R Hannigan
- The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, USA
| | - M R Haque
- Institute for Subatomic Physics, Utrecht University/Nikhef, Utrecht, Netherlands
| | - A Harlenderova
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - J W Harris
- Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
| | - A Harton
- Chicago State University, Chicago, Illinois, USA
| | - H Hassan
- Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie, Université Grenoble-Alpes, CNRS-IN2P3, Grenoble, France
| | - D Hatzifotiadou
- Centro Fermi - Museo Storico della Fisica e Centro Studi e Ricerche "Enrico Fermi", Rome, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
| | | | - S T Heckel
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - E Hellbär
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - H Helstrup
- Faculty of Engineering and Science, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Bergen, Norway
| | - A Herghelegiu
- Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Bucharest, Romania
| | - E G Hernandez
- High Energy Physics Group, Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Puebla, Mexico
| | - G Herrera Corral
- Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados (CINVESTAV), Mexico City and Mérida, Mexico
| | - F Herrmann
- Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Institut für Kernphysik, Münster, Germany
| | - K F Hetland
- Faculty of Engineering and Science, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Bergen, Norway
| | - T E Hilden
- Helsinki Institute of Physics (HIP), Helsinki, Finland
| | - H Hillemanns
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - C Hills
- University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
| | - B Hippolyte
- Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, IPHC UMR 7178, F-67000 Strasbourg, France, Strasbourg, France
| | - B Hohlweger
- Physik Department, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
| | - D Horak
- Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
| | - S Hornung
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - R Hosokawa
- Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie, Université Grenoble-Alpes, CNRS-IN2P3, Grenoble, France
- University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
| | - J Hota
- Institute of Physics, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Bhubaneswar, India
| | - P Hristov
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - C Huang
- Institut de Physique Nucléaire d'Orsay (IPNO), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules (IN2P3/CNRS), Université de Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, Orsay, France
| | - C Hughes
- University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
| | - P Huhn
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | | | - H Hushnud
- Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Kolkata, India
| | - N Hussain
- Gauhati University, Department of Physics, Guwahati, India
| | - T Hussain
- Department of Physics, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India
| | - D Hutter
- Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - D S Hwang
- Department of Physics, Sejong University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
| | - J P Iddon
- University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
| | - S A Iga Buitron
- Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
| | - R Ilkaev
- Russian Federal Nuclear Center (VNIIEF), Sarov, Russia
| | - M Inaba
- University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
| | - M Ippolitov
- National Research Centre Kurchatov Institute, Moscow, Russia
| | - M S Islam
- Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Kolkata, India
| | - M Ivanov
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - V Ivanov
- Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, Gatchina, Russia
| | - V Izucheev
- NRC Kurchatov Institute IHEP, Protvino, Russia
| | - B Jacak
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, USA
| | - N Jacazio
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Bologna, Italy
| | - P M Jacobs
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, USA
| | - M B Jadhav
- Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT), Mumbai, India
| | - S Jadlovska
- Technical University of Košice, Košice, Slovakia
| | - J Jadlovsky
- Technical University of Košice, Košice, Slovakia
| | - S Jaelani
- Institute for Subatomic Physics, Utrecht University/Nikhef, Utrecht, Netherlands
| | - C Jahnke
- Technische Universität München, Excellence Cluster "Universe," Munich, Germany
- Universidade de São Paulo (USP), São Paulo, Brazil
| | | | - M A Janik
- Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland
| | - C Jena
- National Institute of Science Education and Research, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Jatni, India
| | - M Jercic
- Physics department, Faculty of science, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
| | - O Jevons
- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
| | - R T Jimenez Bustamante
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - M Jin
- University of Houston, Houston, Texas, USA
| | - P G Jones
- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
| | - A Jusko
- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
| | - P Kalinak
- Institute of Experimental Physics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Košice, Slovakia
| | - A Kalweit
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - J H Kang
- Yonsei University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
| | - V Kaplin
- NRNU Moscow Engineering Physics Institute, Moscow, Russia
| | - S Kar
- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
| | | | - O Karavichev
- Institute for Nuclear Research, Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
| | - T Karavicheva
- Institute for Nuclear Research, Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
| | - P Karczmarczyk
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - E Karpechev
- Institute for Nuclear Research, Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
| | - U Kebschull
- Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe Universität Frankfurt Institut für Informatik, Fachbereich Informatik und Mathematik, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - R Keidel
- Hochschule Worms, Zentrum für Technologietransfer und Telekommunikation (ZTT), Worms, Germany
| | - D L D Keijdener
- Institute for Subatomic Physics, Utrecht University/Nikhef, Utrecht, Netherlands
| | - M Keil
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - B Ketzer
- Helmholtz-Institut für Strahlen- und Kernphysik, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Bonn, Germany
| | - Z Khabanova
- Nikhef, National institute for subatomic physics, Amsterdam, Netherlands
| | - A M Khan
- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
| | - S Khan
- Department of Physics, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India
| | - S A Khan
- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Kolkata, India
| | - A Khanzadeev
- Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, Gatchina, Russia
| | - Y Kharlov
- NRC Kurchatov Institute IHEP, Protvino, Russia
| | - A Khatun
- Department of Physics, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India
| | - A Khuntia
- Indian Institute of Technology Indore, Indore, India
| | - M M Kielbowicz
- The Henryk Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Cracow, Poland
| | - B Kileng
- Faculty of Engineering and Science, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Bergen, Norway
| | - B Kim
- University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
| | - D Kim
- Yonsei University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
| | - D J Kim
- University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland
| | - E J Kim
- Chonbuk National University, Jeonju, Republic of Korea
| | - H Kim
- Yonsei University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
| | - J S Kim
- Gangneung-Wonju National University, Gangneung, Republic of Korea
| | - J Kim
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - M Kim
- Inha University, Incheon, Republic of Korea
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - S Kim
- Department of Physics, Sejong University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
| | - T Kim
- Yonsei University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
| | - T Kim
- Yonsei University, Seoul, Republic of 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, USA
| | - C Klein
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - J Klein
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
- INFN, Sezione di Torino, Turin, Italy
| | - C Klein-Bösing
- Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Institut für Kernphysik, Münster, Germany
| | - S Klewin
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - A Kluge
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - M L Knichel
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - A G Knospe
- University of Houston, Houston, Texas, USA
| | - C Kobdaj
- Suranaree University of Technology, Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand
| | - M Kofarago
- Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
| | - M K Köhler
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - T Kollegger
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - N Kondratyeva
- NRNU Moscow Engineering Physics Institute, Moscow, Russia
| | | | - A Konevskikh
- Institute for Nuclear Research, Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
| | - P J Konopka
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | | | - O Kovalenko
- National Centre for Nuclear Research, Warsaw, Poland
| | - V Kovalenko
- St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia
| | - M Kowalski
- The Henryk Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Cracow, Poland
| | - I Králik
- Institute of Experimental Physics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Košice, Slovakia
| | - A Kravčáková
- Faculty of Science, P.J. Šafárik University, Košice, Slovakia
| | - L Kreis
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - M Krivda
- Institute of Experimental Physics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Košice, Slovakia
- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
| | - F Krizek
- Nuclear Physics Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Řež u Prahy, Czech Republic
| | - M Krüger
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - E Kryshen
- Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, Gatchina, Russia
| | - M Krzewicki
- Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - A M Kubera
- Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA
| | - V Kučera
- Inha University, Incheon, Republic of Korea
- Nuclear Physics Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Řež u Prahy, Czech Republic
| | - C Kuhn
- Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, IPHC UMR 7178, F-67000 Strasbourg, France, Strasbourg, France
| | - P G Kuijer
- Nikhef, National institute for subatomic physics, Amsterdam, Netherlands
| | - J Kumar
- Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT), Mumbai, India
| | - L Kumar
- Physics Department, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India
| | - S Kumar
- Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT), Mumbai, India
| | - S Kundu
- National Institute of Science Education and Research, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Jatni, India
| | - P Kurashvili
- National Centre for Nuclear Research, Warsaw, Poland
| | - A Kurepin
- Institute for Nuclear Research, Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
| | - A B Kurepin
- Institute for Nuclear Research, Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
| | - A Kuryakin
- Russian Federal Nuclear Center (VNIIEF), Sarov, Russia
| | - S Kushpil
- Nuclear Physics Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Řež u Prahy, Czech Republic
| | - J Kvapil
- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
| | - M J Kweon
- Inha University, Incheon, Republic of Korea
| | - Y Kwon
- Yonsei University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
| | - S L La Pointe
- Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - P La Rocca
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Catania, Italy
| | - Y S Lai
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, USA
| | - I Lakomov
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - R Langoy
- University College of Southeast Norway, Tonsberg, Norway
| | - K Lapidus
- Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
| | - A Lardeux
- Department of Physics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
| | - P Larionov
- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Frascati, Italy
| | - E Laudi
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - R Lavicka
- Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
| | - R Lea
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Trieste, Italy
| | - L Leardini
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - S Lee
- Yonsei University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
| | - F Lehas
- Nikhef, National institute for subatomic physics, Amsterdam, Netherlands
| | - S Lehner
- Stefan Meyer Institut für Subatomare Physik (SMI), Vienna, Austria
| | - J Lehrbach
- Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - R C Lemmon
- Nuclear Physics Group, STFC Daresbury Laboratory, Daresbury, United Kingdom
| | | | - P Lévai
- Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
| | - X Li
- China Institute of Atomic Energy, Beijing, China
| | - X L Li
- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
| | - J Lien
- University College of Southeast Norway, Tonsberg, Norway
| | - R Lietava
- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
| | - B Lim
- Department of Physics, Pusan National University, Pusan, Republic of Korea
| | - S Lindal
- Department of Physics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
| | - V Lindenstruth
- Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - S W Lindsay
- University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
| | - C Lippmann
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - M A Lisa
- Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA
| | | | - A Liu
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, USA
| | - H M Ljunggren
- Lund University Department of Physics, Division of Particle Physics, Lund, Sweden
| | - W J Llope
- Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, USA
| | - D F Lodato
- Institute for Subatomic Physics, Utrecht University/Nikhef, Utrecht, Netherlands
| | - V Loginov
- NRNU Moscow Engineering Physics Institute, Moscow, Russia
| | - C Loizides
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, USA
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA
| | - P Loncar
- Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture, University of Split, Split, Croatia
| | - X Lopez
- Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS/IN2P3, LPC, Clermont-Ferrand, France
| | - E López Torres
- Centro de Aplicaciones Tecnológicas y Desarrollo Nuclear (CEADEN), Havana, Cuba
| | - A Lowe
- Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
| | - P Luettig
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - J R Luhder
- Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Institut für Kernphysik, Münster, Germany
| | - M Lunardon
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Padova, Italy
| | | | - M Lupi
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - A Maevskaya
- Institute for Nuclear Research, Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
| | - M Mager
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - S M Mahmood
- Department of Physics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
| | - A Maire
- Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, IPHC UMR 7178, F-67000 Strasbourg, France, Strasbourg, France
| | - R D Majka
- Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
| | - M Malaev
- Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, Gatchina, Russia
| | - Q W Malik
- Department of Physics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
| | - 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 GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - A Mamonov
- Russian Federal Nuclear Center (VNIIEF), Sarov, Russia
| | - V Manko
- National Research Centre Kurchatov Institute, Moscow, Russia
| | - F Manso
- Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS/IN2P3, LPC, Clermont-Ferrand, France
| | | | - Y Mao
- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
| | - M Marchisone
- iThemba LABS, National Research Foundation, Somerset West, South Africa
- University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
- Université de Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, IPN-Lyon, Villeurbanne, Lyon, France
| | - J Mareš
- Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic
| | - G V Margagliotti
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Trieste, Italy
| | - A Margotti
- INFN, Sezione di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
| | - J Margutti
- Institute for Subatomic Physics, Utrecht University/Nikhef, Utrecht, Netherlands
| | - A Marín
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - C Markert
- The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, USA
| | - M Marquard
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - N A Martin
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - P Martinengo
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | | | - M I Martínez
- High Energy Physics Group, Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Puebla, Mexico
| | - G Martínez García
- SUBATECH, IMT Atlantique, Université de Nantes, CNRS-IN2P3, Nantes, France
| | | | - S Masciocchi
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - M Masera
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
| | - A Masoni
- INFN, Sezione di Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy
| | - L Massacrier
- Institut de Physique Nucléaire d'Orsay (IPNO), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules (IN2P3/CNRS), Université de Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, Orsay, France
| | - E Masson
- SUBATECH, IMT Atlantique, Université de Nantes, CNRS-IN2P3, Nantes, France
| | - A Mastroserio
- INFN, Sezione di Bari, Bari, Italy
- Università degli Studi di Foggia, Foggia, Italy
| | - A M Mathis
- Physik Department, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
- Technische Universität München, Excellence Cluster "Universe," Munich, Germany
| | | | - A Matyja
- The Henryk Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Cracow, Poland
- University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
| | - C Mayer
- The Henryk Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Cracow, Poland
| | - M Mazzilli
- Dipartimento Interateneo di Fisica "M. Merlin" and Sezione INFN, Bari, Italy
| | | | - F Meddi
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università "La Sapienza" and Sezione INFN, Rome, Italy
| | - Y Melikyan
- NRNU Moscow Engineering Physics Institute, Moscow, Russia
| | - A Menchaca-Rocha
- Instituto de Física, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
| | - E Meninno
- Dipartimento di Fisica "E.R. Caianiello" dell'Università and Gruppo Collegato INFN, Salerno, Italy
| | - J Mercado Pérez
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - M Meres
- Comenius University Bratislava, Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics, Bratislava, Slovakia
| | - C S Meza
- Sección Física, Departamento de Ciencias, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima, Peru
| | - S Mhlanga
- University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
| | - Y Miake
- University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
| | - L Micheletti
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
| | | | - D L Mihaylov
- Physik Department, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
| | - K Mikhaylov
- Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Moscow, Russia
- Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), Dubna, Russia
| | - A Mischke
- Institute for Subatomic Physics, Utrecht University/Nikhef, Utrecht, Netherlands
| | - A N Mishra
- Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
| | - D Miśkowiec
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - J Mitra
- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Kolkata, India
| | - C M Mitu
- Institute of Space Science (ISS), Bucharest, Romania
| | - N Mohammadi
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - A P Mohanty
- Institute for Subatomic Physics, Utrecht University/Nikhef, Utrecht, Netherlands
| | - B Mohanty
- National Institute of Science Education and Research, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Jatni, India
| | - M Mohisin Khan
- Department of Physics, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India
| | - D A Moreira De Godoy
- Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Institut für Kernphysik, Münster, Germany
| | - L A P Moreno
- High Energy Physics Group, Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Puebla, Mexico
| | - S Moretto
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Padova, Italy
| | - A Morreale
- SUBATECH, IMT Atlantique, Université de Nantes, CNRS-IN2P3, Nantes, France
| | - A Morsch
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - T Mrnjavac
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - V Muccifora
- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Frascati, Italy
| | - E Mudnic
- Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture, University of Split, Split, Croatia
| | - D Mühlheim
- Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Institut für Kernphysik, Münster, Germany
| | - S Muhuri
- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Kolkata, India
| | - M Mukherjee
- Bose Institute, Department of Physics and Centre for Astroparticle Physics and Space Science (CAPSS), Kolkata, India
| | | | - M G Munhoz
- Universidade de São Paulo (USP), São Paulo, Brazil
| | - K Münning
- Helmholtz-Institut für Strahlen- und Kernphysik, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Bonn, Germany
| | - M I A Munoz
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, USA
| | - R H Munzer
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | | | - S Murray
- iThemba LABS, National Research Foundation, Somerset West, South Africa
| | - L Musa
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - J Musinsky
- Institute of Experimental Physics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Košice, Slovakia
| | - C J Myers
- University of Houston, Houston, Texas, USA
| | - J W Myrcha
- Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland
| | - B Naik
- Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT), Mumbai, India
| | - R Nair
- National Centre for Nuclear Research, Warsaw, Poland
| | - B K Nandi
- Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT), Mumbai, India
| | - R Nania
- Centro Fermi - Museo Storico della Fisica e Centro Studi e Ricerche "Enrico Fermi", Rome, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
| | - E Nappi
- INFN, Sezione di Bari, Bari, Italy
| | - A Narayan
- Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT), Mumbai, India
| | - M U Naru
- COMSATS Institute of Information Technology (CIIT), Islamabad, Pakistan
| | - A F Nassirpour
- Lund University Department of Physics, Division of Particle Physics, Lund, Sweden
| | | | - C Nattrass
- University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
| | - S R Navarro
- High Energy Physics Group, Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Puebla, Mexico
| | - K Nayak
- National Institute of Science Education and Research, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Jatni, India
| | - R Nayak
- Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT), Mumbai, India
| | - T K Nayak
- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Kolkata, India
| | - S Nazarenko
- Russian Federal Nuclear Center (VNIIEF), Sarov, Russia
| | - R A Negrao De Oliveira
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - L Nellen
- Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
| | - S V Nesbo
- Faculty of Engineering and Science, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Bergen, Norway
| | - G Neskovic
- Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - F Ng
- University of Houston, Houston, Texas, USA
| | - M Nicassio
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - J Niedziela
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
- Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland
| | - B S Nielsen
- Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - S Nikolaev
- National Research Centre Kurchatov Institute, Moscow, Russia
| | - S Nikulin
- National Research Centre Kurchatov Institute, Moscow, Russia
| | - V Nikulin
- Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, Gatchina, Russia
| | - F Noferini
- Centro Fermi - Museo Storico della Fisica e Centro Studi e Ricerche "Enrico Fermi", Rome, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
| | - P Nomokonov
- Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), Dubna, Russia
| | - G Nooren
- Institute for Subatomic Physics, Utrecht University/Nikhef, Utrecht, Netherlands
| | - J C C Noris
- High Energy Physics Group, Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Puebla, Mexico
| | - J Norman
- Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie, Université Grenoble-Alpes, CNRS-IN2P3, Grenoble, France
| | - A Nyanin
- National Research Centre Kurchatov Institute, Moscow, Russia
| | - J Nystrand
- Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
| | - H Oh
- Yonsei University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
| | - A Ohlson
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - J Oleniacz
- Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland
| | | | - M H Oliver
- Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
| | - J Onderwaater
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | | | - R Orava
- Helsinki Institute of Physics (HIP), Helsinki, Finland
| | - M Oravec
- Technical University of Košice, Košice, Slovakia
| | - A Ortiz Velasquez
- Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
| | - A Oskarsson
- Lund University Department of Physics, Division of Particle Physics, Lund, Sweden
| | - J Otwinowski
- The Henryk Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Cracow, Poland
| | - K Oyama
- Nagasaki Institute of Applied Science, Nagasaki, Japan
| | - Y Pachmayer
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - V Pacik
- Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - D Pagano
- Università di Brescia, Brescia, Italy
| | - G Paić
- Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
| | - P Palni
- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
| | - J Pan
- Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, USA
| | - A K Pandey
- Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT), Mumbai, India
| | - S Panebianco
- Université Paris-Saclay Centre dÉtudes de Saclay (CEA), IRFU, Department de Physique Nucléaire (DPhN), Saclay, France
| | - V Papikyan
- A.I. Alikhanyan National Science Laboratory (Yerevan Physics Institute) Foundation, Yerevan, Armenia
| | - P Pareek
- Indian Institute of Technology Indore, Indore, India
| | - J Park
- Inha University, Incheon, Republic of Korea
| | | | - S Parmar
- Physics Department, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India
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- Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Institut für Kernphysik, Münster, Germany
| | - S P Pathak
- University of Houston, Houston, Texas, USA
| | - R N Patra
- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Kolkata, India
| | - B Paul
- INFN, Sezione di Torino, Turin, Italy
| | - H Pei
- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
| | - T Peitzmann
- Institute for Subatomic Physics, Utrecht University/Nikhef, Utrecht, Netherlands
| | - X Peng
- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
| | - L G Pereira
- Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, Brazil
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- Université Paris-Saclay Centre dÉtudes de Saclay (CEA), IRFU, Department de Physique Nucléaire (DPhN), Saclay, France
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- National Research Centre Kurchatov Institute, Moscow, Russia
| | - E Perez Lezama
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
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- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
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- 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 Petrovici
- Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Bucharest, Romania
| | - C Petta
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Catania, Italy
| | - R P Pezzi
- Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, Brazil
| | - S Piano
- INFN, Sezione di Trieste, Trieste, Italy
| | - M Pikna
- Comenius University Bratislava, Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics, Bratislava, Slovakia
| | - P Pillot
- SUBATECH, IMT Atlantique, Université de Nantes, CNRS-IN2P3, Nantes, France
| | - L O D L Pimentel
- Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - O Pinazza
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
- INFN, Sezione di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
| | - L Pinsky
- University of Houston, Houston, Texas, USA
| | - S Pisano
- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Frascati, Italy
| | | | - M Płoskoń
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, USA
| | - M Planinic
- Physics department, Faculty of science, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
| | - F Pliquett
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - J Pluta
- Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland
| | - S Pochybova
- Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
| | | | - M G Poghosyan
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA
| | | | - N Poljak
- Physics department, Faculty of science, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
| | - W Poonsawat
- Suranaree University of Technology, Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand
| | - A Pop
- Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Bucharest, Romania
| | - H Poppenborg
- Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Institut für Kernphysik, Münster, Germany
| | | | - V Pozdniakov
- Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), Dubna, Russia
| | - S K Prasad
- Bose Institute, Department of Physics and Centre for Astroparticle Physics and Space Science (CAPSS), Kolkata, India
| | | | - F Prino
- INFN, Sezione di Torino, Turin, Italy
| | - C A Pruneau
- Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, USA
| | - I Pshenichnov
- Institute for Nuclear Research, Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
| | - M Puccio
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
| | - V Punin
- Russian Federal Nuclear Center (VNIIEF), Sarov, Russia
| | - J Putschke
- Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, USA
| | - S Raha
- Bose Institute, Department of Physics and Centre for Astroparticle Physics and Space Science (CAPSS), Kolkata, India
| | - S Rajput
- Physics Department, University of Jammu, Jammu, India
| | - J Rak
- University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland
| | - A Rakotozafindrabe
- Université Paris-Saclay Centre dÉtudes de Saclay (CEA), IRFU, Department de Physique Nucléaire (DPhN), Saclay, France
| | - L Ramello
- Dipartimento di Scienze e Innovazione Tecnologica dell'Università del Piemonte Orientale and INFN Sezione di Torino, Alessandria, Italy
| | - F Rami
- Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, IPHC UMR 7178, F-67000 Strasbourg, France, Strasbourg, France
| | - R Raniwala
- Physics Department, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur, India
| | - S Raniwala
- Physics Department, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur, India
| | - S S Räsänen
- Helsinki Institute of Physics (HIP), Helsinki, Finland
| | - B T Rascanu
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - V Ratza
- Helmholtz-Institut für Strahlen- und Kernphysik, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Bonn, Germany
| | - I Ravasenga
- Dipartimento DISAT del Politecnico and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
| | - K F Read
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA
- University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
| | - K Redlich
- National Centre for Nuclear Research, Warsaw, Poland
| | - A Rehman
- Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
| | - P Reichelt
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - F Reidt
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - X Ren
- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
| | - R Renfordt
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - A Reshetin
- Institute for Nuclear Research, Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
| | - J-P Revol
- Centro Fermi - Museo Storico della Fisica e Centro Studi e Ricerche "Enrico Fermi", Rome, Italy
| | - K Reygers
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - V Riabov
- Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, Gatchina, Russia
| | - T Richert
- Institute for Subatomic Physics, Utrecht University/Nikhef, Utrecht, Netherlands
| | - 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
| | - C Ristea
- Institute of Space Science (ISS), Bucharest, Romania
| | - S P Rode
- Indian Institute of Technology Indore, Indore, India
| | | | - K Røed
- Department of Physics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
| | - R Rogalev
- NRC Kurchatov Institute IHEP, Protvino, Russia
| | - E Rogochaya
- Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), Dubna, Russia
| | - D Rohr
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - D Röhrich
- Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
| | - P S Rokita
- Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland
| | - F Ronchetti
- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Frascati, Italy
| | - E D Rosas
- Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
| | - K Roslon
- Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland
| | - P Rosnet
- Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS/IN2P3, LPC, Clermont-Ferrand, France
| | - A Rossi
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Padova, Italy
| | - A Rotondi
- Università degli Studi di Pavia, Pavia, Italy
| | - F Roukoutakis
- National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, School of Science, Department of Physics, Athens, Greece
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- Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
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- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Trieste, Italy
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- Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), Dubna, Russia
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- National Nuclear Research Center, Baku, Azerbaijan
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- National Research Centre Kurchatov Institute, Moscow, Russia
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- Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, Gatchina, Russia
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- The Henryk Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Cracow, Poland
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- Helsinki Institute of Physics (HIP), Helsinki, Finland
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- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Kolkata, India
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- NRC Kurchatov Institute IHEP, Protvino, Russia
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
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- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Kolkata, India
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- Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT), Mumbai, India
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- Indian Institute of Technology Indore, Indore, India
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- Indian Institute of Technology Indore, Indore, India
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- Institute of Physics, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Bhubaneswar, India
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- Institute of Physics, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Bhubaneswar, India
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- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Kolkata, India
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- University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
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- Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, USA
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- Physics Department, University of Jammu, Jammu, India
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- NRNU Moscow Engineering Physics Institute, Moscow, Russia
- Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, Gatchina, Russia
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- Instituto de Física, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
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- iThemba LABS, National Research Foundation, Somerset West, South Africa
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- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Kolkata, India
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- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Kolkata, India
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- Institute for Subatomic Physics, Utrecht University/Nikhef, Utrecht, Netherlands
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- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Padova, Italy
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- Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA
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- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
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- Physikalisches Institut, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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- Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, IPHC UMR 7178, F-67000 Strasbourg, France, Strasbourg, France
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
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- National Institute of Science Education and Research, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Jatni, India
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- Physics Department, University of Jammu, Jammu, India
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- Dipartimento di Scienze e Innovazione Tecnologica dell'Università del Piemonte Orientale and INFN Sezione di Torino, Alessandria, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Padova, Italy
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- University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
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- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
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- SUBATECH, IMT Atlantique, Université de Nantes, CNRS-IN2P3, Nantes, France
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- Universidade de São Paulo (USP), São Paulo, Brazil
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- Institut de Physique Nucléaire d'Orsay (IPNO), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules (IN2P3/CNRS), Université de Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, Orsay, France
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- COMSATS Institute of Information Technology (CIIT), Islamabad, Pakistan
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- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Trieste, Italy
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
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- Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Moscow, Russia
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- Nuclear Physics Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Řež u Prahy, Czech Republic
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- Indonesian Institute of Sciences, Jakarta, Indonesia
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- Stefan Meyer Institut für Subatomare Physik (SMI), Vienna, Austria
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- Institute of Physics, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Bhubaneswar, India
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- Comenius University Bratislava, Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics, Bratislava, Slovakia
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- Comenius University Bratislava, Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics, Bratislava, Slovakia
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- COMSATS Institute of Information Technology (CIIT), Islamabad, Pakistan
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- Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas, Brazil
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- Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
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- University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
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- SUBATECH, IMT Atlantique, Université de Nantes, CNRS-IN2P3, Nantes, France
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- Department of Physics, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India
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- Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Bucharest, Romania
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
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- High Energy Physics Group, Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Puebla, Mexico
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
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- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Padova, Italy
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- Université de Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, IPN-Lyon, Villeurbanne, Lyon, France
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- Indian Institute of Technology Indore, Indore, India
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- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Kolkata, India
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- The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, USA
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- Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Université de Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, IPN-Lyon, Villeurbanne, Lyon, France
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- Institute for Nuclear Research, Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
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- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
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- Institute for Nuclear Research, Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
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- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Frascati, Italy
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA
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- Universidad Autónoma de Sinaloa, Culiacán, Mexico
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- Indian Institute of Technology Indore, Indore, India
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- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
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- Dipartimento Interateneo di Fisica "M. Merlin" and Sezione INFN, Bari, Italy
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- Faculty of Science, P.J. Šafárik University, Košice, Slovakia
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- Bogolyubov Institute for Theoretical Physics, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine
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- Institute for Subatomic Physics, Utrecht University/Nikhef, Utrecht, Netherlands
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- University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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- Russian Federal Nuclear Center (VNIIEF), Sarov, Russia
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- INFN, Sezione di Padova, Padova, Italy
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- Department of Physics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
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- University of Houston, Houston, Texas, USA
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- Université de Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, IPN-Lyon, Villeurbanne, Lyon, France
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- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Cagliari, Italy
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- Physics department, Faculty of science, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
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- Technical University of Košice, Košice, Slovakia
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
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- Institute for Subatomic Physics, Utrecht University/Nikhef, Utrecht, Netherlands
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
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- Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
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- High Energy Physics Group, Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Puebla, Mexico
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- University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland
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- Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT), Mumbai, India
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- National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, School of Science, Department of Physics, Athens, Greece
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- National Research Centre Kurchatov Institute, Moscow, Russia
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- Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie, Université Grenoble-Alpes, CNRS-IN2P3, Grenoble, France
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- Physik Department, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
- Technische Universität München, Excellence Cluster "Universe," Munich, Germany
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- St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia
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- Institute for Subatomic Physics, Utrecht University/Nikhef, Utrecht, Netherlands
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- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
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- High Energy Physics Group, Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Puebla, Mexico
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- Institute for Subatomic Physics, Utrecht University/Nikhef, Utrecht, Netherlands
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- Centre de Calcul de l'IN2P3, Villeurbanne, Lyon, France
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- Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
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- Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture, University of Split, Split, Croatia
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- University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
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- High Energy Physics Group, Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Puebla, Mexico
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- National Research Centre Kurchatov Institute, Moscow, Russia
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- Dipartimento di Fisica "E.R. Caianiello" dell'Università and Gruppo Collegato INFN, Salerno, Italy
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- Lund University Department of Physics, Division of Particle Physics, Lund, Sweden
- Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), Dubna, Russia
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- Physikalisches Institut, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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- Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Moscow, Russia
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- 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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- Physik Department, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
- Technische Universität München, Excellence Cluster "Universe," Munich, Germany
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- Technical University of Košice, Košice, Slovakia
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
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- Faculty of Science, P.J. Šafárik University, Košice, Slovakia
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- Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
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- Institute for Subatomic Physics, Utrecht University/Nikhef, Utrecht, Netherlands
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- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
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- Stefan Meyer Institut für Subatomare Physik (SMI), Vienna, Austria
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- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
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- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
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- Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Institut für Kernphysik, Münster, Germany
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- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
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- Department of Physics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- National Centre for Nuclear Research, Warsaw, Poland
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
- Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Institut für Kernphysik, Münster, Germany
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
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- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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- University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
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- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
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- KTO Karatay University, Konya, Turkey
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- Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan
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- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
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- Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie, Université Grenoble-Alpes, CNRS-IN2P3, Grenoble, France
- University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
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- Department of Physics, Pusan National University, Pusan, Republic of Korea
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- Inha University, Incheon, Republic of Korea
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- Bogolyubov Institute for Theoretical Physics, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine
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- INFN, Sezione di Torino, Turin, Italy
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- COMSATS Institute of Information Technology (CIIT), Islamabad, Pakistan
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
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- Universidade de São Paulo (USP), São Paulo, Brazil
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
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- Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Russian Federal Nuclear Center (VNIIEF), Sarov, Russia
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- Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, Gatchina, Russia
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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
- Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS/IN2P3, LPC, Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- Department of Physics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Moscow, Russia
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- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
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- Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
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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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- Centro Fermi - Museo Storico della Fisica e Centro Studi e Ricerche "Enrico Fermi", Rome, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Bologna, Italy
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
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- Bogolyubov Institute for Theoretical Physics, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine
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- Stefan Meyer Institut für Subatomare Physik (SMI), Vienna, Austria
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- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
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Zhao B, Mei D, Zhang J, Zou S, Lu H, Xu H, Huang B. The prognostic significance of macroscopic serosal change in subserosal invasion (stage T3) gastric cancer. Ann R Coll Surg Engl 2019; 101:249-255. [PMID: 30602290 DOI: 10.1308/rcsann.2018.0217] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND For patients with gastric cancer intraoperative macroscopic serosal change is not always consistent with pathological T stage. We investigated whether macroscopic serosal change is associated with unfavourable prognosis of patients with gastric cancer. METHODS We reviewed 856 patients with stage T3 gastric cancer who underwent curative gastrectomy in our institution. All patients were classified as serosa negative and serosa positive according to the macroscopic serosal change during the operation. The prognostic difference between two groups was compared and clinicopathologic features were analysed. RESULTS The percentage of macroscopic serosal change accounted for 55.7% of all patients. Compared with normal serosal surface, the patients with macroscopic serosal change had larger tumour size, more extensive stomach involvement and more advanced stage N. The prognosis of stage T3 with macroscopic serosal change was significantly poorer than that of those with normal serosal surface, especially for those with stages T3N0 and T3N1. Multivariate analysis identified macroscopic serosal change as an independent factor associated with unfavourable prognosis of stage T3 cancer. CONCLUSION Although the depth of tumour invasion mainly depends on pathological evaluation after surgery, the prognostic significance of intraoperative macroscopic serosal change should not be ignored for those patients with subserosal invasion.
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- Department of Surgical Oncology, First Affiliated Hospital of China Medical University , Shenyang , China
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- Department of Surgical Oncology, First Affiliated Hospital of China Medical University , Shenyang , China
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- Department of Surgical Oncology, First Affiliated Hospital of China Medical University , Shenyang , China
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- Department of Surgical Oncology, First Affiliated Hospital of China Medical University , Shenyang , China
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- Department of Surgical Oncology, First Affiliated Hospital of China Medical University , Shenyang , China
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- Department of Surgical Oncology, First Affiliated Hospital of China Medical University , Shenyang , China
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- Department of Surgical Oncology, First Affiliated Hospital of China Medical University , Shenyang , China
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Jin J, Tang Y, Liu S, Zhu Y, Wang W, Li G, Wang X, Wang J, Yang J, Li S, Li N, Liu W, Li Y, Chi Y, Zhou A, Huang J, Wang X, Jiang L, Jiang J, Zou S. Short-term radiotherapy plus chemotherapy versus long-term chemoradiotherapy in locally advanced rectal cancer (STELLAR): A planned interim analysis. Ann Oncol 2018. [DOI: 10.1093/annonc/mdy281.043] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Huang S, Wu J, Gao X, Zou S, Chen L, Yang X, Sun C, Du Y, Zhu B, Li J, Yang X, Feng X, Wu C, Shi C, Wang B, Lu Y, Liu J, Zheng X, Gong F, Lu M, Yang D. LSECs express functional NOD1 receptors: A role for NOD1 in LSEC maturation-induced T cell immunity in vitro. Mol Immunol 2018; 101:167-175. [PMID: 29944986 DOI: 10.1016/j.molimm.2018.06.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/24/2017] [Revised: 03/21/2018] [Accepted: 06/03/2018] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Liver sinusoidal endothelial cells (LSECs) are organ resident APCs capable of antigen presentation and subsequent tolerization of T cells under physiological conditions. In this study, we investigated whether LSEC pretreatment with NOD-like receptor (NLR) agonists can switch the cells from a tolerogenic to an immunogenic state and promote the development of T cell immunity. LSECs constitutively express NOD1, NOD2 and RIPK2. Stimulation of LSECs with DAP induced the activation of NF-κB and MAP kinases and upregulated the expression of chemokines (CXCL2/9, CCL2/7/8) and cytokines (IFN-γ, TNF-α and IL-2). Pretreatment of LSECs with DAP induced significantly increased IFN-γ and IL-2-production by HBV-stimulated CD8+ T cells primed by DAP-treated LSECs. Consistently, a significant reduction in the HBV DNA and HBsAg level occurred in mice receiving T cells primed by DAP-treated LSECs. MDP stimulation had no impact on LSECs or HBV-stimulated CD8+ T cells primed with MDP-treated LSECs except for the upregulation of PD-L1. DAP stimulation in vitro could promote LSEC maturation and activate HBV-specific T cell responses. These results are of particular relevance for the regulation of the local innate immune response against HBV infections.
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- Shunmei Huang
- Department of Infectious Diseases, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China.
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China.
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China.
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China.
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China.
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China.
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China.
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China.
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China.
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China.
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China.
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Virology, Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China.
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- Department of Pathogen Biology, School of Basic Medicine, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China.
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China.
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China.
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China.
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China.
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- Department of Immunology, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China.
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- Institute of Virology, University Hospital of Essen, Essen, Germany.
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China.
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Huang S, Zou S, Chen M, Gao X, Chen L, Yang X, Yu Q, Zhao X, Du Y, Yang X, Lin Y, Wang B, Lu Y, Liu J, Zheng X, Gong F, Lu M, Yang D, Wu J. Local Stimulation of Liver Sinusoidal Endothelial Cells with a NOD1 Agonist Activates T Cells and Suppresses Hepatitis B Virus Replication in Mice. J Immunol 2018; 200:3170-3179. [PMID: 29592964 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.1700921] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/29/2017] [Accepted: 02/28/2018] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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Functional maturation of liver sinusoidal endothelial cells (LSECs) induced by a NOD1 ligand (diaminopimelic acid [DAP]) during viral infection has not been well defined. Thus, we investigated the role of DAP-stimulated LSEC maturation during hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection and its potential mechanism in a hydrodynamic injection (HI) mouse model. Primary LSECs were isolated from wild-type C57BL/6 mice and stimulated with DAP in vitro and in vivo and assessed for the expression of surface markers as well as for their ability to promote T cell responses via flow cytometry. The effects of LSEC maturation on HBV replication and expression and the role of LSECs in the regulation of other immune cells were also investigated. Pretreatment of LSECs with DAP induced T cell activation in vitro. HI-administered DAP induced LSEC maturation and subsequently enhanced T cell responses, which was accompanied by an increased production of intrahepatic cytokines, chemokines, and T cell markers in the liver. The HI of DAP significantly reduced the HBsAg and HBV DNA levels in the mice. Importantly, the DAP-induced anti-HBV effect was impaired in the LSEC-depleted mice, which indicated that LSEC activation and T cell recruitment into the liver were essential for the antiviral function mediated by DAP application. Taken together, the results showed that the Ag-presenting ability of LSECs was enhanced by DAP application, which resulted in enhanced T cell responses and inhibited HBV replication in a mouse model.
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- Shunmei Huang
- Department of Infectious Diseases, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430022, China
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430022, China
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430022, China.,Department of Infectious Disease, Shenzhen Luohu People's Hospital, Shenzhen 518033, China
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430022, China
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430022, China
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430022, China
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430022, China
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430022, China
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430022, China
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430022, China
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430022, China
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430022, China
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430022, China
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430022, China
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430022, China
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- Department of Immunology, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430030, China; and
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- Institute of Virology, University Hospital of Essen, 45147 Essen, Germany
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430022, China
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430022, China;
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The azimuthal anisotropy coefficient v_{2} of prompt D^{0}, D^{+}, D^{*+}, and D_{s}^{+} mesons was measured in midcentral (30%-50% centrality class) Pb-Pb collisions at a center-of-mass energy per nucleon pair sqrt[s_{NN}]=5.02 TeV, with the ALICE detector at the LHC. The D mesons were reconstructed via their hadronic decays at midrapidity, |y|<0.8, in the transverse momentum interval 1<p_{T}<24 GeV/c. The measured D-meson v_{2} has similar values as that of charged pions. The D_{s}^{+} v_{2}, measured for the first time, is found to be compatible with that of nonstrange D mesons. The measurements are compared with theoretical calculations of charm-quark transport in a hydrodynamically expanding medium and have the potential to constrain medium parameters.
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- S Acharya
- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Kolkata, India
| | - D Adamová
- Nuclear Physics Institute, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Řež u Prahy, Czech Republic
| | - J Adolfsson
- Division of Experimental High Energy Physics, University of Lund, Lund, Sweden
| | - M M Aggarwal
- Physics Department, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India
| | - G Aglieri Rinella
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - M Agnello
- Dipartimento DISAT del Politecnico and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
| | - N Agrawal
- Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT), Mumbai, India
| | - Z Ahammed
- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Kolkata, India
| | - N Ahmad
- Department of Physics, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India
| | - S U Ahn
- Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information, Daejeon, Republic of Korea
| | - S Aiola
- Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States
| | - A Akindinov
- Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Moscow, Russia
| | - S N Alam
- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Kolkata, India
| | - J L B Alba
- Sección Física, Departamento de Ciencias, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima, Peru
| | | | - D Aleksandrov
- National Research Centre Kurchatov Institute, Moscow, Russia
| | | | - R Alfaro Molina
- Instituto de Física, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
| | - A Alici
- Centro Fermi - Museo Storico della Fisica e Centro Studi e Ricerche "Enrico Fermi', Rome, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Bologna, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
| | - A Alkin
- Bogolyubov Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kiev, Ukraine
| | - J Alme
- Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
| | - T Alt
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - L Altenkamper
- Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
| | - I Altsybeev
- V. Fock Institute for Physics, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia
| | | | - C Andrei
- National Institute for Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Bucharest, Romania
| | - D Andreou
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - H A Andrews
- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
| | - A Andronic
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - V Anguelov
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - C Anson
- Physics Department, Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska, United States
| | - T Antičić
- Rudjer Bošković Institute, Zagreb, Croatia
| | | | | | - R Anwar
- University of Houston, Houston, Texas, United States
| | - L Aphecetche
- SUBATECH, IMT Atlantique, Université de Nantes, CNRS-IN2P3, Nantes, France
| | - H Appelshäuser
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - S Arcelli
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Bologna, Italy
| | - R Arnaldi
- INFN, Sezione di Torino, Turin, Italy
| | - O W Arnold
- Excellence Cluster Universe, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
- Physik Department, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
| | - I C Arsene
- Department of Physics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
| | - M Arslandok
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - B Audurier
- SUBATECH, IMT Atlantique, Université de Nantes, CNRS-IN2P3, Nantes, France
| | - A Augustinus
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - R Averbeck
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - M D Azmi
- Department of Physics, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India
| | - A Badalà
- INFN, Sezione di Catania, Catania, Italy
| | - Y W Baek
- Inha University, Incheon, Republic of Korea
- Konkuk University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
| | | | - R Bailhache
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - R Bala
- Physics Department, University of Jammu, Jammu, India
| | - A Baldisseri
- IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, Saclay, France
| | - M Ball
- Helmholtz-Institut für Strahlen- und Kernphysik, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Bonn, Germany
| | - R C Baral
- Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar, India
| | - A M Barbano
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
| | - 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
- INFN, Sezione di Bari, Bari, Italy
| | - L Barioglio
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
| | - G G Barnaföldi
- Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
| | - L S Barnby
- Nuclear Physics Group, STFC Daresbury Laboratory, Daresbury, United Kingdom
| | - V Barret
- Laboratoire de Physique Corpusculaire (LPC), Clermont Université, Université Blaise Pascal, CNRS-IN2P3, Clermont-Ferrand, France
| | - P Bartalini
- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
| | - K Barth
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - E Bartsch
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - M Basile
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia 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
- Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, United States
| | - G Batigne
- SUBATECH, IMT Atlantique, Université de Nantes, CNRS-IN2P3, Nantes, France
| | - B Batyunya
- Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), Dubna, Russia
| | - P C Batzing
- Department of Physics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
| | - I G Bearden
- Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - H Beck
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - C Bedda
- Institute for Subatomic Physics of Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
| | - N K Behera
- Inha University, Incheon, Republic of Korea
| | - I Belikov
- Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, IPHC UMR 7178, F-67000 Strasbourg, France, Strasbourg, France
| | - F Bellini
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Bologna, Italy
| | | | - R Bellwied
- University of Houston, Houston, Texas, United States
| | | | - V Belyaev
- Moscow Engineering Physics Institute, Moscow, Russia
| | - G Bencedi
- Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
| | - S Beole
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
| | - A Bercuci
- National Institute for Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Bucharest, Romania
| | - Y Berdnikov
- Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, Gatchina, Russia
| | - D Berenyi
- Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
| | - R A Bertens
- University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, United States
| | - D Berzano
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - L Betev
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - A Bhasin
- Physics Department, University of Jammu, Jammu, India
| | - I R Bhat
- Physics Department, University of Jammu, Jammu, India
| | - A K Bhati
- Physics Department, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India
| | | | - J Bhom
- The Henryk Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Cracow, Poland
| | - L Bianchi
- University of Houston, Houston, Texas, United States
| | - N Bianchi
- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Frascati, Italy
| | - C Bianchin
- Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, United States
| | - 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
- Excellence Cluster Universe, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
- Physik Department, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
| | - G Biro
- Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
| | - R Biswas
- Bose Institute, Department of Physics and Centre for Astroparticle Physics and Space Science (CAPSS), Kolkata, India
| | - S Biswas
- Bose Institute, Department of Physics and Centre for Astroparticle Physics and Space Science (CAPSS), Kolkata, India
| | - J T Blair
- The University of Texas at Austin, Physics Department, Austin, Texas, United States
| | - D Blau
- National Research Centre Kurchatov Institute, Moscow, Russia
| | - C Blume
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - G Boca
- Università degli Studi di Pavia, Pavia, Italy
| | - F Bock
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, United States
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - A Bogdanov
- Moscow Engineering Physics Institute, Moscow, Russia
| | - L Boldizsár
- Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
| | - M Bombara
- Faculty of Science, P.J. Šafárik University, Košice, Slovakia
| | - G Bonomi
- Università di Brescia, Brescia, Italy
| | - M Bonora
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - J Book
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - H Borel
- IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, Saclay, France
| | - A Borissov
- Department of Physics, Pusan National University, Pusan, Republic of Korea
| | - M Borri
- University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
| | - E Botta
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
| | - C Bourjau
- Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - L Bratrud
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - P Braun-Munzinger
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - M Bregant
- Universidade de São Paulo (USP), São Paulo, Brazil
| | - T A Broker
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - M Broz
- Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
| | - E J Brucken
- Helsinki Institute of Physics (HIP), Helsinki, Finland
| | - E Bruna
- INFN, Sezione di Torino, 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 DISAT del Politecnico and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
| | - P Buhler
- Stefan Meyer Institut für Subatomare Physik (SMI), Vienna, Austria
| | - P Buncic
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - O Busch
- University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
| | - Z Buthelezi
- iThemba LABS, National Research Foundation, Somerset West, South Africa
| | - J B Butt
- COMSATS Institute of Information Technology (CIIT), Islamabad, Pakistan
| | - J T Buxton
- Department of Physics, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States
| | - J Cabala
- Technical University of Košice, Košice, Slovakia
| | - D Caffarri
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
- Nikhef, Nationaal instituut voor subatomaire fysica, Amsterdam, Netherlands
| | - H Caines
- Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States
| | - A Caliva
- Institute for Subatomic Physics of Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
| | - 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
| | - A A Capon
- Stefan Meyer Institut für Subatomare Physik (SMI), Vienna, Austria
| | - F Carena
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - W Carena
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - F Carnesecchi
- Centro Fermi - Museo Storico della Fisica e Centro Studi e Ricerche "Enrico Fermi', Rome, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Bologna, Italy
| | | | - A J Castro
- University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, United States
| | | | - C Ceballos Sanchez
- Centro de Aplicaciones Tecnológicas y Desarrollo Nuclear (CEADEN), Havana, Cuba
| | - P Cerello
- INFN, Sezione di Torino, Turin, Italy
| | - S Chandra
- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Kolkata, India
| | - B Chang
- University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland
| | - S Chapeland
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - M Chartier
- University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
| | - J L Charvet
- IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, Saclay, France
| | | | | | - A Chauvin
- Excellence Cluster Universe, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
- Physik Department, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
| | - M Cherney
- Physics Department, Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska, United States
| | - C Cheshkov
- Université de Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, IPN-Lyon, Villeurbanne, Lyon, France
| | - B Cheynis
- Université de Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, IPN-Lyon, Villeurbanne, Lyon, France
| | | | - D D Chinellato
- Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas, Brazil
| | - S Cho
- Inha University, Incheon, Republic of Korea
| | - P Chochula
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - K Choi
- Department of Physics, Pusan National University, Pusan, Republic of Korea
| | - M Chojnacki
- Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - S Choudhury
- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Kolkata, India
| | - T Chowdhury
- Laboratoire de Physique Corpusculaire (LPC), Clermont Université, Université Blaise Pascal, CNRS-IN2P3, Clermont-Ferrand, France
| | - P Christakoglou
- Nikhef, Nationaal instituut voor subatomaire fysica, 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
- Department of Physics, Pusan National University, Pusan, Republic of Korea
| | - C Cicalo
- INFN, Sezione di Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy
| | - L Cifarelli
- Centro Fermi - Museo Storico della Fisica e Centro Studi e Ricerche "Enrico Fermi', Rome, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Bologna, Italy
| | - F Cindolo
- INFN, Sezione di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
| | - J Cleymans
- Physics Department, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
| | - F Colamaria
- Dipartimento Interateneo di Fisica 'M. Merlin' and Sezione INFN, Bari, Italy
| | - D Colella
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
- Institute of Experimental Physics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Košice, Slovakia
| | - A Collu
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, United States
| | - M Colocci
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Bologna, Italy
| | - M Concas
- INFN, Sezione di Torino, Turin, Italy
| | - G Conesa Balbastre
- Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie, Université Grenoble-Alpes, CNRS-IN2P3, Grenoble, France
| | - Z Conesa Del Valle
- Institut de Physique Nucléaire d'Orsay (IPNO), Université Paris-Sud, CNRS-IN2P3, Orsay, France
| | - M E Connors
- Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States
| | - J G Contreras
- Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
| | - T M Cormier
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, United States
| | | | | | - P Cortese
- Dipartimento di Scienze e Innovazione Tecnologica dell'Università del Piemonte Orientale and INFN Sezione di Torino, Alessandria, Italy
| | | | - F Costa
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - S Costanza
- Università degli Studi di Pavia, Pavia, Italy
| | - J Crkovská
- Institut de Physique Nucléaire d'Orsay (IPNO), Université Paris-Sud, CNRS-IN2P3, Orsay, France
| | - P Crochet
- Laboratoire de Physique Corpusculaire (LPC), Clermont Université, Université Blaise Pascal, CNRS-IN2P3, Clermont-Ferrand, France
| | - E Cuautle
- Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
| | - L Cunqueiro
- Institut für Kernphysik, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Münster, Germany
| | - T Dahms
- Excellence Cluster Universe, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
- Physik Department, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
| | - A Dainese
- INFN, Sezione di Padova, Padova, Italy
| | - M C Danisch
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - A Danu
- Institute of Space Science (ISS), Bucharest, Romania
| | - D Das
- Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata, India
| | - I Das
- Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata, India
| | - S Das
- Bose Institute, Department of Physics and Centre for Astroparticle Physics and Space Science (CAPSS), Kolkata, India
| | - A Dash
- National Institute of Science Education and Research, HBNI, Jatni, India
| | - S Dash
- Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT), Mumbai, India
| | - S De
- Indian Institute of Technology Indore, Indore, India
- Universidade de São Paulo (USP), São Paulo, Brazil
| | - A De Caro
- Dipartimento di Fisica 'E.R. Caianiello' dell'Università and Gruppo Collegato INFN, Salerno, Italy
| | | | - C de Conti
- Universidade de São Paulo (USP), São Paulo, Brazil
| | - 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
- Centro Fermi - Museo Storico della Fisica e Centro Studi e Ricerche "Enrico Fermi', Rome, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica 'E.R. Caianiello' dell'Università and Gruppo Collegato INFN, Salerno, Italy
| | | | - S De Pasquale
- Dipartimento di Fisica 'E.R. Caianiello' dell'Università and Gruppo Collegato INFN, Salerno, Italy
| | - R D De Souza
- Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas, Brazil
| | | | - A Deisting
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - A Deloff
- National Centre for Nuclear Studies, Warsaw, Poland
| | - C Deplano
- Nikhef, Nationaal instituut voor subatomaire fysica, Amsterdam, Netherlands
| | - P Dhankher
- Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT), Mumbai, India
| | - D Di Bari
- 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
- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Frascati, Italy
| | | | - M A Diaz Corchero
- Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Medioambientales y Tecnológicas (CIEMAT), Madrid, Spain
| | - T Dietel
- Physics Department, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
| | - P Dillenseger
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - R Divià
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - Ø Djuvsland
- Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
| | - A Dobrin
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | | | - B Dönigus
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - O Dordic
- Department of Physics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
| | - L V V Doremalen
- Institute for Subatomic Physics of Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
| | - A K Dubey
- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Kolkata, India
| | - A Dubla
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - L Ducroux
- Université de Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, IPN-Lyon, Villeurbanne, Lyon, France
| | - A K Duggal
- Physics Department, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India
| | - P Dupieux
- Laboratoire de Physique Corpusculaire (LPC), Clermont Université, Université Blaise Pascal, CNRS-IN2P3, Clermont-Ferrand, France
| | - R J Ehlers
- Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States
| | - D Elia
- INFN, Sezione di Bari, Bari, Italy
| | - E Endress
- Sección Física, Departamento de Ciencias, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima, Peru
| | - H Engel
- Institut für Informatik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - E Epple
- Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States
| | - B Erazmus
- SUBATECH, IMT Atlantique, Université de Nantes, CNRS-IN2P3, Nantes, France
| | - F Erhardt
- Physics department, Faculty of science, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
| | - B Espagnon
- Institut de Physique Nucléaire d'Orsay (IPNO), Université Paris-Sud, CNRS-IN2P3, Orsay, France
| | - S Esumi
- University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
| | - G Eulisse
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - J Eum
- Department of Physics, Pusan National University, Pusan, Republic of Korea
| | - D Evans
- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
| | - S Evdokimov
- SSC IHEP of NRC Kurchatov institute, Protvino, Russia
| | - L Fabbietti
- Excellence Cluster Universe, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
- Physik Department, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
| | - J Faivre
- Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie, Université Grenoble-Alpes, CNRS-IN2P3, Grenoble, France
| | - A Fantoni
- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Frascati, Italy
| | - M Fasel
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, United States
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, United States
| | - L Feldkamp
- Institut für Kernphysik, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Münster, Germany
| | | | - G Feofilov
- V. Fock Institute for Physics, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia
| | - J Ferencei
- Nuclear Physics Institute, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Řež u Prahy, Czech Republic
| | | | - E G Ferreiro
- Departamento de Física de Partículas and IGFAE, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
| | - A Ferretti
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
| | - A Festanti
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Padova, Italy
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - V J G Feuillard
- IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, Saclay, France
- Laboratoire de Physique Corpusculaire (LPC), Clermont Université, Université Blaise Pascal, CNRS-IN2P3, Clermont-Ferrand, France
| | - 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
- Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Cagliari, 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
- iThemba LABS, National Research Foundation, Somerset West, South Africa
| | - P Foka
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - S Fokin
- National Research Centre Kurchatov Institute, Moscow, Russia
| | | | - A Francescon
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - A Francisco
- SUBATECH, IMT Atlantique, Université de Nantes, CNRS-IN2P3, Nantes, France
| | - U Frankenfeld
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - G G Fronze
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
| | - U Fuchs
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - C Furget
- Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie, Université Grenoble-Alpes, CNRS-IN2P3, Grenoble, France
| | - A Furs
- Institute for Nuclear Research, Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
| | - 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 M Gago
- Sección Física, Departamento de Ciencias, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima, Peru
| | - K Gajdosova
- Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - M Gallio
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
| | - C D Galvan
- Universidad Autónoma de Sinaloa, Culiacán, Mexico
| | - P Ganoti
- National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Physics Department, Athens, Greece
| | - C Gao
- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
| | - C Garabatos
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - E Garcia-Solis
- Chicago State University, Chicago, Illinois, United States
| | - K Garg
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Catania, Italy
| | - C Gargiulo
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - P Gasik
- Excellence Cluster Universe, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
- Physik Department, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
| | - E F Gauger
- The University of Texas at Austin, Physics Department, Austin, Texas, United States
| | - M B Gay Ducati
- Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, Brazil
| | - M Germain
- SUBATECH, IMT Atlantique, Université de Nantes, CNRS-IN2P3, Nantes, France
| | - J Ghosh
- Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata, India
| | - P Ghosh
- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Kolkata, India
| | - S K Ghosh
- Bose Institute, Department of Physics and Centre for Astroparticle Physics and Space Science (CAPSS), Kolkata, India
| | - P Gianotti
- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Frascati, Italy
| | - P Giubellino
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
- INFN, Sezione di Torino, Turin, Italy
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - P Giubilato
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Padova, Italy
| | - 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
| | - D M Goméz Coral
- Instituto de Física, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
| | - A Gomez Ramirez
- Institut für Informatik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - A S Gonzalez
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - V Gonzalez
- Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Medioambientales y Tecnológicas (CIEMAT), Madrid, Spain
| | - 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
| | - L Görlich
- The Henryk Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Cracow, Poland
| | - S Gotovac
- Technical University of Split FESB, Split, Croatia
| | - V Grabski
- Instituto de Física, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
| | | | - K L Graham
- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
| | - L Greiner
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, United States
| | - A Grelli
- Institute for Subatomic Physics of Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
| | - C Grigoras
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - V Grigoriev
- Moscow Engineering Physics Institute, Moscow, Russia
| | - A Grigoryan
- A.I. Alikhanyan National Science Laboratory (Yerevan Physics Institute) Foundation, Yerevan, Armenia
| | - S Grigoryan
- Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), Dubna, Russia
| | - N Grion
- INFN, Sezione di Trieste, Trieste, Italy
| | - J M Gronefeld
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - F Grosa
- Dipartimento DISAT del Politecnico and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
| | | | - R Grosso
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - L Gruber
- Stefan Meyer Institut für Subatomare Physik (SMI), Vienna, Austria
| | - F Guber
- Institute for Nuclear Research, Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
| | - R Guernane
- Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie, Université Grenoble-Alpes, CNRS-IN2P3, Grenoble, France
| | - B Guerzoni
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Bologna, Italy
| | - 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
| | - I B Guzman
- Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Puebla, Mexico
| | - R Haake
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - C Hadjidakis
- Institut de Physique Nucléaire d'Orsay (IPNO), Université Paris-Sud, CNRS-IN2P3, Orsay, France
| | - H Hamagaki
- Nagasaki Institute of Applied Science, Nagasaki, Japan
- University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
| | - G Hamar
- Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
| | - J C Hamon
- Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, IPHC UMR 7178, F-67000 Strasbourg, France, Strasbourg, France
| | - M R Haque
- Institute for Subatomic Physics of Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
| | - J W Harris
- Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States
| | - A Harton
- Chicago State University, Chicago, Illinois, United States
| | - H Hassan
- Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie, Université Grenoble-Alpes, CNRS-IN2P3, Grenoble, France
| | - D Hatzifotiadou
- Centro Fermi - Museo Storico della Fisica e Centro Studi e Ricerche "Enrico Fermi', Rome, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
| | | | - S T Heckel
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - E Hellbär
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, 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
| | - F Herrmann
- Institut für Kernphysik, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Münster, Germany
| | - B A Hess
- Physikalisches Institut, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
| | - K F Hetland
- Faculty of Engineering, Bergen University College, Bergen, Norway
| | - H Hillemanns
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - C Hills
- University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
| | - B Hippolyte
- Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, IPHC UMR 7178, F-67000 Strasbourg, France, Strasbourg, France
| | - J Hladky
- Institute of Physics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic
| | - B Hohlweger
- Physik Department, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
| | - D Horak
- Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
| | - S Hornung
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - R Hosokawa
- Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie, Université Grenoble-Alpes, CNRS-IN2P3, Grenoble, France
- University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
| | - P Hristov
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - C Hughes
- University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, United States
| | - T J Humanic
- Department of Physics, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States
| | - N Hussain
- Gauhati University, Department of Physics, Guwahati, India
| | - T Hussain
- Department of Physics, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India
| | - D Hutter
- Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - D S Hwang
- Department of Physics, Sejong University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
| | - S A Iga Buitron
- Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
| | - R Ilkaev
- Russian Federal Nuclear Center (VNIIEF), Sarov, Russia
| | - M Inaba
- University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
| | - M Ippolitov
- Moscow Engineering Physics Institute, Moscow, Russia
- National Research Centre Kurchatov Institute, Moscow, Russia
| | - M Irfan
- Department of Physics, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India
| | - V Isakov
- Institute for Nuclear Research, Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
| | - M Ivanov
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - V Ivanov
- Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, Gatchina, Russia
| | - V Izucheev
- SSC IHEP of NRC Kurchatov institute, Protvino, Russia
| | - B Jacak
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, United States
| | - N Jacazio
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Bologna, Italy
| | - P M Jacobs
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, United States
| | - M B Jadhav
- Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT), Mumbai, India
| | - J Jadlovsky
- Technical University of Košice, Košice, Slovakia
| | - S Jaelani
- Institute for Subatomic Physics of Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
| | - C Jahnke
- Excellence Cluster Universe, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
| | | | - M A Janik
- Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland
| | | | - C Jena
- National Institute of Science Education and Research, HBNI, Jatni, India
| | - S Jena
- University of Houston, Houston, Texas, United States
| | - M Jercic
- Physics department, Faculty of science, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
| | - R T Jimenez Bustamante
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - P G Jones
- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
| | - A Jusko
- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
| | - P Kalinak
- Institute of Experimental Physics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Košice, Slovakia
| | - A Kalweit
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - J H Kang
- Yonsei University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
| | - V Kaplin
- Moscow Engineering Physics Institute, Moscow, Russia
| | - S Kar
- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Kolkata, India
| | | | - O Karavichev
- Institute for Nuclear Research, Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
| | - T Karavicheva
- Institute for Nuclear Research, Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
| | - L Karayan
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - P Karczmarczyk
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - E Karpechev
- Institute for Nuclear Research, Academy of Sciences, 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
| | - D L D Keijdener
- Institute for Subatomic Physics of Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
| | - M Keil
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - B Ketzer
- Helmholtz-Institut für Strahlen- und Kernphysik, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Bonn, Germany
| | - Z Khabanova
- Nikhef, Nationaal instituut voor subatomaire fysica, Amsterdam, Netherlands
| | - P Khan
- Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata, India
| | - S A Khan
- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Kolkata, India
| | - A Khanzadeev
- Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, Gatchina, Russia
| | - Y Kharlov
- SSC IHEP of NRC Kurchatov institute, Protvino, Russia
| | - A Khatun
- Department of Physics, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India
| | - A Khuntia
- Indian Institute of Technology Indore, Indore, India
| | - M M Kielbowicz
- The Henryk Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Cracow, Poland
| | - B Kileng
- Faculty of Engineering, Bergen University College, Bergen, Norway
| | - B Kim
- University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
| | - D Kim
- Yonsei University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
| | - D J Kim
- University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland
| | - H Kim
- Yonsei University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
| | - J S Kim
- Gangneung-Wonju National University, Gangneung, Republic of Korea
| | - J Kim
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - M Kim
- Inha University, Incheon, Republic of Korea
| | - M Kim
- Yonsei University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
| | - S Kim
- Department of Physics, Sejong University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
| | - T Kim
- Yonsei University, Seoul, Republic of 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
| | - G Kiss
- Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
| | - J L Klay
- California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, California, United States
| | - C Klein
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - J Klein
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - C Klein-Bösing
- Institut für Kernphysik, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Münster, Germany
| | - S Klewin
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - A Kluge
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - M L Knichel
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - A G Knospe
- University of Houston, Houston, Texas, United States
| | - C Kobdaj
- Suranaree University of Technology, Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand
| | - M Kofarago
- Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
| | - T Kollegger
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, 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
| | - E Kondratyuk
- SSC IHEP of NRC Kurchatov institute, Protvino, Russia
| | - A Konevskikh
- Institute for Nuclear Research, Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
| | - M Konyushikhin
- Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, United States
| | - M Kopcik
- Technical University of Košice, Košice, Slovakia
| | - M Kour
- Physics Department, University of Jammu, Jammu, India
| | - C Kouzinopoulos
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - O Kovalenko
- National Centre for Nuclear Studies, Warsaw, Poland
| | - V Kovalenko
- V. Fock Institute for Physics, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia
| | - M Kowalski
- The Henryk Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Cracow, Poland
| | | | - I Králik
- Institute of Experimental Physics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Košice, Slovakia
| | - A Kravčáková
- Faculty of Science, P.J. Šafárik University, Košice, Slovakia
| | - M Krivda
- Institute of Experimental Physics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Košice, Slovakia
- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
| | - F Krizek
- Nuclear Physics Institute, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Řež u Prahy, Czech Republic
| | - E Kryshen
- Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, Gatchina, Russia
| | - M Krzewicki
- Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - A M Kubera
- Department of Physics, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States
| | - V Kučera
- Nuclear Physics Institute, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Řež u Prahy, Czech Republic
| | - C Kuhn
- Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, IPHC UMR 7178, F-67000 Strasbourg, France, Strasbourg, France
| | - P G Kuijer
- Nikhef, Nationaal instituut voor subatomaire fysica, Amsterdam, Netherlands
| | - A Kumar
- Physics Department, University of Jammu, Jammu, India
| | - J Kumar
- Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT), Mumbai, India
| | - L Kumar
- Physics Department, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India
| | - S Kumar
- Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT), Mumbai, India
| | - S Kundu
- National Institute of Science Education and Research, HBNI, Jatni, India
| | - P Kurashvili
- National Centre for Nuclear Studies, Warsaw, Poland
| | - A Kurepin
- Institute for Nuclear Research, Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
| | - A B Kurepin
- Institute for Nuclear Research, Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
| | - A Kuryakin
- Russian Federal Nuclear Center (VNIIEF), Sarov, Russia
| | - S Kushpil
- Nuclear Physics Institute, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Řež u Prahy, Czech Republic
| | - M J Kweon
- Inha University, Incheon, Republic of Korea
| | - Y Kwon
- Yonsei University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
| | - S L La Pointe
- Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - P La Rocca
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Catania, Italy
| | | | - Y S Lai
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, United States
| | - I Lakomov
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - R Langoy
- Faculty of Technology, Buskerud and Vestfold University College, Tonsberg, Norway
| | - K Lapidus
- Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States
| | - C Lara
- Institut für Informatik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - A Lardeux
- Department of Physics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
- IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, Saclay, France
| | - A Lattuca
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
| | - E Laudi
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - R Lavicka
- Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
| | - L Lazaridis
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - R Lea
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Trieste, Italy
| | - L Leardini
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - S Lee
- Yonsei University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
| | - F Lehas
- Nikhef, Nationaal instituut voor subatomaire fysica, Amsterdam, Netherlands
| | - S Lehner
- Stefan Meyer Institut für Subatomare Physik (SMI), Vienna, Austria
| | - J Lehrbach
- Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - R C Lemmon
- Nuclear Physics Group, STFC Daresbury Laboratory, Daresbury, United Kingdom
| | - V Lenti
- INFN, Sezione di Bari, Bari, Italy
| | - E Leogrande
- Institute for Subatomic Physics of Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
| | | | - P Lévai
- Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
| | - S Li
- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
| | - X Li
- China Institute of Atomic Energy, Beijing, China
| | - J Lien
- Faculty of Technology, Buskerud and Vestfold University College, Tonsberg, Norway
| | - R Lietava
- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
| | - B Lim
- Department of Physics, Pusan National University, Pusan, Republic of Korea
| | - S Lindal
- Department of Physics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
| | - V Lindenstruth
- Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - S W Lindsay
- University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
| | - C Lippmann
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - M A Lisa
- Department of Physics, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States
| | | | - H M Ljunggren
- Division of Experimental High Energy Physics, University of Lund, Lund, Sweden
| | - W J Llope
- Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, United States
| | - D F Lodato
- Institute for Subatomic Physics of Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
| | - P I Loenne
- Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
| | - V Loginov
- Moscow Engineering Physics Institute, Moscow, Russia
| | - C Loizides
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, United States
| | - P Loncar
- Technical University of Split FESB, Split, Croatia
| | - 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
| | - A Lowe
- Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
| | - P Luettig
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - J R Luhder
- Institut für Kernphysik, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Münster, Germany
| | - M Lunardon
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Padova, Italy
| | - G Luparello
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Trieste, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Trieste, Trieste, Italy
| | - M Lupi
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - T H Lutz
- Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States
| | - A Maevskaya
- Institute for Nuclear Research, Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
| | - M Mager
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - S Mahajan
- Physics Department, University of Jammu, Jammu, India
| | - S M Mahmood
- Department of Physics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
| | - A Maire
- Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, IPHC UMR 7178, F-67000 Strasbourg, France, Strasbourg, France
| | - R D Majka
- Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States
| | - M Malaev
- Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, Gatchina, Russia
| | - 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 GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - A Mamonov
- Russian Federal Nuclear Center (VNIIEF), Sarov, Russia
| | - V Manko
- National 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
- iThemba LABS, National Research Foundation, Somerset West, South Africa
- University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
| | - 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
| | - A Margotti
- INFN, Sezione di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
| | - J Margutti
- Institute for Subatomic Physics of Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
| | - A Marín
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - C Markert
- The University of Texas at Austin, Physics Department, Austin, Texas, United States
| | - M Marquard
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - N A Martin
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
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- Institut für Informatik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
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- Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Puebla, Mexico
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- SUBATECH, IMT Atlantique, Université de Nantes, CNRS-IN2P3, Nantes, France
| | | | - A Mas
- Universidade de São Paulo (USP), São Paulo, Brazil
| | - S Masciocchi
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - M Masera
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
| | - A Masoni
- INFN, Sezione di Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy
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- SUBATECH, IMT Atlantique, Université de Nantes, CNRS-IN2P3, Nantes, France
| | | | - A M Mathis
- Excellence Cluster Universe, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
- Physik Department, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
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- The Henryk Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Cracow, Poland
- University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, United States
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- The Henryk Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Cracow, Poland
| | - J Mazer
- University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, United States
| | - M Mazzilli
- Dipartimento Interateneo di Fisica 'M. Merlin' and Sezione INFN, Bari, Italy
| | | | - F Meddi
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università 'La Sapienza' and Sezione INFN, Rome, Italy
| | - Y Melikyan
- Moscow Engineering Physics Institute, Moscow, Russia
| | - A Menchaca-Rocha
- Instituto de Física, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
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- Dipartimento di Fisica 'E.R. Caianiello' dell'Università and Gruppo Collegato INFN, Salerno, Italy
| | - J Mercado Pérez
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia
| | - S Mhlanga
- Physics Department, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
| | - Y Miake
- University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
| | | | - D Mihaylov
- Physik Department, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
| | - D L Mihaylov
- Physik Department, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
| | - K Mikhaylov
- Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Moscow, Russia
- Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), Dubna, Russia
| | - L Milano
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, United States
| | - J Milosevic
- Department of Physics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
| | - A Mischke
- Institute for Subatomic Physics of Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
| | - A N Mishra
- Indian Institute of Technology Indore, Indore, India
| | - D Miśkowiec
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - J Mitra
- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Kolkata, India
| | - C M Mitu
- Institute of Space Science (ISS), Bucharest, Romania
| | - N Mohammadi
- Institute for Subatomic Physics of Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
| | - B Mohanty
- National Institute of Science Education and Research, HBNI, Jatni, India
| | - M Mohisin Khan
- Department of Physics, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India
| | - E Montes
- Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Medioambientales y Tecnológicas (CIEMAT), Madrid, Spain
| | - D A Moreira De Godoy
- Institut für Kernphysik, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Münster, Germany
| | - L A P Moreno
- Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Puebla, Mexico
| | - S Moretto
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Padova, Italy
| | - A Morreale
- SUBATECH, IMT Atlantique, Université de Nantes, CNRS-IN2P3, Nantes, France
| | - A Morsch
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - V Muccifora
- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Frascati, Italy
| | - E Mudnic
- Technical University of Split FESB, Split, Croatia
| | - D Mühlheim
- Institut für Kernphysik, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Münster, Germany
| | - S Muhuri
- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Kolkata, India
| | - M Mukherjee
- Bose Institute, Department of Physics and Centre for Astroparticle Physics and Space Science (CAPSS), Kolkata, India
| | - J D Mulligan
- Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States
| | - M G Munhoz
- Universidade de São Paulo (USP), São Paulo, Brazil
| | - K Münning
- Helmholtz-Institut für Strahlen- und Kernphysik, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Bonn, Germany
| | - R H Munzer
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | | | - S Murray
- iThemba LABS, National Research Foundation, Somerset West, South Africa
| | - L Musa
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - J Musinsky
- Institute of Experimental Physics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Košice, Slovakia
| | - C J Myers
- University of Houston, Houston, Texas, United States
| | - J W Myrcha
- Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland
| | - B Naik
- Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT), Mumbai, India
| | - R Nair
- National Centre for Nuclear Studies, Warsaw, Poland
| | - B K Nandi
- Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT), Mumbai, India
| | - R Nania
- Centro Fermi - Museo Storico della Fisica e Centro Studi e Ricerche "Enrico Fermi', Rome, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
| | - E Nappi
- INFN, Sezione di Bari, Bari, Italy
| | - A Narayan
- Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT), Mumbai, India
| | - M U Naru
- COMSATS Institute of Information Technology (CIIT), Islamabad, Pakistan
| | | | - C Nattrass
- University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, United States
| | - S R Navarro
- Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Puebla, Mexico
| | - K Nayak
- National Institute of Science Education and Research, HBNI, Jatni, India
| | - R Nayak
- Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT), Mumbai, India
| | - T K Nayak
- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Kolkata, India
| | - S Nazarenko
- Russian Federal Nuclear Center (VNIIEF), Sarov, Russia
| | - A Nedosekin
- Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Moscow, Russia
| | | | - L Nellen
- Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
| | - S V Nesbo
- Faculty of Engineering, Bergen University College, Bergen, Norway
| | - F Ng
- University of Houston, Houston, Texas, United States
| | - M Nicassio
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - M Niculescu
- Institute of Space Science (ISS), Bucharest, Romania
| | - J Niedziela
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
- Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland
| | - B S Nielsen
- Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - S Nikolaev
- National Research Centre Kurchatov Institute, Moscow, Russia
| | - S Nikulin
- National Research Centre Kurchatov Institute, Moscow, Russia
| | - V Nikulin
- Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, Gatchina, Russia
| | | | - F Noferini
- Centro Fermi - Museo Storico della Fisica e Centro Studi e Ricerche "Enrico Fermi', Rome, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
| | - P Nomokonov
- Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), Dubna, Russia
| | - G Nooren
- Institute for Subatomic Physics of Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
| | - J C C Noris
- Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Puebla, Mexico
| | - J Norman
- University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
| | - A Nyanin
- National Research Centre Kurchatov Institute, Moscow, Russia
| | - J Nystrand
- Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
| | - H Oeschler
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States
| | - A Ohlson
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - T Okubo
- Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan
| | - L Olah
- Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
| | - J Oleniacz
- Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland
| | | | - M H Oliver
- Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States
| | - J Onderwaater
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | | | - R Orava
- Helsinki Institute of Physics (HIP), Helsinki, Finland
| | - M Oravec
- Technical University of Košice, Košice, Slovakia
| | - A Ortiz Velasquez
- Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
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- Division of Experimental High Energy Physics, University of Lund, Lund, Sweden
| | - J Otwinowski
- The Henryk Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Cracow, Poland
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- Nagasaki Institute of Applied Science, Nagasaki, Japan
| | - Y Pachmayer
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - V Pacik
- Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - D Pagano
- Università di Brescia, Brescia, Italy
| | - P Pagano
- Dipartimento di Fisica 'E.R. Caianiello' dell'Università and Gruppo Collegato INFN, Salerno, Italy
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- Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
| | - P Palni
- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
| | - J Pan
- Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, United States
| | - A K Pandey
- Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT), Mumbai, India
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- IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, Saclay, France
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- A.I. Alikhanyan National Science Laboratory (Yerevan Physics Institute) Foundation, Yerevan, Armenia
| | | | - P Pareek
- Indian Institute of Technology Indore, Indore, India
| | - J Park
- Inha University, Incheon, Republic of Korea
| | - S Parmar
- Physics Department, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India
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- Institut für Kernphysik, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Münster, Germany
| | - S P Pathak
- University of Houston, Houston, Texas, United States
| | | | - R N Patra
- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Kolkata, India
| | - B Paul
- INFN, Sezione di Torino, Turin, Italy
| | - H Pei
- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
| | - T Peitzmann
- Institute for Subatomic Physics of Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
| | - X Peng
- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
| | - L G Pereira
- Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, Brazil
| | | | - D Peresunko
- Moscow Engineering Physics Institute, Moscow, Russia
- National Research Centre Kurchatov Institute, Moscow, Russia
| | - E Perez Lezama
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
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- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
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- Budker Institute for Nuclear Physics, Novosibirsk, Russia
| | - V Petráček
- Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
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- SSC IHEP of NRC Kurchatov institute, Protvino, Russia
| | - 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
| | - R P Pezzi
- Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, Brazil
| | - S Piano
- INFN, Sezione di Trieste, Trieste, Italy
| | - M Pikna
- Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia
| | - P Pillot
- SUBATECH, IMT Atlantique, Université de Nantes, CNRS-IN2P3, Nantes, France
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- Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
- INFN, Sezione di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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- University of Houston, Houston, Texas, United States
| | | | - M Płoskoń
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, United States
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- Physics department, Faculty of science, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
| | - F Pliquett
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
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- Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland
| | - S Pochybova
- Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
| | | | - M G Poghosyan
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, United States
| | | | - N Poljak
- Physics department, Faculty of science, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
| | - W Poonsawat
- Suranaree University of Technology, Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand
| | - A Pop
- National Institute for Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Bucharest, Romania
| | - H Poppenborg
- Institut für Kernphysik, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Münster, Germany
| | - S Porteboeuf-Houssais
- Laboratoire de Physique Corpusculaire (LPC), Clermont Université, Université Blaise Pascal, CNRS-IN2P3, Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, United States
| | - V Pozdniakov
- Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), Dubna, Russia
| | - S K Prasad
- Bose Institute, Department of Physics and Centre for Astroparticle Physics and Space Science (CAPSS), Kolkata, India
| | | | - F Prino
- INFN, Sezione di Torino, Turin, Italy
| | - C A Pruneau
- Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, United States
| | - I Pshenichnov
- Institute for Nuclear Research, Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
| | - M Puccio
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
| | - G Puddu
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Cagliari, Italy
| | - P Pujahari
- Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, United States
| | - V Punin
- Russian Federal Nuclear Center (VNIIEF), Sarov, Russia
| | - J Putschke
- Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, United States
| | | | - S Raha
- Bose Institute, Department of Physics and Centre for Astroparticle Physics and Space Science (CAPSS), Kolkata, India
| | - S Rajput
- Physics Department, University of Jammu, Jammu, India
| | - J Rak
- University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland
| | | | - L Ramello
- Dipartimento di Scienze e Innovazione Tecnologica dell'Università del Piemonte Orientale and INFN Sezione di Torino, Alessandria, Italy
| | - F Rami
- Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, IPHC UMR 7178, F-67000 Strasbourg, France, Strasbourg, France
| | - D B Rana
- University of Houston, Houston, Texas, United States
| | - R Raniwala
- Physics Department, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur, India
| | - S Raniwala
- Physics Department, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur, India
| | - S S Räsänen
- Helsinki Institute of Physics (HIP), Helsinki, Finland
| | - B T Rascanu
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - D Rathee
- Physics Department, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India
| | - V Ratza
- Helmholtz-Institut für Strahlen- und Kernphysik, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Bonn, Germany
| | - I Ravasenga
- Dipartimento DISAT del Politecnico and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
| | - K F Read
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, United States
- University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, United States
| | - K Redlich
- National Centre for Nuclear Studies, Warsaw, Poland
| | - A Rehman
- Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
| | - P Reichelt
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - F Reidt
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - X Ren
- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
| | - R Renfordt
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - A R Reolon
- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Frascati, Italy
| | - A Reshetin
- Institute for Nuclear Research, Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
| | - K Reygers
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - V Riabov
- Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, Gatchina, Russia
| | - R A Ricci
- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro, Legnaro, Italy
| | - T Richert
- Institute for Subatomic Physics of Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
| | - 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
| | - C Ristea
- Institute of Space Science (ISS), Bucharest, Romania
| | | | - K Røed
- Department of Physics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
| | - E Rogochaya
- Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), Dubna, Russia
| | - D Rohr
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
- Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - D Röhrich
- Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
| | - P S Rokita
- Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland
| | - F Ronchetti
- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Frascati, Italy
| | - E D Rosas
- Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
| | - P Rosnet
- Laboratoire de Physique Corpusculaire (LPC), Clermont Université, Université Blaise Pascal, CNRS-IN2P3, Clermont-Ferrand, France
| | - A Rossi
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Padova, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Padova, Padova, Italy
| | - A Rotondi
- Università degli Studi di Pavia, Pavia, Italy
| | - F Roukoutakis
- National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Physics Department, Athens, Greece
| | - A Roy
- Indian Institute of Technology Indore, Indore, India
| | - C Roy
- Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, IPHC UMR 7178, F-67000 Strasbourg, France, 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
| | - O V Rueda
- Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
| | - R Rui
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Trieste, Italy
| | - B Rumyantsev
- Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), Dubna, Russia
| | - A Rustamov
- National Nuclear Research Center, Baku, Azerbaijan
| | - E Ryabinkin
- National Research Centre Kurchatov Institute, Moscow, Russia
| | - Y Ryabov
- Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, Gatchina, Russia
| | - A Rybicki
- The Henryk Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Cracow, Poland
| | - S Saarinen
- Helsinki Institute of Physics (HIP), Helsinki, Finland
| | - S Sadhu
- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Kolkata, India
| | - S Sadovsky
- SSC IHEP of NRC Kurchatov institute, Protvino, Russia
| | - K Šafařík
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - S K Saha
- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Kolkata, India
| | - B Sahlmuller
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - B Sahoo
- Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT), Mumbai, India
| | - P Sahoo
- Indian Institute of Technology Indore, Indore, India
| | - R Sahoo
- Indian Institute of Technology Indore, Indore, India
| | - S Sahoo
- Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar, India
| | - P K Sahu
- Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar, India
| | - J Saini
- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Kolkata, India
| | - S Sakai
- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Frascati, Italy
- University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
| | - M A Saleh
- Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, United States
| | - J Salzwedel
- Department of Physics, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States
| | - S Sambyal
- Physics Department, University of Jammu, Jammu, India
| | - V Samsonov
- Moscow Engineering Physics Institute, Moscow, Russia
- Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, Gatchina, Russia
| | - A Sandoval
- Instituto de Física, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
| | - D Sarkar
- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Kolkata, India
| | - N Sarkar
- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Kolkata, India
| | - P Sarma
- Gauhati University, Department of Physics, Guwahati, India
| | - M H P Sas
- Institute for Subatomic Physics of Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
| | | | - F Scarlassara
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Padova, Italy
| | | | - H S Scheid
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - 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 GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - H R Schmidt
- Physikalisches Institut, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
| | - M O Schmidt
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - M Schmidt
- Physikalisches Institut, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
| | - N V Schmidt
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, United States
| | - S Schuchmann
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - J Schukraft
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - Y Schutz
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
- SUBATECH, IMT Atlantique, Université de Nantes, CNRS-IN2P3, Nantes, France
- Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, IPHC UMR 7178, F-67000 Strasbourg, France, Strasbourg, France
| | - K Schwarz
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - K Schweda
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - G Scioli
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Bologna, Italy
| | | | - R Scott
- University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, United States
| | - M Šefčík
- Faculty of Science, P.J. Šafárik University, Košice, Slovakia
| | - J E Seger
- Physics Department, Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska, United States
| | | | | | - I Selyuzhenkov
- Moscow Engineering Physics Institute, Moscow, Russia
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - K Senosi
- iThemba LABS, National Research Foundation, Somerset West, South Africa
| | - S Senyukov
- Bogolyubov Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kiev, Ukraine
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
- Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, IPHC UMR 7178, F-67000 Strasbourg, France, Strasbourg, France
| | - E Serradilla
- Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Medioambientales y Tecnológicas (CIEMAT), Madrid, Spain
- Instituto de Física, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
| | - P Sett
- Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT), Mumbai, India
| | - A Sevcenco
- Institute of Space Science (ISS), Bucharest, Romania
| | - A Shabanov
- Institute for Nuclear Research, Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
| | - A Shabetai
- SUBATECH, IMT Atlantique, Université de Nantes, CNRS-IN2P3, Nantes, France
| | - R Shahoyan
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - W Shaikh
- Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata, India
| | - A Shangaraev
- SSC IHEP of NRC Kurchatov institute, Protvino, Russia
| | - A Sharma
- Physics Department, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India
| | - A Sharma
- Physics Department, University of Jammu, Jammu, India
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- Physics Department, University of Jammu, Jammu, India
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- Physics Department, University of Jammu, Jammu, India
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- Physics Department, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India
- University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, United States
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- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Kolkata, India
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- Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan
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- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
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- Centro de Aplicaciones Tecnológicas y Desarrollo Nuclear (CEADEN), Havana, Cuba
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
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- National Research Centre Kurchatov Institute, Moscow, Russia
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
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- Division of Experimental High Energy Physics, University of Lund, Lund, Sweden
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- Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie, Université Grenoble-Alpes, CNRS-IN2P3, Grenoble, France
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- Physics department, Faculty of science, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
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- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Kolkata, India
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- National Institute of Science Education and Research, HBNI, Jatni, India
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- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Kolkata, India
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- Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata, India
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- Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia
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- Dipartimento di Scienze e Innovazione Tecnologica dell'Università del Piemonte Orientale and INFN Sezione di Torino, Alessandria, Italy
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- Department of Physics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland
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- Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States
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- Institute for Subatomic Physics of Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
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- Department of Physics, Pusan National University, Pusan, Republic of Korea
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- Yonsei University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Padova, Italy
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- University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, United States
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- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
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- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Frascati, Italy
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- The Henryk Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Cracow, Poland
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- Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States
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- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Institute of Space Science (ISS), Bucharest, Romania
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- Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, United States
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- Division of Experimental High Energy Physics, University of Lund, Lund, Sweden
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- SUBATECH, IMT Atlantique, Université de Nantes, CNRS-IN2P3, Nantes, France
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- Faculty of Engineering, Bergen University College, Bergen, Norway
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- Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia
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- Universidade de São Paulo (USP), São Paulo, Brazil
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- Institut de Physique Nucléaire d'Orsay (IPNO), Université Paris-Sud, CNRS-IN2P3, Orsay, France
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- COMSATS Institute of Information Technology (CIIT), Islamabad, Pakistan
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- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Trieste, Italy
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- Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Moscow, Russia
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- Nuclear Physics Institute, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Řež u Prahy, Czech Republic
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- Indonesian Institute of Sciences, Jakarta, Indonesia
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- Stefan Meyer Institut für Subatomare Physik (SMI), Vienna, Austria
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- Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar, India
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- Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia
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- Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia
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- COMSATS Institute of Information Technology (CIIT), Islamabad, Pakistan
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- Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas, Brazil
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- Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
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- University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
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- Institut de Physique Nucléaire d'Orsay (IPNO), Université Paris-Sud, CNRS-IN2P3, Orsay, France
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- Department of Physics, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India
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- National Institute for Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Bucharest, Romania
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
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- Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Puebla, Mexico
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
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- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Padova, Italy
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- Université de Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, IPN-Lyon, Villeurbanne, Lyon, France
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- Indian Institute of Technology Indore, Indore, India
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- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Kolkata, India
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- The University of Texas at Austin, Physics Department, Austin, Texas, United States
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- Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Université de Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, IPN-Lyon, Villeurbanne, Lyon, France
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- Institute for Nuclear Research, Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
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- University of Houston, Houston, Texas, United States
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- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
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- Indian Institute of Technology Indore, Indore, India
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- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
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- Dipartimento Interateneo di Fisica 'M. Merlin' and Sezione INFN, Bari, Italy
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- Faculty of Science, P.J. Šafárik University, Košice, Slovakia
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- Bogolyubov Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kiev, Ukraine
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- Institute for Subatomic Physics of Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
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- University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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- Russian Federal Nuclear Center (VNIIEF), Sarov, Russia
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- INFN, Sezione di Padova, Padova, Italy
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- Department of Physics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
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- University of Houston, Houston, Texas, United States
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- Université de Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, IPN-Lyon, Villeurbanne, Lyon, France
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- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Cagliari, Italy
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- Physics department, Faculty of science, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
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- Institute of Experimental Physics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Košice, Slovakia
- Technical University of Košice, Košice, Slovakia
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- Institute for Subatomic Physics of Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
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- Institute for Subatomic Physics of Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
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- Nuclear Physics Institute, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Řež u Prahy, Czech Republic
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
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- Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
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- Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Puebla, Mexico
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- University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland
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- Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT), Mumbai, India
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- National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Physics Department, Athens, Greece
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- National Research Centre Kurchatov Institute, Moscow, Russia
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- Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie, Université Grenoble-Alpes, CNRS-IN2P3, Grenoble, France
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- Excellence Cluster Universe, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
- Physik Department, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
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- V. Fock Institute for Physics, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia
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- Institute for Subatomic Physics of Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
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- Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
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- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
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- Centre de Calcul de l'IN2P3, Villeurbanne, Lyon, France
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- Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
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- Technical University of Split FESB, Split, Croatia
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- Institute for Subatomic Physics of Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
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- University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
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- National 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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- Dipartimento di Fisica 'E.R. Caianiello' dell'Università and Gruppo Collegato INFN, Salerno, Italy
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- Division of Experimental High Energy Physics, University of Lund, Lund, Sweden
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- Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), Dubna, Russia
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- Physikalisches Institut, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Moscow, Russia
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- Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, United States
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- 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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- Excellence Cluster Universe, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
- Physik Department, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
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- Technical University of Košice, Košice, Slovakia
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
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- Faculty of Science, P.J. Šafárik University, Košice, Slovakia
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- Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
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- Institute for Subatomic Physics of Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
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- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
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- University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
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- Stefan Meyer Institut für Subatomare Physik (SMI), Vienna, Austria
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- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
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- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
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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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- Physics Department, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
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- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
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- Department of Physics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- National Centre for Nuclear Studies, Warsaw, Poland
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- INFN, Sezione di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
- 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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- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
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- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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- University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, United States
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- KTO Karatay University, Konya, Turkey
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- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
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- Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan
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- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
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- Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie, Université Grenoble-Alpes, CNRS-IN2P3, Grenoble, France
- University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
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- Department of Physics, Pusan National University, Pusan, Republic of Korea
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
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- Inha University, Incheon, Republic of Korea
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- Bogolyubov Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kiev, Ukraine
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- INFN, Sezione di Torino, Turin, Italy
- Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- COMSATS Institute of Information Technology (CIIT), Islamabad, Pakistan
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
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- Universidade de São Paulo (USP), São Paulo, Brazil
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
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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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- Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, Gatchina, Russia
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- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
- Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
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- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
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- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
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- Institute for Subatomic Physics of Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
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- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
- Laboratoire de Physique Corpusculaire (LPC), Clermont Université, Université Blaise Pascal, CNRS-IN2P3, Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- Department of Physics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Moscow, Russia
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- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
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- Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
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- Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
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- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
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- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
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- Centro Fermi - Museo Storico della Fisica e Centro Studi e Ricerche "Enrico Fermi', Rome, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Bologna, Italy
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- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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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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- Bogolyubov Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kiev, Ukraine
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- Stefan Meyer Institut für Subatomare Physik (SMI), Vienna, Austria
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- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
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Zou L, Zhang PG, Zou S, Li Y, He Q. The Half-Life of Thymidine Kinase 1 in Serum Measured by ECL Dot Blot: A Potential Marker for Monitoring the Response to Surgery of Patients with Gastric Cancer. Int J Biol Markers 2018; 17:135-40. [PMID: 12113581 DOI: 10.1177/172460080201700210] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Thymidine kinase 1 in serum (STK1) of patients with gastric cancer was determined by two methods: ECL dot blot and radioactivity assay. Both measurements showed significantly different values for preoperative STK1 and healthy STK1 (p=0.012 for ECL dot blot and p=0.003 for the radioactivity assay). The preliminary results of ECL dot blot STK1 measurement showed that in tumor-free subjects the level of the enzyme was significantly reduced to 52.7% 35 days after surgery (n=8, p=0.0106). The decrease in STK1 levels in the tumor-free subjects paralleled the decline of the half-life of the STK1 enzyme. In patients with distant metastases (n=6) the enzyme level had increased to 173% 35 days postoperatively. By contrast, with the radioactivity assay no significant differences in thymidine kinase activity for 0-day-postoperative patients and 35-day-postoperative tumor-free patients was found (p=0.329). The activity decreased to 80% in 35-day-postoperative patients with metastatic disease. We suggest that the value of the half-life of STK1 measured by ECL dot blot can be used as a potential marker for monitoring the response to surgery in patients with gastric or other cancers one month after surgery.
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- Department of Surgery, Wuhan University Hospital, China
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Gies V, Zou S. Systematic toxicity investigation of graphene oxide: evaluation of assay selection, cell type, exposure period and flake size. Toxicol Res (Camb) 2018; 7:93-101. [PMID: 30090566 PMCID: PMC6061886 DOI: 10.1039/c7tx00278e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/17/2017] [Accepted: 11/22/2017] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Understanding the toxicity of nanomaterials is essential for the safe and sustainable development of new applications. This is particularly true for a nanomaterial as widely used as graphene oxide (GO), which is utilized as films for electronics, membranes for filtration, drug carriers and more. Despite this, the current literature presents conflicting results on the overall toxicity of GO. Here, the cytotoxicity of three sizes of commercially available GO was investigated on six cell lines, as values of NOAEL/LOAEL. The effectiveness of four viability assays was also evaluated. The overall toxicity of GO greatly varied between cell lines; the suspension cells showed a greater response to the GO treatment compared to the adherent cell lines. Time dependent cytotoxicity was also cell line dependent, with only one cell line demonstrating obvious dependence. The six cell lines were also tested to evaluate their response to varying GO flake sizes: the suspension/phagocytic cells showed little variation in viability, while a difference was observed for the adherent/non-phagocytic cell lines. By systematically studying the effect of dose, GO size and treatment time for the six cell lines by using commercially available GO samples, we eliminate many of the variables which may result in the conflicting reports on the cytotoxicity of GO in the literature.
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- Measurement Science and Standards , National Research Council Canada , 100 Sussex Drive , Ottawa , Ontario K1A 0R6 , Canada .
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- Department of Chemistry , Carleton University , 1125 Colonel By Drive , Ottawa , Ontario K1S 5B6 , Canada
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J/ψ Elliptic Flow in Pb-Pb Collisions at sqrt[s_{NN}]=5.02 TeV. Phys Rev Lett 2017; 119:242301. [PMID: 29286736 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.119.242301] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/27/2017] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
Abstract
We report a precise measurement of the J/ψ elliptic flow in Pb-Pb collisions at sqrt[s_{NN}]=5.02 TeV with the ALICE detector at the LHC. The J/ψ mesons are reconstructed at midrapidity (|y|<0.9) in the dielectron decay channel and at forward rapidity (2.5<y<4.0) in the dimuon channel, both down to zero transverse momentum. At forward rapidity, the elliptic flow v_{2} of the J/ψ is studied as a function of the transverse momentum and centrality. A positive v_{2} is observed in the transverse momentum range 2<p_{T}<8 GeV/c in the three centrality classes studied and confirms with higher statistics our earlier results at sqrt[s_{NN}]=2.76 TeV in semicentral collisions. At midrapidity, the J/ψ v_{2} is investigated as a function of the transverse momentum in semicentral collisions and found to be in agreement with the measurements at forward rapidity. These results are compared to transport model calculations. The comparison supports the idea that at low p_{T} the elliptic flow of the J/ψ originates from the thermalization of charm quarks in the deconfined medium but suggests that additional mechanisms might be missing in the models.
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- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Kolkata, India
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- Nuclear Physics Institute, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Řež u Prahy, Czech Republic
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- Division of Experimental High Energy Physics, University of Lund, Lund, Sweden
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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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- Dipartimento DISAT del Politecnico and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
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- Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT), Mumbai, India
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- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Kolkata, India
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- Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information, Daejeon, Republic of Korea
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- Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
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- Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Moscow, Russia
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- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
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- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Kolkata, India
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- National Research Centre Kurchatov Institute, Moscow, Russia
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- Instituto de Física, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
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- COMSATS Institute of Information Technology (CIIT), Islamabad, Pakistan
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- Centro Fermi - Museo Storico della Fisica e Centro Studi e Ricerche "Enrico Fermi", Rome, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Bologna, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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- Bogolyubov Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kiev, Ukraine
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- Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
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- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
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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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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
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- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
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- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Physics Department, Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska, USA
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- Rudjer Bošković Institute, Zagreb, Croatia
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- University of Houston, Houston, Texas, USA
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- SUBATECH, IMT Atlantique, 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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- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Bologna, Italy
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- INFN, Sezione di Torino, Turin, Italy
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- Excellence Cluster Universe, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
- Physik Department, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
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- Department of Physics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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- SUBATECH, IMT Atlantique, Université de Nantes, CNRS-IN2P3, Nantes, France
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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 GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
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- Department of Physics, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India
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- INFN, Sezione di Catania, Catania, Italy
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- Inha University, Incheon, Republic of Korea
- Konkuk University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
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- Physics Department, University of Jammu, Jammu, India
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- IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, Saclay, France
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- Helmholtz-Institut für Strahlen- und Kernphysik, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Bonn, Germany
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- Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar, India
- National Institute of Science Education and Research, HBNI, Jatni, India
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- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Catania, Italy
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- Dipartimento Interateneo di Fisica 'M. Merlin' and Sezione INFN, Bari, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
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- Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
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- Nuclear Physics Group, STFC Daresbury Laboratory, Daresbury, United Kingdom
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- Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS/IN2P3, LPC, Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
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- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
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- Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS/IN2P3, LPC, Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, USA
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- SUBATECH, IMT Atlantique, Université de Nantes, CNRS-IN2P3, Nantes, France
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- Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), Dubna, Russia
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- Department of Physics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- Sección Física, Departamento de Ciencias, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima, Peru
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- Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Institute for Subatomic Physics of Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
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- Inha University, Incheon, Republic of Korea
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- Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, IPHC UMR 7178, F-67000 Strasbourg, France, Strasbourg, France
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- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Bologna, Italy
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
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- University of Houston, Houston, Texas, USA
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- Moscow Engineering Physics Institute, Moscow, Russia
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- Wigner Research Centre for 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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- Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, Gatchina, Russia
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- Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
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- University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
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- Physics Department, University of Jammu, Jammu, India
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- Physics Department, University of Jammu, Jammu, India
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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, Turin, Italy
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- University of Houston, Houston, Texas, USA
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- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Frascati, Italy
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- Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, 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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- Excellence Cluster Universe, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
- Physik Department, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
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- Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
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- Bose Institute, Department of Physics and Centre for Astroparticle Physics and Space Science (CAPSS), Kolkata, India
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- Bose Institute, Department of Physics and Centre for Astroparticle Physics and Space Science (CAPSS), Kolkata, India
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- The University of Texas at Austin, Physics Department, Austin, Texas, USA
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- National Research Centre Kurchatov Institute, Moscow, Russia
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- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
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- Università degli Studi di Pavia, Pavia, Italy
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
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- Moscow Engineering Physics Institute, Moscow, Russia
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- Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
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- Faculty of Science, P.J. Šafárik University, Košice, Slovakia
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- Università di Brescia, Brescia, Italy
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
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- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
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- IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, Saclay, France
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- Department of Physics, Pusan National University, Pusan, Republic of Korea
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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- University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
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- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
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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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- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
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- Universidade de São Paulo (USP), São Paulo, Brazil
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- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
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- Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Helsinki Institute of Physics (HIP), Helsinki, Finland
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- INFN, Sezione di Torino, Turin, Italy
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- Dipartimento Interateneo di Fisica 'M. Merlin' and Sezione INFN, Bari, Italy
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
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- Russian Federal Nuclear Center (VNIIEF), Sarov, Russia
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- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - S Bufalino
- Dipartimento DISAT del Politecnico and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
| | - P Buhler
- Stefan Meyer Institut für Subatomare Physik (SMI), Vienna, Austria
| | - P Buncic
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - O Busch
- University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
| | - Z Buthelezi
- iThemba LABS, National Research Foundation, Somerset West, South Africa
| | - J B Butt
- COMSATS Institute of Information Technology (CIIT), Islamabad, Pakistan
| | - J T Buxton
- Department of Physics, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA
| | - J Cabala
- Technical University of Košice, Košice, Slovakia
| | - D Caffarri
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
- Nikhef, Nationaal instituut voor subatomaire fysica, Amsterdam, Netherlands
| | - H Caines
- Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
| | - A Caliva
- Institute for Subatomic Physics of Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - 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
| | - A A Capon
- Stefan Meyer Institut für Subatomare Physik (SMI), Vienna, Austria
| | - F Carena
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - W Carena
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - F Carnesecchi
- Centro Fermi - Museo Storico della Fisica e Centro Studi e Ricerche "Enrico Fermi", Rome, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Bologna, Italy
| | | | - A J Castro
- University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
| | | | - C Ceballos Sanchez
- Centro de Aplicaciones Tecnológicas y Desarrollo Nuclear (CEADEN), Havana, Cuba
| | - S Chandra
- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Kolkata, India
| | - B Chang
- University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland
| | - W Chang
- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
| | - S Chapeland
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - M Chartier
- University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
| | | | | | - A Chauvin
- Excellence Cluster Universe, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
- Physik Department, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
| | - C Cheshkov
- Université de Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, IPN-Lyon, Villeurbanne, Lyon, France
| | - B Cheynis
- Université de Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, IPN-Lyon, Villeurbanne, Lyon, France
| | | | - D D Chinellato
- Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas, Brazil
| | - S Cho
- Inha University, Incheon, Republic of Korea
| | - P Chochula
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - M Chojnacki
- Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - S Choudhury
- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Kolkata, India
| | - T Chowdhury
- Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS/IN2P3, LPC, Clermont-Ferrand, France
| | - P Christakoglou
- Nikhef, Nationaal instituut voor subatomaire fysica, 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
- Department of Physics, Pusan National University, Pusan, Republic of Korea
| | - C Cicalo
- INFN, Sezione di Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy
| | - L Cifarelli
- Centro Fermi - Museo Storico della Fisica e Centro Studi e Ricerche "Enrico Fermi", Rome, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Bologna, Italy
| | - F Cindolo
- INFN, Sezione di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
| | - J Cleymans
- Physics Department, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
| | - F Colamaria
- Dipartimento Interateneo di Fisica 'M. Merlin' and Sezione INFN, Bari, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Bari, Bari, Italy
| | - D Colella
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
- INFN, Sezione di Bari, Bari, Italy
- Institute of Experimental Physics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Košice, Slovakia
| | - A Collu
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, USA
| | - M Colocci
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Bologna, Italy
| | - M Concas
- INFN, Sezione di Torino, Turin, Italy
| | - G Conesa Balbastre
- Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie, Université Grenoble-Alpes, CNRS-IN2P3, Grenoble, France
| | - Z Conesa Del Valle
- Institut de Physique Nucléaire d'Orsay (IPNO), Université Paris-Sud, CNRS-IN2P3, Orsay, France
| | - J G Contreras
- Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
| | - T M Cormier
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA
| | | | | | - P Cortese
- Dipartimento di Scienze e Innovazione Tecnologica dell'Università del Piemonte Orientale and INFN Sezione di Torino, Alessandria, Italy
| | | | - F Costa
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - S Costanza
- Università degli Studi di Pavia, Pavia, Italy
| | - J Crkovská
- Institut de Physique Nucléaire d'Orsay (IPNO), Université Paris-Sud, CNRS-IN2P3, Orsay, France
| | - P Crochet
- Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS/IN2P3, LPC, Clermont-Ferrand, France
| | - E Cuautle
- Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
| | - L Cunqueiro
- Institut für Kernphysik, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Münster, Germany
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA
| | - T Dahms
- Excellence Cluster Universe, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
- Physik Department, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
| | - A Dainese
- INFN, Sezione di Padova, Padova, Italy
| | - M C Danisch
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - A Danu
- Institute of Space Science (ISS), Bucharest, Romania
| | - D Das
- Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata, India
| | - I Das
- Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata, India
| | - S Das
- Bose Institute, Department of Physics and Centre for Astroparticle Physics and Space Science (CAPSS), Kolkata, India
| | - A Dash
- National Institute of Science Education and Research, HBNI, Jatni, India
| | - S Dash
- Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT), Mumbai, India
| | - S De
- Indian Institute of Technology Indore, Indore, India
| | - A De Caro
- Dipartimento di Fisica 'E.R. Caianiello' dell'Università and Gruppo Collegato INFN, Salerno, Italy
| | | | - C de Conti
- Universidade de São Paulo (USP), São Paulo, Brazil
| | - 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
- Centro Fermi - Museo Storico della Fisica e Centro Studi e Ricerche "Enrico Fermi", Rome, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica 'E.R. Caianiello' dell'Università and Gruppo Collegato INFN, Salerno, Italy
| | | | - S De Pasquale
- Dipartimento di Fisica 'E.R. Caianiello' dell'Università and Gruppo Collegato INFN, Salerno, Italy
| | - R D De Souza
- Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas, Brazil
| | | | - A Deisting
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - A Deloff
- National Centre for Nuclear Studies, Warsaw, Poland
| | - C Deplano
- Nikhef, Nationaal instituut voor subatomaire fysica, Amsterdam, Netherlands
| | - P Dhankher
- Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT), Mumbai, India
| | - D Di Bari
- 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
- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Frascati, Italy
| | | | - M A Diaz Corchero
- Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Medioambientales y Tecnológicas (CIEMAT), Madrid, Spain
| | - T Dietel
- Physics Department, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
| | - P Dillenseger
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - Y Ding
- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
| | - R Divià
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - Ø Djuvsland
- Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
| | - A Dobrin
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | | | - B Dönigus
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - O Dordic
- Department of Physics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
| | - L V R Doremalen
- Institute for Subatomic Physics of Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
| | - A K Dubey
- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Kolkata, India
| | - A Dubla
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - L Ducroux
- Université de Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, IPN-Lyon, Villeurbanne, Lyon, France
| | - S Dudi
- Physics Department, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India
| | - A K Duggal
- Physics Department, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India
| | - M Dukhishyam
- National Institute of Science Education and Research, HBNI, Jatni, India
| | - P Dupieux
- Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS/IN2P3, LPC, Clermont-Ferrand, France
| | - R J Ehlers
- Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
| | - D Elia
- INFN, Sezione di Bari, Bari, Italy
| | - E Endress
- Sección Física, Departamento de Ciencias, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima, Peru
| | - H Engel
- Institut für Informatik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - E Epple
- Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
| | - B Erazmus
- SUBATECH, IMT Atlantique, Université de Nantes, CNRS-IN2P3, Nantes, France
| | - F Erhardt
- Physics department, Faculty of science, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
| | - B Espagnon
- Institut de Physique Nucléaire d'Orsay (IPNO), Université Paris-Sud, CNRS-IN2P3, Orsay, France
| | - G Eulisse
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - J Eum
- Department of Physics, Pusan National University, Pusan, Republic of Korea
| | - D Evans
- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
| | - S Evdokimov
- SSC IHEP of NRC Kurchatov institute, Protvino, Russia
| | - L Fabbietti
- Excellence Cluster Universe, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
- Physik Department, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
| | - J Faivre
- Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie, Université Grenoble-Alpes, CNRS-IN2P3, Grenoble, France
| | - A Fantoni
- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Frascati, Italy
| | - M Fasel
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA
| | - L Feldkamp
- Institut für Kernphysik, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Münster, Germany
| | | | - G Feofilov
- V. Fock Institute for Physics, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia
| | | | - E G Ferreiro
- Departamento de Física de Partículas and IGFAE, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
| | - A Ferretti
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
| | - A Festanti
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Padova, Italy
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - V J G Feuillard
- IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, Saclay, France
- Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS/IN2P3, LPC, Clermont-Ferrand, France
| | - 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
- Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Cagliari, Italy
| | - M Floris
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - S Foertsch
- iThemba LABS, National Research Foundation, Somerset West, South Africa
| | - P Foka
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - S Fokin
- National Research Centre Kurchatov Institute, Moscow, Russia
| | | | - A Francescon
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - A Francisco
- SUBATECH, IMT Atlantique, Université de Nantes, CNRS-IN2P3, Nantes, France
| | - U Frankenfeld
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - G G Fronze
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
| | - U Fuchs
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - C Furget
- Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie, Université Grenoble-Alpes, CNRS-IN2P3, Grenoble, France
| | - A Furs
- Institute for Nuclear Research, Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
| | - 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 M Gago
- Sección Física, Departamento de Ciencias, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima, Peru
| | - K Gajdosova
- Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - M Gallio
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
| | - C D Galvan
- Universidad Autónoma de Sinaloa, Culiacán, Mexico
| | - P Ganoti
- National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Physics Department, Athens, Greece
| | - C Garabatos
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | | | - K Garg
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Catania, Italy
| | - C Gargiulo
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - P Gasik
- Excellence Cluster Universe, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
- Physik Department, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
| | - E F Gauger
- The University of Texas at Austin, Physics Department, Austin, Texas, USA
| | - M B Gay Ducati
- Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, Brazil
| | - M Germain
- SUBATECH, IMT Atlantique, Université de Nantes, CNRS-IN2P3, Nantes, France
| | - J Ghosh
- Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata, India
| | - P Ghosh
- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Kolkata, India
| | - S K Ghosh
- Bose Institute, Department of Physics and Centre for Astroparticle Physics and Space Science (CAPSS), Kolkata, India
| | - P Gianotti
- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Frascati, Italy
| | - P Giubellino
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
- INFN, Sezione di Torino, Turin, Italy
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - P Giubilato
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Padova, Italy
| | - 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
| | - D M Goméz Coral
- Instituto de Física, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
| | - A Gomez Ramirez
- Institut für Informatik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - A S Gonzalez
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - V Gonzalez
- Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Medioambientales y Tecnológicas (CIEMAT), Madrid, Spain
| | - P González-Zamora
- Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Puebla, Mexico
- Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Medioambientales y Tecnológicas (CIEMAT), Madrid, Spain
| | - S Gorbunov
- Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - L Görlich
- The Henryk Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Cracow, Poland
| | - S Gotovac
- Technical University of Split FESB, Split, Croatia
| | - V Grabski
- Instituto de Física, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
| | | | - K L Graham
- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
| | - L Greiner
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, USA
| | - A Grelli
- Institute for Subatomic Physics of Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
| | - C Grigoras
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - V Grigoriev
- Moscow Engineering Physics Institute, Moscow, Russia
| | - A Grigoryan
- A.I. Alikhanyan National Science Laboratory (Yerevan Physics Institute) Foundation, Yerevan, Armenia
| | - S Grigoryan
- Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), Dubna, Russia
| | - J M Gronefeld
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - F Grosa
- Dipartimento DISAT del Politecnico and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
| | | | - R Grosso
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - F Guber
- Institute for Nuclear Research, Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
| | - R Guernane
- Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie, Université Grenoble-Alpes, CNRS-IN2P3, Grenoble, France
| | - B Guerzoni
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Bologna, Italy
| | - 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
| | - I B Guzman
- Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Puebla, Mexico
| | - R Haake
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - C Hadjidakis
- Institut de Physique Nucléaire d'Orsay (IPNO), Université Paris-Sud, CNRS-IN2P3, Orsay, France
| | - H Hamagaki
- Nagasaki Institute of Applied Science, Nagasaki, Japan
| | - G Hamar
- Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
| | - J C Hamon
- Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, IPHC UMR 7178, F-67000 Strasbourg, France, Strasbourg, France
| | - M R Haque
- Institute for Subatomic Physics of Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
| | - J W Harris
- Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
| | - A Harton
- Chicago State University, Chicago, Illinois, USA
| | - H Hassan
- Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie, Université Grenoble-Alpes, CNRS-IN2P3, Grenoble, France
| | - D Hatzifotiadou
- Centro Fermi - Museo Storico della Fisica e Centro Studi e Ricerche "Enrico Fermi", Rome, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
| | | | - S T Heckel
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - E Hellbär
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - H Helstrup
- Faculty of Engineering, Bergen University College, Bergen, Norway
| | - A Herghelegiu
- National Institute for Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Bucharest, Romania
| | - E G Hernandez
- Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Puebla, Mexico
| | - G Herrera Corral
- Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados (CINVESTAV), Mexico City and Mérida, Mexico
| | - F Herrmann
- Institut für Kernphysik, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Münster, Germany
| | - B A Hess
- Physikalisches Institut, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
| | - K F Hetland
- Faculty of Engineering, Bergen University College, Bergen, Norway
| | - H Hillemanns
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - C Hills
- University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
| | - B Hippolyte
- Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, IPHC UMR 7178, F-67000 Strasbourg, France, Strasbourg, France
| | - B Hohlweger
- Physik Department, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
| | - D Horak
- Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
| | - S Hornung
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - R Hosokawa
- Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie, Université Grenoble-Alpes, CNRS-IN2P3, Grenoble, France
- University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
| | - P Hristov
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - C Hughes
- University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
| | - T J Humanic
- Department of Physics, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA
| | - N Hussain
- Gauhati University, Department of Physics, Guwahati, India
| | - T Hussain
- Department of Physics, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India
| | - D Hutter
- Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - D S Hwang
- Department of Physics, Sejong University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
| | - S A Iga Buitron
- Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
| | - R Ilkaev
- Russian Federal Nuclear Center (VNIIEF), Sarov, Russia
| | - M Inaba
- University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
| | - M Ippolitov
- Moscow Engineering Physics Institute, Moscow, Russia
- National Research Centre Kurchatov Institute, Moscow, Russia
| | - M S Islam
- Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata, India
| | - M Ivanov
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - V Ivanov
- Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, Gatchina, Russia
| | - V Izucheev
- SSC IHEP of NRC Kurchatov institute, Protvino, Russia
| | - B Jacak
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, USA
| | - N Jacazio
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Bologna, Italy
| | - P M Jacobs
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, USA
| | - M B Jadhav
- Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT), Mumbai, India
| | - S Jadlovska
- Technical University of Košice, Košice, Slovakia
| | - J Jadlovsky
- Technical University of Košice, Košice, Slovakia
| | - S Jaelani
- Institute for Subatomic Physics of Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
| | - C Jahnke
- Excellence Cluster Universe, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
| | | | - M A Janik
- Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland
| | | | - C Jena
- National Institute of Science Education and Research, HBNI, Jatni, India
| | - M Jercic
- Physics department, Faculty of science, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
| | - R T Jimenez Bustamante
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - P G Jones
- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
| | - A Jusko
- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
| | - P Kalinak
- Institute of Experimental Physics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Košice, Slovakia
| | - A Kalweit
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - J H Kang
- Yonsei University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
| | - V Kaplin
- Moscow Engineering Physics Institute, Moscow, Russia
| | - S Kar
- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Kolkata, India
| | | | - O Karavichev
- Institute for Nuclear Research, Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
| | - T Karavicheva
- Institute for Nuclear Research, Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
| | - L Karayan
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - P Karczmarczyk
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - E Karpechev
- Institute for Nuclear Research, Academy of Sciences, 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
| | - D L D Keijdener
- Institute for Subatomic Physics of Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
| | - M Keil
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - B Ketzer
- Helmholtz-Institut für Strahlen- und Kernphysik, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Bonn, Germany
| | - Z Khabanova
- Nikhef, Nationaal instituut voor subatomaire fysica, Amsterdam, Netherlands
| | - P Khan
- Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata, India
| | - S A Khan
- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Kolkata, India
| | - A Khanzadeev
- Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, Gatchina, Russia
| | - Y Kharlov
- SSC IHEP of NRC Kurchatov institute, Protvino, Russia
| | - A Khatun
- Department of Physics, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India
| | - A Khuntia
- Indian Institute of Technology Indore, Indore, India
| | - M M Kielbowicz
- The Henryk Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Cracow, Poland
| | - B Kileng
- Faculty of Engineering, Bergen University College, Bergen, Norway
| | - B Kim
- University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
| | - D Kim
- Yonsei University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
| | - D J Kim
- University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland
| | - H Kim
- Yonsei University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
| | - J S Kim
- Gangneung-Wonju National University, Gangneung, Republic of Korea
| | - J Kim
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - M Kim
- Inha University, Incheon, Republic of Korea
| | - S Kim
- Department of Physics, Sejong University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
| | - T Kim
- Yonsei University, Seoul, Republic of 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
| | - G Kiss
- Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
| | - J L Klay
- California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, California, USA
| | - C Klein
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - J Klein
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - C Klein-Bösing
- Institut für Kernphysik, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Münster, Germany
| | - S Klewin
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - A Kluge
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - M L Knichel
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - A G Knospe
- University of Houston, Houston, Texas, USA
| | - C Kobdaj
- Suranaree University of Technology, Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand
| | - M Kofarago
- Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
| | - M K Köhler
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - T Kollegger
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - V Kondratiev
- V. Fock Institute for Physics, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia
| | - N Kondratyeva
- Moscow Engineering Physics Institute, Moscow, Russia
| | - E Kondratyuk
- SSC IHEP of NRC Kurchatov institute, Protvino, Russia
| | - A Konevskikh
- Institute for Nuclear Research, Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
| | | | - M Kopcik
- Technical University of Košice, Košice, Slovakia
| | - M Kour
- Physics Department, University of Jammu, Jammu, India
| | - C Kouzinopoulos
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - O Kovalenko
- National Centre for Nuclear Studies, Warsaw, Poland
| | - V Kovalenko
- V. Fock Institute for Physics, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia
| | - M Kowalski
- The Henryk Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Cracow, Poland
| | | | - I Králik
- Institute of Experimental Physics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Košice, Slovakia
| | - A Kravčáková
- Faculty of Science, P.J. Šafárik University, Košice, Slovakia
| | - L Kreis
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - M Krivda
- Institute of Experimental Physics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Košice, Slovakia
- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
| | - F Krizek
- Nuclear Physics Institute, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Řež u Prahy, Czech Republic
| | - E Kryshen
- Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, Gatchina, Russia
| | - M Krzewicki
- Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - A M Kubera
- Department of Physics, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA
| | - V Kučera
- Nuclear Physics Institute, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Řež u Prahy, Czech Republic
| | - C Kuhn
- Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, IPHC UMR 7178, F-67000 Strasbourg, France, Strasbourg, France
| | - P G Kuijer
- Nikhef, Nationaal instituut voor subatomaire fysica, Amsterdam, Netherlands
| | - A Kumar
- Physics Department, University of Jammu, Jammu, India
| | - J Kumar
- Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT), Mumbai, India
| | - L Kumar
- Physics Department, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India
| | - S Kumar
- Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT), Mumbai, India
| | - S Kundu
- National Institute of Science Education and Research, HBNI, Jatni, India
| | - P Kurashvili
- National Centre for Nuclear Studies, Warsaw, Poland
| | - A Kurepin
- Institute for Nuclear Research, Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
| | - A B Kurepin
- Institute for Nuclear Research, Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
| | - A Kuryakin
- Russian Federal Nuclear Center (VNIIEF), Sarov, Russia
| | - S Kushpil
- Nuclear Physics Institute, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Řež u Prahy, Czech Republic
| | - M J Kweon
- Inha University, Incheon, Republic of Korea
| | - Y Kwon
- Yonsei University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
| | - S L La Pointe
- Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - P La Rocca
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Catania, Italy
| | | | - Y S Lai
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, USA
| | - I Lakomov
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - R Langoy
- Faculty of Technology, Buskerud and Vestfold University College, Tonsberg, Norway
| | - K Lapidus
- Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
| | - C Lara
- Institut für Informatik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - A Lardeux
- Department of Physics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
| | - A Lattuca
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
| | - E Laudi
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - R Lavicka
- Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
| | - R Lea
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Trieste, Italy
| | - L Leardini
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - S Lee
- Yonsei University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
| | - F Lehas
- Nikhef, Nationaal instituut voor subatomaire fysica, Amsterdam, Netherlands
| | - S Lehner
- Stefan Meyer Institut für Subatomare Physik (SMI), Vienna, Austria
| | - J Lehrbach
- Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - R C Lemmon
- Nuclear Physics Group, STFC Daresbury Laboratory, Daresbury, United Kingdom
| | - E Leogrande
- Institute for Subatomic Physics of Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
| | | | - P Lévai
- Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
| | - X Li
- China Institute of Atomic Energy, Beijing, China
| | - J Lien
- Faculty of Technology, Buskerud and Vestfold University College, Tonsberg, Norway
| | - R Lietava
- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
| | - B Lim
- Department of Physics, Pusan National University, Pusan, Republic of Korea
| | - S Lindal
- Department of Physics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
| | - V Lindenstruth
- Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - S W Lindsay
- University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
| | - C Lippmann
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - M A Lisa
- Department of Physics, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA
| | | | - W J Llope
- Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, USA
| | - D F Lodato
- Institute for Subatomic Physics of Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
| | - P I Loenne
- Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
| | - V Loginov
- Moscow Engineering Physics Institute, Moscow, Russia
| | - C Loizides
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, USA
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA
| | - P Loncar
- Technical University of Split FESB, Split, Croatia
| | - X Lopez
- Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS/IN2P3, LPC, Clermont-Ferrand, France
| | - E López Torres
- Centro de Aplicaciones Tecnológicas y Desarrollo Nuclear (CEADEN), Havana, Cuba
| | - A Lowe
- Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
| | - P Luettig
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - J R Luhder
- Institut für Kernphysik, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Münster, Germany
| | - M Lunardon
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Padova, Italy
| | - G Luparello
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Trieste, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Trieste, Trieste, Italy
| | - M Lupi
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - T H Lutz
- Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
| | - A Maevskaya
- Institute for Nuclear Research, Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
| | - M Mager
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - S M Mahmood
- Department of Physics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
| | - A Maire
- Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, IPHC UMR 7178, F-67000 Strasbourg, France, Strasbourg, France
| | - R D Majka
- Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
| | - M Malaev
- Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, Gatchina, Russia
| | - 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 GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - A Mamonov
- Russian Federal Nuclear Center (VNIIEF), Sarov, Russia
| | - V Manko
- National Research Centre Kurchatov Institute, Moscow, Russia
| | - F Manso
- Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS/IN2P3, LPC, Clermont-Ferrand, France
| | | | - Y Mao
- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
| | - M Marchisone
- iThemba LABS, National Research Foundation, Somerset West, South Africa
- University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
- Université de Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, IPN-Lyon, Villeurbanne, Lyon, France
| | - 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
| | - A Margotti
- INFN, Sezione di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
| | - J Margutti
- Institute for Subatomic Physics of Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
| | - A Marín
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - C Markert
- The University of Texas at Austin, Physics Department, Austin, Texas, USA
| | - M Marquard
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - N A Martin
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - P Martinengo
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - J A L Martinez
- Institut für Informatik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - M I Martínez
- Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Puebla, Mexico
| | - G Martínez García
- SUBATECH, IMT Atlantique, Université de Nantes, CNRS-IN2P3, Nantes, France
| | | | - S Masciocchi
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - M Masera
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
| | - A Masoni
- INFN, Sezione di Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy
| | - E Masson
- SUBATECH, IMT Atlantique, Université de Nantes, CNRS-IN2P3, Nantes, France
| | | | - A M Mathis
- Excellence Cluster Universe, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
- Physik Department, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
| | | | - A Matyja
- University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
| | - C Mayer
- The Henryk Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Cracow, Poland
| | - J Mazer
- University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
| | - M Mazzilli
- Dipartimento Interateneo di Fisica 'M. Merlin' and Sezione INFN, Bari, Italy
| | | | - F Meddi
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università 'La Sapienza' and Sezione INFN, Rome, Italy
| | - Y Melikyan
- Moscow Engineering Physics Institute, Moscow, Russia
| | - A Menchaca-Rocha
- Instituto de Física, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
| | - E Meninno
- Dipartimento di Fisica 'E.R. Caianiello' dell'Università and Gruppo Collegato INFN, Salerno, Italy
| | - J Mercado Pérez
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - M Meres
- Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia
| | - S Mhlanga
- Physics Department, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
| | - Y Miake
- University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
| | | | - D L Mihaylov
- Physik Department, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
| | - K Mikhaylov
- Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Moscow, Russia
- Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), Dubna, Russia
| | - A Mischke
- Institute for Subatomic Physics of Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
| | - A N Mishra
- Indian Institute of Technology Indore, Indore, India
| | - D Miśkowiec
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - J Mitra
- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Kolkata, India
| | - C M Mitu
- Institute of Space Science (ISS), Bucharest, Romania
| | - N Mohammadi
- Institute for Subatomic Physics of Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
| | - A P Mohanty
- Institute for Subatomic Physics of Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
| | - B Mohanty
- National Institute of Science Education and Research, HBNI, Jatni, India
| | - M Mohisin Khan
- Department of Physics, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India
| | - E Montes
- Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Medioambientales y Tecnológicas (CIEMAT), Madrid, Spain
| | - D A Moreira De Godoy
- Institut für Kernphysik, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Münster, Germany
| | - L A P Moreno
- Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Puebla, Mexico
| | - S Moretto
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Padova, Italy
| | - A Morreale
- SUBATECH, IMT Atlantique, Université de Nantes, CNRS-IN2P3, Nantes, France
| | - A Morsch
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - V Muccifora
- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Frascati, Italy
| | - E Mudnic
- Technical University of Split FESB, Split, Croatia
| | - D Mühlheim
- Institut für Kernphysik, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Münster, Germany
| | - S Muhuri
- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Kolkata, India
| | - M Mukherjee
- Bose Institute, Department of Physics and Centre for Astroparticle Physics and Space Science (CAPSS), Kolkata, India
| | | | - M G Munhoz
- Universidade de São Paulo (USP), São Paulo, Brazil
| | - K Münning
- Helmholtz-Institut für Strahlen- und Kernphysik, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Bonn, Germany
| | - R H Munzer
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | | | - S Murray
- iThemba LABS, National Research Foundation, Somerset West, South Africa
| | - L Musa
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - J Musinsky
- Institute of Experimental Physics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Košice, Slovakia
| | - C J Myers
- University of Houston, Houston, Texas, USA
| | - J W Myrcha
- Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland
| | - D Nag
- Bose Institute, Department of Physics and Centre for Astroparticle Physics and Space Science (CAPSS), Kolkata, India
| | - B Naik
- Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT), Mumbai, India
| | - R Nair
- National Centre for Nuclear Studies, Warsaw, Poland
| | - B K Nandi
- Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT), Mumbai, India
| | - R Nania
- Centro Fermi - Museo Storico della Fisica e Centro Studi e Ricerche "Enrico Fermi", Rome, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
| | - E Nappi
- INFN, Sezione di Bari, Bari, Italy
| | - A Narayan
- Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT), Mumbai, India
| | - M U Naru
- COMSATS Institute of Information Technology (CIIT), Islamabad, Pakistan
| | | | - C Nattrass
- University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
| | - S R Navarro
- Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Puebla, Mexico
| | - K Nayak
- National Institute of Science Education and Research, HBNI, Jatni, India
| | - R Nayak
- Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT), Mumbai, India
| | - T K Nayak
- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Kolkata, India
| | - S Nazarenko
- Russian Federal Nuclear Center (VNIIEF), Sarov, Russia
| | | | - L Nellen
- Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
| | - S V Nesbo
- Faculty of Engineering, Bergen University College, Bergen, Norway
| | - F Ng
- University of Houston, Houston, Texas, USA
| | - M Nicassio
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - M Niculescu
- Institute of Space Science (ISS), Bucharest, Romania
| | - J Niedziela
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
- Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland
| | - B S Nielsen
- Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - S Nikolaev
- National Research Centre Kurchatov Institute, Moscow, Russia
| | - S Nikulin
- National Research Centre Kurchatov Institute, Moscow, Russia
| | - V Nikulin
- Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, Gatchina, Russia
| | - F Noferini
- Centro Fermi - Museo Storico della Fisica e Centro Studi e Ricerche "Enrico Fermi", Rome, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
| | - P Nomokonov
- Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), Dubna, Russia
| | - G Nooren
- Institute for Subatomic Physics of Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
| | - J C C Noris
- Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Puebla, Mexico
| | - J Norman
- University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
| | - A Nyanin
- National Research Centre Kurchatov Institute, Moscow, Russia
| | - J Nystrand
- Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
| | - H Oeschler
- Department of Physics, Pusan National University, Pusan, Republic of Korea
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - A Ohlson
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - T Okubo
- Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan
| | - L Olah
- Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
| | - J Oleniacz
- Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland
| | | | - M H Oliver
- Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
| | - J Onderwaater
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | | | - R Orava
- Helsinki Institute of Physics (HIP), Helsinki, Finland
| | - M Oravec
- Technical University of Košice, Košice, Slovakia
| | - A Ortiz Velasquez
- Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
| | - A Oskarsson
- Division of Experimental High Energy Physics, University of Lund, Lund, Sweden
| | - J Otwinowski
- The Henryk Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Cracow, Poland
| | - K Oyama
- Nagasaki Institute of Applied Science, Nagasaki, Japan
| | - Y Pachmayer
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - V Pacik
- Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - D Pagano
- Università di Brescia, Brescia, Italy
| | - G Paić
- Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
| | - P Palni
- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
| | - J Pan
- Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, USA
| | - A K Pandey
- Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT), Mumbai, India
| | - S Panebianco
- IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, Saclay, France
| | - V Papikyan
- A.I. Alikhanyan National Science Laboratory (Yerevan Physics Institute) Foundation, Yerevan, Armenia
| | - P Pareek
- Indian Institute of Technology Indore, Indore, India
| | - J Park
- Inha University, Incheon, Republic of Korea
| | - S Parmar
- Physics Department, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India
| | - A Passfeld
- Institut für Kernphysik, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Münster, Germany
| | - S P Pathak
- University of Houston, Houston, Texas, USA
| | - R N Patra
- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Kolkata, India
| | - B Paul
- INFN, Sezione di Torino, Turin, Italy
| | - H Pei
- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
| | - T Peitzmann
- Institute for Subatomic Physics of Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
| | - X Peng
- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
| | - L G Pereira
- Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, Brazil
| | | | - D Peresunko
- Moscow Engineering Physics Institute, Moscow, Russia
- National Research Centre Kurchatov Institute, Moscow, Russia
| | - E Perez Lezama
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - V Peskov
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - 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
| | - V Petrov
- SSC IHEP of NRC Kurchatov institute, Protvino, Russia
| | - 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
| | - R P Pezzi
- Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, Brazil
| | - S Piano
- INFN, Sezione di Trieste, Trieste, Italy
| | - M Pikna
- Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia
| | - P Pillot
- SUBATECH, IMT Atlantique, Université de Nantes, CNRS-IN2P3, Nantes, France
| | - L O D L Pimentel
- Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - O Pinazza
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
- INFN, Sezione di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
| | - L Pinsky
- University of Houston, Houston, Texas, USA
| | | | - M Płoskoń
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, USA
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- Physics department, Faculty of science, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
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- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
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- Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland
| | - S Pochybova
- Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
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- Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA
| | | | - N Poljak
- Physics department, Faculty of science, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
| | - W Poonsawat
- Suranaree University of Technology, Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand
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- National Institute for Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Bucharest, Romania
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- Institut für Kernphysik, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Münster, Germany
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- Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), Dubna, Russia
| | - S K Prasad
- Bose Institute, Department of Physics and Centre for Astroparticle Physics and Space Science (CAPSS), Kolkata, India
| | | | - F Prino
- INFN, Sezione di Torino, Turin, Italy
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- Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, USA
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- Institute for Nuclear Research, Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
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- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
| | - V Punin
- Russian Federal Nuclear Center (VNIIEF), Sarov, Russia
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- Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, USA
| | - S Raha
- Bose Institute, Department of Physics and Centre for Astroparticle Physics and Space Science (CAPSS), Kolkata, India
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- Physics Department, University of Jammu, Jammu, India
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- University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland
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- Dipartimento di Scienze e Innovazione Tecnologica dell'Università del Piemonte Orientale and INFN Sezione di Torino, Alessandria, Italy
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- Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, IPHC UMR 7178, F-67000 Strasbourg, France, Strasbourg, France
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- University of Houston, Houston, Texas, USA
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- Physics Department, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur, India
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- Physics Department, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur, India
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- Helsinki Institute of Physics (HIP), Helsinki, Finland
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- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
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- Physics Department, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India
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- Helmholtz-Institut für Strahlen- und Kernphysik, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Bonn, Germany
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- Dipartimento DISAT del Politecnico and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
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- Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA
- University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
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- National Centre for Nuclear Studies, Warsaw, Poland
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- Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
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- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
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- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
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- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
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- Institute for Nuclear Research, Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
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- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, Gatchina, Russia
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- Division of Experimental High Energy Physics, University of Lund, Lund, Sweden
- Institute for Subatomic Physics of Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
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- Department of Physics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
| | - P Riedler
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
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- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Catania, Italy
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- Institute of Space Science (ISS), Bucharest, Romania
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- Department of Physics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), Dubna, Russia
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
- Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
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- Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
| | - P S Rokita
- Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland
| | - F Ronchetti
- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Frascati, Italy
| | - E D Rosas
- Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
| | - P Rosnet
- Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS/IN2P3, LPC, Clermont-Ferrand, France
| | - A Rossi
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Padova, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Padova, Padova, Italy
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- Università degli Studi di Pavia, Pavia, Italy
| | - F Roukoutakis
- National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Physics Department, Athens, Greece
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- Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, IPHC UMR 7178, F-67000 Strasbourg, France, 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
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- Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
| | - R Rui
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Trieste, Italy
| | - B Rumyantsev
- Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), Dubna, Russia
| | - A Rustamov
- National Nuclear Research Center, Baku, Azerbaijan
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- National Research Centre Kurchatov Institute, Moscow, Russia
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- Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, Gatchina, Russia
| | - A Rybicki
- The Henryk Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Cracow, Poland
| | - S Saarinen
- Helsinki Institute of Physics (HIP), Helsinki, Finland
| | - S Sadhu
- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Kolkata, India
| | - S Sadovsky
- SSC IHEP of NRC Kurchatov institute, Protvino, Russia
| | - K Šafařík
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
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- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Kolkata, India
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- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - B Sahoo
- Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT), Mumbai, India
| | - P Sahoo
- Indian Institute of Technology Indore, Indore, India
| | - R Sahoo
- Indian Institute of Technology Indore, Indore, India
| | - S Sahoo
- Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar, India
| | - P K Sahu
- Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar, India
| | - J Saini
- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Kolkata, India
| | - S Sakai
- University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
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- Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, USA
| | - J Salzwedel
- Department of Physics, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA
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- Physics Department, University of Jammu, Jammu, India
| | - V Samsonov
- Moscow Engineering Physics Institute, Moscow, Russia
- Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, Gatchina, Russia
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- Instituto de Física, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
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- iThemba LABS, National Research Foundation, Somerset West, South Africa
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- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Kolkata, India
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- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Kolkata, India
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- Gauhati University, Department of Physics, Guwahati, India
| | - M H P Sas
- Institute for Subatomic Physics of Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
| | | | - F Scarlassara
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Padova, Italy
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- Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA
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- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
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- National Institute for Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Bucharest, Romania
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- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
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- Physikalisches Institut, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Physikalisches Institut, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
- Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, IPHC UMR 7178, F-67000 Strasbourg, France, Strasbourg, France
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- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
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- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - G Scioli
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Bologna, Italy
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- Faculty of Science, P.J. Šafárik University, Košice, Slovakia
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- Physics Department, Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska, USA
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- Moscow Engineering Physics Institute, Moscow, Russia
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - K Senosi
- iThemba LABS, National Research Foundation, Somerset West, South Africa
| | - S Senyukov
- Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, IPHC UMR 7178, F-67000 Strasbourg, France, Strasbourg, France
| | - E Serradilla
- Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Medioambientales y Tecnológicas (CIEMAT), Madrid, Spain
- Instituto de Física, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
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- Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT), Mumbai, India
| | - A Sevcenco
- Institute of Space Science (ISS), Bucharest, Romania
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- Institute for Nuclear Research, Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
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- SUBATECH, IMT Atlantique, Université de Nantes, CNRS-IN2P3, Nantes, France
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
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- Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata, India
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- SSC IHEP of NRC Kurchatov institute, Protvino, Russia
| | - A Sharma
- Physics Department, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India
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- Physics Department, University of Jammu, Jammu, India
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- Physics Department, University of Jammu, Jammu, India
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- Physics Department, University of Jammu, Jammu, India
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- Physics Department, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India
| | - A I Sheikh
- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Kolkata, India
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- Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan
| | - S Shirinkin
- Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Moscow, Russia
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- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
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- Centro de Aplicaciones Tecnológicas y Desarrollo Nuclear (CEADEN), Havana, Cuba
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
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- National Research Centre Kurchatov Institute, Moscow, Russia
| | | | - K M Sielewicz
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
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- National Research Centre Kurchatov Institute, Moscow, Russia
| | - D Silvermyr
- Division of Experimental High Energy Physics, University of Lund, Lund, Sweden
| | - G Simatovic
- Nikhef, Nationaal instituut voor subatomaire fysica, Amsterdam, Netherlands
| | - G Simonetti
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - R Singaraju
- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Kolkata, India
| | - R Singh
- National Institute of Science Education and Research, HBNI, Jatni, India
| | - V Singhal
- 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 INFN Sezione di Torino, Alessandria, Italy
| | - T B Skaali
- Department of Physics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
| | - M Slupecki
- University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland
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- Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
| | - R J M Snellings
- Institute for Subatomic Physics of Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
| | | | - J Song
- Department of Physics, Pusan National University, Pusan, Republic of Korea
| | - M Song
- Yonsei University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
| | - F Soramel
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Padova, Italy
| | - S Sorensen
- University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
| | - F Sozzi
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
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- The Henryk Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Cracow, Poland
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- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Institute of Space Science (ISS), Bucharest, Romania
| | - P Stankus
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA
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- Division of Experimental High Energy Physics, University of Lund, Lund, Sweden
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- SUBATECH, IMT Atlantique, Université de Nantes, CNRS-IN2P3, Nantes, France
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- Faculty of Engineering, Bergen University College, Bergen, Norway
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- Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia
| | - A A P Suaide
- Universidade de São Paulo (USP), São Paulo, Brazil
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- Institut de Physique Nucléaire d'Orsay (IPNO), Université Paris-Sud, CNRS-IN2P3, Orsay, France
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- COMSATS Institute of Information Technology (CIIT), Islamabad, Pakistan
| | - M Suljic
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Trieste, Italy
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- Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Moscow, Russia
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- Nuclear Physics Institute, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Řež u Prahy, Czech Republic
| | - S Sumowidagdo
- Indonesian Institute of Sciences, Jakarta, Indonesia
| | - K Suzuki
- Stefan Meyer Institut für Subatomare Physik (SMI), Vienna, Austria
| | - S Swain
- Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar, India
| | - A Szabo
- Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia
| | - I Szarka
- Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia
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- COMSATS Institute of Information Technology (CIIT), Islamabad, Pakistan
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- Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas, Brazil
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- Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
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- University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
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- Institut de Physique Nucléaire d'Orsay (IPNO), Université Paris-Sud, CNRS-IN2P3, Orsay, France
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- Department of Physics, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India
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- National Institute for Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Bucharest, Romania
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- 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 di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Padova, Italy
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- Université de Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, IPN-Lyon, Villeurbanne, Lyon, France
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- Indian Institute of Technology Indore, Indore, India
| | - S Thakur
- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Kolkata, India
| | - D Thomas
- The University of Texas at Austin, Physics Department, Austin, Texas, USA
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- Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Université de Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, IPN-Lyon, Villeurbanne, Lyon, France
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- Institute for Nuclear Research, Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
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- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
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- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Frascati, Italy
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- Universidad Autónoma de Sinaloa, Culiacán, Mexico
| | - S Tripathy
- Indian Institute of Technology Indore, Indore, India
| | - S Trogolo
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
| | - G Trombetta
- Dipartimento Interateneo di Fisica 'M. Merlin' and Sezione INFN, Bari, Italy
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- Faculty of Science, P.J. Šafárik University, Košice, Slovakia
| | - V Trubnikov
- Bogolyubov Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kiev, Ukraine
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- Institute for Subatomic Physics of Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
| | - T Tsuji
- University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
| | - A Tumkin
- Russian Federal Nuclear Center (VNIIEF), Sarov, Russia
| | - R Turrisi
- INFN, Sezione di Padova, Padova, Italy
| | - T S Tveter
- Department of Physics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
| | - K Ullaland
- Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
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- University of Houston, Houston, Texas, USA
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- Université de Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, IPN-Lyon, Villeurbanne, Lyon, France
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- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Cagliari, Italy
| | - A Utrobicic
- Physics department, Faculty of science, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
| | - M Vala
- Institute of Experimental Physics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Košice, Slovakia
- Technical University of Košice, Košice, Slovakia
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- Institute for Subatomic Physics of Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
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- Institute for Subatomic Physics of Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
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- Nuclear Physics Institute, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Řež u Prahy, Czech Republic
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
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- Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
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- Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Puebla, Mexico
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- University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland
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- Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT), Mumbai, India
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- National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Physics Department, Athens, Greece
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- National Research Centre Kurchatov Institute, Moscow, Russia
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- Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie, Université Grenoble-Alpes, CNRS-IN2P3, Grenoble, France
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- Excellence Cluster Universe, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
- Physik Department, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
| | - V Vechernin
- V. Fock Institute for Physics, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia
| | - A M Veen
- Institute for Subatomic Physics of Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
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- Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
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- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
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- Centre de Calcul de l'IN2P3, Villeurbanne, Lyon, France
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- Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
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- Technical University of Split FESB, Split, Croatia
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- Institute for Subatomic Physics of Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
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- University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
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- National 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
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- Division of Experimental High Energy Physics, University of Lund, Lund, Sweden
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- Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), Dubna, Russia
| | - M A Völkl
- Physikalisches Institut, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
| | - K Voloshin
- Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Moscow, Russia
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- 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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- Excellence Cluster Universe, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
- Physik Department, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
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- Technical University of Košice, Košice, Slovakia
| | - D Vranic
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
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- Faculty of Science, P.J. Šafárik University, Košice, Slovakia
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- Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
| | - H Wang
- Institute for Subatomic Physics of Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
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- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
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- University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
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- Stefan Meyer Institut für Subatomare Physik (SMI), Vienna, Austria
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- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
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- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
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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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- Physics Department, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
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- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
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- Department of Physics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
| | - G Wilk
- National Centre for Nuclear Studies, Warsaw, Poland
| | - J Wilkinson
- INFN, Sezione di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - G A Willems
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
- Institut für Kernphysik, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Münster, Germany
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
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- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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- University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
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- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
| | - S Yalcin
- KTO Karatay University, Konya, Turkey
| | | | - P Yang
- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
| | - S Yano
- Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan
| | - Z Yin
- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
| | - H Yokoyama
- Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie, Université Grenoble-Alpes, CNRS-IN2P3, Grenoble, France
- University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
| | - I-K Yoo
- Department of Physics, Pusan National University, Pusan, Republic of Korea
| | - J H Yoon
- Inha University, Incheon, Republic of Korea
| | - E Yun
- Department of Physics, Pusan National University, Pusan, Republic of Korea
| | - V Yurchenko
- Bogolyubov Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kiev, Ukraine
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- INFN, Sezione di Torino, Turin, Italy
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- COMSATS Institute of Information Technology (CIIT), Islamabad, Pakistan
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
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- Universidade de São Paulo (USP), São Paulo, Brazil
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
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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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- Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, Gatchina, Russia
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- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
- Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
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- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
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- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
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- Institute for Subatomic Physics of Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
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- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
- Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS/IN2P3, LPC, Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- Department of Physics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Moscow, Russia
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- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
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- Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
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- Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
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- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
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- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
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- Centro Fermi - Museo Storico della Fisica e Centro Studi e Ricerche "Enrico Fermi", Rome, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Bologna, Italy
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
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- Bogolyubov Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kiev, Ukraine
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- Stefan Meyer Institut für Subatomare Physik (SMI), Vienna, Austria
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- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
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Kliethermes C, Blazek K, Zou S, Zhang Y, Guan X. Robotic-Assisted Single-Incision Repair of Cesarean Scar Defect and Evacuation of Broad Ligament Hematoma. J Minim Invasive Gynecol 2017. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jmig.2017.08.281] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Jin J, Liu S, Zhu Y, Wang W, Wang X, Wang J, Li G, Fan L, Zhang K, Shi M, Tang Y, Li S, Li N, Zhang H, Wang X, Chi Y, Zhang H, Jiang L, Jiang J, Zou S, Ren H, Fang H, Song Y, Liu Y, Wang S, Chen B, Tang Y, Qi S, Lu N, Li Y. The Updated Results for the Phase 3 Study of 5×5 Gy Followed By Chemotherapy in Locally Advanced Rectal Cancer (STELLAR trial). Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2017. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2017.06.976] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Pan J, He S, Yin X, Li Y, Zhou C, Zou S. Lithium enhances alveolar bone formation during orthodontic retention in rats. Orthod Craniofac Res 2017; 20:146-151. [PMID: 28670780 DOI: 10.1111/ocr.12190] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 05/24/2017] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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OBJECTIVE To investigate the effect of lithium on alveolar bone formation during orthodontic retention in rats. MATERIALS AND METHODS After 2 weeks of orthodontic tooth movement (OTM), 42 8-week-old male Wistar rats were randomly divided into two orthodontic retention groups: one without (control) and the other with LiCl treatment (LiCl group). Samples were collected on days 0, 3, 7 and 14 during the retention period. We evaluated the bone volume/total volume (BV/TV) ratio and new bone formation in the region of interests (ie, the root, the periodontal ligament and the adjacent alveolar bone around the distal buccal surface of the distal root of the maxillary first molar). We performed quantitative analyses, including histology, histomorphometry and immunohistochemistry to identify Runx2 and Osterix expression. RESULTS The density of trabecular bone, the quantity of osteoblasts and the expression of osteogenic markers, Runx2 and Osterix, were significantly higher in the LiCl group than in the control group during the orthodontic retention period. CONCLUSION LiCl enhances alveolar bone formation during orthodontic retention in rats.
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- J Pan
- Department of Orthodontics and The State Key Laboratory of Oral Disease, West China Hospital of Stomatology, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
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- Department of Orthodontics and The State Key Laboratory of Oral Disease, West China Hospital of Stomatology, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
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- Department of Orthodontics and The State Key Laboratory of Oral Disease, West China Hospital of Stomatology, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
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- Department of Orthodontics and The State Key Laboratory of Oral Disease, West China Hospital of Stomatology, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
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- Department of Orthodontics and The State Key Laboratory of Oral Disease, West China Hospital of Stomatology, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
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- Department of Orthodontics and The State Key Laboratory of Oral Disease, West China Hospital of Stomatology, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
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Zhang M, Zhao X, Fang Z, Niu Y, Lou J, Wu Y, Zou S, Xia S, Sun M, Du F. Fabrication of HA/PEI-functionalized carbon dots for tumor targeting, intracellular imaging and gene delivery. RSC Adv 2017. [DOI: 10.1039/c6ra26048a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/09/2023] Open
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Carbon quantum dots (CDs) as emerging carbon nano-materials have attracted tremendous attention in biomedical fields due to unique properties.
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- M. Zhang
- School of Medicine
- Jiangsu University
- Zhenjiang
- P. R. China
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- School of Medicine
- Jiangsu University
- Zhenjiang
- P. R. China
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- School of Medicine
- Jiangsu University
- Zhenjiang
- P. R. China
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- School of Medicine
- Jiangsu University
- Zhenjiang
- P. R. China
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- School of Medicine
- Jiangsu University
- Zhenjiang
- P. R. China
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- School of Medicine
- Jiangsu University
- Zhenjiang
- P. R. China
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- Department of Hepatosis
- The Third Hospital of Zhenjiang Affiliated to Jiangsu University
- Zhenjiang
- P. R. China
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- School of Medicine
- Jiangsu University
- Zhenjiang
- P. R. China
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- Department of Clinical Laboratory
- Affiliated Yancheng Hospital
- School of Medicine
- Southeast University
- Yancheng
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- School of Medicine
- Jiangsu University
- Zhenjiang
- P. R. China
- Department of Hepatosis
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Tang Y, Jin J, Li S, Li N, Ren H, Zhang H, Zhou Z, Liang J, Zheng Z, Zhao D, Zhang H, Zou S, Fang H, Chi Y, Yang L, Wang W, Song Y, Liu Y, Wang S, Li Y, Liu S, Li G, Wang X, Wang W, Fan L, Zhu Y. The Initial Results for a Phase 3 Study of Short-Term Versus Long-Term Chemoradiation Therapy in Locally Advanced Rectal Cancer (STELLAR Trial). Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2016. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2016.06.266] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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Zou S, Song P, Meng H, Chen T, Chen J, Wen Z, Li Z, Li Z, Shi Y, Hu H. Association and meta-analysis of HLA and non-obstructive azoospermia in the Han Chinese population. Andrologia 2016; 49. [PMID: 27597543 DOI: 10.1111/and.12600] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 02/25/2016] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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The exact aetiology and pathogenesis of most non-obstructive azoospermia (NOA) are still unknown. The previous two genomewide association studies (GWASs) have identified three different loci within the HLA region for NOA in the Han Chinese population, including rs3129878, rs498422 and rs7194. To further validate the risk of three GWAS-linked loci for NOA, we conducted a case-control study of these three risk loci in an independent Han Chinese male population, with 603 NOA patients and 610 controls. Furthermore, we also performed a meta-analysis of five studies on these three NOA-risk loci. The case-control study strongly suggested a significant association between loci rs3129878, rs498422 and rs7194 and NOA (P = 6.75 × 10-21 (OR = 2.2586), P = 0.0060 (OR = 1.4013) and P = 0.0128 (OR = 1.2626) respectively). Our meta-analyses also supported the susceptibility of these three risk loci to NOA (P < 0.01). The risk variants within the HLA region potentially have a strong effect on males at risk of NOA, and may serve as diagnostic markers for male infertility. However, considering genetic difference between different populations, future validating studies in larger independent samples and animal experiments are suggested.
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- S Zou
- Center for Reproductive Medicine, Ren Ji Hospital, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China.,Shanghai Key Laboratory for Assisted Reproduction and Reproductive Genetics, Shanghai, China
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- Center for Reproductive Medicine, Ren Ji Hospital, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China.,Shanghai Key Laboratory for Assisted Reproduction and Reproductive Genetics, Shanghai, China
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- Center for Reproductive Medicine, Ren Ji Hospital, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China.,Shanghai Key Laboratory for Assisted Reproduction and Reproductive Genetics, Shanghai, China
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- Center for Reproductive Medicine, Ren Ji Hospital, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China.,Shanghai Key Laboratory for Assisted Reproduction and Reproductive Genetics, Shanghai, China
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- BIO-X Center, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
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- BIO-X Center, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
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- BIO-X Center, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
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- Center for Reproductive Medicine, Ren Ji Hospital, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China.,Shanghai Key Laboratory for Assisted Reproduction and Reproductive Genetics, Shanghai, China
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- BIO-X Center, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
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- Center for Reproductive Medicine, Ren Ji Hospital, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China.,Shanghai Key Laboratory for Assisted Reproduction and Reproductive Genetics, Shanghai, China
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Gao R, Pan M, Li X, Zou X, Zhao X, Li T, Yang H, Zou S, Bo H, Xu J, Li S, Zhang M, Li Z, Wang D, Zaki SR, Shu Y. Post-mortem findings in a patient with avian influenza A (H5N6) virus infection. Clin Microbiol Infect 2016; 22:574.e1-5. [PMID: 27040806 DOI: 10.1016/j.cmi.2016.03.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/25/2016] [Revised: 03/16/2016] [Accepted: 03/22/2016] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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Avian influenza A (H5N6) has been found to infect humans, and has resulted in ten cases with six deaths in China since 2014. Here, we describe the systematic post-mortem pathology of a patient fatally infected with H5N6 virus and evaluate the associated pathogenesis compared with H1N1 pdm09 fatal cases. The most prominent histopathological features were diffuse alveolar damage and pulmonary vasculitis in the lungs of the patient. The virus disseminated to extrapulmonary organs, including the brain. Compared with H1N1 pdm09 fatal infection, H5N6 infection induced a more exacerbated immune response involving overt pulmonary inflammation, which led to alveolar damage and respiratory failure.
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- R Gao
- National Institute for Viral Disease Control and Prevention, China CDC, Key Laboratory for Medical Virology, National Health and Family Planning Commission, Beijing, China
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- Sichuan Provincial Disease Control and Prevention, Chengdu, China
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- National Institute for Viral Disease Control and Prevention, China CDC, Key Laboratory for Medical Virology, National Health and Family Planning Commission, Beijing, China
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- National Institute for Viral Disease Control and Prevention, China CDC, Key Laboratory for Medical Virology, National Health and Family Planning Commission, Beijing, China
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- National Institute for Viral Disease Control and Prevention, China CDC, Key Laboratory for Medical Virology, National Health and Family Planning Commission, Beijing, China
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- Sichuan Provincial Disease Control and Prevention, Chengdu, China
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- Sichuan Provincial Disease Control and Prevention, Chengdu, China
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- National Institute for Viral Disease Control and Prevention, China CDC, Key Laboratory for Medical Virology, National Health and Family Planning Commission, Beijing, China
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- National Institute for Viral Disease Control and Prevention, China CDC, Key Laboratory for Medical Virology, National Health and Family Planning Commission, Beijing, China
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- Sichuan Provincial Disease Control and Prevention, Chengdu, China
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- Sichuan Provincial Disease Control and Prevention, Chengdu, China
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- Nanchong City Disease Control and Prevention, Nanchong, China
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- Affiliated Hospital of Chuanbei Medical School, Nanchong, China
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- National Institute for Viral Disease Control and Prevention, China CDC, Key Laboratory for Medical Virology, National Health and Family Planning Commission, Beijing, China
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- Infectious Diseases Pathology Branch, Division of High-consequence Pathogens and Pathology, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA
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- National Institute for Viral Disease Control and Prevention, China CDC, Key Laboratory for Medical Virology, National Health and Family Planning Commission, Beijing, China.
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Chen X, Zou S, Wu X, Sun H, Ma B, Yang B, Zhang W, Shi J. Dietary Features and Blood Pressure among 18-88-Year-Old Residents in an Island Population in China. J Nutr Health Aging 2016; 20:107-13. [PMID: 26812505 DOI: 10.1007/s12603-015-0563-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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OBJECTIVES Dietary recommendations to reduce blood pressure (BP) have been widely disseminated and residents who live on islands have unique dietary characteristics. Here, we identified associations between dietary intake and BP levels among island residents in China. DESIGN Cross-sectional study. SETTING The Changhai islands, which is an important island county in China. PARTICIPANTS A total of 876 residents, 18-88 years old, of Changhai county. MEASUREMENTS Dietary intake and BP measurements were assessed using standardized questionnaires and protocols, respectively. Dietary intake was compared across BP categories and linear regression analyses were performed between dietary intake and systolic blood pressure (SBP) and diastolic blood pressure (DBP). RESULTS Participants previously diagnosed with hypertension consumed less salt than those with undiagnosed high BP (p < 0.01). After exclusion of participants previously diagnosed with hypertension, salt and meat consumption were positively and linearly associated with both SBP (p < 0.01 and < 0.001, respectively) and DBP (p = 0.03 and < 0.01, respectively), whereas consumption of marine products was inversely associated with SBP (p = 0.047). Mixed edible oil and edible oil consumption were associated with SBP (p < 0.01) and DBP (p = 0.021), respectively. In the multiple linear regression model, meat intake was positively associated with both SBP and DBP (β = 0.139, p < 0.001; β = 0.066, p = 0.047, respectively), whereas consumption of marine products was inversely associated with SBP (β = -0.102, p <0.001), while mixed edible oil was associated with SBP (β = 0.062, p = 0.03). CONCLUSION Adherence to nutritional recommendations can be improved among hypertensive patients, even those aware of their conditions. In the general island population, eating habits regarding salt, meat, edible oil consumption, and use of mixed edible oil increased the risk of hypertension onset, whereas marine products were found to decrease this risk.
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- Jingpu Shi, Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases, and Center of Evidence Based Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital, China Medical University, No. 155 Nanjing Bei Street, Heping District, Shenyang, Liaoning Province 110001, China, Tel.: +86 24 8328 2840; fax: +86 24 8328 2840, E-mail address:
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