Man-machine interaction-based phenotyping preprocedurally identifies patients with severe aortic stenosis, who will not recover from cardiac damage following transcatheter aortic valve replacement

Background

Severe aortic stenosis (AS) can lead to left heart dysfunction, pulmonary hypertension (PH), and eventually right heart failure. Clinical phenotypes therefore appear heterogeneous, depending on disease progression and comorbidities.

Purpose

This study therefore sought to improve diagnostic and prognostic resolution in patients undergoing transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) for severe AS by developing a man-machine interaction-based phenotyping approach.

Methods

Unsupervised agglomerative clustering was applied to preprocedural data from echocardiography and right heart catheterization from 366 consecutively enrolled patients undergoing TAVR for severe AS. Echocardiographic follow-up data, obtained on day 147±75.1 after TAVR, were available from 247 patients (67.5%).

Results

Cluster analysis revealed four distinct phenotypes, reflecting various extents of disease severity, and hence differing in mortality.

Patients from cluster 1 presented with preserved left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF; 57.2±6.4%) and with normal mean pulmonary artery pressure (mPAP) levels (21.2±6.5 mmHg).

In contrast, patients in cluster 2 suffered from postcapillary PH (mPAP: 34.2±7.8 mmHg).

Left heart failure (LVEF: 42.4±15.7%), severe PH (mPAP: 46.9±8.5 mmHg), and right heart dysfunction (tricuspid annular plane systolic excursion [TAPSE]: 16.1±4.57 mm) characterized patients in cluster 3.

Patients from cluster 4 showed mild postcapillary PH (mPAP: 27.5±9.2 mmHg), yet dilatation of all heart chambers, biventricular dysfunction (LVEF: 47.3±12.2%, TAPSE: 16.8±4.5 mm), and a high prevalence of both mitral and tricuspid regurgitation (12.5% and 14.8%, respectively).

Correction of severe AS by TAVR significantly reduced the proportion of patients suffering from concurrent severe mitral regurgitation (from 9.29% to 3.64%, p-value: 0.0015). Moreover, pulmonary artery pressures were ameliorated (estimated systolic pulmonary artery pressure: from 47.2±15.8 mmHg to 43.3±15.1 mmHg, p-value: 0.0079). However, right heart dysfunction as well as the proportion of patients with severe tricuspid regurgitation remained unchanged. Clusters 3 and 4 with persistent right heart dysfunction ultimately displayed 2-year survival rates of 69.2% (95% CI: 56.6–84.7%) and 74.6% (95% CI: 65.9–84.4%), which were significantly lower compared to clusters 1 and 2 with little or no persistent cardiopulmonary impairment (88.3% [95% CI: 83.3–93.5%] and 85.5% [95% CI: 77.1–94.8%]).

Conclusion

This phenotyping approach preprocedurally identifies patients with severe AS, who will not recover from extra-aortic valve cardiac damage following TAVR and whose survival is therefore significantly reduced. Importantly, not the degree of PH at initial presentation, but the irreversibility of right heart dysfunction determines prognosis.

Funding Acknowledgement

Type of funding sources: None.

Real-time, large-depth holographic 3D head-up display: selected aspects

Today's state-of-the-art automotive head-up displays (HUD) possess single- or double layer focal planes that limit the observers' eye focus to these planes when crucial information is shown. Other visual 3D cues such as motion parallax also suffer from this limitation. The resulting viewing experience contradicts the natural way of viewing during driving or interaction, when alerts and hints should appear at the correct projection depth where real objects of interest are located. Here we present a real-time holographic HUD with continuous depth that supports the intuitive and natural way of viewing and interacting with virtual environments outside and inside the car. We demonstrate full-color, 3D real-time encoding within a field-of-view of 5^∘×3^∘.

Difference in patterns of prescribing antidepressants known for their weight-modulating and cardiovascular side effects for patients with obesity compared to patients with normal weight

BACKGROUND

Patients with depression and comorbid obesity may be more prone to weight modulating and cardiovascular side effects of selected antidepressants (AD). It is important to ascertain whether these AD prescriptions differ by patient weight status.

METHODS

Canadian Primary Care Sentinel Surveillance Network (CPCSSN) electronic medical records were used. Participants were adults with depression prescribed an AD in 2000-2016, with weight categories established before the first prescription. Logistic regression and mixed effects models were applied to examine associations between obesity and AD prescribing, adjusted for sex, age, and comorbidities. Machine learning algorithm random forest (RF) was used to evaluate the importance of weight in predicting prescribing patterns.

RESULTS

Of 26,571 participants, 72.4% were women, mean age was 38.9 years (standard deviation (SD)=14.2) and mean BMI 27.0 kg/m² (SD = 6.5); 9.5% had ≥ 1 comorbidity. Patients with obesity, compared to normal weight patients, were more likely to receive bupropion (adjusted odds ratio (aOR) 1.24, 95%CI: 1.09,1.42), fluoxetine (aOR 1.14, 95%CI: 0.97,1.34), and amitriptyline (aOR 1.13, 95%CI: 0.93,1.36), and less likely to receive mirtazapine (aOR 0.55, 95%CI: 0.44,0.68) and escitalopram (aOR 0.88, 95%CI: 0.80, 0.97). RF analysis showed that weight was among the most important predictors of prescribing patterns, equivalent to age and more important than sex.

CONCLUSIONS

AD prescribing patterns for patients with obesity appear to be different for selected AD types, including AD known for their weight-modulating and cardiovascular side effects. Longitudinal studies are needed to examine whether these prescribing patterns are associated with significant health outcomes.

Sub-phenotyping of patients with severe aortic stenosis undergoing transcatheter aortic valve replacement by unsupervised agglomerative clustering of echocardiographic and hemodynamic data

Background

Severe aortic stenosis (AS) can trigger a deleterious cascade of impairments including left heart dysfunction, pulmonary hypertension (PH), and eventually right heart failure. Clinical phenotypes therefore appear heterogeneous, depending on disease progression and comorbidities.

Purpose

This retrospective analysis aims to categorize patients with severe AS according to clinical presentation by applying unsupervised machine learning in combination with an artificial neural network (ANN).

Methods

Unsupervised agglomerative clustering was applied to pre-procedural data from echocardiography and right heart catheterization from 366 consecutively enrolled patients undergoing transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) for severe AS at two tertiary centers in Germany between 2014 and 2020. Association between cluster and 2-year all-cause mortality after TAVR was assessed, and an ANN was trained to open the avenue to prospectively predict cluster assignment in future patients.

Results

Cluster analysis revealed four distinct phenotypes, reflecting various extents of disease severity, and hence differing in mortality.

Patients from cluster 1, constituting the majority of cases and hereinafter referred to as reference, presented with regular cardiac function and without PH. Accordingly, estimated 2-year survival was 90.6% (95% CI: 85.8–95.6%).

Contrarily, patients from smallest cluster 3 displayed most extensive disease characteristics, i.e. left and right heart dysfunction together with combined pre- and postcapillary PH, and their 2-year mortality was increased (2-year survival: 77.3% (95% CI: 65.2–91.6%), HR for 2-year mortality: 2.6 (95% CI: 1.1–6.2); p-value: 0.025).

Clusters 2 and 4 comprised patients suffering from postcapillary PH. Whilst patients from cluster 2 showed similar survival as cluster 1 (2-year survival: 85.8% (95% CI: 76.9–95.6%)), patients from cluster 4 with right atrial enlargement and high prevalence of severe tricuspid regurgitation (TR) deceased more often (2-year survival: 74.9% (95% CI: 65.9–85.2%), HR for 2-year mortality: 2.8 (95% CI: 1.4–5.5); p-value: 0.004).

After randomly dividing the study population into derivation and validation cohorts, an ANN could precisely predict cluster assignment (accuracy: 83.5%), significantly outperforming the no information rate (46.8%; p-value: 2.26e-15). Importantly, patients from high-risk clusters 3 and 4 were detected with high sensitivity (100.0% and 85.2%, respectively) and specificity (95.9% and 95.1%, respectively).

Conclusion

Expanding the analytical armamentarium by machine learning technology aids in capturing complex clinical presentations as observed in patients with severe AS. Assigning patients to clusters can thus facilitate a more sophisticated risk stratification in future clinical practice. Addressing irreversibility of PH and persistence of severe TR after TAVR should obtain paramount priority in order to improve long-term survival.

Funding Acknowledgement

Type of funding sources: Public Institution(s). Main funding source(s): Mark Lachmann receives funding from Technical University of Munich (Clinician Scientist Grant).

AB1110 QUANTUM BLUE® RAPID TDM ASSAY STANDARDIZATION HIGHLY CORRELATES WITH WHO INTERNATIONAL STANDARD FOR INFLIXIMAB

Background:

Therapeutic drug monitoring of RA patients under anti-TNF therapy is based on trough level determination of the drug. Rapid assays and multiple ELISAs are available that measure anti-TNF biologics. An international standard is required to improve comparability among different assays. Recently, WHO introduced a series of anti-TNF standards for etanercept, adalimumab and infliximab. This is the first step for achieving common standardisation of assays available on the market.

Objectives:

The aim of the study was to evaluate the correlation of the WHO standard with BÜHLMANN Quantum Blue® Infliximab standardization and to compare spiking recovery in three commercially available infliximab ELISAs and one infliximab rapid test.

Methods:

Calibration curves were generated with BÜHLMANN calibrators and with calibrators made from WHO international standard for infliximab (NIBSC 16/170). Twenty-six serum samples, covering a concentration range from 0.5 µg/mL to 19 µg/mL, were analyzed with both calibration curves and compared by Bland-Altman and Passing-Bablok analysis. Furthermore, recovery of six serum samples spiked with WHO international standard for infliximab was determined in Theradiag LISA TRACKER Infliximab (a), Grifols/Progenika Promonitor-IFX (b), Immundiagnostik IDKmonitor Infliximab drug level (c) and BÜHLMANN Quantum Blue® Infliximab (d). Spiking recovery experiments were performed according to Westgard 2008.

Results:

The sample values gained with BÜHLMANN calibrators showed an excellent correlation with values gained with the WHO international standard for infliximab as calibrator. Passing-Bablok regression analysis revealed a slope of 0.96 and correlation coefficient (R) of 0.99. Bland-Altman analysis revealed a mean difference in the obtained values of less than five percent. Regarding spiking recovery analysis, all tests exhibit an excellent mean recovery of 101% (85-114%; a), 99% (91-105%; b); 101% (95-107%; c) and 94% (88-100%, d).

Conclusion:

Current standardization of Quantum Blue® Infliximab rapid test correlates very well with the WHO international standard for infliximab (NIBSC 16/170). Spiking recovery was highly comparable for ELISAs and the Quantum Blue® Infliximab assay. This rapid test represents a unique and modern analytical method, for fast time-to-result and simplicity of usage in a more patient near medical environment.

References:

[1]Westgard, James. (2008). Basic Method Validation.

Disclosure of Interests:

None declared

Gender differences in patient and caregiver psychoeducation for schizophrenia

Objective:

The aim of this research is to detect gender-related differences in patients and caregivers regarding knowledge about schizophrenia and attitudes towards drugs as well as gender as predictor for changes in these variables during psychoeducation.

Methods:

Data sets of one randomised-controlled (study 1) and one naturalistic psychoeducation study (study 2) were reanalysed. Main outcome measures (knowledge about schizophrenia, drug attitude, confidence in medication) were assessed at baseline, post-intervention and 12 months after index discharge.

Results:

The reanalysed samples consisted in total of 1002 patients and 176 caregivers. In study 2, baseline knowledge was significantly better in male patients and female caregivers. All participants improved significantly their knowledge. The amount of knowledge gain did not differ between genders in either study or either group. Gender was not a major predictor of baseline knowledge or knowledge gain. Only in study 1 did gender significantly impact the knowledge gain from baseline to follow-up. Regarding improvement of drug attitude, females seemed to benefit significantly better from psychoeducation. In both studies, however, changes in drug attitudes respectively confidence in medication were best explained by lower corresponding baseline scores, not gender. Patients’ gender did not influence outcomes of their caregivers.

Conclusion:

Our findings suggest that psychoeducational programs might be better adapted to males in order to improve their drug attitude. Concerning knowledge, gender-related changes do not seem to be necessary.

[True thymic hyperplasia : Differential diagnosis of thymic mass lesions in neonates and children]

Reactive and neoplastic thymic pathologies are the main considerations in the case of masses in the anterior and middle part of the mediastinum, while neurogenic tumors are predominant in the posterior mediastinum (which are not dealt with here). In neonates and infants, the commonest pathologies in the anterior mediastinum comprise germ cell tumors (mainly teratomas), congenital thymic cysts and true thymic hyperplasia (TTH). In toddlers, teratomas, yolk sac tumors and cysts predominate. In children over 5 years of age, lymphomas are the commonest mass lesions whereas thymomas and thymic carcinomas are rare. In addition, inflammation-linked hyperplasia in myasthenia gravis and rebound thymic hyperplasia after chemotherapy must be considered. Although rare at all ages, sarcomas must be considered in the differential diagnosis from birth onwards and throughout adolescence. Based on the report of a rare case of recurrent TTH, the differential diagnosis of this benign but potentially life-threatening condition is discussed.

Does a brief, behavioural intervention, delivered by paediatricians or psychologists improve sleep problems for children with ADHD? Protocol for a cluster-randomised, translational trial

INTRODUCTION

Up to 70% of children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) experience sleep problems. We have demonstrated the efficacy of a brief behavioural intervention for children with ADHD in a large randomised controlled trial (RCT) and now aim to examine whether this intervention is effective in real-life clinical settings when delivered by paediatricians or psychologists. We will also assess the cost-effectiveness of the intervention.

METHODS AND ANALYSIS

Children aged 5-12 years with ADHD (n=320) are being recruited for this translational cluster RCT through paediatrician practices in Victoria and Queensland, Australia. Children are eligible if they meet criteria for ADHD, have a moderate/severe sleep problem and meet American Academy of Sleep Medicine criteria for either chronic insomnia disorder or delayed sleep-wake phase disorder; or are experiencing sleep-related anxiety. Clinicians are randomly allocated at the level of the paediatrician to either receive the sleep training or not. The behavioural intervention comprises 2 consultations covering sleep hygiene and standardised behavioural strategies. The primary outcome is change in the proportion of children with moderate/severe sleep problems from moderate/severe to no/mild by parent report at 3 months postintervention. Secondary outcomes include a range of child (eg, sleep severity, ADHD symptoms, quality of life, behaviour, working memory, executive functioning, learning, academic achievement) and primary caregiver (mental health, parenting, work attendance) measures. Analyses will address clustering at the level of the paediatrician using linear mixed effect models adjusting for potential a priori confounding variables.

ETHICS AND DISSEMINATION

Ethics approval has been granted. Findings will determine whether the benefits of an efficacy trial can be realised more broadly at the population level and will inform the development of clinical guidelines for managing sleep problems in this population. We will seek to publish in leading international paediatric journals, present at major conferences and through established clinician networks.

TRIAL REGISTRATION NUMBER

ISRCTN50834814, Pre-results.

Health-Related Behaviour Among Children of Childhood Cancer Survivors in Germany

Purpose: Childhood cancer survivors fear that previous therapy could not only impair their own but also their children's health. We examined whether health-related behaviour in children of childhood cancer survivors differs from the general population. Methods: Our first nationwide survey wave (2013-2014) surveyed offspring health in 396 German childhood cancer survivors known to have a child of their own. Answers about health behaviour were analysed using descriptive statistics. Data were collected for 418 offspring and 394 could be integrated for matched-pair analyses with data from the German general population (KIGGS, n=17 641). Results: Teeth-cleaning routine, body-mass-index or subjective body image evaluation by parents were no different from children in the general population. Parents who included a cancer survivor smoked less in the presence of their children (p=0.01). During pregnancy, mothers in cancer survivor parent pairs abstained from drinking alcohol more often (p=0.01) and smoked less (p=0.05). While the calculated effect sizes (Phi) were generally low (0.135-0.247), children from cancer survivors played less outdoors than peers did (p=0.01). Boys participated in sports outside a club more often (p=0.05) and watched less TV on weekdays (p=0.01) and girls spent more time on the computer during weekdays than peers did (p=0.01). Conclusions: This study provides the first data for health-related behaviour in cancer survivors' offspring and sheds light on differences to parenting in the general population. Multivariate analyses in a larger study population are needed to relate these differences to fear issues in cancer survivors.

Centrality Dependence of the Charged-Particle Multiplicity Density at Midrapidity in Pb-Pb Collisions at sqrt[s_{NN}]=5.02 TeV

The pseudorapidity density of charged particles, dN_{ch}/dη, at midrapidity in Pb-Pb collisions has been measured at a center-of-mass energy per nucleon pair of sqrt[s_{NN}]=5.02  TeV. For the 5% most central collisions, we measure a value of 1943±54. The rise in dN_{ch}/dη as a function of sqrt[s_{NN}] is steeper than that observed in proton-proton collisions and follows the trend established by measurements at lower energy. The increase of dN_{ch}/dη as a function of the average number of participant nucleons, ⟨N_{part}⟩, calculated in a Glauber model, is compared with the previous measurement at sqrt[s_{NN}]=2.76  TeV. A constant factor of about 1.2 describes the increase in dN_{ch}/dη from sqrt[s_{NN}]=2.76 to 5.02 TeV for all centrality classes, within the measured range of 0%-80% centrality. The results are also compared to models based on different mechanisms for particle production in nuclear collisions.

Measurement of an Excess in the Yield of J/ψ at Very Low p_{T} in Pb-Pb Collisions at sqrt[s]_{NN}=2.76 TeV

We report on the first measurement of an excess in the yield of J/ψ at very low transverse momentum (p_{T}<0.3  GeV/c) in peripheral hadronic Pb-Pb collisions at sqrt[s_{NN}]=2.76  TeV, performed by ALICE at the CERN LHC. Remarkably, the measured nuclear modification factor of J/ψ in the rapidity range 2.5<y<4 reaches about 7 (2) in the p_{T} range 0-0.3  GeV/c in the 70%-90% (50%-70%) centrality class. The J/ψ production cross section associated with the observed excess is obtained under the hypothesis that coherent photoproduction of J/ψ is the underlying physics mechanism. If confirmed, the observation of J/ψ coherent photoproduction in Pb-Pb collisions at impact parameters smaller than twice the nuclear radius opens new theoretical and experimental challenges and opportunities. In particular, coherent photoproduction accompanying hadronic collisions may provide insight into the dynamics of photoproduction and nuclear reactions, as well as become a novel probe of the quark-gluon plasma.

Production of K[Formula: see text](892)[Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text](1020) in p-Pb collisions at [Formula: see text] = 5.02 TeV

The production of K[Formula: see text](892)[Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text](1020) mesons has been measured in p-Pb collisions at [Formula: see text][Formula: see text] 5.02 TeV. K[Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] are reconstructed via their decay into charged hadrons with the ALICE detector in the rapidity range [Formula: see text]. The transverse momentum spectra, measured as a function of the multiplicity, have a p[Formula: see text] range from 0 to 15 GeV/c for K[Formula: see text] and from 0.3 to 21 GeV/c for [Formula: see text]. Integrated yields, mean transverse momenta and particle ratios are reported and compared with results in pp collisions at [Formula: see text][Formula: see text] 7 TeV and Pb-Pb collisions at [Formula: see text][Formula: see text] 2.76 TeV. In Pb-Pb and p-Pb collisions, K[Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] probe the hadronic phase of the system and contribute to the study of particle formation mechanisms by comparison with other identified hadrons. For this purpose, the mean transverse momenta and the differential proton-to-[Formula: see text] ratio are discussed as a function of the multiplicity of the event. The short-lived K[Formula: see text] is measured to investigate re-scattering effects, believed to be related to the size of the system and to the lifetime of the hadronic phase.

Inclusive quarkonium production at forward rapidity in pp collisions at [Formula: see text]TeV

We report on the inclusive production cross sections of [Formula: see text], [Formula: see text], [Formula: see text](1S), [Formula: see text](2S) and [Formula: see text](3S), measured at forward rapidity with the ALICE detector in [Formula: see text] collisions at a center-of-mass energy [Formula: see text] TeV. The analysis is based on data collected at the LHC and corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 1.23 pb[Formula: see text]. Quarkonia are reconstructed in the dimuon-decay channel. The differential production cross sections are measured as a function of the transverse momentum [Formula: see text] and rapidity y, over the [Formula: see text] ranges [Formula: see text] GeV/c for [Formula: see text], [Formula: see text] GeV/c for all other resonances, and for [Formula: see text]. The cross sections, integrated over [Formula: see text] and y, and assuming unpolarized quarkonia, are [Formula: see text] [Formula: see text]b, [Formula: see text] [Formula: see text]b, [Formula: see text] nb, [Formula: see text] nb and [Formula: see text] nb, where the first uncertainty is statistical and the second one is systematic. These values agree, within at most [Formula: see text], with measurements performed by the LHCb collaboration in the same rapidity range.

Multiplicity and transverse momentum evolution of charge-dependent correlations in pp, p-Pb, and Pb-Pb collisions at the LHC

We report on two-particle charge-dependent correlations in pp, p-Pb, and Pb-Pb collisions as a function of the pseudorapidity and azimuthal angle difference, [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] respectively. These correlations are studied using the balance function that probes the charge creation time and the development of collectivity in the produced system. The dependence of the balance function on the event multiplicity as well as on the trigger and associated particle transverse momentum ([Formula: see text]) in pp, p-Pb, and Pb-Pb collisions at [Formula: see text] 7, 5.02, and 2.76 TeV, respectively, are presented. In the low transverse momentum region, for [Formula: see text] GeV/c, the balance function becomes narrower in both [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] directions in all three systems for events with higher multiplicity. The experimental findings favor models that either incorporate some collective behavior (e.g. AMPT) or different mechanisms that lead to effects that resemble collective behavior (e.g. PYTHIA8 with color reconnection). For higher values of transverse momenta the balance function becomes even narrower but exhibits no multiplicity dependence, indicating that the observed narrowing with increasing multiplicity at low [Formula: see text] is a feature of bulk particle production.

Measurement of pion, kaon and proton production in proton-proton collisions at [Formula: see text] TeV

The measurement of primary [Formula: see text], [Formula: see text], [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] production at mid-rapidity ([Formula: see text] 0.5) in proton-proton collisions at [Formula: see text][Formula: see text] 7 TeV performed with a large ion collider experiment at the large hadron collider (LHC) is reported. Particle identification is performed using the specific ionisation energy-loss and time-of-flight information, the ring-imaging Cherenkov technique and the kink-topology identification of weak decays of charged kaons. Transverse momentum spectra are measured from 0.1 up to 3 GeV/[Formula: see text] for pions, from 0.2 up to 6 GeV/[Formula: see text] for kaons and from 0.3 up to 6 GeV/[Formula: see text] for protons. The measured spectra and particle ratios are compared with quantum chromodynamics-inspired models, tuned to reproduce also the earlier measurements performed at the LHC. Furthermore, the integrated particle yields and ratios as well as the average transverse momenta are compared with results at lower collision energies.

Production of [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] in proton-proton collisions at [Formula: see text] 7 TeV

The production of the strange and double-strange baryon resonances ([Formula: see text], [Formula: see text]) has been measured at mid-rapidity ([Formula: see text][Formula: see text]) in proton-proton collisions at [Formula: see text] [Formula: see text] 7 TeV with the ALICE detector at the LHC. Transverse momentum spectra for inelastic collisions are compared to QCD-inspired models, which in general underpredict the data. A search for the [Formula: see text] pentaquark, decaying in the [Formula: see text] channel, has been carried out but no evidence is seen.

Exclusive J/ψ photoproduction off protons in ultraperipheral p-Pb collisions at √(s(NN))=5.02 TeV

We present the first measurement at the LHC of exclusive J/ψ photoproduction off protons, in ultraperipheral proton-lead collisions at sqrt[s_{NN}]=5.02  TeV. Events are selected with a dimuon pair produced either in the rapidity interval, in the laboratory frame, 2.5<y<4 (p-Pb) or -3.6<y<-2.6 (Pb-p), and no other particles observed in the ALICE acceptance. The measured cross sections σ(γ+p→J/ψ+p) are 33.2±2.2(stat)±3.2(syst)±0.7(theor)  nb in p-Pb and 284±36(stat)_{-32}^{+27}(syst)±26(theor)  nb in Pb-p collisions. We measure this process up to about 700 GeV in the γp center of mass, which is a factor of two larger than the highest energy studied at HERA. The data are consistent with a power law dependence of the J/ψ photoproduction cross section in γp energies from about 20 to 700 GeV, or equivalently, from Bjorken x scaling variable between ∼2×10^{-2} and ∼2×10^{-5}, thus indicating no significant change in the gluon density behavior of the proton between HERA and LHC energies.

Measurement of prompt D-meson production in p-Pb collisions at √(s(NN))=5.02 TeV

The p_{T}-differential production cross sections of the prompt charmed mesons D^{0}, D^{+}, D^{*+}, and D_{s}^{+} and their charge conjugate in the rapidity interval -0.96<y_{cms}<0.04 were measured in p-Pb collisions at a center-of-mass energy sqrt[s_{NN}]=5.02  TeV with the ALICE detector at the LHC. The nuclear modification factor R_{pPb}, quantifying the D-meson yield in p-Pb collisions relative to the yield in pp collisions scaled by the number of binary nucleon-nucleon collisions, is compatible within the 15%-20% uncertainties with unity in the transverse momentum interval 1<p_{T}<24  GeV/c. No significant difference among the R_{pPb} of the four D-meson species is observed. The results are described within uncertainties by theoretical calculations that include initial-state effects. The measurement adds experimental evidence that the modification of the momentum spectrum of D mesons observed in Pb-Pb collisions with respect to pp collisions is due to strong final-state effects induced by hot partonic matter.

Quantification of diastolic dysfunction via the age dependence of diastolic function - impact of insulin resistance with and without type 2 diabetes

BACKGROUND

The alarming prevalence of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction requires quantification of diastolic dysfunction (DDF). Myocardial diastolic velocity E' implies that age is the most important determinant. We tested the hypothesis that age allows for quantification of DDF and assessment of the structural and metabolic determinants in patients with and without type 2 diabetes (D).

METHODS

This prospective, cross-sectional study assessed cardiovascular, metabolic and ultrasound data in 409 consecutive patients (Diabetes Center, Bogenhausen-Munich) between 20 and 90 years without known cardiac disease and either with (n=204) or without D but with common prevalence of cardiovascular risk factors, including a subgroup of healthy individuals (H, n=94).

RESULTS

In H, E' related to age as: E'norm=-0.163∗years+19.69 (R(2)=0.77, p<0.0001). According to this 1% reduction by annual physiologic aging, DDF was quantitated as E'-E' norm. Compared to nondiabetics, D patients were older, had greater BMI, lower E', more cardiovascular risk and greater DDF. In nondiabetics, grading of DDF by E-E'norm correlated with grading by filling pressure E/E'. Determinants of DDF by multivariate analysis included pulse wave velocity, diastolic blood pressure and the triglyceride/HDL ratio (a marker of insulin resistance) in nondiabetics and in D the same risk factors in reverse sequence and heart rate. Neither left atrial size nor left ventricular mass had significant impact.

CONCLUSIONS

The physiological impact of age on myocardial function consists of a 1% annual reduction in E' and enables precise quantification of diastolic dysfunction thereby unmasking the importance of metabolic risk for DDF.

[Prevalence of the metabolic syndrome and its risk factors: results of a large work-site health assessment]

BACKGROUND

Facing the demographic change, cardiovascular risk factors have been assessed within an occupational checkup to establish health programs.

PATIENTS AND METHODS

From 2006 to 2007, anthropometric and blood parameters of 27 359 employees of a large company of the German automobile industry were collected aiming to determine the prevalence of metabolic syndrome (by NCEP ATP III) and its risk factors. Data from 3048 employees (fasting state) were analyzed (age: ∅ 39,4 ± 10,3 years, 81.4% males).

RESULTS

The most common risk factors were hypertension ≥ 130/85 mmHg (men [m]: 74,4%, 95%-confidence interval [CI] 73-76%, women [w]: 47,1%, 95%-CI 43-51%), elevated triglycerides (≥ 150 mg/dl; m: 32,8%, 95%-CI 31-35%, w: 13,8%, 95%-CI 11-17%) and waist-circumferences (> 102 cm for men: 15,1%, 95%-CI 14-17%; > 88 cm for women: 16,9%, 95%-CI 14-20%). The prevalence of metabolic syndrome (≥ 3 risk factors) was 11,7% (95%-CI 12-15%; m: 12,7%, 95%-CI 11-14%, w: 7,4%, 95%-CI 6-10%) increasing with physical inactivity and rising age up to 20%. The prevalence of hypertension in young (< 20 years) and elder men (≥ 50 years) was similarly high (79,1%, 95%-CI 70-86% vs. 79,9%, 95%-CI 75-82%).

CONCLUSION

The prevalence of metabolic syndrome in this sample is rather low, but 75% of the men and nearly 50% of the women had hypertension. Health programs should focus on this risk factor in particular.

Measurement of quarkonium production at forward rapidity in [Formula: see text] collisions at [Formula: see text]TeV

The inclusive production cross sections at forward rapidity of [Formula: see text], [Formula: see text], [Formula: see text](1S) and [Formula: see text](2S) are measured in [Formula: see text] collisions at [Formula: see text] with the ALICE detector at the LHC. The analysis is based on a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 1.35 pb[Formula: see text]. Quarkonia are reconstructed in the dimuon-decay channel and the signal yields are evaluated by fitting the [Formula: see text] invariant mass distributions. The differential production cross sections are measured as a function of the transverse momentum [Formula: see text] and rapidity [Formula: see text], over the ranges [Formula: see text] GeV/c for [Formula: see text], [Formula: see text] GeV/c for all other resonances and for [Formula: see text]. The measured cross sections integrated over [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text], and assuming unpolarized quarkonia, are: [Formula: see text] [Formula: see text]b, [Formula: see text] [Formula: see text]b, [Formula: see text] nb and [Formula: see text] nb, where the first uncertainty is statistical and the second one is systematic. The results are compared to measurements performed by other LHC experiments and to theoretical models.

Energy dependence of the transverse momentum distributions of charged particles in pp collisions measured by ALICE

Differential cross sections of charged particles in inelastic pp collisions as a function of p_T have been measured at [Formula: see text] at the LHC. The p_T spectra are compared to NLO-pQCD calculations. Though the differential cross section for an individual [Formula: see text] cannot be described by NLO-pQCD, the relative increase of cross section with [Formula: see text] is in agreement with NLO-pQCD. Based on these measurements and observations, procedures are discussed to construct pp reference spectra at [Formula: see text] up to p_T=50 GeV/c as required for the calculation of the nuclear modification factor in nucleus-nucleus and proton-nucleus collisions.

Directed flow of charged particles at midrapidity relative to the spectator plane in Pb-Pb collisions at √(s(NN))=2.76 TeV

The directed flow of charged particles at midrapidity is measured in Pb-Pb collisions at √(s(NN))=2.76 TeV relative to the collision symmetry plane defined by the spectator nucleons. A negative slope of the rapidity-odd directed flow component with approximately 3 times smaller magnitude than found at the highest RHIC energy is observed. This suggests a smaller longitudinal tilt of the initial system and disfavors the strong fireball rotation predicted for the LHC energies. The rapidity-even directed flow component is measured for the first time with spectators and found to be independent of pseudorapidity with a sign change at transverse momenta p(T) between 1.2 and 1.7  GeV/c. Combined with the observation of a vanishing rapidity-even p(T) shift along the spectator deflection this is strong evidence for dipolelike initial density fluctuations in the overlap zone of the nuclei. Similar trends in the rapidity-even directed flow and the estimate from two-particle correlations at midrapidity, which is larger by about a factor of 40, indicate a weak correlation between fluctuating participant and spectator symmetry planes. These observations open new possibilities for investigation of the initial conditions in heavy-ion collisions with spectator nucleons.

K(S)0 and Λ production in Pb-Pb collisions at √(s(NN))=2.76 TeV

The ALICE measurement of K(S)(0) and Λ production at midrapidity in Pb-Pb collisions at √(s(NN))=2.76 TeV is presented. The transverse momentum (p(T)) spectra are shown for several collision centrality intervals and in the p(T) range from 0.4 GeV/c (0.6 GeV/c for Λ) to 12 GeV/c. The p(T) dependence of the Λ/K(S)(0) ratios exhibits maxima in the vicinity of 3 GeV/c, and the positions of the maxima shift towards higher p(T) with increasing collision centrality. The magnitude of these maxima increases by almost a factor of three between most peripheral and most central Pb-Pb collisions. This baryon excess at intermediate p(T) is not observed in pp interactions at √s=0.9 TeV and at √s=7 TeV. Qualitatively, the baryon enhancement in heavy-ion collisions is expected from radial flow. However, the measured p(T) spectra above 2 GeV/c progressively decouple from hydrodynamical-model calculations. For higher values of p(T), models that incorporate the influence of the medium on the fragmentation and hadronization processes describe qualitatively the p(T) dependence of the Λ/K(S)(0) ratio.

[Time-dependent confounding in the estimation of treatment effects in randomised trials with multimodal therapies--an illustration of the problem of time-dependent confounding by causal graphs]

Biased effect estimates induced by unconsidered confounding variables are a known problem in observational studies. Selection bias, resulting from non-random sampling of study participants, is widely recognised as a problem in case-control and cross-sectional studies. In contrast, possible bias in randomised controlled trials (RCTs) is mostly ignored. This paper illustrates, by applying directed acyclic graphs (DAGs), possible bias in the effect estimates of first-line therapy, caused by subsequent changes in therapy (time-dependent confounding). Possible selection bias, induced by not only random loss to follow-up, will be explained as well using DAGs. Underlying assumptions of standard methods usually used to analyse RCTs (like intention-to-treat, per-protocol) are shown and it is explained why effect estimates may be biased in RCTs, if only these conventional methods are used. Adequate statistical methods (causal inference models as marginal structural models and structural nested models) exist. Higher documentary efforts, however, are necessary, because any changes in medication, loss to follow-up as well as reasons for such changes need to be documented in detail as required by these advanced statistical methods. Nevertheless, causal inference models should become standard along side the currently applied standard methods, especially in studies with high non-compliance due to changes in therapy and substantial loss to follow-up. Possible bias cannot be excluded if similar results are obtained from both methods. However, study results should be interpreted with caution if they differ between both approaches.

Charmonium and e+e- pair photoproduction at mid-rapidity in ultra-peripheral Pb-Pb collisions at [Formula: see text]

The ALICE Collaboration at the LHC has measured the J/ψ and ψ' photoproduction at mid-rapidity in ultra-peripheral Pb-Pb collisions at [Formula: see text]. The charmonium is identified via its leptonic decay for events where the hadronic activity is required to be minimal. The analysis is based on an event sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of about 23 μb-1. The cross section for coherent and incoherent J/ψ production in the rapidity interval -0.9 Collapse

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The ALICE Collaboration CERN, 1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland
E. Abbas Academy of Scientific Research and Technology (ASRT), Cairo, Egypt Fachhochschule Köln, Köln, Germany Department of Physics, Gauhati University, Guwahati, India Suranaree University of Technology, Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand University of Technology and Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria
B. Abelev Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California United States
J. Adam Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
D. Adamová Nuclear Physics Institute, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Řež u Prahy, Czech Republic
A. M. Adare Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut United States
M. M. Aggarwal Physics Department, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India
G. Aglieri Rinella European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
M. Agnello Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
A. G. Agocs Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
A. Agostinelli Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell’Università and Sezione INFN, Bologna, Italy
Z. Ahammed Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Kolkata, India
N. Ahmad Department of Physics, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India
A. Ahmad Masoodi Department of Physics, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India
I. Ahmed COMSATS Institute of Information Technology (CIIT), Islamabad, Pakistan
S. A. Ahn Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information, Daejeon, South Korea
S. U. Ahn Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information, Daejeon, South Korea
I. Aimo Dipartimento di Fisica dell’Università and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
M. Ajaz COMSATS Institute of Information Technology (CIIT), Islamabad, Pakistan
A. Akindinov Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Moscow, Russia
D. Aleksandrov Russian Research Centre Kurchatov Institute, Moscow, Russia
B. Alessandro Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
D. Alexandre School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
A. Alici Centro Fermi - Museo Storico della Fisica e Centro Studi e Ricerche “Enrico Fermi”, Rome, Italy Sezione INFN, Bologna, Italy
A. Alkin Bogolyubov Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kiev, Ukraine
E. Almaráz Aviña Instituto de Física, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
J. Alme Faculty of Engineering, Bergen University College, Bergen, Norway
T. Alt Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
V. Altini Dipartimento Interateneo di Fisica ‘M. Merlin’ and Sezione INFN, Bari, Italy
S. Altinpinar 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
A. Andronic Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, Darmstadt, Germany
V. Anguelov Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
J. Anielski Institut für Kernphysik, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Münster, Germany
C. Anson Department of Physics, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio United States
T. Antičić Rudjer Bošković Institute, Zagreb, Croatia
F. Antinori Sezione INFN, Padova, Italy
P. Antonioli Sezione INFN, Bologna, Italy
L. Aphecetche SUBATECH, Ecole des Mines de Nantes, Université de Nantes, CNRS-IN2P3, Nantes, France
H. Appelshäuser Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
N. Arbor Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie (LPSC), Université Joseph Fourier, CNRS-IN2P3, Institut Polytechnique de Grenoble, Grenoble, France
S. Arcelli Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell’Università and Sezione INFN, Bologna, Italy
A. Arend Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
N. Armesto Departamento de Física de Partículas and IGFAE, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
R. Arnaldi Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
T. Aronsson Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut United States
I. C. Arsene Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, Darmstadt, Germany
M. Arslandok Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
A. Asryan V. Fock Institute for Physics, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia
A. Augustinus European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
R. Averbeck Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, Darmstadt, Germany
T. C. Awes Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee United States
J. Äystö Helsinki Institute of Physics (HIP) and University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland
M. D. Azmi Department of Physics, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India Physics Department, University of Cape Town and iThemba LABS, National Research Foundation, Somerset West, South Africa
M. Bach Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
A. Badalà Sezione INFN, Catania, Italy
Y. W. Baek Gangneung-Wonju National University, Gangneung, South Korea Laboratoire de Physique Corpusculaire (LPC), Clermont Université, Université Blaise Pascal, CNRS–IN2P3, Clermont-Ferrand, France
R. Bailhache Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
R. Bala Physics Department, University of Jammu, Jammu, India Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
A. Baldisseri Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique, IRFU, Saclay, France
F. Baltasar Dos Santos Pedrosa European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
J. Bán Institute of Experimental Physics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Košice, Slovakia
R. C. Baral Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar, India
R. Barbera Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell’Università and Sezione INFN, Catania, Italy
F. Barile Dipartimento Interateneo di Fisica ‘M. Merlin’ and Sezione INFN, Bari, Italy
G. G. Barnaföldi Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
L. S. Barnby School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
V. Barret Laboratoire de Physique Corpusculaire (LPC), Clermont Université, Université Blaise Pascal, CNRS–IN2P3, Clermont-Ferrand, France
J. Bartke The Henryk Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Cracow, Poland
M. Basile Dipartimento di Fisica 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 Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Kolkata, India
B. Bathen Institut für Kernphysik, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Münster, Germany
G. Batigne SUBATECH, Ecole des Mines de Nantes, Université de Nantes, CNRS-IN2P3, Nantes, France
B. Batyunya Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), Dubna, Russia
P. C. Batzing Department of Physics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
C. Baumann Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
I. G. Bearden Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
H. Beck Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
N. K. Behera Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT), Mumbai, India
I. Belikov Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien (IPHC), Université de Strasbourg, CNRS-IN2P3, Strasbourg, France
F. Bellini Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell’Università and Sezione INFN, Bologna, Italy
R. Bellwied University of Houston, Houston, Texas United States
E. Belmont-Moreno Instituto de Física, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
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
I. Berceanu National Institute for Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Bucharest, Romania
A. Bercuci National Institute for Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Bucharest, Romania
Y. Berdnikov Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, Gatchina, Russia
D. Berenyi Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
A. A. E. Bergognon SUBATECH, Ecole des Mines de Nantes, Université de Nantes, CNRS-IN2P3, Nantes, France
R. A. Bertens Nikhef, National Institute for Subatomic Physics and Institute for Subatomic Physics of Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
D. Berzano Dipartimento di Fisica dell’Università and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
L. Betev European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
A. Bhasin Physics Department, University of Jammu, Jammu, India
A. K. Bhati Physics Department, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India
J. Bhom University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
L. Bianchi Dipartimento di Fisica dell’Università and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
N. Bianchi Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, INFN, Frascati, Italy
C. Bianchin Nikhef, National Institute for Subatomic Physics and Institute for Subatomic Physics of Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
J. Bielčík Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
J. Bielčíková Nuclear Physics Institute, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Řež u Prahy, Czech Republic
A. Bilandzic Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
S. Bjelogrlic Nikhef, National Institute for Subatomic Physics and Institute for Subatomic Physics of Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
F. Blanco Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Medioambientales y Tecnológicas (CIEMAT), Madrid, Spain
F. Blanco University of Houston, Houston, Texas United States
D. Blau Russian Research Centre Kurchatov Institute, Moscow, Russia
C. Blume Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
M. Boccioli European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
S. Böttger Institut für Informatik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
A. Bogdanov Moscow Engineering Physics Institute, Moscow, Russia
H. Bøggild Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
M. Bogolyubsky Institute for High Energy Physics, Protvino, 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
J. Book Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
H. Borel Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique, IRFU, Saclay, France
A. Borissov Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan United States
F. Bossú Physics Department, University of Cape Town and iThemba LABS, National Research Foundation, Somerset West, South Africa
M. Botje Nikhef, National Institute for Subatomic Physics, Amsterdam, Netherlands
E. Botta Dipartimento di Fisica dell’Università and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
E. Braidot Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California United States
P. Braun-Munzinger Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, Darmstadt, Germany
M. Bregant SUBATECH, Ecole des Mines de Nantes, Université de Nantes, CNRS-IN2P3, Nantes, France
T. Breitner Institut für Informatik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
T. A. Broker Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
T. A. Browning Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana United States
M. Broz Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia
R. Brun European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
E. Bruna Dipartimento di Fisica dell’Università and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
G. E. Bruno Dipartimento Interateneo di Fisica ‘M. Merlin’ and Sezione INFN, Bari, Italy
D. Budnikov Russian Federal Nuclear Center (VNIIEF), Sarov, Russia
H. Buesching Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
S. Bufalino Dipartimento di Fisica dell’Università and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
P. Buncic European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
O. Busch Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
Z. Buthelezi Physics Department, University of Cape Town and iThemba LABS, National Research Foundation, Somerset West, South Africa
D. Caffarri Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell’Università and Sezione INFN, Padova, Italy Sezione INFN, Padova, Italy
X. Cai Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
H. Caines Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut United States
E. Calvo Villar Sección Física, Departamento de Ciencias, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima, Peru
P. Camerini Dipartimento di Fisica dell’Università and Sezione INFN, Trieste, Italy
V. Canoa Roman Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados (CINVESTAV), Mexico City and Mérida, Mexico
G. Cara Romeo Sezione INFN, Bologna, Italy
W. Carena European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
F. Carena European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
N. Carlin Filho Universidade de São Paulo (USP), São Paulo, Brazil
F. Carminati European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
A. Casanova Díaz Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, INFN, Frascati, Italy
J. Castillo Castellanos Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique, IRFU, Saclay, France
J. F. Castillo Hernandez Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, Darmstadt, Germany
E. A. R. Casula Dipartimento di Fisica dell’Università and Sezione INFN, Cagliari, Italy
V. Catanescu National Institute for Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Bucharest, Romania
C. Cavicchioli European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
C. Ceballos Sanchez Centro de Aplicaciones Tecnológicas y Desarrollo Nuclear (CEADEN), Havana, Cuba
J. Cepila Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
P. Cerello Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
B. Chang Helsinki Institute of Physics (HIP) and University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea
S. Chapeland European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
J. L. Charvet Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique, IRFU, Saclay, France
S. Chattopadhyay Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Kolkata, India
S. Chattopadhyay Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata, India
M. Cherney Physics Department, Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska United States
C. Cheshkov European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland Université de Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, IPN-Lyon, Villeurbanne, France
B. Cheynis Université de Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, IPN-Lyon, Villeurbanne, France
V. Chibante Barroso European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
D. D. Chinellato University of Houston, Houston, Texas United States
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
P. Christakoglou Nikhef, National Institute for Subatomic Physics, Amsterdam, Netherlands
C. H. Christensen Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
P. Christiansen Division of Experimental High Energy Physics, University of Lund, Lund, Sweden
T. Chujo University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
S. U. Chung Pusan National University, Pusan, South Korea
C. Cicalo Sezione INFN, 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 Sezione INFN, Bologna, Italy
J. Cleymans Physics Department, University of Cape Town and iThemba LABS, National Research Foundation, Somerset West, South Africa
F. Colamaria Dipartimento Interateneo di Fisica ‘M. Merlin’ and Sezione INFN, Bari, Italy
D. Colella Dipartimento Interateneo di Fisica ‘M. Merlin’ and Sezione INFN, Bari, Italy
A. Collu Dipartimento di Fisica dell’Università and Sezione INFN, Cagliari, Italy
G. Conesa Balbastre Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie (LPSC), Université Joseph Fourier, CNRS-IN2P3, Institut Polytechnique de Grenoble, Grenoble, France
Z. Conesa del Valle European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland Institut de Physique Nucléaire d’Orsay (IPNO), Université Paris-Sud, CNRS-IN2P3, Orsay, France
M. E. Connors Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut United States
G. Contin Dipartimento di Fisica dell’Università and Sezione INFN, Trieste, Italy
J. G. Contreras Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados (CINVESTAV), Mexico City and Mérida, Mexico
T. M. Cormier Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan United States
Y. Corrales Morales Dipartimento di Fisica dell’Università and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
P. Cortese Dipartimento di Scienze e Innovazione Tecnologica dell’Università del Piemonte Orientale and Gruppo Collegato INFN, Alessandria, Italy
I. Cortés Maldonado Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Puebla, Mexico
M. R. Cosentino Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California United States
F. Costa European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
M. E. Cotallo Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Medioambientales y Tecnológicas (CIEMAT), Madrid, Spain
E. Crescio Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados (CINVESTAV), Mexico City and Mérida, Mexico
P. Crochet Laboratoire de Physique Corpusculaire (LPC), Clermont Université, Université Blaise Pascal, CNRS–IN2P3, Clermont-Ferrand, France
E. Cruz Alaniz Instituto de Física, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
R. Cruz Albino Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados (CINVESTAV), Mexico City and Mérida, Mexico
E. Cuautle Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
L. Cunqueiro Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, INFN, Frascati, Italy
A. Dainese Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell’Università and Sezione INFN, Padova, Italy Sezione INFN, Padova, Italy
R. Dang Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
A. Danu Institute of Space Sciences (ISS), Bucharest, Romania
K. Das Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata, India
I. Das Institut de Physique Nucléaire d’Orsay (IPNO), Université Paris-Sud, CNRS-IN2P3, Orsay, France
S. Das Department of Physics and Centre for Astroparticle Physics and Space Science (CAPSS), Bose Institute, Kolkata, India
D. Das Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata, India
S. Dash Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT), Mumbai, India
A. Dash Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas, Brazil
S. De Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Kolkata, India
G. O. V. de Barros Universidade de São Paulo (USP), São Paulo, Brazil
A. De Caro 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
G. de Cataldo Sezione INFN, Bari, Italy
J. de Cuveland Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
A. De Falco Dipartimento di Fisica dell’Università and Sezione INFN, Cagliari, Italy
D. De Gruttola 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
H. Delagrange SUBATECH, Ecole des Mines de Nantes, Université de Nantes, CNRS-IN2P3, Nantes, France
A. Deloff National Centre for Nuclear Studies, Warsaw, Poland
N. De Marco Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
E. Dénes Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
S. De Pasquale Dipartimento di Fisica ‘E.R. Caianiello’ dell’Università and Gruppo Collegato INFN, Salerno, Italy
A. Deppman Universidade de São Paulo (USP), São Paulo, Brazil
G. D Erasmo Dipartimento Interateneo di Fisica ‘M. Merlin’ and Sezione INFN, Bari, Italy
R. de Rooij Nikhef, National Institute for Subatomic Physics and Institute for Subatomic Physics of Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
M. A. Diaz Corchero Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Medioambientales y Tecnológicas (CIEMAT), Madrid, Spain
D. Di Bari Dipartimento Interateneo di Fisica ‘M. Merlin’ and Sezione INFN, Bari, Italy
T. Dietel Institut für Kernphysik, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Münster, Germany
C. Di Giglio Dipartimento Interateneo di Fisica ‘M. Merlin’ and Sezione INFN, Bari, Italy
S. Di Liberto Sezione INFN, Rome, Italy
A. Di Mauro European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
P. Di Nezza Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, INFN, Frascati, Italy
R. Divià European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
Ø. Djuvsland Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
A. Dobrin Division of Experimental High Energy Physics, University of Lund, Lund, Sweden Nikhef, National Institute for Subatomic Physics and Institute for Subatomic Physics of Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan United States
T. Dobrowolski National Centre for Nuclear Studies, Warsaw, Poland
B. Dönigus Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, Darmstadt, Germany
O. Dordic Department of Physics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
A. K. Dubey Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Kolkata, India
A. Dubla Nikhef, National Institute for Subatomic Physics and Institute for Subatomic Physics of Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
L. Ducroux Université de Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, IPN-Lyon, Villeurbanne, France
P. Dupieux Laboratoire de Physique Corpusculaire (LPC), Clermont Université, Université Blaise Pascal, CNRS–IN2P3, Clermont-Ferrand, France
A. K. Dutta Majumdar Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata, India
D. Elia Sezione INFN, Bari, Italy
D. Emschermann Institut für Kernphysik, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Münster, Germany
H. Engel Institut für Informatik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
B. Erazmus European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland SUBATECH, Ecole des Mines de Nantes, Université de Nantes, CNRS-IN2P3, Nantes, France
H. A. Erdal Faculty of Engineering, Bergen University College, Bergen, Norway
D. Eschweiler Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
B. Espagnon Institut de Physique Nucléaire d’Orsay (IPNO), Université Paris-Sud, CNRS-IN2P3, Orsay, France
M. Estienne SUBATECH, Ecole des Mines de Nantes, Université de Nantes, CNRS-IN2P3, Nantes, France
S. Esumi University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
D. Evans School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
S. Evdokimov Institute for High Energy Physics, Protvino, Russia
G. Eyyubova Department of Physics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
D. Fabris Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell’Università and Sezione INFN, Padova, Italy Sezione INFN, Padova, Italy
J. Faivre Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie (LPSC), Université Joseph Fourier, CNRS-IN2P3, Institut Polytechnique de Grenoble, Grenoble, France
D. Falchieri Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell’Università and Sezione INFN, Bologna, Italy
A. Fantoni Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, INFN, Frascati, Italy
M. Fasel Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
D. Fehlker Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
L. Feldkamp Institut für Kernphysik, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Münster, Germany
D. Felea Institute of Space Sciences (ISS), Bucharest, Romania
A. Feliciello Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
B. Fenton-Olsen Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California United States
G. Feofilov V. Fock Institute for Physics, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia
A. Fernández Téllez Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Puebla, Mexico
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
J. Figiel The Henryk Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Cracow, Poland
M. A. S. Figueredo Universidade de São Paulo (USP), São Paulo, Brazil
S. Filchagin Russian Federal Nuclear Center (VNIIEF), Sarov, Russia
D. Finogeev Institute for Nuclear Research, Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
F. M. Fionda Dipartimento Interateneo di Fisica ‘M. Merlin’ and Sezione INFN, Bari, Italy
E. M. Fiore Dipartimento Interateneo di Fisica ‘M. Merlin’ and Sezione INFN, Bari, Italy
E. Floratos Physics Department, University of Athens, Athens, Greece
M. Floris European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
S. Foertsch Physics Department, University of Cape Town and iThemba LABS, National Research Foundation, Somerset West, South Africa
P. Foka Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, Darmstadt, Germany
S. Fokin Russian Research Centre Kurchatov Institute, Moscow, Russia
E. Fragiacomo Sezione INFN, Trieste, Italy
A. Francescon Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell’Università and Sezione INFN, Padova, Italy European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
U. Frankenfeld Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, Darmstadt, Germany
U. Fuchs European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
C. Furget Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie (LPSC), Université Joseph Fourier, CNRS-IN2P3, Institut Polytechnique de Grenoble, Grenoble, France
M. Fusco Girard Dipartimento di Fisica ‘E.R. Caianiello’ dell’Università and Gruppo Collegato INFN, Salerno, Italy
J. J. Gaardhøje Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
M. Gagliardi Dipartimento di Fisica dell’Università and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
A. Gago Sección Física, Departamento de Ciencias, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima, Peru
M. Gallio Dipartimento di Fisica dell’Università and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
D. R. Gangadharan Department of Physics, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio United States
P. Ganoti Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee United States
C. Garabatos Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, Darmstadt, Germany
E. Garcia-Solis Chicago State University, Chicago, United States
C. Gargiulo European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
I. Garishvili Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California United States
J. Gerhard Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
M. Germain SUBATECH, Ecole des Mines de Nantes, Université de Nantes, CNRS-IN2P3, Nantes, France
C. Geuna Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique, IRFU, Saclay, France
M. Gheata European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland Institute of Space Sciences (ISS), Bucharest, Romania
A. Gheata European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
B. Ghidini Dipartimento Interateneo di Fisica ‘M. Merlin’ and Sezione INFN, Bari, Italy
P. Ghosh Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Kolkata, India
P. Gianotti Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, INFN, Frascati, Italy
P. Giubellino European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
E. Gladysz-Dziadus The Henryk Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Cracow, Poland
P. Glässel Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
R. Gomez Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados (CINVESTAV), Mexico City and Mérida, Mexico Universidad Autónoma de Sinaloa, Culiacán, Mexico
E. G. Ferreiro Departamento de Física de Partículas and IGFAE, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
L. H. González-Trueba Instituto de Física, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
P. González-Zamora Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Medioambientales y Tecnológicas (CIEMAT), Madrid, Spain
S. Gorbunov Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
A. Goswami Physics Department, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur, India
S. Gotovac Technical University of Split FESB, Split, Croatia
L. K. Graczykowski Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland
R. Grajcarek Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
A. Grelli Nikhef, National Institute for Subatomic Physics and Institute for Subatomic Physics of Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
C. Grigoras European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
A. Grigoras European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
V. Grigoriev Moscow Engineering Physics Institute, Moscow, Russia
A. Grigoryan A. I. Alikhanyan National Science Laboratory (Yerevan Physics Institute) Foundation, Yerevan, Armenia
S. Grigoryan Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), Dubna, Russia
B. Grinyov Bogolyubov Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kiev, Ukraine
N. Grion Sezione INFN, Trieste, Italy
P. Gros Division of Experimental High Energy Physics, University of Lund, Lund, Sweden
J. F. Grosse-Oetringhaus European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
J.-Y. Grossiord Université de Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, IPN-Lyon, Villeurbanne, France
R. Grosso European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
F. Guber Institute for Nuclear Research, Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
R. Guernane Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie (LPSC), Université Joseph Fourier, CNRS-IN2P3, Institut Polytechnique de Grenoble, Grenoble, France
B. Guerzoni Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell’Università and Sezione INFN, Bologna, Italy
M. Guilbaud Université de Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, IPN-Lyon, Villeurbanne, France
K. Gulbrandsen Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
H. Gulkanyan A. I. Alikhanyan National Science Laboratory (Yerevan Physics Institute) Foundation, Yerevan, Armenia
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
R. Haake Institut für Kernphysik, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Münster, Germany
Ø. Haaland Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
C. Hadjidakis Institut de Physique Nucléaire d’Orsay (IPNO), Université Paris-Sud, CNRS-IN2P3, Orsay, France
M. Haiduc Institute of Space Sciences (ISS), Bucharest, Romania
H. Hamagaki University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
G. Hamar Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
B. H. Han Department of Physics, Sejong University, Seoul, South Korea
L. D. Hanratty School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
A. Hansen Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Z. Harmanová-Tóthová Faculty of Science, P.J. Šafárik University, Košice, Slovakia
J. W. Harris Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut United States
M. Hartig Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
A. Harton Chicago State University, Chicago, United States
D. Hatzifotiadou Sezione INFN, Bologna, Italy
S. Hayashi University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
A. Hayrapetyan A. I. Alikhanyan National Science Laboratory (Yerevan Physics Institute) Foundation, Yerevan, Armenia European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
S. T. Heckel Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
M. Heide Institut für Kernphysik, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Münster, Germany
H. Helstrup Faculty of Engineering, Bergen University College, Bergen, Norway
A. Herghelegiu National Institute for Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Bucharest, Romania
G. Herrera Corral Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados (CINVESTAV), Mexico City and Mérida, Mexico
N. Herrmann Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
B. A. Hess Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
K. F. Hetland Faculty of Engineering, Bergen University College, Bergen, Norway
B. Hicks Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut United States
B. Hippolyte Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien (IPHC), Université de Strasbourg, CNRS-IN2P3, Strasbourg, France
Y. Hori University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
P. Hristov European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
I. Hřivnáčová Institut de Physique Nucléaire d’Orsay (IPNO), Université Paris-Sud, CNRS-IN2P3, Orsay, France
M. Huang Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
T. J. Humanic Department of Physics, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio United States
D. S. Hwang Department of Physics, Sejong University, Seoul, South Korea
R. Ichou Laboratoire de Physique Corpusculaire (LPC), Clermont Université, Université Blaise Pascal, CNRS–IN2P3, Clermont-Ferrand, France
R. Ilkaev Russian Federal Nuclear Center (VNIIEF), Sarov, Russia
I. Ilkiv National Centre for Nuclear Studies, Warsaw, Poland
M. Inaba University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
E. Incani Dipartimento di Fisica dell’Università and Sezione INFN, Cagliari, Italy
G. M. Innocenti Dipartimento di Fisica dell’Università and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
P. G. Innocenti European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
M. Ippolitov Russian Research Centre Kurchatov Institute, Moscow, Russia
M. Irfan Department of Physics, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India
C. Ivan Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, Darmstadt, Germany
M. Ivanov Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, Darmstadt, Germany
A. Ivanov V. Fock Institute for Physics, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia
V. Ivanov Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, Gatchina, Russia
O. Ivanytskyi Bogolyubov Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kiev, Ukraine
A. Jachołkowski Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell’Università and Sezione INFN, Catania, Italy
P. M. Jacobs Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California United States
C. Jahnke Universidade de São Paulo (USP), São Paulo, Brazil
H. J. Jang Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information, Daejeon, South Korea
M. A. Janik Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland
P. H. S. Y. Jayarathna University of Houston, Houston, Texas United States
S. Jena Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT), Mumbai, India
D. M. Jha Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan United States
R. T. Jimenez Bustamante Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
P. G. Jones School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
H. Jung Gangneung-Wonju National University, Gangneung, South Korea
A. Jusko School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
A. B. Kaidalov Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Moscow, Russia
S. Kalcher Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
P. Kaliňák Institute of Experimental Physics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Košice, Slovakia
T. Kalliokoski Helsinki Institute of Physics (HIP) and University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland
A. Kalweit European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
J. H. Kang Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea
V. Kaplin Moscow Engineering Physics Institute, Moscow, Russia
S. Kar Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Kolkata, India
A. Karasu Uysal European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland KTO Karatay University, Konya, Turkey Yildiz Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey
O. Karavichev Institute for Nuclear Research, Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
T. Karavicheva Institute for Nuclear Research, Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
E. Karpechev Institute for Nuclear Research, Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
A. Kazantsev Russian Research Centre Kurchatov Institute, Moscow, Russia
U. Kebschull Institut für Informatik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
R. Keidel Zentrum für Technologietransfer und Telekommunikation (ZTT), Fachhochschule Worms, Worms, Germany
B. Ketzer Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
M. M. Khan Department of Physics, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India
P. Khan Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata, India
S. A. Khan Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Kolkata, India
K. H. Khan COMSATS Institute of Information Technology (CIIT), Islamabad, Pakistan
A. Khanzadeev Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, Gatchina, Russia
Y. Kharlov Institute for High Energy Physics, Protvino, Russia
B. Kileng Faculty of Engineering, Bergen University College, Bergen, Norway
M. Kim Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea
T. Kim Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea
B. Kim Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea
S. Kim Department of Physics, Sejong University, Seoul, South Korea
M. Kim Gangneung-Wonju National University, Gangneung, South Korea
D. J. Kim Helsinki Institute of Physics (HIP) and University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland
J. S. Kim Gangneung-Wonju National University, Gangneung, South Korea
J. H. Kim Department of Physics, Sejong University, Seoul, South Korea
D. W. Kim Gangneung-Wonju National University, Gangneung, South Korea Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information, Daejeon, South Korea
S. Kirsch Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
I. Kisel Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
S. Kiselev Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Moscow, Russia
A. Kisiel Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland
J. L. Klay California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, California United States
J. Klein Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
C. Klein-Bösing Institut für Kernphysik, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Münster, Germany
M. Kliemant Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
A. Kluge European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
M. L. Knichel Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, Darmstadt, Germany
A. G. Knospe Physics Department, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX United States
M. K. Köhler Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, Darmstadt, Germany
T. Kollegger Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
A. Kolojvari V. Fock Institute for Physics, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia
M. Kompaniets V. Fock Institute for Physics, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia
V. Kondratiev V. Fock Institute for Physics, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia
N. Kondratyeva Moscow Engineering Physics Institute, Moscow, Russia
A. Konevskikh Institute for Nuclear Research, Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
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
S. Kox Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie (LPSC), Université Joseph Fourier, CNRS-IN2P3, Institut Polytechnique de Grenoble, Grenoble, France
G. Koyithatta Meethaleveedu Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT), Mumbai, India
J. Kral Helsinki Institute of Physics (HIP) and University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland
I. Králik Institute of Experimental Physics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Košice, Slovakia
F. Kramer Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
A. Kravčáková Faculty of Science, P.J. Šafárik University, Košice, Slovakia
M. Krelina Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
M. Kretz Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
M. Krivda Institute of Experimental Physics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Košice, Slovakia School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
F. Krizek Helsinki Institute of Physics (HIP) and University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland
M. Krus Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
E. Kryshen Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, Gatchina, Russia
M. Krzewicki Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, Darmstadt, Germany
V. Kucera Nuclear Physics Institute, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Řež u Prahy, Czech Republic
Y. Kucheriaev Russian Research Centre Kurchatov Institute, Moscow, Russia
T. Kugathasan European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
C. Kuhn Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien (IPHC), Université de Strasbourg, CNRS-IN2P3, Strasbourg, France
P. G. Kuijer Nikhef, National Institute for Subatomic Physics, Amsterdam, Netherlands
I. Kulakov Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
J. Kumar Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT), Mumbai, India
P. Kurashvili 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
V. Kushpil Nuclear Physics Institute, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Řež u Prahy, Czech Republic
S. Kushpil Nuclear Physics Institute, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Řež u Prahy, Czech Republic
H. Kvaerno Department of Physics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
M. J. Kweon Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
Y. Kwon Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea
P. Ladrón de Guevara Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
C. Lagana Fernandes Universidade de São Paulo (USP), São Paulo, Brazil
I. Lakomov Institut de Physique Nucléaire d’Orsay (IPNO), Université Paris-Sud, CNRS-IN2P3, Orsay, France
R. Langoy Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway Vestfold University College, Tonsberg, Norway
S. L. La Pointe Nikhef, National Institute for Subatomic Physics and Institute for Subatomic Physics of Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
C. Lara Institut für Informatik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
A. Lardeux SUBATECH, Ecole des Mines de Nantes, Université de Nantes, CNRS-IN2P3, Nantes, France
P. La Rocca Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell’Università and Sezione INFN, Catania, Italy
R. Lea Dipartimento di Fisica dell’Università and Sezione INFN, Trieste, Italy
M. Lechman European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
S. C. Lee Gangneung-Wonju National University, Gangneung, South Korea
G. R. Lee School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
I. Legrand European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
J. Lehnert Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
R. C. Lemmon Nuclear Physics Group, STFC Daresbury Laboratory, Daresbury, United Kingdom
M. Lenhardt Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, Darmstadt, Germany
V. Lenti Sezione INFN, Bari, Italy
H. León Instituto de Física, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
M. Leoncino Dipartimento di Fisica dell’Università and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
I. León Monzón Universidad Autónoma de Sinaloa, Culiacán, Mexico
P. Lévai Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
S. Li Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China Laboratoire de Physique Corpusculaire (LPC), Clermont Université, Université Blaise Pascal, CNRS–IN2P3, Clermont-Ferrand, France
J. Lien Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway Vestfold University College, Tonsberg, Norway
R. Lietava School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
S. Lindal Department of Physics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
V. Lindenstruth Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
C. Lippmann European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, 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
D. F. Lodato Nikhef, National Institute for Subatomic Physics and Institute for Subatomic Physics of Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
P. I. Loenne Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
V. R. Loggins Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan United States
V. Loginov Moscow Engineering Physics Institute, Moscow, Russia
D. Lohner Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
C. Loizides Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California United States
K. K. Loo Helsinki Institute of Physics (HIP) and University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland
X. Lopez Laboratoire de Physique Corpusculaire (LPC), Clermont Université, Université Blaise Pascal, CNRS–IN2P3, Clermont-Ferrand, France
E. López Torres Centro de Aplicaciones Tecnológicas y Desarrollo Nuclear (CEADEN), Havana, Cuba
G. Løvhøiden Department of Physics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
X.-G. Lu Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
P. Luettig Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
M. Lunardon Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell’Università and Sezione INFN, Padova, Italy
J. Luo Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
G. Luparello Nikhef, National Institute for Subatomic Physics and Institute for Subatomic Physics of Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
C. Luzzi European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
R. Ma Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut United States
K. Ma Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
D. M. Madagodahettige-Don University of Houston, Houston, Texas United States
A. Maevskaya Institute for Nuclear Research, Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
M. Mager European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland Institut für Kernphysik, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany
D. P. Mahapatra Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar, India
A. Maire Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
M. Malaev Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, Gatchina, Russia
I. Maldonado Cervantes Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
L. Malinina Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), Dubna, Russia
D. Mal’Kevich Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Moscow, Russia
P. Malzacher Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, Darmstadt, Germany
A. Mamonov Russian Federal Nuclear Center (VNIIEF), Sarov, Russia
L. Manceau Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
L. Mangotra Physics Department, University of Jammu, Jammu, India
V. Manko Russian Research Centre Kurchatov Institute, Moscow, Russia
F. Manso Laboratoire de Physique Corpusculaire (LPC), Clermont Université, Université Blaise Pascal, CNRS–IN2P3, Clermont-Ferrand, France
V. Manzari Sezione INFN, Bari, Italy
Y. Mao Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
M. Marchisone Dipartimento di Fisica dell’Università and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy Laboratoire de Physique Corpusculaire (LPC), Clermont Université, Université Blaise Pascal, CNRS–IN2P3, Clermont-Ferrand, 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 Sezione INFN, Trieste, Italy
A. Margotti Sezione INFN, Bologna, Italy
A. Marín Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, Darmstadt, Germany
C. Markert Physics Department, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX United States
M. Marquard Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
I. Martashvili University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee United States
N. A. Martin Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, Darmstadt, Germany
P. Martinengo European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
M. I. Martínez Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Puebla, Mexico
G. Martínez García SUBATECH, Ecole des Mines de Nantes, Université de Nantes, CNRS-IN2P3, Nantes, France
Y. Martynov Bogolyubov Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kiev, Ukraine
A. Mas SUBATECH, Ecole des Mines de Nantes, Université de Nantes, CNRS-IN2P3, Nantes, France
S. Masciocchi Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, Darmstadt, Germany
M. Masera Dipartimento di Fisica dell’Università and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
A. Masoni Sezione INFN, Cagliari, Italy
L. Massacrier SUBATECH, Ecole des Mines de Nantes, Université de Nantes, CNRS-IN2P3, Nantes, France
A. Mastroserio Dipartimento Interateneo di Fisica ‘M. Merlin’ and Sezione INFN, Bari, Italy
A. Matyja The Henryk Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Cracow, Poland
C. Mayer The Henryk Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Cracow, Poland
J. Mazer University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee United States
R. Mazumder Indian Institute of Technology Indore (IITI), Indore, India
M. A. Mazzoni Sezione INFN, Rome, Italy
F. Meddi Dipartimento di Fisica dell’Università ‘La Sapienza’ and Sezione INFN, Rome, Italy
A. Menchaca-Rocha Instituto de Física, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
J. Mercado Pérez Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
M. Meres Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia
Y. Miake University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
K. Mikhaylov Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Moscow, Russia Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), Dubna, Russia
L. Milano Dipartimento di Fisica dell’Università and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
J. Milosevic Department of Physics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
A. Mischke Nikhef, National Institute for Subatomic Physics and Institute for Subatomic Physics of Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
A. N. Mishra Indian Institute of Technology Indore (IITI), Indore, India Physics Department, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur, India
D. Miśkowiec Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, Darmstadt, Germany
C. Mitu Institute of Space Sciences (ISS), Bucharest, Romania
S. Mizuno University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
J. Mlynarz Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan United States
B. Mohanty National Institute of Science Education and Research, Bhubaneswar, India Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Kolkata, India
L. Molnar Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien (IPHC), Université de Strasbourg, CNRS-IN2P3, Strasbourg, France Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
L. Montaño Zetina Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados (CINVESTAV), Mexico City and Mérida, Mexico
M. Monteno Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
E. Montes Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Medioambientales y Tecnológicas (CIEMAT), Madrid, Spain
T. Moon Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea
M. Morando Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell’Università and Sezione INFN, Padova, Italy
D. A. Moreira De Godoy Universidade de São Paulo (USP), São Paulo, Brazil
S. Moretto Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell’Università and Sezione INFN, Padova, Italy
A. Morreale Helsinki Institute of Physics (HIP) and University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland
A. Morsch European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
V. Muccifora Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, INFN, Frascati, Italy
E. Mudnic Technical University of Split FESB, Split, Croatia
S. Muhuri Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Kolkata, India
M. Mukherjee Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Kolkata, India
H. Müller European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
M. G. Munhoz Universidade de São Paulo (USP), São Paulo, Brazil
S. Murray Physics Department, University of Cape Town and 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
B. K. Nandi Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT), Mumbai, India
R. Nania Sezione INFN, Bologna, Italy
E. Nappi Sezione INFN, Bari, Italy
C. Nattrass University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee United States
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
M. Nicassio Dipartimento Interateneo di Fisica ‘M. Merlin’ and Sezione INFN, Bari, Italy Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, Darmstadt, Germany
M. Niculescu European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland Institute of Space Sciences (ISS), Bucharest, Romania
B. S. Nielsen Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
T. Niida University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
S. Nikolaev Russian Research Centre Kurchatov Institute, Moscow, Russia
V. Nikolic Rudjer Bošković Institute, Zagreb, Croatia
S. Nikulin Russian Research Centre Kurchatov Institute, Moscow, Russia
V. Nikulin Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, Gatchina, Russia
B. S. Nilsen Physics Department, Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska United States
M. S. Nilsson Department of Physics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
F. Noferini Centro Fermi - Museo Storico della Fisica e Centro Studi e Ricerche “Enrico Fermi”, Rome, Italy Sezione INFN, Bologna, Italy
P. Nomokonov Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), Dubna, Russia
G. Nooren Nikhef, National Institute for Subatomic Physics and Institute for Subatomic Physics of Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
A. Nyanin Russian Research Centre Kurchatov Institute, Moscow, Russia
A. Nyatha Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT), Mumbai, India
C. Nygaard Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
J. Nystrand Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
A. Ochirov V. Fock Institute for Physics, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia
H. Oeschler European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland Institut für Kernphysik, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
S. Oh Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut United States
S. K. Oh Gangneung-Wonju National University, Gangneung, South Korea
J. Oleniacz Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland
A. C. Oliveira Da Silva Universidade de São Paulo (USP), São Paulo, Brazil
J. Onderwaater Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, Darmstadt, Germany
C. Oppedisano Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
A. Ortiz Velasquez Division of Experimental High Energy Physics, University of Lund, Lund, Sweden Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
A. Oskarsson Division of Experimental High Energy Physics, University of Lund, Lund, Sweden
P. Ostrowski Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland
J. Otwinowski Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, Darmstadt, Germany
K. Oyama Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
K. Ozawa University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Y. Pachmayer Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
M. Pachr Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
F. Padilla Dipartimento di Fisica dell’Università and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
P. Pagano Dipartimento di Fisica ‘E.R. Caianiello’ dell’Università and Gruppo Collegato INFN, Salerno, Italy
G. Paić Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
F. Painke Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
C. Pajares Departamento de Física de Partículas and IGFAE, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
S. K. Pal Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Kolkata, India
A. Palaha School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
A. Palmeri Sezione INFN, Catania, Italy
V. Papikyan A. I. Alikhanyan National Science Laboratory (Yerevan Physics Institute) Foundation, Yerevan, Armenia
G. S. Pappalardo Sezione INFN, Catania, Italy
W. J. Park Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, Darmstadt, Germany
A. Passfeld Institut für Kernphysik, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Münster, Germany
D. I. Patalakha Institute for High Energy Physics, Protvino, Russia
V. Paticchio Sezione INFN, Bari, Italy
B. Paul Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata, India
A. Pavlinov Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan United States
T. Pawlak Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland
T. Peitzmann Nikhef, National Institute for Subatomic Physics and Institute for Subatomic Physics of Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
H. Pereira Da Costa Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique, IRFU, Saclay, France
E. Pereira De Oliveira Filho Universidade de São Paulo (USP), São Paulo, Brazil
D. Peresunko Russian Research Centre Kurchatov Institute, Moscow, Russia
C. E. Pérez Lara Nikhef, National Institute for Subatomic Physics, Amsterdam, Netherlands
D. Perrino Dipartimento Interateneo di Fisica ‘M. Merlin’ and Sezione INFN, Bari, Italy
W. Peryt Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland
A. Pesci Sezione INFN, Bologna, Italy
Y. Pestov Budker Institute for Nuclear Physics, Novosibirsk, Russia
V. Petráček Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
M. Petran Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
M. Petris National Institute for Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Bucharest, Romania
P. Petrov School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
M. Petrovici National Institute for Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Bucharest, Romania
C. Petta Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell’Università and Sezione INFN, Catania, Italy
S. Piano Sezione INFN, Trieste, Italy
M. Pikna Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia
P. Pillot SUBATECH, Ecole des Mines de Nantes, Université de Nantes, CNRS-IN2P3, Nantes, France
O. Pinazza European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
L. Pinsky University of Houston, Houston, Texas United States
N. Pitz Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
D. B. Piyarathna University of Houston, Houston, Texas United States
M. Planinic Rudjer Bošković Institute, Zagreb, Croatia
M. Płoskoń Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California United States
J. Pluta Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland
T. Pocheptsov Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), Dubna, Russia
S. Pochybova Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
P. L. M. Podesta-Lerma Universidad Autónoma de Sinaloa, Culiacán, Mexico
M. G. Poghosyan European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
K. Polák Institute of Physics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic
B. Polichtchouk Institute for High Energy Physics, Protvino, Russia
N. Poljak Nikhef, National Institute for Subatomic Physics and Institute for Subatomic Physics of Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands Rudjer Bošković Institute, Zagreb, Croatia
A. Pop National Institute for Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Bucharest, Romania
S. Porteboeuf-Houssais Laboratoire de Physique Corpusculaire (LPC), Clermont Université, Université Blaise Pascal, CNRS–IN2P3, Clermont-Ferrand, France
V. Pospíšil Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
B. Potukuchi Physics Department, University of Jammu, Jammu, India
S. K. Prasad Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan United States
R. Preghenella Centro Fermi - Museo Storico della Fisica e Centro Studi e Ricerche “Enrico Fermi”, Rome, Italy Sezione INFN, Bologna, Italy
F. Prino Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
C. A. Pruneau Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan United States
I. Pshenichnov Institute for Nuclear Research, Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
G. Puddu Dipartimento di Fisica dell’Università and Sezione INFN, Cagliari, Italy
V. Punin Russian Federal Nuclear Center (VNIIEF), Sarov, Russia
J. Putschke Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan United States
H. Qvigstad Department of Physics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
A. Rachevski Sezione INFN, Trieste, Italy
A. Rademakers European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
T. S. Räihä Helsinki Institute of Physics (HIP) and University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland
J. Rak Helsinki Institute of Physics (HIP) and University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland
A. Rakotozafindrabe Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique, IRFU, Saclay, France
L. Ramello Dipartimento di Scienze e Innovazione Tecnologica dell’Università del Piemonte Orientale and Gruppo Collegato INFN, Alessandria, Italy
S. Raniwala Physics Department, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur, India
R. Raniwala Physics Department, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur, India
S. S. Räsänen Helsinki Institute of Physics (HIP) and University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland
B. T. Rascanu Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
D. Rathee Physics Department, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India
W. Rauch European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
A. W. Rauf COMSATS Institute of Information Technology (CIIT), Islamabad, Pakistan
V. Razazi Dipartimento di Fisica dell’Università and Sezione INFN, Cagliari, Italy
K. F. Read University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee United States
J. S. Real Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie (LPSC), Université Joseph Fourier, CNRS-IN2P3, Institut Polytechnique de Grenoble, Grenoble, France
K. Redlich National Centre for Nuclear Studies, Warsaw, Poland
R. J. Reed Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut United States
A. Rehman Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
P. Reichelt Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
M. Reicher Nikhef, National Institute for Subatomic Physics and Institute for Subatomic Physics of Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
R. Renfordt Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
A. R. Reolon Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, INFN, Frascati, Italy
A. Reshetin Institute for Nuclear Research, Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
F. Rettig Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
J.-P. Revol European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
K. Reygers Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
L. Riccati Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
R. A. Ricci Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro, INFN, Legnaro, Italy
T. Richert Division of Experimental High Energy Physics, University of Lund, Lund, Sweden
M. Richter Department of Physics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
P. Riedler European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
W. Riegler European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
F. Riggi Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell’Università and Sezione INFN, Catania, Italy Sezione INFN, Catania, Italy
A. Rivetti Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
M. Rodríguez Cahuantzi Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Puebla, Mexico
A. Rodriguez Manso Nikhef, National Institute for Subatomic Physics, Amsterdam, Netherlands
K. Røed Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway Department of Physics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
E. Rogochaya Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), Dubna, Russia
D. Rohr Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
D. Röhrich Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
R. Romita Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, Darmstadt, Germany Nuclear Physics Group, STFC Daresbury Laboratory, Daresbury, United Kingdom
F. Ronchetti Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, INFN, Frascati, Italy
P. Rosnet Laboratoire de Physique Corpusculaire (LPC), Clermont Université, Université Blaise Pascal, CNRS–IN2P3, Clermont-Ferrand, France
S. Rossegger European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
A. Rossi European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
P. Roy Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata, India
C. Roy Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien (IPHC), Université de Strasbourg, CNRS-IN2P3, Strasbourg, France
A. J. Rubio Montero Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Medioambientales y Tecnológicas (CIEMAT), Madrid, Spain
R. Rui Dipartimento di Fisica dell’Università and Sezione INFN, Trieste, Italy
R. Russo Dipartimento di Fisica dell’Università and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
E. Ryabinkin Russian Research Centre Kurchatov Institute, Moscow, Russia
A. Rybicki The Henryk Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Cracow, Poland
S. Sadovsky Institute for High Energy Physics, Protvino, Russia
K. Šafařík European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
R. Sahoo Indian Institute of Technology Indore (IITI), Indore, India
P. K. Sahu Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar, India
J. Saini Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Kolkata, India
H. Sakaguchi Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan
S. Sakai Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California United States
D. Sakata University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
C. A. Salgado Departamento de Física de Partículas and IGFAE, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
J. Salzwedel Department of Physics, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio United States
S. Sambyal Physics Department, University of Jammu, Jammu, India
V. Samsonov Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, Gatchina, Russia
X. Sanchez Castro Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien (IPHC), Université de Strasbourg, CNRS-IN2P3, Strasbourg, France
L. Šándor Institute of Experimental Physics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Košice, Slovakia
A. Sandoval Instituto de Física, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
M. Sano University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
G. Santagati Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell’Università and Sezione INFN, Catania, Italy
R. Santoro Centro Fermi - Museo Storico della Fisica e Centro Studi e Ricerche “Enrico Fermi”, Rome, Italy European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
J. Sarkamo Helsinki Institute of Physics (HIP) and University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland
D. Sarkar Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Kolkata, India
E. Scapparone Sezione INFN, Bologna, Italy
F. Scarlassara Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell’Università and Sezione INFN, Padova, Italy
R. P. Scharenberg Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana United States
C. Schiaua National Institute for Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Bucharest, Romania
R. Schicker Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
H. R. Schmidt Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
C. Schmidt Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, Darmstadt, Germany
S. Schuchmann Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
J. Schukraft European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
T. Schuster Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut United States
Y. Schutz European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland SUBATECH, Ecole des Mines de Nantes, Université de Nantes, CNRS-IN2P3, Nantes, France
K. Schwarz Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, Darmstadt, Germany
K. Schweda Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, Darmstadt, Germany
G. Scioli Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell’Università and Sezione INFN, Bologna, Italy
E. Scomparin Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
R. Scott University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee United States
P. A. Scott School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
G. Segato Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell’Università and Sezione INFN, Padova, Italy
I. Selyuzhenkov Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, Darmstadt, Germany
S. Senyukov Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien (IPHC), Université de Strasbourg, CNRS-IN2P3, Strasbourg, France
J. Seo Pusan National University, Pusan, South Korea
S. Serci Dipartimento di Fisica dell’Università and Sezione INFN, Cagliari, Italy
E. Serradilla Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Medioambientales y Tecnológicas (CIEMAT), Madrid, Spain Instituto de Física, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
A. Sevcenco Institute of Space Sciences (ISS), Bucharest, Romania
A. Shabetai SUBATECH, Ecole des Mines de Nantes, Université de Nantes, CNRS-IN2P3, Nantes, France
G. Shabratova Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), Dubna, Russia
R. Shahoyan European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
S. Sharma Physics Department, University of Jammu, Jammu, India
N. Sharma University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee United States
S. Rohni Physics Department, University of Jammu, Jammu, India
K. Shigaki Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan
K. Shtejer Centro de Aplicaciones Tecnológicas y Desarrollo Nuclear (CEADEN), Havana, Cuba
Y. Sibiriak Russian Research Centre Kurchatov Institute, Moscow, Russia
E. Sicking Institut für Kernphysik, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Münster, Germany
S. Siddhanta Sezione INFN, Cagliari, Italy
T. Siemiarczuk National Centre for Nuclear Studies, Warsaw, Poland
D. Silvermyr Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee United States
C. Silvestre Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie (LPSC), Université Joseph Fourier, CNRS-IN2P3, Institut Polytechnique de Grenoble, Grenoble, France
G. Simatovic Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico Rudjer Bošković Institute, Zagreb, Croatia
G. Simonetti European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
R. Singaraju Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Kolkata, India
R. Singh Physics Department, University of Jammu, Jammu, India
S. Singha National Institute of Science Education and Research, Bhubaneswar, India Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Kolkata, India
V. Singhal Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Kolkata, India
T. Sinha Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata, India
B. C. Sinha Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Kolkata, India
B. Sitar Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia
M. Sitta Dipartimento di Scienze e Innovazione Tecnologica dell’Università del Piemonte Orientale and Gruppo Collegato INFN, Alessandria, Italy
T. B. Skaali Department of Physics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
K. Skjerdal Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
R. Smakal Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
N. Smirnov Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut United States
R. J. M. Snellings Nikhef, National Institute for Subatomic Physics and Institute for Subatomic Physics of Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
C. Søgaard Division of Experimental High Energy Physics, University of Lund, Lund, Sweden
R. Soltz Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California United States
M. Song Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea
J. Song Pusan National University, Pusan, South Korea
C. Soos European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
F. Soramel Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell’Università and Sezione INFN, Padova, Italy
I. Sputowska The Henryk Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Cracow, Poland
M. Spyropoulou-Stassinaki Physics Department, University of Athens, Athens, Greece
B. K. Srivastava Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana United States
J. Stachel Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
I. Stan Institute of Space Sciences (ISS), Bucharest, Romania
G. Stefanek National Centre for Nuclear Studies, Warsaw, Poland
M. Steinpreis Department of Physics, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio United States
E. Stenlund Division of Experimental High Energy Physics, University of Lund, Lund, Sweden
G. Steyn Physics Department, University of Cape Town and iThemba LABS, National Research Foundation, Somerset West, South Africa
J. H. Stiller Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
D. Stocco SUBATECH, Ecole des Mines de Nantes, Université de Nantes, CNRS-IN2P3, Nantes, France
M. Stolpovskiy Institute for High Energy Physics, Protvino, Russia
P. Strmen Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia
A. A. P. Suaide Universidade de São Paulo (USP), São Paulo, Brazil
M. A. Subieta Vásquez Dipartimento di Fisica dell’Università and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
T. Sugitate Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan
C. Suire Institut de Physique Nucléaire d’Orsay (IPNO), Université Paris-Sud, CNRS-IN2P3, Orsay, France
M. Suleymanov COMSATS Institute of Information Technology (CIIT), Islamabad, Pakistan
R. Sultanov Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Moscow, Russia
M. Šumbera Nuclear Physics Institute, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Řež u Prahy, Czech Republic
T. Susa Rudjer Bošković Institute, Zagreb, Croatia
T. J. M. Symons Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California United States
A. Szanto de Toledo Universidade de São Paulo (USP), São Paulo, Brazil
I. Szarka Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia
A. Szczepankiewicz European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
M. Szymański Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland
J. Takahashi Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas, Brazil
M. A. Tangaro Dipartimento Interateneo di Fisica ‘M. Merlin’ and Sezione INFN, Bari, Italy
J. D. Tapia Takaki Institut de Physique Nucléaire d’Orsay (IPNO), Université Paris-Sud, CNRS-IN2P3, Orsay, France
A. Tarantola Peloni Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
A. Tarazona Martinez European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
A. Tauro European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
G. Tejeda Muñoz Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Puebla, Mexico
A. Telesca European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
A. Ter Minasyan Russian Research Centre Kurchatov Institute, Moscow, Russia
C. Terrevoli Dipartimento Interateneo di Fisica ‘M. Merlin’ and Sezione INFN, Bari, Italy
J. Thäder Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, Darmstadt, Germany
D. Thomas Nikhef, National Institute for Subatomic Physics and Institute for Subatomic Physics of Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
R. Tieulent Université de Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, IPN-Lyon, Villeurbanne, France
A. R. Timmins University of Houston, Houston, Texas United States
D. Tlusty Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
A. Toia Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell’Università and Sezione INFN, Padova, Italy Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany Sezione INFN, Padova, Italy
H. Torii University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
L. Toscano Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
V. Trubnikov Bogolyubov Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kiev, Ukraine
D. Truesdale Department of Physics, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio United States
W. H. Trzaska Helsinki Institute of Physics (HIP) and University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland
T. Tsuji University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
A. Tumkin Russian Federal Nuclear Center (VNIIEF), Sarov, Russia
R. Turrisi Sezione INFN, Padova, Italy
T. S. Tveter Department of Physics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
J. Ulery Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
K. Ullaland Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
J. Ulrich Institut für Informatik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany Kirchhoff-Institut für Physik, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
A. Uras Université de Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, IPN-Lyon, Villeurbanne, France
G. M. Urciuoli Sezione INFN, Rome, Italy
G. L. Usai Dipartimento di Fisica dell’Università and Sezione INFN, Cagliari, Italy
M. Vajzer Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic Nuclear Physics Institute, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Řež u Prahy, Czech Republic
M. Vala Institute of Experimental Physics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Košice, Slovakia Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), Dubna, Russia
L. Valencia Palomo Institut de Physique Nucléaire d’Orsay (IPNO), Université Paris-Sud, CNRS-IN2P3, Orsay, France
S. Vallero Dipartimento di Fisica dell’Università and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
P. Vande Vyvre European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
J. W. Van Hoorne European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
M. van Leeuwen Nikhef, National Institute for Subatomic Physics and Institute for Subatomic Physics of Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
L. Vannucci Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro, INFN, Legnaro, Italy
A. Vargas Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Puebla, Mexico
R. Varma Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT), Mumbai, India
M. Vasileiou Physics Department, University of Athens, Athens, Greece
A. Vasiliev Russian Research Centre Kurchatov Institute, Moscow, Russia
V. Vechernin V. Fock Institute for Physics, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia
M. Veldhoen Nikhef, National Institute for Subatomic Physics and Institute for Subatomic Physics of Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
M. Venaruzzo Dipartimento di Fisica dell’Università and Sezione INFN, Trieste, Italy
E. Vercellin Dipartimento di Fisica dell’Università and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
S. Vergara Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Puebla, Mexico
R. Vernet Centre de Calcul de l’IN2P3, Villeurbanne, France
M. Verweij Nikhef, National Institute for Subatomic Physics and Institute for Subatomic Physics of Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
L. Vickovic Technical University of Split FESB, Split, Croatia
G. Viesti Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell’Università and Sezione INFN, Padova, Italy
J. Viinikainen Helsinki Institute of Physics (HIP) and University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland
Z. Vilakazi Physics Department, University of Cape Town and iThemba LABS, National Research Foundation, Somerset West, South Africa
O. Villalobos Baillie School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
Y. Vinogradov Russian Federal Nuclear Center (VNIIEF), Sarov, Russia
L. Vinogradov V. Fock Institute for Physics, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia
A. Vinogradov Russian Research Centre Kurchatov Institute, Moscow, Russia
T. Virgili Dipartimento di Fisica ‘E.R. Caianiello’ dell’Università and Gruppo Collegato INFN, Salerno, Italy
Y. P. Viyogi Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Kolkata, India
A. Vodopyanov Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), Dubna, Russia
M. A. Völkl Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
S. Voloshin Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan United States
K. Voloshin Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Moscow, Russia
G. Volpe European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
B. von Haller European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
I. Vorobyev V. Fock Institute for Physics, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia
D. Vranic European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, Darmstadt, Germany
J. Vrláková Faculty of Science, P.J. Šafárik University, Košice, Slovakia
B. Vulpescu Laboratoire de Physique Corpusculaire (LPC), Clermont Université, Université Blaise Pascal, CNRS–IN2P3, Clermont-Ferrand, France
A. Vyushin Russian Federal Nuclear Center (VNIIEF), Sarov, Russia
V. Wagner Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
B. Wagner Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
R. Wan Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
Y. Wang Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
Y. Wang Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
M. Wang Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
K. Watanabe University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
M. Weber University of Houston, Houston, Texas United States
J. P. Wessels European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland Institut für Kernphysik, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Münster, Germany
U. Westerhoff Institut für Kernphysik, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Münster, Germany
J. Wiechula Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
J. Wikne Department of Physics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
M. Wilde Institut für Kernphysik, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Münster, Germany
G. Wilk National Centre for Nuclear Studies, Warsaw, Poland
M. C. S. Williams Sezione INFN, Bologna, Italy
B. Windelband Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
C. G. Yaldo Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan United States
Y. Yamaguchi University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
S. Yang Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
P. Yang Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
H. Yang Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique, IRFU, Saclay, France Nikhef, National Institute for Subatomic Physics and Institute for Subatomic Physics of Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
S. Yasnopolskiy Russian Research Centre Kurchatov Institute, Moscow, Russia
J. Yi Pusan National University, Pusan, South Korea
Z. Yin Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
I.-K. Yoo Pusan National University, Pusan, South Korea
J. Yoon Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea
X. Yuan Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
I. Yushmanov Russian Research Centre Kurchatov Institute, Moscow, Russia
V. Zaccolo Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
C. Zach Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
C. Zampolli Sezione INFN, Bologna, Italy
S. Zaporozhets Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), Dubna, Russia
A. Zarochentsev V. Fock Institute for Physics, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia
P. Závada Institute of Physics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic
N. Zaviyalov Russian Federal Nuclear Center (VNIIEF), Sarov, Russia
H. Zbroszczyk Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland
P. Zelnicek Institut für Informatik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
I. S. Zgura Institute of Space Sciences (ISS), Bucharest, Romania
M. Zhalov Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, Gatchina, Russia
Y. Zhang Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
H. Zhang Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
X. Zhang Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China Laboratoire de Physique Corpusculaire (LPC), Clermont Université, Université Blaise Pascal, CNRS–IN2P3, Clermont-Ferrand, France Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California United States
D. Zhou Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
Y. Zhou Nikhef, National Institute for Subatomic Physics and Institute for Subatomic Physics of Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
F. Zhou Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
H. Zhu Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
J. Zhu Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
X. Zhu Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
J. Zhu Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
A. Zichichi 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. Zimmermann Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
G. Zinovjev Bogolyubov Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kiev, Ukraine
Y. Zoccarato Université de Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, IPN-Lyon, Villeurbanne, France
M. Zynovyev Bogolyubov Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kiev, Ukraine
M. Zyzak Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany

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J/ψ elliptic flow in Pb-Pb collisions at √(s(NN))=2.76 TeV

We report on the first measurement of inclusive J/ψ elliptic flow v2 in heavy-ion collisions at the LHC. The measurement is performed with the ALICE detector in Pb-Pb collisions at √(s(NN))=2.76 TeV in the rapidity range 2.5<y<4.0. The dependence of the J/ψ v2 on the collision centrality and on the J/ψ transverse momentum is studied in the range 0≤p(T)<10 GeV/c. For semicentral Pb-Pb collisions at √(s(NN))=2.76 TeV, an indication of nonzero v2 is observed with a largest measured value of v2=0.116±0.046(stat)±0.029(syst) for J/ψ in the transverse momentum range 2≤p(T)<4 GeV/c. The elliptic flow measurement complements the previously reported ALICE results on the inclusive J/ψ nuclear modification factor and favors the scenario of a significant fraction of J/ψ production from charm quarks in a deconfined partonic phase.

Somatic copy number changes in DPYD are associated with lower risk of recurrence in triple-negative breast cancers

BACKGROUND

Genomic rearrangements at the fragile site FRA1E may disrupt the dihydropyrimidine dehydrogenase gene (DPYD) which is involved in 5-fluorouracil (5-FU) catabolism. In triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC), a subtype of breast cancer frequently deficient in DNA repair, we have investigated the susceptibility to acquire copy number variations (CNVs) in DPYD and evaluated their impact on standard adjuvant treatment.

METHODS

DPYD CNVs were analysed in 106 TNBC tumour specimens using multiplex ligation-dependent probe amplification (MLPA) analysis. Dihydropyrimidine dehydrogenase (DPD) expression was determined by immunohistochemistry in 146 tumour tissues.

RESULTS

In TNBC, we detected 43 (41%) tumour specimens with genomic deletions and/or duplications within DPYD which were associated with higher histological grade (P=0.006) and with rearrangements in the DNA repair gene BRCA1 (P=0.007). Immunohistochemical analysis revealed low, moderate and high DPD expression in 64%, 29% and 7% of all TNBCs, and in 40%, 53% and 7% of TNBCs with DPYD CNVs, respectively. Irrespective of DPD protein levels, the presence of CNVs was significantly related to longer time to progression in patients who had received 5-FU- and/or anthracycline-based polychemotherapy (hazard ratio=0.26 (95% CI: 0.07-0.91), log-rank P=0.023; adjusted for tumour stage: P=0.037).

CONCLUSION

Genomic rearrangements in DPYD, rather than aberrant DPD protein levels, reflect a distinct tumour profile associated with prolonged time to progression upon first-line chemotherapy in TNBC.

Transferring innovative freehand SPECT to the operating room: first experiences with sentinel lymph node biopsy in malignant melanoma

PURPOSE

The purpose of this study was to report on the first experiences with freehand single-photon emission-computed tomography (freehand SPECT) in sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB) in patients with malignant melanoma. Freehand SPECT is a novel imaging modality combining gamma probes, surgical navigation systems, and emission tomography algorithms, designed to overcome some of the limitations of conventional gamma probes.

METHODS

In this study 20 patients with malignant melanoma underwent conventional planar scintigraphy prior to surgery. In the operating room, the number and location of separable SLNs were detected first by a pre-incisional scan with freehand SPECT to render a 3D-image of the target site and afterwards by a scan with a conventional gamma probe. After SLNB another scan was performed to document the removal of all targeted SLNs.

RESULTS

Planar scintigraphy identified 40 SLNs in 26 nodal basins. Pre-incisional freehand SPECT mapped 38 of these nodes as well as one additional node in one patient (95.0% node based sensitivity). The results of freehand SPECT were identical to those of planar scintigraphy in 25 basins, while it missed one basin (96.2% basin based sensitivity). In comparison, the gamma probe failed to detect 7 nodes in 4 basins (82.5% node based sensitivity and 84.6% basin based sensitivity). After resection freehand SPECT detected 9 remaining radioactive spots, two of whichwere resected as they matched the position of SLNs detected on preoperative planar scintigraphy.

CONCLUSIONS

Freehand SPECT provides a real-time, intraoperative 3D-image of the radioactive labelled SLNs, facilitating their detection and resection.

D meson elliptic flow in noncentral Pb-Pb collisions at sqrt[sNN]=2.76 Tev

Azimuthally anisotropic distributions of D0, D+, and D*+ mesons were studied in the central rapidity region (|y|<0.8) in Pb-Pb collisions at a center-of-mass energy sqrt[sNN]=2.76  TeV per nucleon-nucleon collision, with the ALICE detector at the LHC. The second Fourier coefficient v2 (commonly denoted elliptic flow) was measured in the centrality class 30%-50% as a function of the D meson transverse momentum pT, in the range 2-16  GeV/c. The measured v2 of D mesons is comparable in magnitude to that of light-flavor hadrons. It is positive in the range 2<pT<6  GeV/c with 5.7σ significance, based on the combination of statistical and systematic uncertainties.

Motional coherence of fermions immersed in a Bose gas

We prepare a superposition of two motional states by addressing lithium atoms immersed in a Bose-Einstein condensate of sodium with a species-selective potential. The evolution of the superposition state is characterized by the populations of the constituent states as well as their coherence. The latter we extract employing a novel scheme analogous to the spin-echo technique. Comparing the results directly to measurements on freely evolving fermions allows us to isolate the decoherence effects induced by the bath. In our system, the decoherence time is close to the maximal possible value since the decoherence is dominated by population relaxation processes. The measured data are in good agreement with a theoretical model based on Fermi's golden rule.

Plasma oxytocin and vasopressin do not predict neuropeptide concentrations in human cerebrospinal fluid

The involvement of the neuropeptides oxytocin (OXT) and vasopressin (AVP) in human socio-emotional behaviours is attracting increasing attention. There is ample evidence for elevated plasma levels upon a wide variety of social and emotional stimuli and scenarios, ranging from romantic love via marital distress up to psychopathology, with cause versus consequence being largely unclear. The present study examined whether plasma levels of both OXT and AVP are reflective of central neuropeptide levels, as assumed to impact upon socio-emotional behaviours. Concomitant plasma and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) samples were taken from 41 non-neurological and nonpsychiatric patients under basal conditions. Although OXT and AVP levels in the CSF exceeded those in plasma, there was no correlation between both compartments, clearly suggesting that plasma OXT and AVP do not predict central neuropeptide concentrations. Thus, the validity of plasma OXT and AVP as potential biomarkers of human behaviour needs further clarification.

Oxidative stress after a carbohydrate meal contributes to the deterioration of diastolic cardiac function in nonhypertensive insulin-treated patients with moderately well controlled type 2 diabetes

The prevalence and prognostic importance of diastolic dysfunction in type 2 diabetes has only recently been appreciated. We tested the hypothesis that in insulin treated type 2 diabetes (D), carbohydrate consumption induces oxidative stress resulting in further impairment of diastolic function beyond structural myocardial stiffness. The effects of a pure carbohydrate breakfast (48 g) on oxidative stress and cardiac function were studied in the fasting and postmeal states in subjects without hypertension or overt cardiac disease (moderately well controlled D, n=21 and controls without D, n=20). Studied variables included systolic and early diastolic (E') myocardial velocities, traditional metabolic and hemodynamic parameters, serum nitrotyrosine, and sVCAM-1. In D compared to control subjects, the postmeal increase (∆) in glucose (1.44±2.78 vs. 0.11±0.72 mmol/l, p=0.04) and ∆nitrotyrosine (0.34±0.37 vs. -0.23±0.47 nM/l, p<0.001) were significantly higher. sVCAM-1 was higher in fasting and postmeal (p=0.02). E' was significantly lower in postmeal (7.3±1.3 vs. 9.6±1.3 cm/s, p<0.001) and fasting (p<0.001) whereas the rate pressure product was significantly higher (9 420±1 118 vs. 7 705±1 871 mm Hg/min, p<0.001). Multivariable regression models of the pooled data demonstrated that independent predictors for postmeal E' were ∆nitrotyrosine and septal thickness (R² 0.466) and for fasting E' age, ∆nitrotyrosine, and septal thickness (R² 0.400). In insulin requiring type 2 diabetes, carbohydrate consumption may induce oxidative stress that is associated with worsening diastolic function, indicating that this metabolic factor is an important determinant of diastolic dysfunction in the diabetic heart beyond the increase in structural myocardial stiffness.