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Abdallah MS, Adam J, Adamczyk L, Adams JR, Adkins JK, Agakishiev G, Aggarwal I, Aggarwal MM, Ahammed Z, Alekseev I, Anderson DM, Aparin A, Aschenauer EC, Ashraf MU, Atetalla FG, Attri A, Averichev GS, Bairathi V, Baker W, Ball Cap JG, Barish K, Behera A, Bellwied R, Bhagat P, Bhasin A, Bielcik J, Bielcikova J, Bordyuzhin IG, Brandenburg JD, Brandin AV, Bunzarov I, Butterworth J, Cai XZ, Caines H, Calderón de la Barca Sánchez M, Cebra D, Chakaberia I, Chaloupka P, Chan BK, Chang FH, Chang Z, Chankova-Bunzarova N, Chatterjee A, Chattopadhyay S, Chen D, Chen J, Chen JH, Chen X, Chen Z, Cheng J, Chevalier M, Choudhury S, Christie W, Chu X, Crawford HJ, Csanád M, Daugherity M, Dedovich TG, Deppner IM, Derevschikov AA, Dhamija A, Di Carlo L, Didenko L, Dong X, Drachenberg JL, Dunlop JC, Elsey N, Engelage J, Eppley G, Esumi S, Ewigleben A, Eyser O, Fatemi R, Fawzi FM, Fazio S, Federic P, Fedorisin J, Feng CJ, Feng Y, Filip P, Finch E, Fisyak Y, Francisco A, Fu C, Fulek L, Gagliardi CA, Galatyuk T, Geurts F, Ghimire N, Gibson A, Gopal K, Gou X, Grosnick D, Gupta A, Guryn W, Hamad AI, Hamed A, Han Y, Harabasz S, Harasty MD, Harris JW, Harrison H, He S, He W, He XH, He Y, Heppelmann S, Heppelmann S, Herrmann N, Hoffman E, Holub L, Hu Y, Huang H, Huang HZ, Huang SL, Huang T, Huang X, Huang Y, Humanic TJ, Igo G, Isenhower D, Jacobs WW, Jena C, Jentsch A, Ji Y, Jia J, Jiang K, Ju X, Judd EG, Kabana S, Kabir ML, Kagamaster S, Kalinkin D, Kang K, Kapukchyan D, Kauder K, Ke HW, Keane D, Kechechyan A, Khyzhniak YV, Kikoła DP, Kim C, Kimelman B, Kincses D, Kisel I, Kiselev A, Knospe AG, Kochenda L, Kosarzewski LK, Kramarik L, Kravtsov P, Kumar L, Kumar S, Kunnawalkam Elayavalli R, Kwasizur JH, Lan S, Landgraf JM, Lauret J, Lebedev A, Lednicky R, Lee JH, Leung YH, Li C, Li C, Li W, Li X, Li Y, Liang X, Liang Y, Licenik R, Lin T, Lin Y, Lisa MA, Liu F, Liu H, Liu H, Liu P, Liu T, Liu X, Liu Y, Liu Z, Ljubicic T, Llope WJ, Longacre RS, Loyd E, Lukow NS, Luo X, Ma L, Ma R, Ma YG, Magdy N, Majka R, Mallick D, Margetis S, Markert C, Matis HS, Mazer JA, Minaev NG, Mioduszewski S, Mohanty B, Mondal MM, Mooney I, Morozov DA, Mukherjee A, Nagy M, Nam JD, Nasim M, Nayak K, Neff D, Nelson JM, Nemes DB, Nie M, Nigmatkulov G, Niida T, Nishitani R, Nogach LV, Nonaka T, Nunes AS, Odyniec G, Ogawa A, Oh S, Okorokov VA, Page BS, Pak R, Pandav A, Pandey AK, Panebratsev Y, Parfenov P, Pawlik B, Pawlowska D, Pei H, Perkins C, Pinsky L, Pintér RL, Pluta J, Pokhrel BR, Ponimatkin G, Porter J, Posik M, Prozorova V, Pruthi NK, Przybycien M, Putschke J, Qiu H, Quintero A, Racz C, Radhakrishnan SK, Raha N, Ray RL, Reed R, Ritter HG, Robotkova M, Rogachevskiy OV, Romero JL, Ruan L, Rusnak J, Sahoo NR, Sako H, Salur S, Sandweiss J, Sato S, Schmidke WB, Schmitz N, Schweid BR, Seck F, Seger J, Sergeeva M, Seto R, Seyboth P, Shah N, Shahaliev E, Shanmuganathan PV, Shao M, Shao T, Sheikh AI, Shen D, Shi SS, Shi Y, Shou QY, Sichtermann EP, Sikora R, Simko M, Singh J, Singha S, Skoby MJ, Smirnov N, Söhngen Y, Solyst W, Sorensen P, Spinka HM, Srivastava B, Stanislaus TDS, Stefaniak M, Stewart DJ, Strikhanov M, Stringfellow B, Suaide AAP, Sumbera M, Summa B, Sun XM, Sun X, Sun Y, Sun Y, Surrow B, Svirida DN, Sweger ZW, Szymanski P, Tang AH, Tang Z, Taranenko A, Tarnowsky T, Thomas JH, Timmins AR, Tlusty D, Todoroki T, Tokarev M, Tomkiel CA, Trentalange S, Tribble RE, Tribedy P, Tripathy SK, Truhlar T, Trzeciak BA, Tsai OD, Tu Z, Ullrich T, Underwood DG, Upsal I, Van Buren G, Vanek J, Vasiliev AN, Vassiliev I, Verkest V, Videbæk F, Vokal S, Voloshin SA, Wang F, Wang G, Wang JS, Wang P, Wang Y, Wang Y, Wang Z, Webb JC, Weidenkaff PC, Wen L, Westfall GD, Wieman H, Wissink SW, Wu J, Wu Y, Xi B, Xiao ZG, Xie G, Xie W, Xu H, Xu N, Xu QH, Xu Y, Xu Z, Xu Z, Yang C, Yang Q, Yang S, Yang Y, Ye Z, Ye Z, Yi L, Yip K, Yu Y, Zbroszczyk H, Zha W, Zhang C, Zhang D, Zhang S, Zhang S, Zhang XP, Zhang Y, Zhang Y, Zhang Y, Zhang ZJ, Zhang Z, Zhang Z, Zhao J, Zhou C, Zhu X, Zhu Z, Zurek M, Zyzak M. Search for the Chiral Magnetic Effect via Charge-Dependent Azimuthal Correlations Relative to Spectator and Participant Planes in Au+Au Collisions at sqrt[s_{NN}]=200 GeV. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2022; 128:092301. [PMID: 35302834 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.128.092301] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/22/2021] [Revised: 10/11/2021] [Accepted: 02/02/2022] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
Abstract
The chiral magnetic effect (CME) refers to charge separation along a strong magnetic field due to imbalanced chirality of quarks in local parity and charge-parity violating domains in quantum chromodynamics. The experimental measurement of the charge separation is made difficult by the presence of a major background from elliptic azimuthal anisotropy. This background and the CME signal have different sensitivities to the spectator and participant planes, and could thus be determined by measurements with respect to these planes. We report such measurements in Au+Au collisions at a nucleon-nucleon center-of-mass energy of 200 GeV at the Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider. It is found that the charge separation, with the flow background removed, is consistent with zero in peripheral (large impact parameter) collisions. Some indication of finite CME signals is seen in midcentral (intermediate impact parameter) collisions. Significant residual background effects may, however, still be present.
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Affiliation(s)
- M S Abdallah
- American University of Cairo, New Cairo 11835, New Cairo, Egypt
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973
| | - L Adamczyk
- AGH University of Science and Technology, FPACS, Cracow 30-059, Poland
| | - J R Adams
- Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210
| | - J K Adkins
- University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky 40506-0055
| | - G Agakishiev
- Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna 141 980, Russia
| | - I Aggarwal
- Panjab University, Chandigarh 160014, India
| | | | - Z Ahammed
- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Kolkata 700064, India
| | - I Alekseev
- Alikhanov Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics NRC "Kurchatov Institute", Moscow 117218, Russia
- National Research Nuclear University MEPhI, Moscow 115409, Russia
| | - D M Anderson
- Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843
| | - A Aparin
- Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna 141 980, Russia
| | | | - M U Ashraf
- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, Hubei 430079
| | | | - A Attri
- Panjab University, Chandigarh 160014, India
| | - G S Averichev
- Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna 141 980, Russia
| | - V Bairathi
- Instituto de Alta Investigación, Universidad de Tarapacá, Arica 1000000, Chile
| | - W Baker
- University of California, Riverside, California 92521
| | | | - K Barish
- University of California, Riverside, California 92521
| | - A Behera
- State University of New York, Stony Brook, New York 11794
| | - R Bellwied
- University of Houston, Houston, Texas 77204
| | - P Bhagat
- University of Jammu, Jammu 180001, India
| | - A Bhasin
- University of Jammu, Jammu 180001, India
| | - J Bielcik
- Czech Technical University in Prague, FNSPE, Prague 115 19, Czech Republic
| | - J Bielcikova
- Nuclear Physics Institute of the CAS, Rez 250 68, Czech Republic
| | - I G Bordyuzhin
- Alikhanov Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics NRC "Kurchatov Institute", Moscow 117218, Russia
| | | | - A V Brandin
- National Research Nuclear University MEPhI, Moscow 115409, Russia
| | - I Bunzarov
- Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna 141 980, Russia
| | | | - X Z Cai
- Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201800
| | - H Caines
- Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520
| | | | - D Cebra
- University of California, Davis, California 95616
| | - I Chakaberia
- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720
| | - P Chaloupka
- Czech Technical University in Prague, FNSPE, Prague 115 19, Czech Republic
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- University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095
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- National Cheng Kung University, Tainan 70101
| | - Z Chang
- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973
| | | | - A Chatterjee
- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, Hubei 430079
| | | | - D Chen
- University of California, Riverside, California 92521
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- Shandong University, Qingdao, Shandong 266237
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- Fudan University, Shanghai, 200433
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- University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026
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- Shandong University, Qingdao, Shandong 266237
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- Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
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- University of California, Riverside, California 92521
| | | | - W Christie
- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973
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- University of California, Berkeley, California 94720
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- ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary H-1117
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- Abilene Christian University, Abilene, Texas 79699
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- Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna 141 980, Russia
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- University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg 69120, Germany
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- NRC "Kurchatov Institute", Institute of High Energy Physics, Protvino 142281, Russia
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- Panjab University, Chandigarh 160014, India
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- Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan 48201
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973
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- Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan 48201
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- University of California, Berkeley, California 94720
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- Rice University, Houston, Texas 77251
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- University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8571, Japan
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- Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania 18015
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973
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- University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky 40506-0055
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- American University of Cairo, New Cairo 11835, New Cairo, Egypt
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973
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- Nuclear Physics Institute of the CAS, Rez 250 68, Czech Republic
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- Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna 141 980, Russia
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- National Cheng Kung University, Tainan 70101
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- Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907
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- Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna 141 980, Russia
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- Southern Connecticut State University, New Haven, Connecticut 06515
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973
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- Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520
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- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, Hubei 430079
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- AGH University of Science and Technology, FPACS, Cracow 30-059, Poland
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- Technische Universität Darmstadt, Darmstadt 64289, Germany
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- Rice University, Houston, Texas 77251
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- Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19122
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- Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, Indiana 46383
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- Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Tirupati, Tirupati 517507, India
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- Shandong University, Qingdao, Shandong 266237
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- Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, Indiana 46383
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- University of Jammu, Jammu 180001, India
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973
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- Kent State University, Kent, Ohio 44242
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- American University of Cairo, New Cairo 11835, New Cairo, Egypt
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- Rice University, Houston, Texas 77251
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- Technische Universität Darmstadt, Darmstadt 64289, Germany
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- University of California, Davis, California 95616
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- Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520
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- University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky 40506-0055
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- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, Hubei 430079
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- Fudan University, Shanghai, 200433
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- Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, Gansu 730000
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- Shandong University, Qingdao, Shandong 266237
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- University of California, Davis, California 95616
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- Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802
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- University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg 69120, Germany
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- University of Houston, Houston, Texas 77204
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- Czech Technical University in Prague, FNSPE, Prague 115 19, Czech Republic
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- Fudan University, Shanghai, 200433
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- National Cheng Kung University, Tainan 70101
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- University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095
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- State University of New York, Stony Brook, New York 11794
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- National Cheng Kung University, Tainan 70101
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- Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
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- Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
| | | | - G Igo
- University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095
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- Abilene Christian University, Abilene, Texas 79699
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- Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47408
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- Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Tirupati, Tirupati 517507, India
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973
- State University of New York, Stony Brook, New York 11794
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- University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026
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- University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026
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- University of California, Berkeley, California 94720
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- Instituto de Alta Investigación, Universidad de Tarapacá, Arica 1000000, Chile
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- University of California, Riverside, California 92521
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- Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania 18015
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973
- Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47408
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- Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
| | - D Kapukchyan
- University of California, Riverside, California 92521
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973
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- Kent State University, Kent, Ohio 44242
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- Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna 141 980, Russia
| | - Y V Khyzhniak
- National Research Nuclear University MEPhI, Moscow 115409, Russia
| | - D P Kikoła
- Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw 00-661, Poland
| | - C Kim
- University of California, Riverside, California 92521
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- University of California, Davis, California 95616
| | - D Kincses
- ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary H-1117
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- Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies FIAS, Frankfurt 60438, Germany
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973
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- Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania 18015
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- National Research Nuclear University MEPhI, Moscow 115409, Russia
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- Czech Technical University in Prague, FNSPE, Prague 115 19, Czech Republic
| | - L Kramarik
- Czech Technical University in Prague, FNSPE, Prague 115 19, Czech Republic
| | - P Kravtsov
- National Research Nuclear University MEPhI, Moscow 115409, Russia
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- Panjab University, Chandigarh 160014, India
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- Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, Gansu 730000
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- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, Hubei 430079
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973
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- Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna 141 980, Russia
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720
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- Shandong University, Qingdao, Shandong 266237
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- University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026
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- Rice University, Houston, Texas 77251
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- University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026
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- Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
| | - X Liang
- University of California, Riverside, California 92521
| | - Y Liang
- Kent State University, Kent, Ohio 44242
| | - R Licenik
- Nuclear Physics Institute of the CAS, Rez 250 68, Czech Republic
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- Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843
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- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, Hubei 430079
| | - M A Lisa
- Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210
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- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, Hubei 430079
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- Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47408
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- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, Hubei 430079
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- State University of New York, Stony Brook, New York 11794
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- Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520
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- Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210
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- Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843
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- University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973
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- Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan 48201
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973
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- University of California, Riverside, California 92521
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- Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19122
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- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, Hubei 430079
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- Fudan University, Shanghai, 200433
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973
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- Fudan University, Shanghai, 200433
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- University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60607
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- Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520
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- National Institute of Science Education and Research, HBNI, Jatni 752050, India
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- University of Texas, Austin, Texas 78712
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720
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- Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854
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- NRC "Kurchatov Institute", Institute of High Energy Physics, Protvino 142281, Russia
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- National Institute of Science Education and Research, HBNI, Jatni 752050, India
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- State University of New York, Stony Brook, New York 11794
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- Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan 48201
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- NRC "Kurchatov Institute", Institute of High Energy Physics, Protvino 142281, Russia
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- ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary H-1117
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- ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary H-1117
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- Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19122
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- Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Berhampur 760010, India
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- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, Hubei 430079
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- University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095
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- University of California, Berkeley, California 94720
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- Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520
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- Shandong University, Qingdao, Shandong 266237
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- National Research Nuclear University MEPhI, Moscow 115409, Russia
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- University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8571, Japan
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- University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8571, Japan
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- NRC "Kurchatov Institute", Institute of High Energy Physics, Protvino 142281, Russia
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- University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8571, Japan
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720
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- National Research Nuclear University MEPhI, Moscow 115409, Russia
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973
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- National Institute of Science Education and Research, HBNI, Jatni 752050, India
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- University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8571, Japan
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- Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna 141 980, Russia
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- National Research Nuclear University MEPhI, Moscow 115409, Russia
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- Institute of Nuclear Physics PAN, Cracow 31-342, Poland
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- Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw 00-661, Poland
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- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, Hubei 430079
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- University of California, Berkeley, California 94720
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- University of Houston, Houston, Texas 77204
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- ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary H-1117
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- Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw 00-661, Poland
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- Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19122
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- Nuclear Physics Institute of the CAS, Rez 250 68, Czech Republic
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720
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- Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19122
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- Czech Technical University in Prague, FNSPE, Prague 115 19, Czech Republic
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- Panjab University, Chandigarh 160014, India
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- AGH University of Science and Technology, FPACS, Cracow 30-059, Poland
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- Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan 48201
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- Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, Gansu 730000
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- Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19122
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- University of California, Riverside, California 92521
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- Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan 48201
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- University of Texas, Austin, Texas 78712
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- Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania 18015
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720
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- Nuclear Physics Institute of the CAS, Rez 250 68, Czech Republic
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- University of California, Davis, California 95616
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973
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- Nuclear Physics Institute of the CAS, Rez 250 68, Czech Republic
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- Shandong University, Qingdao, Shandong 266237
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- University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8571, Japan
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- Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854
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- Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520
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- University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8571, Japan
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973
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- Max-Planck-Institut für Physik, Munich 80805, Germany
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- State University of New York, Stony Brook, New York 11794
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- Technische Universität Darmstadt, Darmstadt 64289, Germany
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- Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska 68178
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- Max-Planck-Institut für Physik, Munich 80805, Germany
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- Indian Institute Technology, Patna, Bihar 801106, India
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- Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna 141 980, Russia
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- University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026
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- Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201800
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- Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201800
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- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, Hubei 430079
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- Shandong University, Qingdao, Shandong 266237
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- Fudan University, Shanghai, 200433
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720
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- AGH University of Science and Technology, FPACS, Cracow 30-059, Poland
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- Nuclear Physics Institute of the CAS, Rez 250 68, Czech Republic
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- Panjab University, Chandigarh 160014, India
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- Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, Gansu 730000
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- Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907
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- Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520
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- University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg 69120, Germany
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- Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47408
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973
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- Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439
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- Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907
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- Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw 00-661, Poland
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- Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520
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- National Research Nuclear University MEPhI, Moscow 115409, Russia
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- Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil 05314-970
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- Nuclear Physics Institute of the CAS, Rez 250 68, Czech Republic
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- Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802
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- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, Hubei 430079
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- University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60607
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- University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026
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- Huzhou University, Huzhou, Zhejiang 313000
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- Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19122
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- Alikhanov Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics NRC "Kurchatov Institute", Moscow 117218, Russia
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- University of California, Davis, California 95616
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- Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw 00-661, Poland
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973
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- University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026
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- National Research Nuclear University MEPhI, Moscow 115409, Russia
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- Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720
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- Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska 68178
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- University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8571, Japan
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- Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna 141 980, Russia
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- Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania 18015
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- University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095
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- Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973
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- ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary H-1117
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- Czech Technical University in Prague, FNSPE, Prague 115 19, Czech Republic
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- Czech Technical University in Prague, FNSPE, Prague 115 19, Czech Republic
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- University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973
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- Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973
- Shandong University, Qingdao, Shandong 266237
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973
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- Nuclear Physics Institute of the CAS, Rez 250 68, Czech Republic
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- NRC "Kurchatov Institute", Institute of High Energy Physics, Protvino 142281, Russia
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- Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies FIAS, Frankfurt 60438, Germany
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- Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan 48201
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973
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- Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna 141 980, Russia
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- Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907
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- University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095
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- Huzhou University, Huzhou, Zhejiang 313000
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- University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026
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- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, Hubei 430079
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- Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
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- Shandong University, Qingdao, Shandong 266237
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973
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- University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095
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- Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720
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- Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47408
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- Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, Gansu 730000
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- University of California, Riverside, California 92521
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- Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201800
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- Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720
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- Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907
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- Huzhou University, Huzhou, Zhejiang 313000
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720
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- Shandong University, Qingdao, Shandong 266237
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- Shandong University, Qingdao, Shandong 266237
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973
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- University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095
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- Shandong University, Qingdao, Shandong 266237
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- Rice University, Houston, Texas 77251
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- University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60607
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- Shandong University, Qingdao, Shandong 266237
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973
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- Shandong University, Qingdao, Shandong 266237
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- Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw 00-661, Poland
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- University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026
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- State University of New York, Stony Brook, New York 11794
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- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, Hubei 430079
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- University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60607
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- Fudan University, Shanghai, 200433
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- Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, Gansu 730000
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- University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026
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- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, Hubei 430079
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- National Cheng Kung University, Tainan 70101
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973
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- University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60607
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- Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907
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- Fudan University, Shanghai, 200433
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- Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
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- Shandong University, Qingdao, Shandong 266237
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720
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- Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies FIAS, Frankfurt 60438, Germany
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Acharya B, Alexandre J, Benes P, Bergmann B, Bertolucci S, Bevan A, Branzas H, Burian P, Campbell M, Cho YM, de Montigny M, De Roeck A, Ellis JR, Sawy ME, Fairbairn M, Felea D, Frank M, Gould O, Hays J, Hirt AM, Ho DLJ, Hung PQ, Janecek J, Kalliokoski M, Korzenev A, Lacarrère DH, Leroy C, Levi G, Lionti A, Maulik A, Margiotta A, Mauri N, Mavromatos NE, Mermod P, Millward L, Mitsou VA, Ostrovskiy I, Ouimet PP, Papavassiliou J, Parker B, Patrizii L, Păvălaş GE, Pinfold JL, Popa LA, Popa V, Pozzato M, Pospisil S, Rajantie A, de Austri RR, Sahnoun Z, Sakellariadou M, Santra A, Sarkar S, Semenoff G, Shaa A, Sirri G, Sliwa K, Soluk R, Spurio M, Staelens M, Suk M, Tenti M, Togo V, Tuszyn'ski JA, Upreti A, Vento V, Vives O. Search for magnetic monopoles produced via the Schwinger mechanism. Nature 2022; 602:63-67. [PMID: 35110756 DOI: 10.1038/s41586-021-04298-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/18/2021] [Accepted: 12/01/2021] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
Abstract
Electrically charged particles can be created by the decay of strong enough electric fields, a phenomenon known as the Schwinger mechanism1. By electromagnetic duality, a sufficiently strong magnetic field would similarly produce magnetic monopoles, if they exist2. Magnetic monopoles are hypothetical fundamental particles that are predicted by several theories beyond the standard model3-7 but have never been experimentally detected. Searching for the existence of magnetic monopoles via the Schwinger mechanism has not yet been attempted, but it is advantageous, owing to the possibility of calculating its rate through semi-classical techniques without perturbation theory, as well as that the production of the magnetic monopoles should be enhanced by their finite size8,9 and strong coupling to photons2,10. Here we present a search for magnetic monopole production by the Schwinger mechanism in Pb-Pb heavy ion collisions at the Large Hadron Collider, producing the strongest known magnetic fields in the current Universe11. It was conducted by the MoEDAL experiment, whose trapping detectors were exposed to 0.235 per nanobarn, or approximately 1.8 × 109, of Pb-Pb collisions with 5.02-teraelectronvolt center-of-mass energy per collision in November 2018. A superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID) magnetometer scanned the trapping detectors of MoEDAL for the presence of magnetic charge, which would induce a persistent current in the SQUID. Magnetic monopoles with integer Dirac charges of 1, 2 and 3 and masses up to 75 gigaelectronvolts per speed of light squared were excluded by the analysis at the 95% confidence level. This provides a lower mass limit for finite-size magnetic monopoles from a collider search and greatly extends previous mass bounds.
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- B Acharya
- Theoretical Particle Physics & Cosmology Group, Physics Department, King's College London, London, UK
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- Theoretical Particle Physics & Cosmology Group, Physics Department, King's College London, London, UK
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- IEAP, Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
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- IEAP, Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
| | - H Branzas
- Institute of Space Science, Măgurele, Romania
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- IEAP, Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Experimental Physics Department, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Center for Quantum Spacetime, Sogang University, Seoul, Korea
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- Physics Department, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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- Experimental Physics Department, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Theoretical Particle Physics & Cosmology Group, Physics Department, King's College London, London, UK.,Theoretical Physics Department, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Experimental Physics Department, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Theoretical Particle Physics & Cosmology Group, Physics Department, King's College London, London, UK
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- Institute of Space Science, Măgurele, Romania
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- Department of Physics, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK.,Helsinki Institute of Physics, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
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- Department of Earth Sciences, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department of Physics, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- Department of Physics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA
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- IEAP, Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Helsinki Institute of Physics, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Département de Physique Nucléaire et Corpusculaire, Université de Genève, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Experimental Physics Department, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Département de Physique, Université de Montréal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- INFN, Section of Bologna, Bologna, Italy.,Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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- Département de Physique Nucléaire et Corpusculaire, Université de Genève, Geneva, Switzerland
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- INFN, Section of Bologna, Bologna, Italy.,Physics Department, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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- INFN, Section of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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- Theoretical Particle Physics & Cosmology Group, Physics Department, King's College London, London, UK
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- Département de Physique Nucléaire et Corpusculaire, Université de Genève, Geneva, Switzerland
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
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- IFIC, Universitat de València, CSIC, Valencia, Spain
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, USA.
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- Physics Department, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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- Institute for Research in Schools, Canterbury, UK
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- INFN, Section of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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- Institute of Space Science, Măgurele, Romania
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- Physics Department, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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- Institute of Space Science, Măgurele, Romania
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- Institute of Space Science, Măgurele, Romania
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- INFN, Section of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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- IEAP, Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Department of Physics, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- INFN, Section of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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- Theoretical Particle Physics & Cosmology Group, Physics Department, King's College London, London, UK
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- IFIC, Universitat de València, CSIC, Valencia, Spain
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- Theoretical Particle Physics & Cosmology Group, Physics Department, King's College London, London, UK
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- Department of Physics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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- Physics Department, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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- INFN, Section of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Tufts University, Medford, MA, USA
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- Physics Department, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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- Physics Department, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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- IEAP, Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
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- INFN, Section of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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- Physics Department, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, USA
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- IFIC, Universitat de València, CSIC, Valencia, Spain
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- IFIC, Universitat de València, CSIC, Valencia, Spain
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