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Hussain M, Ghani H, Ali Y, Clement C, Nawgiri R. Fine needle aspiration diagnosis of benign oncocytic lesions of the head and neck associated with false positive 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose uptake on positron emission tomography scan. Diagn Cytopathol 2024. [PMID: 38712593 DOI: 10.1002/dc.25331] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/06/2023] [Revised: 02/28/2024] [Accepted: 04/15/2024] [Indexed: 05/08/2024]
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INTRODUCTION 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) uptake on positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) has become the mainstay for staging and post-therapy surveillance of cancer as malignant neoplasms generally demonstrate higher FDG uptake that benign entities. However, there are certain benign lesions, most notably oncocytic tumors, that can display very high uptake and fine needle aspiration (FNA) is usually done to confirm malignancy. Therefore, it is important to recognize that benign oncocytic lesions of the head and neck may also present as FDG-avid lesions to avoid a diagnostic pitfall. METHODS Electronic search of institutional surgical and cytopathology archives was conducted to identify cases of benign oncocytic lesions involving the head and neck region diagnosed by FNA from January 2012 to April 2022. Chart review was used to assess whether lesions were initially discovered via PET scanning. RESULTS One hundred and twenty-five cases of oncocytic lesions were identified; 12 (9%) PET positive lesions were identified in the head and neck region from patients being evaluated for metastasis or for suspicion of malignancy. Cytopathology of all 12 cases demonstrated benign oncocytic lesions; eight (67%) of these cases were consistent with Warthin tumor, one (8.3%) was a benign oncocytic lesion, and one (8.3%) was consistent wit a parathyroid adenoma. Most (58%) of the PET-positive lesions were in parotid region, two from thyroid gland (17%), one from submandibular gland (8%), one from paratracheal area (8%). The PET scan SUVs ranged from 3.3 to 19.5 g mL-1. CONCLUSIONS Oncocytic lesions including Warthin tumors can result in false-positive FDG uptake on PET scans. Clinicians and cytopathologists should be aware of PET-positive benign oncocytic head and neck lesions.
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- Mahreen Hussain
- Department of Pathology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, USA
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- Department of Pathology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, USA
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- Department of Pathology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, USA
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- Department of Pathology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, USA
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- Department of Pathology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, USA
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Hussain F, Ali Y, Li Y, Haque MM. Revisiting the hybrid approach of anomaly detection and extreme value theory for estimating pedestrian crashes using traffic conflicts obtained from artificial intelligence-based video analytics. Accid Anal Prev 2024; 199:107517. [PMID: 38442633 DOI: 10.1016/j.aap.2024.107517] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/27/2023] [Revised: 12/17/2023] [Accepted: 02/21/2024] [Indexed: 03/07/2024]
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Pedestrians represent a group of vulnerable road users who are at a higher risk of sustaining severe injuries than other road users. As such, proactively assessing pedestrian crash risks is of paramount importance. Recently, extreme value theory models have been employed for proactively assessing crash risks from traffic conflicts, whereby the underpinning of these models are two sampling approaches, namely block maxima and peak over threshold. Earlier studies reported poor accuracy and large uncertainty of these models, which has been largely attributed to limited sample size. Another fundamental reason for such poor performance could be the improper selection of traffic conflict extremes due to the lack of an efficient sampling mechanism. To test this hypothesis and demonstrate the effect of sampling technique on extreme value theory models, this study aims to develop hybrid models whereby unconventional sampling techniques were used to select the extreme vehicle-pedestrian conflicts that were then modelled using extreme value distributions to estimate the crash risk. Unconventional sampling techniques refer to unsupervised machine learning-based anomaly detection techniques. In particular, Isolation forest and minimum covariance determinant techniques were used to identify extreme vehicle-pedestrian conflicts characterised by post encroachment time as the traffic conflict measure. Video data was collected for four weekdays (6 am-6 pm) from three four-legged intersections in Brisbane, Australia and processed using artificial intelligence-based video analytics. Results indicate that mean crash estimates of hybrid models were much closer to observed crashes with narrower confidence intervals as compared with traditional extreme value models. The findings of this study demonstrate the suitability of machine learning-based anomaly detection techniques to augment the performance of existing extreme value models for estimating pedestrian crashes from traffic conflicts. These findings are envisaged to further explore the possibility of utilising more advanced machine learning models for traffic conflict techniques.
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- Fizza Hussain
- Queensland University of Technology, School of Civil & Environment Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Brisbane 4001, Australia.
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- School of Architecture, Building, and Civil Engineering, Loughborough University, Leicestershire LE11 3TU, United Kingdom.
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- Queensland University of Technology, School of Computer Science, Faculty of Science, Brisbane 4001, Australia.
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- Queensland University of Technology, School of Civil & Environment Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Brisbane 4001, Australia.
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Li J, Khalid WA, Imtiaz H, Huang L, Ali Y, Yousaf R, Gul F, Mahmood A, Shah AA, Deng H, Khattak S. The deleterious variants of N-acetylgalactosamine-6-sulfatase (GalN6S) enzyme trigger Morquio a syndrome by disrupting protein foldings. J Biomol Struct Dyn 2024; 42:3700-3711. [PMID: 37222604 DOI: 10.1080/07391102.2023.2214234] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/19/2023] [Accepted: 05/10/2023] [Indexed: 05/25/2023]
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Lysosomal enzymes degrade cellular macromolecules, while their inactivation causes human hereditary metabolic disorders. Mucopolysaccharidosis IVA (MPS IVA; Moquio A syndrome) is one of the lysosomal storage disorders caused by a defective Galactosamine-6-sulfatase (GalN6S) enzyme. In several populations, disease incidence is elevated due to missense mutations brought on by non-synonymous allelic variation in the GalN6S enzyme. Here, we studied the effect of non-synonymous single nucleotide polymorphism (nsSNPs) on the structural dynamics of the GalN6S enzyme and its binding with N-acetylgalactosamine (GalNAc) using all-atom molecular dynamics simulation and an essential dynamics approach. Consequently, in this study, we have identified three functionally disruptive mutations in domain-I and domain-II, that is, S80L, R90W, and S162F, which presumably contribute to post-translational modifications. The study delineated that both domains work cooperatively, and alteration in domain II (S80L, R90W) leads to conformational changes in the catalytic site in domain-I, while mutation S162F mainly provokes higher residual flexibility of domain II. These results show that these mutations impair the hydrophobic core, implying that Morquio A syndrome is caused by misfolding of the GalN6S enzyme. The results also show the instability of the GalN6S-GalNAc complex upon substitution. Overall, the structural dynamics resulting from point mutations give the molecular rationale for Moquio A syndrome and, more importantly, the Mucopolysaccharidoses (MPS) family of diseases, re-establishing MPS IVA as a protein-folding disease.Communicated by Ramaswamy H. Sarma.
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- Jiuyi Li
- Department of Anesthesiology, The First People's Hospital of Chenzhou, Chenzhou, Hunan Province, PR China
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- Government Rana Abdul Raheem Memorial Hospital Sodiwal Lahore, Sodiwal, Punjab, Pakistan
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- Tehsil Headquarters Hospital Bhera, Sarghoda, Bhera, Punjab, Pakistan
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- Department of Anesthesiology, The First People's Hospital of Chenzhou, Chenzhou, Hunan Province, PR China
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- National Center for Bioinformatics, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan
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- National Center for Bioinformatics, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan
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- National Center for Bioinformatics, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan
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- Center for Medical Genetics and Hunan Key Laboratory of Medical Genetics, School of Life Sciences, Central South University, Changsha, PR China
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- Center for Medical Genetics and Hunan Key Laboratory of Medical Genetics, School of Life Sciences, Central South University, Changsha, PR China
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- Department of Anesthesiology, The Third Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, PR China
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- Henan International Joint Laboratory for Nuclear Protein Regulation, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Henan University, Kaifeng, China
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Ilyas M, Holzwarth D, Ishaq R, Ali Y, Habiba U, Raja AM, Saeed S, Abdullah U, Khan SN, Ullah A, Raja GK, Baig SM, Fazeli W, Kunz WS, Shaiq PA. Whole-Exome sequencing identifies GYS2 biallelic variants in individuals with suspected epilepsy. Seizure 2024; 116:74-80. [PMID: 37574425 DOI: 10.1016/j.seizure.2023.07.020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/08/2023] [Revised: 07/04/2023] [Accepted: 07/25/2023] [Indexed: 08/15/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Adequate glucose supply is essential for brain function, therefore hypoglycemic states may lead to seizures. Since blood glucose supply for brain is buffered by liver glycogen, an impairment of liver glycogen synthesis by mutations in the liver glycogen synthase gene (GYS2) might result in a substantial neurological involvement. Here, we describe the phenotypes of affected siblings of two families harboring biallelic mutations in GYS2. METHODS Two suspected families - a multiplex Pakistani family (family A) with three affected siblings and a family of Moroccan origin (family B) with a single affected child who presented with seizures and reduced fasting blood glucose levels were genetically characterized. Whole exome sequencing (WES) was performed on the index patients, followed by Sanger sequencing-based segregation analyses on all available members of both families. RESULTS The variant prioritization of WES and later Sanger sequencing confirmed three mutations in the GYS2 gene (12p12.1) consistent with an autosomal recessive pattern of inheritance. A homozygous splice acceptor site variant (NM_021957.3, c. 1646 -2A>G) segregated in family A. Two novel compound heterozygous variants (NM_021957.3: c.343G>A; p.Val115Met and NM_021957.3: c.875A>T; p.Glu292Val) were detected in family B, suggesting glycogen storage disorder. A special diet designed to avoid hypoglycemia, in addition to change of the anti-seizure medication led to reduction in seizure frequency. CONCLUSIONS This study suggests that the seizures in patients initially diagnosed with epilepsy might be directly caused, or influenced by hypoglycemia due to pathogenic variants in the GYS2 gene.
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- Muhammad Ilyas
- University Institute of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Pir Mehr Ali Arid Agriculture University Rawalpindi, Pakistan; Department of Medical laboratory technology, Riphah International University, Malakand Campus, Pakistan; Department of Epileptology, University of Bonn, Germany
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- Department of Neuropediatrics, Children's Hospital, University of Bonn, Germany
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- University Institute of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Pir Mehr Ali Arid Agriculture University Rawalpindi, Pakistan
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- Institute of Chemistry, Slovak Academy of Sciences, 845 38 Bratislava, Slovakia
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- University Institute of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Pir Mehr Ali Arid Agriculture University Rawalpindi, Pakistan
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- University Institute of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Pir Mehr Ali Arid Agriculture University Rawalpindi, Pakistan
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- University Institute of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Pir Mehr Ali Arid Agriculture University Rawalpindi, Pakistan; Department of Clinical Molecular Biology, EpiGen, Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- University Institute of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Pir Mehr Ali Arid Agriculture University Rawalpindi, Pakistan
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- Department of Medical Laboratory Technology, University of Haripur, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
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- Applied Genomics Centre and State Key Laboratory of Molecular Neuroscience, Hongkong University of Science and Technology, Division of Life Sciences, Hong Kong
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- University Institute of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Pir Mehr Ali Arid Agriculture University Rawalpindi, Pakistan
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- Department of Neuropediatrics, Children's Hospital, University of Bonn, Germany
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- University Institute of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Pir Mehr Ali Arid Agriculture University Rawalpindi, Pakistan.
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Ilyas M, Tariq F, Ishaq R, Habiba U, Bibi F, Khan SN, Ali Y, Haider S, Efthymiou S, Abdullah U, Raja GK, Shaiq PA. Whole exome sequencing identifies variable expressivity of CLN6 variants in Progressive myoclonic epilepsy affected families. Epilepsy Res 2024; 201:107283. [PMID: 38382230 DOI: 10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2023.107283] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/04/2023] [Revised: 11/25/2023] [Accepted: 12/14/2023] [Indexed: 02/23/2024]
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Progressive myoclonic epilepsies (PMEs) are a group of neurodegenerative disorders, predominantly affecting adolescents and, characterized by generalized worsening myoclonus epilepsies, ataxia, cognitive deficits, and dementia. To date, several genes, having implications in diverse phenotypic expressions associated with PMEs, have been identified. Genetic diagnosis is available for most of the adolescence-onset myoclonic epilepsies. This study aimed to elucidate the genetic basis of PMEs in three multiplex Pakistani families exhibiting clinically variable phenotypes. Causative variant(s) in the studied families, and mode of segregation were identified by Whole Exome Sequencing (WES) of the probands, followed by bi-directional Sanger sequencing for final validation. We identified homozygous recessive CLN6 missense variant c.768 C>G (p.Asp256Glu) in Family 1, and c.889 C>A (p.Pro297Thr) variant in Family 2. While in Family 3, we found a homozygous variant (c.316dup) that caused a frameshift mutation, leading to a premature stop codon in the CLN6 protein, resulting in a truncated protein (p.Arg106ProfsTer26). Though CLN6 is previously identified to underlie late infantile and adolescent onset neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis, this study supports and expands the phenotypic spectrum of CLN6 mutations and signifies diagnositc potential CLN6 variants for PMEs. Diverse pathological effects of variant c .768 C>G were observed in Family 1, with same genotypes, suggesting clinical heterogeneity and/or variable expressivity that might be the implication of pleiotropic effects of the gene in these cases.
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- Muhammad Ilyas
- University Institute of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, (PMAS) Pir Mehr Ali Shah Arid Agriculture University Rawalpindi, Pakistan; Department of Medical Laboratory Technology, Riphah International University, Malakand Campus, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
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- University Institute of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, (PMAS) Pir Mehr Ali Shah Arid Agriculture University Rawalpindi, Pakistan
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- University Institute of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, (PMAS) Pir Mehr Ali Shah Arid Agriculture University Rawalpindi, Pakistan
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- University Institute of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, (PMAS) Pir Mehr Ali Shah Arid Agriculture University Rawalpindi, Pakistan
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- University Institute of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, (PMAS) Pir Mehr Ali Shah Arid Agriculture University Rawalpindi, Pakistan
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- Department of Medical Laboratory Technology, University of Haripur, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
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- Institute of Chemistry, Solvak Academy of Sciences, 84538 Bratislava, Slovakia
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- Wah Medical College, Izzat Ali Shah Hospital, Maternal and Child Health Centre, Wah Cantt, Pakistan
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- University Institute of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, (PMAS) Pir Mehr Ali Shah Arid Agriculture University Rawalpindi, Pakistan
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- University Institute of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, (PMAS) Pir Mehr Ali Shah Arid Agriculture University Rawalpindi, Pakistan
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- University Institute of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, (PMAS) Pir Mehr Ali Shah Arid Agriculture University Rawalpindi, Pakistan.
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Hussain F, Ali Y, Li Y, Haque MM. A bi-level framework for real-time crash risk forecasting using artificial intelligence-based video analytics. Sci Rep 2024; 14:4121. [PMID: 38374425 PMCID: PMC10876932 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-54391-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/05/2023] [Accepted: 02/12/2024] [Indexed: 02/21/2024] Open
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This study proposes a bi-level framework for real-time crash risk forecasting (RTCF) for signalised intersections, leveraging the temporal dependency among crash risks of contiguous time slices. At the first level of RTCF, a non-stationary generalised extreme value (GEV) model is developed to estimate the rear-end crash risk in real time (i.e., at a signal cycle level). Artificial intelligence techniques, like YOLO and DeepSort were used to extract traffic conflicts and time-varying covariates from traffic movement videos at three signalised intersections in Queensland, Australia. The estimated crash frequency from the non-stationary GEV model is compared against the historical crashes for the study locations (serving as ground truth), and the results indicate a close match between the estimated and observed crashes. Notably, the estimated mean crashes lie within the confidence intervals of observed crashes, further demonstrating the accuracy of the extreme value model. At the second level of RTCF, the estimated signal cycle crash risk is fed to a recurrent neural network to predict the crash risk of the subsequent signal cycles. Results reveal that the model can reasonably estimate crash risk for the next 20-25 min. The RTCF framework provides new pathways for proactive safety management at signalised intersections.
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- Fizza Hussain
- School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, 4001, Australia
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- School of Architecture, Building, Civil Engineering, Loughborough University, Leicestershire, LE11 3TU, UK
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- School of Computer Science, Faculty of Science, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, 4001, Australia
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- School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, 4001, Australia.
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Ali Y, Naeem UH, Rahman HU, Khan S, Amin S, Ahmad K, Durrani H. Anaplastic Large Cell Lymphoma of the Spine: Report of a Rare Case. Cureus 2024; 16:e54602. [PMID: 38524078 PMCID: PMC10958758 DOI: 10.7759/cureus.54602] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 02/19/2024] [Indexed: 03/26/2024] Open
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This abstract discusses a rare case of anaplastic large cell lymphoma (ALCL) involving the cervical and dorsal spine in a 17-year-old female. ALCL is a distinct subtype of lymphoma characterized by abnormal proliferation of lymphocytes and is divided into ALK-positive and ALK-negative subtypes. Spinal involvement in ALCL is uncommon, particularly in the cervical and dorsal regions. The patient presented with persistent fever, weakness, and delayed onset of severe neck pain. Diagnosis involved imaging, bone marrow biopsy, and lymph node biopsy. Treatment strategies for ALCL typically involve a multimodal approach, including chemotherapy, radiotherapy, and targeted therapy. However, due to the rarity of spinal involvement, treatment decisions are based on extrapolation from other ALCL cases. Prognosis is influenced by disease stage and ALK status, but specific outcomes for spinal involvement remain poorly established. This case emphasizes the need for considering lymphoma in patients with unexplained symptoms and abnormal imaging findings. It highlights the importance of further research to improve the understanding and management of ALCL with spinal involvement.
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- Yasir Ali
- Internal Medicine, Hayatabad Medical Complex Peshawar, Peshawar, PAK
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- Internal Medicine, Hayatabad Medical Complex Peshawar, Peshawar, PAK
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- Internal Medicine, Hayatabad Medical Complex Peshawar, Peshawar, PAK
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- Internal Medicine, Hayatabad Medical Complex Peshawar, Peshawar, PAK
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- Internal Medicine, Hayatabad Medical Complex Peshawar, Peshawar, PAK
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- Internal Medicine, Hayatabad Medical Complex Peshawar, Peshawar, PAK
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Singh S, Ali Y, Haque MM. A Bayesian extreme value theory modelling framework to assess corridor-wide pedestrian safety using autonomous vehicle sensor data. Accid Anal Prev 2024; 195:107416. [PMID: 38056025 DOI: 10.1016/j.aap.2023.107416] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/04/2023] [Revised: 11/14/2023] [Accepted: 11/27/2023] [Indexed: 12/08/2023]
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Pedestrians are a vulnerable road user group, and their crashes are generally spread across the network rather than in a concentrated location. As such, understanding and modelling pedestrian crash risk at a corridor level becomes paramount. Studies on pedestrian crash risks, particularly with the traffic conflict data, are limited to single or multiple but scattered intersections. A lack of proper modelling techniques and the difficulties in capturing pedestrian interaction at the network or corridor level are two main challenges in this regard. With autonomous vehicles trialled on public roads generating massive (and unprecedented) datasets, utilising such rich information for corridor-wide safety analysis is somewhat limited where it appears to be most relevant. This study proposes an extreme value theory modelling framework to estimate corridor-wide pedestrian crash risk using autonomous vehicle sensor/probe data. Two types of models were developed in the Bayesian framework, including the block maxima sampling-based model corresponding to Generalised Extreme Value distribution and the peak over threshold sampling-based model corresponding to Generalised Pareto distribution. The proposed framework was applied to autonomous vehicle data from Argoverse-a Ford Motors subsidiary. This autonomous vehicle fleet of Agro AI (owner of Argoverse dataset) is equipped with two 64 beams synchronised LiDAR sensors, a cluster of seven high-resolution cameras, and a pair of stereo-vison high-resolution cameras to capture surrounding road users' information within a range of 200 meters. A subset of the Argoverse dataset, focussing on an arterial corridor in Miami, USA, was used to extract pedestrian and vehicle trajectories. From these trajectories, vehicle-pedestrian conflicts were identified and measured using post encroachment time. The non-stationarity of extremes was captured by vehicle volume, pedestrian volume, average vehicle speed, and average pedestrian speed in the extreme value model. Both block maxima and peak over threshold sampling-based models were found to provide a reasonable estimate of historical pedestrian crash frequencies. Notably, the block maxima sampling-based model was more accurate than the peak over threshold sampling-based model based on mean crash estimates and confidence intervals. This study demonstrates the potential of using autonomous vehicle sensor data for network-level safety, enabling an efficient identification of pedestrian crash risk zones in a transport network.
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- Sunny Singh
- Queensland University of Technology, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Brisbane, Australia.
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- Loughborough University, School of Architecture, Building, and Civil Engineering, Leicestershire LE11 3TU, United Kingdom.
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- Queensland University of Technology, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Brisbane, Australia.
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Shoaib M, Ali Y, Shen Y, Ni J. Identification of potential natural products derived from fungus growing termite, inhibiting Pseudomonas aeruginosa quorum sensing protein LasR using molecular docking and molecular dynamics simulation approach. J Biomol Struct Dyn 2024; 42:1126-1144. [PMID: 37096792 DOI: 10.1080/07391102.2023.2198607] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/12/2023] [Accepted: 03/26/2023] [Indexed: 04/26/2023]
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Pseudomonas aeruginosa, the most common opportunistic pathogen, is becoming antibiotic-resistant worldwide. The fate of P. aeruginosa, a multidrug-resistant strain, can be determined by multidrug efflux pumps, enzyme synthesis, outer membrane protein depletion, and target alterations. Microbial niches have long used quorum sensing (QS) to synchronize virulence gene expression. Computational methods can aid in the development of novel P. aeruginosa drug-resistant treatments. The tripartite symbiosis in termites that grow fungus may help special microbes find new antimicrobial drugs. To find anti-quorum sensing natural products that could be used as alternative therapies, a library of 376 fungal-growing termite-associated natural products (NPs) was screened for their physicochemical properties, pharmacokinetics, and drug-likeness. Using GOLD, the top 74 NPs were docked to the QS transcriptional regulator LasR protein. The five lead NPs with the highest gold score and drug-like properties were chosen for a 200-ns molecular dynamics simulation to test the competitive activity of different compounds against negative catechin. Fridamycin and Daidzein had stable conformations, with mean RMSDs of 2.48 and 3.67 Å, respectively, which were similar to Catechin's 3.22 Å. Fridamycin and Daidzein had absolute binding energies of -71.186 and -52.013 kcal/mol, respectively, which were higher than the control's -42.75 kcal/mol. All the compounds within the active site of the LasR protein were kept intact by Trp54, Arg55, Asp67, and Ser123. These findings indicate that termite gut and fungus-associated NPs, specifically Fridamycin and Daidzein, are potent QS antagonists that can be used to treat P. aeruginosa's multidrug resistance.Communicated by Ramaswamy H. Sarma.
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- Muhammad Shoaib
- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, Microbial Technology Institute, Shandong University, Qingdao, Shandong, P. R. China
- Institute of Health Sciences, Islamabad Campus, Khyber Medical University, Peshawar, Pakistan
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- National Center for Bioinformatics, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan
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- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, Microbial Technology Institute, Shandong University, Qingdao, Shandong, P. R. China
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- Institute of Health Sciences, Islamabad Campus, Khyber Medical University, Peshawar, Pakistan
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Aiman S, Farooq QUA, Han Z, Aslam M, Zhang J, Khan A, Ahmad A, Li C, Ali Y. Core-genome-mediated promising alternative drug and multi-epitope vaccine targets prioritization against infectious Clostridium difficile. PLoS One 2024; 19:e0293731. [PMID: 38241420 PMCID: PMC10798517 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0293731] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/01/2023] [Accepted: 10/18/2023] [Indexed: 01/21/2024] Open
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Prevention of Clostridium difficile infection is challenging worldwide owing to its high morbidity and mortality rates. C. difficile is currently being classified as an urgent threat by the CDC. Devising a new therapeutic strategy become indispensable against C. difficile infection due to its high rates of reinfection and increasing antimicrobial resistance. The current study is based on core proteome data of C. difficile to identify promising vaccine and drug candidates. Immunoinformatics and vaccinomics approaches were employed to construct multi-epitope-based chimeric vaccine constructs from top-ranked T- and B-cell epitopes. The efficacy of the designed vaccine was assessed by immunological analysis, immune receptor binding potential and immune simulation analyses. Additionally, subtractive proteomics and druggability analyses prioritized several promising and alternative drug targets against C. difficile. These include FMN-dependent nitroreductase which was prioritized for pharmacophore-based virtual screening of druggable molecule databases to predict potent inhibitors. A MolPort-001-785-965 druggable molecule was found to exhibit significant binding affinity with the conserved residues of FMN-dependent nitroreductase. The experimental validation of the therapeutic targets prioritized in the current study may worthy to identify new strategies to combat the drug-resistant C. difficile infection.
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- Sara Aiman
- Faculty of Environmental and Life Sciences, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing, China
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- Faculty of Environmental and Life Sciences, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing, China
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- Faculty of Environmental and Life Sciences, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing, China
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- Department of Biochemistry, Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan, Mardan, Pakistan
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- Faculty of Environmental and Life Sciences, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing, China
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- Department of Biochemistry, Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan, Mardan, Pakistan
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- Department of Biotechnology, Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan, Mardan, KP, Pakistan
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- Faculty of Environmental and Life Sciences, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing, China
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- School of Biomedical Sciences, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
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Ali Y, Khan AA, Alanazi AM, Abdikakharovich SA, Shah JA, Ren ZG, Khattak S. Identification of the myxobacterial secondary metabolites Aurachin A and Soraphinol A as promising inhibitors of thymidylate kinase of the Monkeypox virus. Mol Divers 2024:10.1007/s11030-023-10764-x. [PMID: 38183513 DOI: 10.1007/s11030-023-10764-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/10/2023] [Accepted: 11/03/2023] [Indexed: 01/08/2024]
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Thymidylate kinase (TMPK) of monkeypox virus (MPXV) has emerged as a promising target for potential therapeutics due to its significant role in pyrimidine metabolism. While smallpox drugs are advised for treating monkeypox, the European Medicine Agency has sanctioned Tecovirimat due to its potent nanomolar activity. Nonetheless, there is a need for monkeypox-specific therapeutic options. In this work, we employed docking-based virtual screening and molecular dynamics (MD) simulations to identify myxobacterial secondary metabolites as promising anti-viral natural compounds capable of inhibiting thymidylate kinase. The computational pharmacokinetics and manual curation of top-scoring compounds identified six lead compounds that were compared in terms of protein-ligand contacts and protein-essential dynamics. The study shows that among the six candidates, Aurachin A and the Soraphinol analogues such as Soraphinol A and Soraphinol C remain very stable compared to other compounds, enabling the active site integrity via a stable dynamics pattern. We also show that other compounds such as Phenoxan, Phenylnannolone C, and 8E-Aurafuron B remain unstable and have a negative impact on the active site integrity and may not be suitable binders for TMPK protein. Analyzing the Aurachin A and Soraphinol A binding, the established hydrogen bonds with Arg93 and the conserved hydrophobic interaction with Tyr101 are consistent with previous experimental interactions. Additionally, a deeper insight into the indole and the aromatic ring interaction through π-π stacking and π-cation interactions, as well as the background of Aurachin A and Soraphinol A as a bioactive compound, has significant implications not only for its potential as a promising drug but also for directing future drug discovery efforts targeting the TMPK protein.
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- Yasir Ali
- Institute of Chemistry, Slovak Academy of Sciences, 845 38, Bratislava, Slovakia
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- Pharmaceutical Biotechnology Laboratory, Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, College of Pharmacy, King Saud University, 11451, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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- Pharmaceutical Biotechnology Laboratory, Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, College of Pharmacy, King Saud University, 11451, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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- Ferghana Medical Institute of Public Health, 104100, Ferghana, Uzbekistan
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- Henan International Joint Laboratory of Nuclear Protein Regulation, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Henan University College of Medicine, Kaifeng, 475004, Henan, China.
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- Henan International Joint Laboratory of Nuclear Protein Regulation, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Henan University College of Medicine, Kaifeng, 475004, Henan, China.
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Ali S, Haq TU, Hussain M, Uzair M, Ali Y, Chen Y, Jalil F, Shah AA. Genetic variants rs2910164, rs4636297 and rs895819 may contribute to the onset of acute myocardial infarction in Pakistani population. PLoS One 2024; 19:e0296025. [PMID: 38165852 PMCID: PMC10760690 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0296025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/19/2023] [Accepted: 12/05/2023] [Indexed: 01/04/2024] Open
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The most serious type of coronary artery disease (CAD), acute myocardial infarction (AMI), is a major global cause of death. The development of AMI is accompanied by several risk factors. AMI may be caused by variations in the microRNA (miRNA) genes, which have a negative impact on miRNA-mediated regulation of gene expression. The target mRNAs are dysregulated because of these genetic changes in the miRNA genes, which interfere with the vital biological processes that result in AMI. Using allele-specific PCR, the aim of the study is to examine the association of the variants (rs2910164, rs4636297, and rs895819) in MIR146A, MIR126, and MIR27A with AMI susceptibility. A difference in genotype distribution among the patients and control for variation rs2910164 was identified by co-dominant [χ2 = 68.34,2; P value<0.0001], dominant (G/G vs G/C + C/C) [OR = 4.167 (2.860-6.049); P value<0.0001], recessive (C/C vs G/C + G/G) [OR = 0.2584 (0.1798-0.3731); P value<0.0001], and additive models [OR = 3.847 (2.985-4.959); P value<0.0001]. Whereas the association of rs4636297 was investigated by co-dominant [χ2 = 6.882,2; P value = 0.0320], dominant (G/G vs G/A + A/A) [OR = 0.6914 (0.4849-0.9948); P value = 0.0489], recessive (A/A vs A/G + G/G) [OR = 2.434 (0.9849-5.616830); P value = 0.0595], and additive models [OR = 0.7716 (0.6000-0.9918); P value = 0.0433]. Similarly, association of rs895819 was determined by co-dominant [χ2 = 5.277, 2; P value = 0.0715], dominant (G/G vs G/A + A/A) [OR = 1.654(0.9819-2.801); P value = 0.06440], recessive (A/A vs A/G + G/G) [OR = 0.7227 (0.5132-1.022); P value = 0.0748], and additive models [OR = 1.3337 (1.041-1.719); P value = 0.0233]. The results of this study found a significant association of rs2910164 and rs4636297 with AMI and are considered as the risk factor for AMI in the Pakistani population. We observed no significant association of the variant MIR27A (rs895819) with AMI incidence.
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- Sajjad Ali
- Department of Biotechnology, University of Malakand, Chakdara, Pakistan
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- Department of Biotechnology, University of Malakand, Chakdara, Pakistan
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- Department of Biotechnology, University of Malakand, Chakdara, Pakistan
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- Department of Biotechnology, University of Malakand, Chakdara, Pakistan
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- Department of Biotechnology, Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan, Mardan, Pakistan
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- School of Biomedical Sciences, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
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- Department of Biotechnology, Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan, Mardan, Pakistan
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- Department of Biotechnology, University of Malakand, Chakdara, Pakistan
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Alnawmasi N, Ali Y, Yasmin S. Exploring temporal instability effects on bicyclist injury severities determinants for intersection and non-intersection-related crashes. Accid Anal Prev 2024; 194:107339. [PMID: 37857092 DOI: 10.1016/j.aap.2023.107339] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/29/2023] [Revised: 09/12/2023] [Accepted: 10/08/2023] [Indexed: 10/21/2023]
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Cycling is a sustainable and healthy mode of transportation with direct links to reducing traffic congestion, lowering greenhouse gas emissions, and improving air quality. However, from a safety perspective, bicyclists represent a risky road user group with a higher likelihood of sustaining severe injuries when involved in vehicle crashes. With various determinants known to affect bicyclist injury severity and vary across locations, this study investigates the factors affecting bicyclist injury severity and temporal instability, considering the location of crashes. More specifically, the objective of this study is to understand differences in injury severities of intersection and non-intersection-related single-bicycle-vehicle crashes using four year crash data from the state of Florida. Random parameters logit models with heterogeneity in the means and variances are developed to model bicyclist injury severity outcomes (no injury, minor injury, and severe injury) for intersection and non-intersection crashes. Several variables affecting injury severities are considered in model estimation, including weather, roadway, vehicle, driver, and bicyclist characteristics. The temporal stability of the model parameters is assessed for different locations and years using a series of likelihood ratio tests. Results indicate that the determinants of bicyclist injury severities change over time and location, resulting in different injury severities of bicyclists, with non-intersection crashes consistently resulting in more severe bicyclist injuries. Using a simulation-based out-of-sample approach, predictions are made to understand the benefits of replicating driving behaviour and facilities similar to intersections for non-intersection locations, which could benefit in reducing bicyclist injury severity probabilities.
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- Nawaf Alnawmasi
- Assistant Professor, Civil Engineering Department, College of Engineering, University of Ha'il, Hail 55474, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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- School of Architecture, Building, and Civil Engineering, Loughborough University, Leicestershire LE11 3TU, United Kingdom.
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- Centre for Accident Research and Road Safety-Queensland (CARRS-Q), and School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia.
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Ali Y, Hussain F, Haque MM. Advances, challenges, and future research needs in machine learning-based crash prediction models: A systematic review. Accid Anal Prev 2024; 194:107378. [PMID: 37976634 DOI: 10.1016/j.aap.2023.107378] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/23/2023] [Revised: 10/29/2023] [Accepted: 11/08/2023] [Indexed: 11/19/2023]
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Accurately modelling crashes, and predicting crash occurrence and associated severities are a prerequisite for devising countermeasures and developing effective road safety management strategies. To this end, crash prediction modelling using machine learning has evolved over two decades. With the advent of big data that provides unprecedented opportunities to better understand the crash mechanism and its determinants, such efforts will likely be accelerated. To gear these efforts, understanding state-of-the-art machine learning-based crash prediction models becomes paramount to summarise the lessons learned from past efforts, which can assist in developing robust and accurate models. This review paper aims to address this gap by systematically reviewing the machine learning studies on crash modelling. Models are reviewed from three aspects of the application: (a) crash occurrence (or real-time crash) prediction, (b) crash frequency prediction, and (c) injury severity prediction. Further, model intricacies that impact model performance are identified and thoroughly reviewed. This comprehensive review highlights specific gaps and future research needs in three aforementioned model applications, such as improper selection of non-crash events for crash occurrence models, the inability of future forecasting of crash frequency models, and inconsistency in injury severity classes. Critical research needs relating to model development, evaluation, and application are also discussed. This review envisages methodological advancements in machine learning models for crash prediction modelling and leveraging big data to better link crashes with its determinants.
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- Yasir Ali
- School of Architecture, Building, and Civil Engineering, Loughborough University, Leicestershire LE11 3TU, United Kingdom.
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- Queensland University of Technology, School of Civil & Environment Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Brisbane 4001, Australia.
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- Queensland University of Technology, School of Civil & Environment Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Brisbane 4001, Australia.
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Howlader MM, Ali Y, Burbridge A, Haque MM. Before-after safety evaluation of part-time protected right-turn signals: An extreme value theory approach by applying artificial intelligence-based video analytics. Accid Anal Prev 2024; 194:107341. [PMID: 37864888 DOI: 10.1016/j.aap.2023.107341] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/04/2023] [Revised: 08/14/2023] [Accepted: 10/08/2023] [Indexed: 10/23/2023]
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Extreme value theory models have opened doors for before-after safety evaluation of engineering treatments using traffic conflict techniques. Recent advancements in automated conflict extraction technologies have further expedited conflict-based safety evaluation as a potential alternative to traditional crash-based methods. However, the suitability of extreme value theory models in the before-after evaluation of engineering treatments needs to be rigorously tested. As such, this study proposes a traffic conflict-based before-after evaluation of a novel part-time protected right-turn signal strategy for right-turn or opposing-through crashes at signalised intersections. A part-time protected right-turn signal strategy refers to a signal arrangement where permissive and fully protected right-turn phasings are operated during peak and off-peak hours, respectively. A deep neural network-based computer vision technique was applied to extract the conflicts from a total of 654 h of video recordings (before period: 266 h and after period: 388 h) over seven treated approaches, and four matching control approaches at five signalised intersections in the city of Cairns, Australia. Using post encroachment time and post-collision velocity difference as traffic conflict measures, non-stationary bivariate generalised extreme value models were developed to estimate the severe and non-severe opposing-through crashes at signal cycle levels. The odds ratio analysis of model-predicted crash risks suggests that part-time protected right-turn signals reduce 67% and 81% of severe and non-severe opposing-through crashes at signalised intersections, respectively. Part-time protected right-turn signal strategy offers a good safety solution without precipitating need for capacity upgrades to accommodate queued right turners at signalised intersections.
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- Md Mohasin Howlader
- Queensland University of Technology (QUT), School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Brisbane, Queensland 4000, Australia.
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- Loughborough University, School of Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering, Loughborough LE11 3TU, United Kingdom.
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- Department of Transport and Main Roads, Engineering & Technology Branch, Infrastructure Management and Delivery Division, Brisbane, Queensland 4000, Australia.
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- Queensland University of Technology (QUT), School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Brisbane, Queensland 4000, Australia.
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Uzair M, Haq TU, Ali S, Hussain M, Jalil F, Ali Y, Shah AA. The miRNA variants MIR196A2 (rs11614913) and MIR423 (rs6505162) contribute to an increase in the risk of myocardial infarction. Mol Genet Genomic Med 2024; 12:e2323. [PMID: 38013659 PMCID: PMC10767615 DOI: 10.1002/mgg3.2323] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/03/2023] [Revised: 09/26/2023] [Accepted: 11/10/2023] [Indexed: 11/29/2023] Open
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INTRODUCTION MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are small, single-stranded RNA molecules that negatively regulate gene expression and play a key role in the pathogenesis of human diseases. Recent studies have suggested that miRNAs contribute to cardiovascular diseases (CVDs). However, the association between single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in miRNAs and myocardial infarction (MI) remains in infancy. AIM The current study was designed to find out the association of SNPs in MIR196A2 and MIR423 (rs11614913 and rs6505162, respectively). METHODS Using Tetra-Primer Amplification Refractory Mutation System-Polymerase Chain Reaction (T-ARMS PCR) in 400 cases (MI patients) and 336 healthy controls. Using different inheritance models (co-dominant, homozygous dominant, homozygous recessive, and additive models), the association of these SNPs was genotyped with MI risk. RESULTS For variant rs11614913, significant distribution of the genotypes among the cases and controls was determined by co-dominant [χ2 = 29.19, 2; p value < 0.0001], dominant (C/C vs. C/T + T/T) [OR = 0.45 (0.34 to 0.61); p < 0.0001], recessive (T/T vs. C/T + C/C) [OR = 1.009 (0.63 to 1.63); p-value p value > 0.999], and additive models [OR = 0.65 (0.52 to 0.80); p value = 0.0001]. Similarly, a significant association of rs6505162 was determined by co-dominant [χ2 = 24.29, 2; p value < 0.0001], dominant (C/C vs. A/C+ A/A) [OR = 0.44 (0.32 to 0.61); p value < 0.0001], recessive (A/A vs. A/C + C/C) [OR = 1.29 (0.85 to 1.98); p value = 0.28], and additive models [OR = 0.65 (0.52 to 0.81); p value = 0.0001]. CONCLUSION Therefore, the current study showed that both variants rs11614913 and rs6505162 are significantly associated with MI in the Pakistani population.
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- Muhammad Uzair
- Department of Biotechnology, Faculty of Biological SciencesUniversity of MalakandChakdaraPakistan
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- Department of Biotechnology, Faculty of Biological SciencesUniversity of MalakandChakdaraPakistan
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- Department of Biotechnology, Faculty of Biological SciencesUniversity of MalakandChakdaraPakistan
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- Department of Biotechnology, Faculty of Biological SciencesUniversity of MalakandChakdaraPakistan
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- Department of BiotechnologyAbdul Wali Khan University Mardan (AWKUM)MardanPakistan
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- School of Biomedical SciencesThe Chinese University of Hong KongHong KongHong Kong
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- Department of Biotechnology, Faculty of Biological SciencesUniversity of MalakandChakdaraPakistan
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Khattak S, Ali Y, Ren Z, Ji XY. Monkeypox Entry and Emergence Preparation in Pakistan. Life (Basel) 2023; 13:2308. [PMID: 38137909 PMCID: PMC10744954 DOI: 10.3390/life13122308] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/28/2023] [Revised: 11/26/2023] [Accepted: 12/05/2023] [Indexed: 12/24/2023] Open
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Monkeypox (Mpox) is a virus that first emerged in Africa in 1970 [...].
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- Saadullah Khattak
- Henan International Joint Laboratory for Nuclear Protein Regulation, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Henan University, Kaifeng 475004, China;
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- National Center for Bioinformatics, Quaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad 45320, Pakistan;
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- Henan International Joint Laboratory for Nuclear Protein Regulation, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Henan University, Kaifeng 475004, China;
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- Henan International Joint Laboratory for Nuclear Protein Regulation, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Henan University, Kaifeng 475004, China;
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Waqas Z, Rahman S, Khan S, Khan A, Ali Y, Haider I. Thrombosis of the Vein of Trolard: An Atypical Presentation of Protein C Deficiency. Cureus 2023; 15:e50943. [PMID: 38249248 PMCID: PMC10800082 DOI: 10.7759/cureus.50943] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 12/22/2023] [Indexed: 01/23/2024] Open
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Cerebral venous thrombosis refers to complete or partial occlusion of the cerebral sinus/es or the feeding cortical veins, resulting in secondary effects of vascular congestion and focal or generalized neurological deficits. One of the important causes of venous thromboembolism is inherited thrombophilia. Our case is of a 34-year-old male with no previous comorbidity who presented to the emergency department with complaints of sudden onset left-sided weakness, seizures, and loss of consciousness for one day. Thrombosis of the vein of Trolard was diagnosed based on magnetic resonance venography (MRV) film. His MRI with MRV revealed an attenuated caliber of the vein of Trolard along with abnormal signal intensity in the right fronto-parietal region and the right falcine location. He was managed with intravenous medication, including levetiracetam and topiramate. Once the diagnosis was established, he was commenced on subcutaneous Enoxaparin. Consequently, his GCS improved from 6/15 to 15/15 within the first 24 hours, and he could move his limbs on the day of discharge without any significant disability.
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- Zeeshan Waqas
- Internal Medicine, Khyber Teaching Hospital, Peshawar, PAK
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- Radiology, Hayatabad Medical Complex, Peshawar, PAK
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- Internal Medicine, Hayatabad Medical Complex, Peshawar, PAK
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- Internal Medicine, Khyber Teaching Hospital, Peshawar, PAK
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- Internal Medicine, Hayatabad Medical Complex, Peshawar, PAK
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- Internal Medicine, Khyber Teaching Hospital, Peshawar, PAK
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Khan P, Masroor I, Alam MS, Salam A, Ali Y, Khan MS. Sonographic Characteristics and Pathology Correlation of Breast Imaging Reporting and Data System (BI-RADS) Category 4 Lesions. Cureus 2023; 15:e51410. [PMID: 38292968 PMCID: PMC10827280 DOI: 10.7759/cureus.51410] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 12/31/2023] [Indexed: 02/01/2024] Open
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INTRODUCTION The Breast Imaging-Reporting and Database System (BI-RADS) category 4 is designated for breast lumps that do not display the typical features of malignancy but still raise enough suspicion to warrant a recommendation for a biopsy, as malignancy cannot be ruled out through imaging alone. The main objective of this study was to investigate the sonographic characteristics and pathology correlation of BI-RADS 4 breast lesions and determine the positive predictive rate of BI-RADS 4 lesions in diagnosing breast cancer, using histopathology as the gold standard. METHODS This was a cross-sectional study conducted at the Department of Radiology, Aga Khan University Hospital in Karachi, spanning from May 2021 to August 2022, with a duration of 15 months. The study focused on female patients over the age of 18 who presented with suspicious breast lesions on ultrasound. Both mammography and ultrasound-guided core needle biopsy were performed on these patients, followed by a detailed histopathological evaluation of the biopsy specimens. To calculate the positive predictive value (PPV), true positive cases were identified through both histopathology and ultrasonography. RESULTS A total of 227 cases were categorized as BI-RADS 4 lesions, with the patients' mean age being 47.8 ± 14.3 years (range: 17 - 88). Among the biopsied lesions, 101 cases were confirmed to be true positive for breast malignancies, resulting in a PPV for malignancy of 44.9%. Conversely, there were 124 false positive cases out of the 227 BI-RADS 4 category lesions (54.63%). The primary indication for presentation was a breast lump, and out of the 101 confirmed malignant cases, 70 (69.3%) were associated with malignancy. CONCLUSION BI-RADS 4 can be utilized to assess suspicious breast lumps; however, for more reliable results and to avoid false negatives, histopathological confirmation should complement the imaging findings.
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- Poonum Khan
- Radiology, Aga Khan University, Karachi, PAK
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- Radiology, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre, Medina, SAU
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- Internal Medicine, Khyber Teaching Hospital, Peshawar, PAK
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- Internal Medicine, Nazareth Hospital, Philadelphia, USA
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- Diagnostic and Interventional Imaging, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, USA
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Ahmad K, Saleh M, Ali Y, Yaseen A, Ali M, Kakakhel M, Hayat MA. A Race Against Time: Early-Onset Differentiation Syndrome Following All-Trans-Retinoic-Acid (ATRA) Therapy in Acute Promyelocytic Leukemia (AML-M3). Cureus 2023; 15:e50042. [PMID: 38186512 PMCID: PMC10768710 DOI: 10.7759/cureus.50042] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 12/06/2023] [Indexed: 01/09/2024] Open
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This study reports a case of differentiation syndrome, a rare complication of ATRA (all-trans-retinoic-acid) therapy, observed in a 20-year-old male with acute promyelocytic leukemia (APML). Following the initiation of ATRA therapy for APML, the patient presented with fever, bleeding gums, bloody stool, and mouth ulcers. After 36 hours, he developed respiratory distress, hypotension, tachycardia, and hypoxemia, leading to the diagnosis of differentiation syndrome. ATRA therapy was promptly discontinued, and the patient, exhibiting type 1 respiratory failure, necessitated intubation. The management included hydroxyurea, dexamethasone, vasopressors, intravenous fluids, and furosemide. After seven days, significant improvement was observed, underscoring the importance of recognizing and promptly addressing differentiation syndrome in APML patients undergoing ATRA therapy. This case emphasizes the necessity of ATRA discontinuation, coupled with the judicious use of steroids and hydroxyurea, in the effective management of differentiation syndrome.
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- Kamran Ahmad
- Internal Medicine, Hayatabad Medical Complex Peshawar, Peshawar, PAK
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- Internal Medicine, Ayub Teaching Hospital, Abbottabad, PAK
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- Internal Medicine, Hayatabad Medical Complex Peshawar, Peshawar, PAK
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- Medicine, Hayatabad Medical Complex Peshawar, Peshawar, PAK
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- Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Hayatabad Medical Complex Peshawar, Peshawar, PAK
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- Internal Medicine, Hayatabad Medical Complex Peshawar, Peshawar, PAK
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Gupta T, Ali Y, Sudan S, Bowles PFD. Injection medialisation laryngoplasty: an alternative approach for challenging cases. J Laryngol Otol 2023; 137:1406-1408. [PMID: 36683388 DOI: 10.1017/s0022215123000038] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
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OBJECTIVE Conventional injection medialisation laryngoplasty techniques may be compromised by patient-specific factors such as marked kyphosis, an anteriorly positioned larynx or intolerance to nasendoscopy. This paper describes a technique for successful injection medialisation laryngoplasty where conventional methods are precluded, in an 88-year-old man with presbyphonia on a background of Parkinson's disease. METHODS After induction of general anaesthesia, a transoral introducing needle, shaped by tactile manipulation to match the curvature of a 'C-MAC' intubating video-laryngoscope 'D-blade' attachment, was introduced until visible above the glottis. The implant material was then injected into the paraglottic space as normal until satisfactory medialisation of the vocal fold was achieved. RESULTS When reviewed in the out-patient clinic four weeks later, the patient's post-operative Voice Handicap Index score fell to 6, from a pre-operative score of 21. CONCLUSION By utilising commonly available equipment and anaesthetic support to recreate the views and access conventional nasendoscopy and laryngoscopy facilitate, this novel procedure provides a viable and proven alternative in uncommon but challenging cases.
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- T Gupta
- ENT, Royal Sussex County Hospital, Brighton, UK
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- Anaesthetics, Royal Sussex County Hospital, Brighton, UK
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- Anaesthetics, Royal Sussex County Hospital, Brighton, UK
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Aiman S, Ahmad A, Khan A, Ali Y, Malik A, Alkholief M, Akhtar S, Khan RS, Li C, Jalil F, Ali Y. Vaccinomics-aided next-generation novel multi-epitope-based vaccine engineering against multidrug resistant Shigella Sonnei: Immunoinformatics and chemoinformatics approaches. PLoS One 2023; 18:e0289773. [PMID: 37992050 PMCID: PMC10664945 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0289773] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/22/2023] [Accepted: 07/25/2023] [Indexed: 11/24/2023] Open
Abstract
Shigella sonnei is a gram-negative bacterium and is the primary cause of shigellosis in advanced countries. An exceptional rise in the prevalence of the disease has been reported in Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America. To date, no preventive vaccine is available against S. sonnei infections. This pathogen has shown resistances towards both first- and second-line antibiotics. Therefore, an effective broad spectrum vaccine development against shigellosis is indispensable. In the present study, vaccinomics-aided immunoinformatics strategies were pursued to identify potential vaccine candidates from the S. sonnei whole proteome data. Pathogen essential proteins that are non-homologous to human and human gut microbiome proteome set, are feasible candidates for this purpose. Three antigenic outer membrane proteins were prioritized to predict lead epitopes based on reverse vaccinology approach. Multi-epitope-based chimeric vaccines was designed using lead B- and T-cell epitopes combined with suitable linker and adjuvant peptide sequences to enhance immune responses against the designed vaccine. The SS-MEVC construct was prioritized based on multiple physicochemical, immunological properties, and immune-receptors docking scores. Immune simulation analysis predicted strong immunogenic response capability of the designed vaccine construct. The Molecular dynamic simulations analysis ensured stable molecular interactions of lead vaccine construct with the host receptors. In silico restriction and cloning analysis predicted feasible cloning capability of the SS-MEVC construct within the E. coli expression system. The proposed vaccine construct is predicted to be more safe, effective and capable of inducing robust immune responses against S. sonnei infections and may be worthy of examination via in vitro/in vivo assays.
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- Sara Aiman
- Faculty of Environmental and Life Sciences, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing, China
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- Department of Biotechnology, Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
- Department of Biochemistry, Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan, Mardan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
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- Department of Biochemistry, Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan, Mardan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
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- National Center for Bioinformatics, Quaid-i-Azam University Islamabad, Islamabad, Pakistan
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- Department of Pharmaceutics, College of Pharmacy, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Pharmaceutics, College of Pharmacy, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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- A.T. Still University of Health Sciences, Kirksville, Missouri, United States of America
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- Department of Biotechnology, Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
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- Faculty of Environmental and Life Sciences, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing, China
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- Department of Biotechnology, Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
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- School of Biomedical Sciences, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
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Acharya S, Adamová D, Adler A, Aglieri Rinella G, Agnello M, Agrawal N, Ahammed Z, Ahmad S, Ahn SU, Ahuja I, Akindinov A, Al-Turany M, Aleksandrov D, Alessandro B, Alfanda HM, Alfaro Molina R, Ali B, Ali Y, Alici A, Alizadehvandchali N, Alkin A, Alme J, Alocco G, Alt T, Altsybeev I, Anaam MN, Andrei C, Andronic A, Anguelov V, Antinori F, Antonioli P, Anuj C, Apadula N, Aphecetche L, Appelshäuser H, Arata C, Arcelli S, Aresti M, Arnaldi R, Arsene IC, Arslandok M, Augustinus A, Averbeck R, Azmi MD, Badalà A, Baek YW, Bai X, Bailhache R, Bailung Y, Bala R, Balbino A, Baldisseri A, Balis B, Banerjee D, Banoo Z, Barbera R, Barile F, Barioglio L, Barlou M, Barnaföldi GG, Barnby LS, Barret V, Barreto L, Bartels C, Barth K, Bartsch E, Baruffaldi F, Bastid N, Basu S, Batigne G, Battistini D, Batyunya B, Bauri D, Bazo Alba JL, Bearden IG, Beattie C, Becht P, Behera D, Belikov I, Bell Hechavarria ADC, Bellini F, Bellwied R, Belokurova S, Belyaev V, Bencedi G, Beole S, Bercuci A, Berdnikov Y, Berdnikova A, Bergmann L, Besoiu MG, Betev L, Bhaduri PP, Bhasin A, Bhat MA, Bhattacharjee B, Bianchi L, Bianchi N, Bielčík J, Bielčíková J, Biernat J, Bigot AP, Bilandzic A, Biro G, Biswas S, Bize N, Blair JT, Blau D, Blidaru MB, Bluhme N, Blume C, Boca G, Bock F, Bodova T, Bogdanov A, Boi S, Bok J, Boldizsár L, Bolozdynya A, Bombara M, Bond PM, Bonomi G, Borel H, Borissov A, Bossi H, Botta E, Bouziani YEM, Bratrud L, Braun-Munzinger P, Bregant M, Broz M, Bruno GE, Buckland MD, Budnikov D, Buesching H, Bufalino S, Bugnon O, Buhler P, Buthelezi Z, Butt JB, Bysiak SA, Cai M, Caines H, Caliva A, Calvo Villar E, Camacho JMM, Camerini P, Canedo FDM, Carabas M, Carnesecchi F, Caron R, Castillo Castellanos J, Catalano F, Ceballos Sanchez C, Chakaberia I, Chakraborty P, Chandra S, Chapeland S, Chartier M, Chattopadhyay S, Chattopadhyay S, Chavez TG, Cheng T, Cheshkov C, Cheynis B, Chibante Barroso V, Chinellato DD, Chizzali ES, Cho J, Cho S, Chochula P, Christakoglou P, Christensen CH, 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A, Fasel M, Fecchio P, Feliciello A, Feofilov G, Fernández Téllez A, Ferrer MB, Ferrero A, Ferrero C, Ferretti A, Feuillard VJG, Filova V, Finogeev D, Fionda FM, Flor F, Flores AN, Foertsch S, Fokin I, Fokin S, Fragiacomo E, Frajna E, Fuchs U, Funicello N, Furget C, Furs A, Fusayasu T, Gaardhøje JJ, Gagliardi M, Gago AM, Galvan CD, Gangadharan DR, Ganoti P, Garabatos C, Garcia JRA, Garcia-Solis E, Garg K, Gargiulo C, Garibli A, Garner K, Gautam A, Gay Ducati MB, Germain M, Ghosh C, Ghosh SK, Giacalone M, Gianotti P, Giubellino P, Giubilato P, Glaenzer AMC, Glässel P, Glimos E, Goh DJQ, Gonzalez V, González-Trueba LH, Gorgon M, Gotovac S, Grabski V, Graczykowski LK, Grecka E, Grelli A, Grigoras C, Grigoriev V, Grigoryan S, Grosa F, Grosse-Oetringhaus JF, Grosso R, Grund D, Guardiano GG, Guernane R, Guilbaud M, Gulbrandsen K, Gundem T, Gunji T, Guo W, Gupta A, Gupta R, Guzman SP, Gyulai L, Habib MK, Hadjidakis C, Hamagaki H, Hamid M, Han Y, Hannigan R, Haque MR, Harris JW, Harton A, Hassan H, Hatzifotiadou D, Hauer P, Havener LB, Heckel ST, Hellbär E, Helstrup H, Hemmer M, Herman T, Herrera Corral G, Herrmann F, Herrmann S, Hetland KF, Heybeck B, Hillemanns H, Hills C, Hippolyte B, Hofman B, Hohlweger B, Honermann J, Hong GH, Horzyk A, Hosokawa R, Hou Y, Hristov P, Hughes C, Huhn P, Huhta LM, Hulse CV, Humanic TJ, Hushnud H, Hutson A, Hutter D, Iddon JP, Ilkaev R, Ilyas H, Inaba M, Innocenti GM, Ippolitov M, Isakov A, Isidori T, Islam MS, Ivanov M, Ivanov M, Ivanov V, Izucheev V, Jablonski M, Jacak B, Jacazio N, Jacobs PM, Jadlovska S, Jadlovsky J, Jaelani S, Jaffe L, Jahnke C, Jakubowska MJ, Janik MA, Janson T, Jercic M, Jevons O, Jimenez AAP, Jonas F, Jones PG, Jowett JM, Jung J, Jung M, Junique A, Jusko A, Kabus MJ, Kaewjai J, Kalinak P, Kalteyer AS, Kalweit A, Kaplin V, Karasu Uysal A, Karatovic D, Karavichev O, Karavicheva T, Karczmarczyk P, Karpechev E, Kashyap V, Kebschull U, Keidel R, Keijdener DLD, Keil M, Ketzer B, Khan AM, Khan S, Khanzadeev A, Kharlov 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Sarkar D, Sarkar N, Sarma P, Sarritzu V, Sarti VM, Sas MHP, Schambach J, Scheid HS, Schiaua C, Schicker R, Schmah A, Schmidt C, Schmidt HR, Schmidt MO, Schmidt M, Schmidt NV, Schmier AR, Schotter R, Schukraft J, Schwarz K, Schweda K, Scioli G, Scomparin E, Seger JE, Sekiguchi Y, Sekihata D, Selyuzhenkov I, Senyukov S, Seo JJ, Serebryakov D, Šerkšnytė L, Sevcenco A, Shaba TJ, Shabetai A, Shahoyan R, Shangaraev A, Sharma A, Sharma D, Sharma H, Sharma M, Sharma N, Sharma S, Sharma S, Sharma U, Shatat A, Sheibani O, Shigaki K, Shimomura M, Shirinkin S, Shou Q, Sibiriak Y, Siddhanta S, Siemiarczuk T, Silva TF, Silvermyr D, Simantathammakul T, Simeonov R, Singh B, Singh B, Singh R, Singh R, Singh R, Singh S, Singh VK, Singhal V, Sinha T, Sitar B, Sitta M, Skaali TB, Skorodumovs G, Slupecki M, Smirnov N, Snellings RJM, Solheim EH, Song J, Songmoolnak A, Soramel F, Sorensen S, Spijkers R, Sputowska I, Staa J, Stachel J, Stan I, Steffanic PJ, Stiefelmaier SF, Stocco D, Storehaug I, Storetvedt MM, Stratmann P, Strazzi S, Stylianidis CP, Suaide AAP, Suire C, Sukhanov M, Suljic M, Sumberia V, Sumowidagdo S, Swain S, Szarka I, Tabassam U, Taghavi SF, Taillepied G, Takahashi J, Tambave GJ, Tang S, Tang Z, Tapia Takaki JD, Tapus N, Tarasovicova LA, Tarzila MG, Tassielli GF, Tauro A, Telesca A, Terlizzi L, Terrevoli C, Tersimonov G, Thakur S, Thomas D, Tikhonov A, Timmins AR, Tkacik M, Tkacik T, Toia A, Tokumoto R, Topilskaya N, Toppi M, Torales-Acosta F, Tork T, Torres Ramos AG, Trifiró A, Triolo AS, Tripathy S, Tripathy T, Trogolo S, Trubnikov V, Trzaska WH, Trzcinski TP, Turrisi R, Tveter TS, Ullaland K, Ulukutlu B, Uras A, Urioni M, Usai GL, Vala M, Valle N, Vallero S, van Doremalen LVR, van Leeuwen M, van Veen CA, van Weelden RJG, Vande Vyvre P, Varga D, Varga Z, Varga-Kofarago M, Vasileiou M, Vasiliev A, Vázquez Doce O, Vechernin V, Vercellin E, Vergara Limón S, Vermunt L, Vértesi R, Verweij M, Vickovic L, Vilakazi Z, Villalobos Baillie O, Vino G, Vinogradov A, Virgili T, Vislavicius V, Vodopyanov A, Volkel B, Völkl MA, Voloshin K, Voloshin SA, Volpe G, von Haller B, Vorobyev I, Vozniuk N, Vrláková J, Wagner B, Wang C, Wang D, Wegrzynek A, Weiglhofer FT, Wenzel SC, Wessels JP, Weyhmiller SL, Wiechula J, Wikne J, Wilk G, Wilkinson J, Willems GA, Windelband B, Winn M, Wright JR, Wu W, Wu Y, Xu R, Yadav A, Yadav AK, Yalcin S, Yamaguchi Y, Yamakawa K, Yang S, Yano S, Yin Z, Yoo IK, Yoon JH, Yuan S, Yuncu A, Zaccolo V, Zampolli C, Zanoli HJC, Zanone F, Zardoshti N, Zarochentsev A, Závada P, Zaviyalov N, Zhalov M, Zhang B, Zhang S, Zhang X, Zhang Y, Zhang Z, Zhao M, Zherebchevskii V, Zhi Y, Zhigareva N, Zhou D, Zhou Y, Zhu J, Zhu Y, Zinovjev G, Zurlo N. Measurements of Groomed-Jet Substructure of Charm Jets Tagged by D^{0} Mesons in Proton-Proton Collisions at sqrt[s]=13 TeV. Phys Rev Lett 2023; 131:192301. [PMID: 38000395 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.131.192301] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/25/2022] [Revised: 01/13/2023] [Accepted: 07/19/2023] [Indexed: 11/26/2023]
Abstract
Understanding the role of parton mass and Casimir color factors in the quantum chromodynamics parton shower represents an important step in characterizing the emission properties of heavy quarks. Recent experimental advances in jet substructure techniques have provided the opportunity to isolate and characterize gluon emissions from heavy quarks. In this Letter, the first direct experimental constraint on the charm-quark splitting function is presented, obtained via the measurement of the groomed shared momentum fraction of the first splitting in charm jets, tagged by a reconstructed D^{0} meson. The measurement is made in proton-proton collisions at sqrt[s]=13 TeV, in the low jet transverse-momentum interval of 15≤p_{T}^{jet ch}<30 GeV/c where the emission properties are sensitive to parton mass effects. In addition, the opening angle of the first perturbative emission of the charm quark, as well as the number of perturbative emissions it undergoes, is reported. Comparisons to measurements of an inclusive-jet sample show a steeper splitting function for charm quarks compared with gluons and light quarks. Charm quarks also undergo fewer perturbative emissions in the parton shower, with a reduced probability of large-angle emissions.
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Affiliation(s)
- S Acharya
- Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS/IN2P3, LPC, Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- Nuclear Physics Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Husinec-Řež, Czech Republic
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- Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe Universität Frankfurt Institut für Informatik, Fachbereich Informatik und Mathematik, Frankfurt, Germany
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
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- Dipartimento DISAT del Politecnico and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
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- INFN, Sezione di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Kolkata, India
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- Department of Physics, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India
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- Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information, Daejeon, Republic of Korea
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- Faculty of Science, P.J. Šafárik University, Košice, Slovak Republic
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- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
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- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
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- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
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- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
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- Instituto de Física, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
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- Department of Physics, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India
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- COMSATS University Islamabad, Islamabad, Pakistan
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- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Bologna, Italy
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
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- Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
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- INFN, Sezione di Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy
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- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
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- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
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- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
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- Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Bucharest, Romania
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- Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Institut für Kernphysik, Münster, Germany
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- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of Physics, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, USA
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- SUBATECH, IMT Atlantique, Nantes Université, CNRS-IN2P3, Nantes, France
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- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
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- Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie, Université Grenoble-Alpes, CNRS-IN2P3, Grenoble, France
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- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Bologna, Italy
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- INFN, Sezione di Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy
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- INFN, Sezione di Torino, Turin, Italy
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- Department of Physics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
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- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
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- Department of Physics, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India
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- INFN, Sezione di Catania, Catania, Italy
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- Gangneung-Wonju National University, Gangneung, Republic of Korea
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- University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China
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- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
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- Indian Institute of Technology Indore, Indore, India
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- Physics Department, University of Jammu, Jammu, India
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- Dipartimento DISAT del Politecnico and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
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- Université Paris-Saclay Centre d'Etudes de Saclay (CEA), IRFU, Départment de Physique Nucléaire (DPhN), Saclay, France
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- AGH University of Science and Technology, Cracow, Poland
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- Bose Institute, Department of Physics and Centre for Astroparticle Physics and Space Science (CAPSS), Kolkata, India
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- Physics Department, University of Jammu, Jammu, India
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- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Catania, Italy
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- Dipartimento Interateneo di Fisica "M. Merlin" and Sezione INFN, Bari, Italy
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- Physik Department, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
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- National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, School of Science, Department of Physics, Athens, Greece
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- Nuclear Physics Group, STFC Daresbury Laboratory, Daresbury, United Kingdom
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- Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS/IN2P3, LPC, Clermont-Ferrand, France
| | - L Barreto
- Universidade de São Paulo (USP), São Paulo, Brazil
| | - C Bartels
- University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
| | - K Barth
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - E Bartsch
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - F Baruffaldi
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Padova, Italy
| | - N Bastid
- Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS/IN2P3, LPC, Clermont-Ferrand, France
| | - S Basu
- Lund University Department of Physics, Division of Particle Physics, Lund, Sweden
| | - G Batigne
- SUBATECH, IMT Atlantique, Nantes Université, CNRS-IN2P3, Nantes, France
| | - D Battistini
- Physik Department, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
| | - B Batyunya
- Affiliated with an international laboratory covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - D Bauri
- Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT), Mumbai, India
| | - J L Bazo Alba
- Sección Física, Departamento de Ciencias, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima, Peru
| | - I G Bearden
- Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - C Beattie
- Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
| | - P Becht
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - D Behera
- Indian Institute of Technology Indore, Indore, India
| | - I Belikov
- Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, IPHC UMR 7178, F-67000 Strasbourg, France
| | | | - F Bellini
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Bologna, Italy
| | - R Bellwied
- University of Houston, Houston, Texas, USA
| | - S Belokurova
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - V Belyaev
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - G Bencedi
- Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
- Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Budapest, Hungary
| | - S Beole
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
| | - A Bercuci
- Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Bucharest, Romania
| | - Y Berdnikov
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - A Berdnikova
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - L Bergmann
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - M G Besoiu
- Institute of Space Science (ISS), Bucharest, Romania
| | - L Betev
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - P P Bhaduri
- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Kolkata, India
| | - A Bhasin
- Physics Department, University of Jammu, Jammu, India
| | - M A Bhat
- Bose Institute, Department of Physics and Centre for Astroparticle Physics and Space Science (CAPSS), Kolkata, India
| | | | - L Bianchi
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
| | - N Bianchi
- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Frascati, Italy
| | - J Bielčík
- Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech
| | - J Bielčíková
- Nuclear Physics Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Husinec-Řež, Czech Republic
| | - J Biernat
- The Henryk Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Cracow, Poland
| | - A P Bigot
- Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, IPHC UMR 7178, F-67000 Strasbourg, France
| | - A Bilandzic
- Physik Department, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
| | - G Biro
- Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Budapest, Hungary
| | - S Biswas
- Bose Institute, Department of Physics and Centre for Astroparticle Physics and Space Science (CAPSS), Kolkata, India
| | - N Bize
- SUBATECH, IMT Atlantique, Nantes Université, CNRS-IN2P3, Nantes, France
| | - J T Blair
- The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, USA
| | - D Blau
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - M B Blidaru
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - N Bluhme
- Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - C Blume
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - G Boca
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Pavia, Pavia, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Pavia, Pavia, Italy
| | - F Bock
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA
| | - T Bodova
- Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
| | - A Bogdanov
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - S Boi
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Cagliari, Italy
| | - J Bok
- Inha University, Incheon, Republic of Korea
| | - L Boldizsár
- Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Budapest, Hungary
| | - A Bolozdynya
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - M Bombara
- Faculty of Science, P.J. Šafárik University, Košice, Slovak Republic
| | - P M Bond
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - G Bonomi
- INFN, Sezione di Pavia, Pavia, Italy
- Università di Brescia, Brescia, Italy
| | - H Borel
- Université Paris-Saclay Centre d'Etudes de Saclay (CEA), IRFU, Départment de Physique Nucléaire (DPhN), Saclay, France
| | - A Borissov
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - H Bossi
- Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
| | - E Botta
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
| | - Y E M Bouziani
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - L Bratrud
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - P Braun-Munzinger
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - M Bregant
- Universidade de São Paulo (USP), São Paulo, Brazil
| | - M Broz
- Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech
| | - G E Bruno
- Dipartimento Interateneo di Fisica "M. Merlin" and Sezione INFN, Bari, Italy
- Politecnico di Bari and Sezione INFN, Bari, Italy
| | - M D Buckland
- University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
| | - D Budnikov
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - H Buesching
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - S Bufalino
- Dipartimento DISAT del Politecnico and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
| | - O Bugnon
- SUBATECH, IMT Atlantique, Nantes Université, CNRS-IN2P3, Nantes, France
| | - P Buhler
- Stefan Meyer Institut für Subatomare Physik (SMI), Vienna, Austria
| | - Z Buthelezi
- iThemba LABS, National Research Foundation, Somerset West, South Africa
- University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
| | - J B Butt
- COMSATS University Islamabad, Islamabad, Pakistan
| | - S A Bysiak
- The Henryk Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Cracow, Poland
| | - M Cai
- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
| | - H Caines
- Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
| | - A Caliva
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - E Calvo Villar
- Sección Física, Departamento de Ciencias, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima, Peru
| | | | - P Camerini
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Trieste, Italy
| | - F D M Canedo
- Universidade de São Paulo (USP), São Paulo, Brazil
| | - M Carabas
- University Politehnica of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania
| | - F Carnesecchi
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - R Caron
- Université de Lyon, CNRS/IN2P3, Institut de Physique des 2 Infinis de Lyon, Lyon, France
| | - J Castillo Castellanos
- Université Paris-Saclay Centre d'Etudes de Saclay (CEA), IRFU, Départment de Physique Nucléaire (DPhN), Saclay, France
| | - F Catalano
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
- Dipartimento DISAT del Politecnico and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
| | - C Ceballos Sanchez
- Affiliated with an international laboratory covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - I Chakaberia
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, USA
| | - P Chakraborty
- Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT), Mumbai, India
| | - S Chandra
- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Kolkata, India
| | - S Chapeland
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - M Chartier
- University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
| | - S Chattopadhyay
- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Kolkata, India
| | - S Chattopadhyay
- Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Kolkata, India
| | - T G Chavez
- High Energy Physics Group, Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Puebla, Mexico
| | - T Cheng
- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
| | - C Cheshkov
- Université de Lyon, CNRS/IN2P3, Institut de Physique des 2 Infinis de Lyon, Lyon, France
| | - B Cheynis
- Université de Lyon, CNRS/IN2P3, Institut de Physique des 2 Infinis de Lyon, Lyon, France
| | | | - D D Chinellato
- Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas, Brazil
| | - E S Chizzali
- Physik Department, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
| | - J Cho
- Inha University, Incheon, Republic of Korea
| | - S Cho
- Inha University, Incheon, Republic of Korea
| | - P Chochula
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - P Christakoglou
- Nikhef, National Institute for Subatomic Physics, Amsterdam, Netherlands
| | - C H Christensen
- Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - P Christiansen
- Lund University Department of Physics, Division of Particle Physics, Lund, Sweden
| | - T Chujo
- University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
| | - M Ciacco
- Dipartimento DISAT del Politecnico and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
| | - C Cicalo
- INFN, Sezione di Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy
| | - L Cifarelli
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Bologna, Italy
| | - F Cindolo
- INFN, Sezione di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
| | - M R Ciupek
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - G Clai
- INFN, Sezione di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
| | | | - J S Colburn
- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
| | - D Colella
- Dipartimento Interateneo di Fisica "M. Merlin" and Sezione INFN, Bari, Italy
- Politecnico di Bari and Sezione INFN, Bari, Italy
| | - M Colocci
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - M Concas
- INFN, Sezione di Torino, Turin, Italy
| | - G Conesa Balbastre
- Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie, Université Grenoble-Alpes, CNRS-IN2P3, Grenoble, France
| | - Z Conesa Del Valle
- Laboratoire de Physique des 2 Infinis, Irène Joliot-Curie, Orsay, France
| | - G Contin
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Trieste, Italy
| | - J G Contreras
- Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech
| | - M L Coquet
- Université Paris-Saclay Centre d'Etudes de Saclay (CEA), IRFU, Départment de Physique Nucléaire (DPhN), Saclay, France
| | - T M Cormier
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA
| | - P Cortese
- INFN, Sezione di Torino, Turin, Italy
- Università del Piemonte Orientale, Vercelli, Italy
| | | | - F Costa
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - S Costanza
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Pavia, Pavia, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Pavia, Pavia, Italy
| | - J Crkovská
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - P Crochet
- Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS/IN2P3, LPC, Clermont-Ferrand, France
| | - R Cruz-Torres
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, USA
| | - E Cuautle
- Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
| | - P Cui
- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
| | - L Cunqueiro
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA
| | - A Dainese
- INFN, Sezione di Padova, Padova, Italy
| | - M C Danisch
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - A Danu
- Institute of Space Science (ISS), Bucharest, Romania
| | - P Das
- National Institute of Science Education and Research, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Jatni, India
| | - P Das
- Bose Institute, Department of Physics and Centre for Astroparticle Physics and Space Science (CAPSS), Kolkata, India
| | - S Das
- Bose Institute, Department of Physics and Centre for Astroparticle Physics and Space Science (CAPSS), Kolkata, India
| | - A R Dash
- Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Institut für Kernphysik, Münster, Germany
| | - S Dash
- Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT), Mumbai, India
| | - R M H David
- High Energy Physics Group, Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Puebla, Mexico
| | - A De Caro
- Dipartimento di Fisica "E.R. Caianiello" dell'Università and Gruppo Collegato INFN, Salerno, Italy
| | | | - J de Cuveland
- Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - A De Falco
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Cagliari, Italy
| | - D De Gruttola
- Dipartimento di Fisica "E.R. Caianiello" dell'Università and Gruppo Collegato INFN, Salerno, Italy
| | | | - C De Martin
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Trieste, Italy
| | - S De Pasquale
- Dipartimento di Fisica "E.R. Caianiello" dell'Università and Gruppo Collegato INFN, Salerno, Italy
| | - S Deb
- Indian Institute of Technology Indore, Indore, India
| | - R J Debski
- AGH University of Science and Technology, Cracow, Poland
| | - K R Deja
- Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland
| | - R Del Grande
- Physik Department, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
| | - L Dello Stritto
- Dipartimento di Fisica "E.R. Caianiello" dell'Università and Gruppo Collegato INFN, Salerno, Italy
| | - W Deng
- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
| | - P Dhankher
- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA
| | - D Di Bari
- Dipartimento Interateneo di Fisica "M. Merlin" and Sezione INFN, Bari, Italy
| | - A Di Mauro
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - R A Diaz
- Centro de Aplicaciones Tecnológicas y Desarrollo Nuclear (CEADEN), Havana, Cuba
- Affiliated with an international laboratory covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - T Dietel
- University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
| | - Y Ding
- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
- Université de Lyon, CNRS/IN2P3, Institut de Physique des 2 Infinis de Lyon, Lyon, France
| | - R Divià
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - D U Dixit
- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA
| | - Ø Djuvsland
- Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
| | - U Dmitrieva
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - A Dobrin
- Institute of Space Science (ISS), Bucharest, Romania
| | - B Dönigus
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - A K Dubey
- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Kolkata, India
| | | | - A Dubla
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - S Dudi
- Physics Department, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India
| | - P Dupieux
- Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS/IN2P3, LPC, Clermont-Ferrand, France
| | - M Durkac
- Technical University of Košice, Košice, Slovak Republic
| | - N Dzalaiova
- Comenius University Bratislava, Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics, Bratislava, Slovak Republic
| | - T M Eder
- Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Institut für Kernphysik, Münster, Germany
| | - R J Ehlers
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA
| | - V N Eikeland
- Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
| | - F Eisenhut
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - D Elia
- INFN, Sezione di Bari, Bari, Italy
| | - B Erazmus
- SUBATECH, IMT Atlantique, Nantes Université, CNRS-IN2P3, Nantes, France
| | - F Ercolessi
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Bologna, Italy
| | - F Erhardt
- Physics Department, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
| | - M R Ersdal
- Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
| | - B Espagnon
- Laboratoire de Physique des 2 Infinis, Irène Joliot-Curie, Orsay, France
| | - G Eulisse
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - D Evans
- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
| | - S Evdokimov
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - L Fabbietti
- Physik Department, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
| | - M Faggin
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Padova, Italy
| | - J Faivre
- Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie, Université Grenoble-Alpes, CNRS-IN2P3, Grenoble, France
| | - F Fan
- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
| | - W Fan
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, USA
| | - A Fantoni
- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Frascati, Italy
| | - M Fasel
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA
| | - P Fecchio
- Dipartimento DISAT del Politecnico and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
| | | | - G Feofilov
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - A Fernández Téllez
- High Energy Physics Group, Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Puebla, Mexico
| | - M B Ferrer
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - A Ferrero
- Université Paris-Saclay Centre d'Etudes de Saclay (CEA), IRFU, Départment de Physique Nucléaire (DPhN), Saclay, France
| | - C Ferrero
- INFN, Sezione di Torino, Turin, Italy
| | - A Ferretti
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
| | - V J G Feuillard
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - V Filova
- Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech
| | - D Finogeev
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - F M Fionda
- INFN, Sezione di Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy
| | - F Flor
- University of Houston, Houston, Texas, USA
| | - A N Flores
- The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, USA
| | - S Foertsch
- iThemba LABS, National Research Foundation, Somerset West, South Africa
| | - I Fokin
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - S Fokin
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | | | - E Frajna
- Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Budapest, Hungary
| | - U Fuchs
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - N Funicello
- Dipartimento di Fisica "E.R. Caianiello" dell'Università and Gruppo Collegato INFN, Salerno, Italy
| | - C Furget
- Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie, Université Grenoble-Alpes, CNRS-IN2P3, Grenoble, France
| | - A Furs
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | | | - J J Gaardhøje
- Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - M Gagliardi
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
| | - A M Gago
- Sección Física, Departamento de Ciencias, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima, Peru
| | - C D Galvan
- Universidad Autónoma de Sinaloa, Culiacán, Mexico
| | | | - P Ganoti
- National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, School of Science, Department of Physics, Athens, Greece
| | - C Garabatos
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - J R A Garcia
- High Energy Physics Group, Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Puebla, Mexico
| | | | - K Garg
- SUBATECH, IMT Atlantique, Nantes Université, CNRS-IN2P3, Nantes, France
| | - C Gargiulo
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - A Garibli
- National Nuclear Research Center, Baku, Azerbaijan
| | - K Garner
- Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Institut für Kernphysik, Münster, Germany
| | - A Gautam
- University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, USA
| | - M B Gay Ducati
- Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, Brazil
| | - M Germain
- SUBATECH, IMT Atlantique, Nantes Université, CNRS-IN2P3, Nantes, France
| | - C Ghosh
- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Kolkata, India
| | - S K Ghosh
- Bose Institute, Department of Physics and Centre for Astroparticle Physics and Space Science (CAPSS), Kolkata, India
| | - M Giacalone
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Bologna, Italy
| | - P Gianotti
- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Frascati, Italy
| | - P Giubellino
- INFN, Sezione di Torino, Turin, Italy
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - P Giubilato
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Padova, Italy
| | - A M C Glaenzer
- Université Paris-Saclay Centre d'Etudes de Saclay (CEA), IRFU, Départment de Physique Nucléaire (DPhN), Saclay, France
| | - P Glässel
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - E Glimos
- University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
| | - D J Q Goh
- Nagasaki Institute of Applied Science, Nagasaki, Japan
| | - V Gonzalez
- Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, USA
| | - L H González-Trueba
- Instituto de Física, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
| | - M Gorgon
- AGH University of Science and Technology, Cracow, Poland
| | - S Gotovac
- Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture, University of Split, Split, Croatia
| | - V Grabski
- Instituto de Física, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
| | | | - E Grecka
- Nuclear Physics Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Husinec-Řež, Czech Republic
| | - A Grelli
- Institute for Gravitational and Subatomic Physics (GRASP), Utrecht University/Nikhef, Utrecht, Netherlands
| | - C Grigoras
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - V Grigoriev
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - S Grigoryan
- A.I. Alikhanyan National Science Laboratory (Yerevan Physics Institute) Foundation, Yerevan, Armenia
- Affiliated with an international laboratory covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - F Grosa
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | | | - R Grosso
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - D Grund
- Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech
| | - G G Guardiano
- Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas, Brazil
| | - R Guernane
- Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie, Université Grenoble-Alpes, CNRS-IN2P3, Grenoble, France
| | - M Guilbaud
- SUBATECH, IMT Atlantique, Nantes Université, CNRS-IN2P3, Nantes, France
| | - K Gulbrandsen
- Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - T Gundem
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - T Gunji
- University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
| | - W Guo
- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
| | - A Gupta
- Physics Department, University of Jammu, Jammu, India
| | - R Gupta
- Physics Department, University of Jammu, Jammu, India
| | - S P Guzman
- High Energy Physics Group, Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Puebla, Mexico
| | - L Gyulai
- Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Budapest, Hungary
| | - M K Habib
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - C Hadjidakis
- Laboratoire de Physique des 2 Infinis, Irène Joliot-Curie, Orsay, France
| | - H Hamagaki
- Nagasaki Institute of Applied Science, Nagasaki, Japan
| | - M Hamid
- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
| | - Y Han
- Yonsei University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
| | - R Hannigan
- The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, USA
| | - M R Haque
- Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland
| | - J W Harris
- Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
| | - A Harton
- Chicago State University, Chicago, Illinois, USA
| | - H Hassan
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA
| | | | - P Hauer
- Helmholtz-Institut für Strahlen- und Kernphysik, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Bonn, Germany
| | - L B Havener
- Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
| | - S T Heckel
- Physik Department, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
| | - E Hellbär
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - H Helstrup
- Faculty of Engineering and Science, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Bergen, Norway
| | - M Hemmer
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - T Herman
- Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech
| | - G Herrera Corral
- Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados (CINVESTAV), Mexico City and Mérida, Mexico
| | - F Herrmann
- Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Institut für Kernphysik, Münster, Germany
| | - S Herrmann
- Université de Lyon, CNRS/IN2P3, Institut de Physique des 2 Infinis de Lyon, Lyon, France
| | - K F Hetland
- Faculty of Engineering and Science, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Bergen, Norway
| | - B Heybeck
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - H Hillemanns
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - C Hills
- University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
| | - B Hippolyte
- Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, IPHC UMR 7178, F-67000 Strasbourg, France
| | - B Hofman
- Institute for Gravitational and Subatomic Physics (GRASP), Utrecht University/Nikhef, Utrecht, Netherlands
| | - B Hohlweger
- Nikhef, National Institute for Subatomic Physics, Amsterdam, Netherlands
| | - J Honermann
- Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Institut für Kernphysik, Münster, Germany
| | - G H Hong
- Yonsei University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
| | - A Horzyk
- AGH University of Science and Technology, Cracow, Poland
| | - R Hosokawa
- Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska, USA
| | - Y Hou
- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
| | - P Hristov
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - C Hughes
- University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
| | - P Huhn
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - L M Huhta
- University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland
| | - C V Hulse
- Laboratoire de Physique des 2 Infinis, Irène Joliot-Curie, Orsay, France
| | | | - H Hushnud
- Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Kolkata, India
| | - A Hutson
- University of Houston, Houston, Texas, USA
| | - D Hutter
- Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - J P Iddon
- University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
| | - R Ilkaev
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - H Ilyas
- COMSATS University Islamabad, Islamabad, Pakistan
| | - M Inaba
- University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
| | - G M Innocenti
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - M Ippolitov
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - A Isakov
- Nuclear Physics Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Husinec-Řež, Czech Republic
| | - T Isidori
- University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, USA
| | - M S Islam
- Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Kolkata, India
| | - M Ivanov
- Comenius University Bratislava, Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics, Bratislava, Slovak Republic
| | - M Ivanov
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - V Ivanov
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - V Izucheev
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - M Jablonski
- AGH University of Science and Technology, Cracow, Poland
| | - B Jacak
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, USA
| | - N Jacazio
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - P M Jacobs
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, USA
| | - S Jadlovska
- Technical University of Košice, Košice, Slovak Republic
| | - J Jadlovsky
- Technical University of Košice, Košice, Slovak Republic
| | - S Jaelani
- National Research and Innovation Agency - BRIN, Jakarta, Indonesia
| | - L Jaffe
- Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - C Jahnke
- Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas, Brazil
| | | | - M A Janik
- Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland
| | - T Janson
- Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe Universität Frankfurt Institut für Informatik, Fachbereich Informatik und Mathematik, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - M Jercic
- Physics Department, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
| | - O Jevons
- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
| | - A A P Jimenez
- Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
| | - F Jonas
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA
| | - P G Jones
- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
| | - J M Jowett
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - J Jung
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - M Jung
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - A Junique
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - A Jusko
- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
| | - M J Kabus
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
- Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland
| | - J Kaewjai
- Suranaree University of Technology, Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand
| | - P Kalinak
- Institute of Experimental Physics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Košice, Slovak Republic
| | - A S Kalteyer
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - A Kalweit
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - V Kaplin
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | | | - D Karatovic
- Physics Department, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
| | - O Karavichev
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - T Karavicheva
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | | | - E Karpechev
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - V Kashyap
- National Institute of Science Education and Research, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Jatni, India
| | - U Kebschull
- Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe Universität Frankfurt Institut für Informatik, Fachbereich Informatik und Mathematik, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - R Keidel
- Zentrum für Technologie und Transfer (ZTT), Worms, Germany
| | - D L D Keijdener
- Institute for Gravitational and Subatomic Physics (GRASP), Utrecht University/Nikhef, Utrecht, Netherlands
| | - M Keil
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - B Ketzer
- Helmholtz-Institut für Strahlen- und Kernphysik, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Bonn, Germany
| | - A M Khan
- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
| | - S Khan
- Department of Physics, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India
| | - A Khanzadeev
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - Y Kharlov
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - A Khatun
- Department of Physics, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India
| | - A Khuntia
- The Henryk Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Cracow, Poland
| | - B Kileng
- Faculty of Engineering and Science, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Bergen, Norway
| | - B Kim
- Department of Physics, Pusan National University, Pusan, Republic of Korea
| | - C Kim
- Department of Physics, Pusan National University, Pusan, Republic of Korea
| | - D J Kim
- University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland
| | - E J Kim
- Jeonbuk National University, Jeonju, Republic of Korea
| | - J Kim
- Yonsei University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
| | - J S Kim
- Gangneung-Wonju National University, Gangneung, Republic of Korea
| | - J Kim
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - J Kim
- Jeonbuk National University, Jeonju, Republic of Korea
| | - M Kim
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - S Kim
- Department of Physics, Sejong University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
| | - T Kim
- Yonsei University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
| | - K Kimura
- Physics Program and International Institute for Sustainability with Knotted Chiral Meta Matter (SKCM2), Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan
| | - S Kirsch
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - I Kisel
- Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - S Kiselev
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - A Kisiel
- Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland
| | - J P Kitowski
- AGH University of Science and Technology, Cracow, Poland
| | - J L Klay
- California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, California, USA
| | - J Klein
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - S Klein
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, USA
| | - C Klein-Bösing
- Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Institut für Kernphysik, Münster, Germany
| | - M Kleiner
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - T Klemenz
- Physik Department, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
| | - A Kluge
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - A G Knospe
- University of Houston, Houston, Texas, USA
| | - C Kobdaj
- Suranaree University of Technology, Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand
| | - T Kollegger
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - A Kondratyev
- Affiliated with an international laboratory covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - E Kondratyuk
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - J Konig
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - S A Konigstorfer
- Physik Department, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
| | - P J Konopka
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - G Kornakov
- Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland
| | - S D Koryciak
- AGH University of Science and Technology, Cracow, Poland
| | - A Kotliarov
- Nuclear Physics Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Husinec-Řež, Czech Republic
| | - O Kovalenko
- National Centre for Nuclear Research, Warsaw, Poland
| | - V Kovalenko
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - M Kowalski
- The Henryk Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Cracow, Poland
| | - I Králik
- Institute of Experimental Physics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Košice, Slovak Republic
| | - A Kravčáková
- Faculty of Science, P.J. Šafárik University, Košice, Slovak Republic
| | - L Kreis
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - M Krivda
- Institute of Experimental Physics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Košice, Slovak Republic
- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
| | - F Krizek
- Nuclear Physics Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Husinec-Řež, Czech Republic
| | - K Krizkova Gajdosova
- Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech
| | - M Kroesen
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - M Krüger
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - D M Krupova
- Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech
| | - E Kryshen
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - V Kučera
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - C Kuhn
- Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, IPHC UMR 7178, F-67000 Strasbourg, France
| | - P G Kuijer
- Nikhef, National Institute for Subatomic Physics, Amsterdam, Netherlands
| | - T Kumaoka
- University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
| | - D Kumar
- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Kolkata, India
| | - L Kumar
- Physics Department, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India
| | - N Kumar
- Physics Department, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India
| | - S Kumar
- Dipartimento Interateneo di Fisica "M. Merlin" and Sezione INFN, Bari, Italy
| | - S Kundu
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - P Kurashvili
- National Centre for Nuclear Research, Warsaw, Poland
| | - A Kurepin
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - A B Kurepin
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - S Kushpil
- Nuclear Physics Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Husinec-Řež, Czech Republic
| | - J Kvapil
- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
| | - M J Kweon
- Inha University, Incheon, Republic of Korea
| | - J Y Kwon
- Inha University, Incheon, Republic of Korea
| | - Y Kwon
- Yonsei University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
| | - S L La Pointe
- Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - P La Rocca
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Catania, Italy
| | - Y S Lai
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, USA
| | - A Lakrathok
- Suranaree University of Technology, Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand
| | - M Lamanna
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - R Langoy
- University of South-Eastern Norway, Kongsberg, Norway
| | - P Larionov
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - E Laudi
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - L Lautner
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
- Physik Department, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
| | - R Lavicka
- Stefan Meyer Institut für Subatomare Physik (SMI), Vienna, Austria
| | - T Lazareva
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - R Lea
- INFN, Sezione di Pavia, Pavia, Italy
- Università di Brescia, Brescia, Italy
| | - G Legras
- Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Institut für Kernphysik, Münster, Germany
| | - J Lehrbach
- Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - R C Lemmon
- Nuclear Physics Group, STFC Daresbury Laboratory, Daresbury, United Kingdom
| | | | - M M Lesch
- Physik Department, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
| | - E D Lesser
- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA
| | - M Lettrich
- Physik Department, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
| | - P Lévai
- Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Budapest, Hungary
| | - X Li
- China Institute of Atomic Energy, Beijing, China
| | - X L Li
- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
| | - J Lien
- University of South-Eastern Norway, Kongsberg, Norway
| | - R Lietava
- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
| | - B Lim
- Department of Physics, Pusan National University, Pusan, Republic of Korea
| | - S H Lim
- Department of Physics, Pusan National University, Pusan, Republic of Korea
| | - V Lindenstruth
- Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - A Lindner
- Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Bucharest, Romania
| | - C Lippmann
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - A Liu
- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA
| | - D H Liu
- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
| | - J Liu
- University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
| | - I M Lofnes
- Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
| | - C Loizides
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA
| | - P Loncar
- Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture, University of Split, Split, Croatia
| | - J A Lopez
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - X Lopez
- Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS/IN2P3, LPC, Clermont-Ferrand, France
| | - E López Torres
- Centro de Aplicaciones Tecnológicas y Desarrollo Nuclear (CEADEN), Havana, Cuba
| | - P Lu
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
- University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China
| | - J R Luhder
- Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Institut für Kernphysik, Münster, Germany
| | - M Lunardon
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Padova, Italy
| | | | - Y G Ma
- Fudan University, Shanghai, China
| | - A Maevskaya
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - M Mager
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - T Mahmoud
- Helmholtz-Institut für Strahlen- und Kernphysik, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Bonn, Germany
| | - A Maire
- Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, IPHC UMR 7178, F-67000 Strasbourg, France
| | - M Malaev
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - G Malfattore
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Bologna, Italy
| | - N M Malik
- Physics Department, University of Jammu, Jammu, India
| | - Q W Malik
- Department of Physics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
| | - S K Malik
- Physics Department, University of Jammu, Jammu, India
| | - L Malinina
- Affiliated with an international laboratory covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - D Mal'Kevich
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - D Mallick
- National Institute of Science Education and Research, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Jatni, India
| | - N Mallick
- Indian Institute of Technology Indore, Indore, India
| | - G Mandaglio
- Dipartimento di Scienze MIFT, Università di Messina, Messina, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Catania, Catania, Italy
| | - V Manko
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - F Manso
- Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS/IN2P3, LPC, Clermont-Ferrand, France
| | | | - Y Mao
- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
| | - G V Margagliotti
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Trieste, Italy
| | - A Margotti
- INFN, Sezione di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
| | - A Marín
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - C Markert
- The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, USA
| | - P Martinengo
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | | | - M I Martínez
- High Energy Physics Group, Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Puebla, Mexico
| | - G Martínez García
- SUBATECH, IMT Atlantique, Nantes Université, CNRS-IN2P3, Nantes, France
| | - S Masciocchi
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - M Masera
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
| | - A Masoni
- INFN, Sezione di Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy
| | - L Massacrier
- Laboratoire de Physique des 2 Infinis, Irène Joliot-Curie, Orsay, France
| | - A Mastroserio
- INFN, Sezione di Bari, Bari, Italy
- Università degli Studi di Foggia, Foggia, Italy
| | - A M Mathis
- Physik Department, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
| | - O Matonoha
- Lund University Department of Physics, Division of Particle Physics, Lund, Sweden
| | | | - 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
| | - A L Mazuecos
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - F Mazzaschi
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
| | - M Mazzilli
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - J E Mdhluli
- University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
| | - A F Mechler
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - Y Melikyan
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - A Menchaca-Rocha
- Instituto de Física, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
| | - E Meninno
- Dipartimento di Fisica "E.R. Caianiello" dell'Università and Gruppo Collegato INFN, Salerno, Italy
- Stefan Meyer Institut für Subatomare Physik (SMI), Vienna, Austria
| | - A S Menon
- University of Houston, Houston, Texas, USA
| | - M Meres
- Comenius University Bratislava, Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics, Bratislava, Slovak Republic
| | - S Mhlanga
- iThemba LABS, National Research Foundation, Somerset West, South Africa
- University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
| | - Y Miake
- University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
| | | | - L C Migliorin
- Université de Lyon, CNRS/IN2P3, Institut de Physique des 2 Infinis de Lyon, Lyon, France
| | - D L Mihaylov
- Physik Department, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
| | - K Mikhaylov
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
- Affiliated with an international laboratory covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - A N Mishra
- Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Budapest, Hungary
| | - D Miśkowiec
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - A Modak
- Bose Institute, Department of Physics and Centre for Astroparticle Physics and Space Science (CAPSS), Kolkata, India
| | - A P Mohanty
- Institute for Gravitational and Subatomic Physics (GRASP), Utrecht University/Nikhef, Utrecht, Netherlands
| | - B Mohanty
- National Institute of Science Education and Research, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Jatni, India
| | - M Mohisin Khan
- Department of Physics, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India
| | - M A Molander
- Helsinki Institute of Physics (HIP), Helsinki, Finland
| | - Z Moravcova
- Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - C Mordasini
- Physik Department, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
| | - D A Moreira De Godoy
- Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Institut für Kernphysik, Münster, Germany
| | - I Morozov
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - A Morsch
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - T Mrnjavac
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - V Muccifora
- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Frascati, Italy
| | - S Muhuri
- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Kolkata, India
| | - J D Mulligan
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, USA
| | - A Mulliri
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Cagliari, Italy
| | - M G Munhoz
- Universidade de São Paulo (USP), São Paulo, Brazil
| | - R H Munzer
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | | | - S Murray
- University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
| | - L Musa
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - J Musinsky
- Institute of Experimental Physics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Košice, Slovak Republic
| | - J W Myrcha
- Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland
| | - B Naik
- University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
| | - R Nair
- National Centre for Nuclear Research, Warsaw, Poland
| | - A I Nambrath
- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA
| | - B K Nandi
- Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT), Mumbai, India
| | - R Nania
- INFN, Sezione di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
| | - E Nappi
- INFN, Sezione di Bari, Bari, Italy
| | - A F Nassirpour
- Lund University Department of Physics, Division of Particle Physics, Lund, Sweden
| | - A Nath
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - C Nattrass
- University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
| | - A Neagu
- Department of Physics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
| | - A Negru
- University Politehnica of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania
| | - L Nellen
- Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
| | - S V Nesbo
- Faculty of Engineering and Science, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Bergen, Norway
| | - G Neskovic
- Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - D Nesterov
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - B S Nielsen
- Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - E G Nielsen
- Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - S Nikolaev
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - S Nikulin
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - V Nikulin
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - F Noferini
- INFN, Sezione di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
| | - S Noh
- Chungbuk National University, Cheongju, Republic of Korea
| | - P Nomokonov
- Affiliated with an international laboratory covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - J Norman
- University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
| | | | | | - A Nyanin
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - J Nystrand
- Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
| | - M Ogino
- Nagasaki Institute of Applied Science, Nagasaki, Japan
| | - A Ohlson
- Lund University Department of Physics, Division of Particle Physics, Lund, Sweden
| | - V A Okorokov
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - J Oleniacz
- Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland
| | | | - M H Oliver
- Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
| | | | | | - A Ortiz Velasquez
- Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
| | - A Oskarsson
- Lund University Department of Physics, Division of Particle Physics, Lund, Sweden
| | - J Otwinowski
- The Henryk Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Cracow, Poland
| | - M Oya
- Physics Program and International Institute for Sustainability with Knotted Chiral Meta Matter (SKCM2), Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan
| | - K Oyama
- Nagasaki Institute of Applied Science, Nagasaki, Japan
| | - Y Pachmayer
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - S Padhan
- Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT), Mumbai, India
| | - D Pagano
- INFN, Sezione di Pavia, Pavia, Italy
- Università di Brescia, Brescia, Italy
| | - G Paić
- Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
| | | | - S Panebianco
- Université Paris-Saclay Centre d'Etudes de Saclay (CEA), IRFU, Départment de Physique Nucléaire (DPhN), Saclay, France
| | - H Park
- University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
| | - J Park
- Inha University, Incheon, Republic of Korea
| | - J E Parkkila
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - R N Patra
- Physics Department, University of Jammu, Jammu, India
| | - B Paul
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Cagliari, Italy
| | - H Pei
- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
| | - T Peitzmann
- Institute for Gravitational and Subatomic Physics (GRASP), Utrecht University/Nikhef, Utrecht, Netherlands
| | - X Peng
- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
| | - M Pennisi
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
| | - L G Pereira
- Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, Brazil
| | - H Pereira Da Costa
- Université Paris-Saclay Centre d'Etudes de Saclay (CEA), IRFU, Départment de Physique Nucléaire (DPhN), Saclay, France
| | - D Peresunko
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - G M Perez
- Centro de Aplicaciones Tecnológicas y Desarrollo Nuclear (CEADEN), Havana, Cuba
| | - S Perrin
- Université Paris-Saclay Centre d'Etudes de Saclay (CEA), IRFU, Départment de Physique Nucléaire (DPhN), Saclay, France
| | - Y Pestov
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - V Petráček
- Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech
| | - V Petrov
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - M Petrovici
- Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Bucharest, Romania
| | - R P Pezzi
- Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, Brazil
- SUBATECH, IMT Atlantique, Nantes Université, CNRS-IN2P3, Nantes, France
| | - S Piano
- INFN, Sezione di Trieste, Trieste, Italy
| | - M Pikna
- Comenius University Bratislava, Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics, Bratislava, Slovak Republic
| | - P Pillot
- SUBATECH, IMT Atlantique, Nantes Université, CNRS-IN2P3, Nantes, France
| | - O Pinazza
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
- INFN, Sezione di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
| | - L Pinsky
- University of Houston, Houston, Texas, USA
| | - C Pinto
- Physik Department, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
| | - S Pisano
- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Frascati, Italy
| | - M Płoskoń
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, USA
| | - M Planinic
- Physics Department, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
| | - F Pliquett
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - M G Poghosyan
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA
| | - S Politano
- Dipartimento DISAT del Politecnico and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
| | - N Poljak
- Physics Department, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
| | - A Pop
- Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Bucharest, Romania
| | | | - J Porter
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, USA
| | - V Pozdniakov
- Affiliated with an international laboratory covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - S K Prasad
- Bose Institute, Department of Physics and Centre for Astroparticle Physics and Space Science (CAPSS), Kolkata, India
| | - S Prasad
- Indian Institute of Technology Indore, Indore, India
| | | | - F Prino
- INFN, Sezione di Torino, Turin, Italy
| | - C A Pruneau
- Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, USA
| | - I Pshenichnov
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - M Puccio
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - S Pucillo
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
| | - Z Pugelova
- Technical University of Košice, Košice, Slovak Republic
| | - S Qiu
- Nikhef, National Institute for Subatomic Physics, Amsterdam, Netherlands
| | - L Quaglia
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
| | | | - S Ragoni
- Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska, USA
- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
| | - A Rakotozafindrabe
- Université Paris-Saclay Centre d'Etudes de Saclay (CEA), IRFU, Départment de Physique Nucléaire (DPhN), Saclay, France
| | - L Ramello
- INFN, Sezione di Torino, Turin, Italy
- Università del Piemonte Orientale, Vercelli, Italy
| | - F Rami
- Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, IPHC UMR 7178, F-67000 Strasbourg, France
| | - S A R Ramirez
- High Energy Physics Group, Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Puebla, Mexico
| | - T A Rancien
- Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie, Université Grenoble-Alpes, CNRS-IN2P3, Grenoble, France
| | - R Raniwala
- Physics Department, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur, India
| | - S Raniwala
- Physics Department, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur, India
| | - M Rasa
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Catania, Italy
| | - S S Räsänen
- Helsinki Institute of Physics (HIP), Helsinki, Finland
| | - R Rath
- Indian Institute of Technology Indore, Indore, India
- INFN, Sezione di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
| | - I Ravasenga
- Nikhef, National Institute for Subatomic Physics, Amsterdam, Netherlands
| | - K F Read
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA
- University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
| | - C Reckziegel
- Universidade Federal do ABC, Santo Andre, Brazil
| | - A R Redelbach
- Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - K Redlich
- National Centre for Nuclear Research, Warsaw, Poland
| | - A Rehman
- Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
| | - F Reidt
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - H A Reme-Ness
- Faculty of Engineering and Science, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Bergen, Norway
| | - Z Rescakova
- Faculty of Science, P.J. Šafárik University, Košice, Slovak Republic
| | - K Reygers
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - A Riabov
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - V Riabov
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - R Ricci
- Dipartimento di Fisica "E.R. Caianiello" dell'Università and Gruppo Collegato INFN, Salerno, Italy
| | - T Richert
- Lund University Department of Physics, Division of Particle Physics, Lund, Sweden
| | - M Richter
- Department of Physics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
| | - A A Riedel
- Physik Department, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
| | - W Riegler
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - F Riggi
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Catania, Italy
| | - C Ristea
- Institute of Space Science (ISS), Bucharest, Romania
| | | | - K Røed
- Department of Physics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
| | - R Rogalev
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - E Rogochaya
- Affiliated with an international laboratory covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - T S Rogoschinski
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - D Rohr
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - D Röhrich
- Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
| | - P F Rojas
- High Energy Physics Group, Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Puebla, Mexico
| | - S Rojas Torres
- Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech
| | - P S Rokita
- Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland
| | - G Romanenko
- Affiliated with an international laboratory covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - F Ronchetti
- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Frascati, Italy
| | - A Rosano
- Dipartimento di Scienze MIFT, Università di Messina, Messina, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Catania, Catania, Italy
| | - E D Rosas
- Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
| | - A Rossi
- INFN, Sezione di Padova, Padova, Italy
| | - A Roy
- Indian Institute of Technology Indore, Indore, India
| | - P Roy
- Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Kolkata, India
| | - S Roy
- Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT), Mumbai, India
| | - N Rubini
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Bologna, Italy
| | - O V Rueda
- Lund University Department of Physics, Division of Particle Physics, Lund, Sweden
| | - D Ruggiano
- Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland
| | - R Rui
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Trieste, Italy
| | - B Rumyantsev
- Affiliated with an international laboratory covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - P G Russek
- AGH University of Science and Technology, Cracow, Poland
| | - R Russo
- Nikhef, National Institute for Subatomic Physics, Amsterdam, Netherlands
| | - A Rustamov
- National Nuclear Research Center, Baku, Azerbaijan
| | - E Ryabinkin
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - Y Ryabov
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - A Rybicki
- The Henryk Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Cracow, Poland
| | - H Rytkonen
- University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland
| | - W Rzesa
- Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland
| | | | - R Sadek
- SUBATECH, IMT Atlantique, Nantes Université, CNRS-IN2P3, Nantes, France
| | - S Sadhu
- Dipartimento Interateneo di Fisica "M. Merlin" and Sezione INFN, Bari, Italy
| | - S Sadovsky
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - J Saetre
- Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
| | - K Šafařík
- Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech
| | - S K Saha
- Bose Institute, Department of Physics and Centre for Astroparticle Physics and Space Science (CAPSS), Kolkata, India
| | - S Saha
- National Institute of Science Education and Research, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Jatni, India
| | - B Sahoo
- Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT), Mumbai, India
| | - R Sahoo
- Indian Institute of Technology Indore, Indore, India
| | - S Sahoo
- Institute of Physics, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Bhubaneswar, India
| | - D Sahu
- Indian Institute of Technology Indore, Indore, India
| | - P K Sahu
- Institute of Physics, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Bhubaneswar, India
| | - J Saini
- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Kolkata, India
| | - K Sajdakova
- Faculty of Science, P.J. Šafárik University, Košice, Slovak Republic
| | - S Sakai
- University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
| | - M P Salvan
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - S Sambyal
- Physics Department, University of Jammu, Jammu, India
| | - T B Saramela
- Universidade de São Paulo (USP), São Paulo, Brazil
| | - D Sarkar
- Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, USA
| | - N Sarkar
- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Kolkata, India
| | - P Sarma
- Gauhati University, Department of Physics, Guwahati, India
| | - V Sarritzu
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Cagliari, Italy
| | - V M Sarti
- Physik Department, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
| | - M H P Sas
- Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
| | - J Schambach
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA
| | - H S Scheid
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - C Schiaua
- Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Bucharest, Romania
| | - R Schicker
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - A Schmah
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - C Schmidt
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - H R Schmidt
- Physikalisches Institut, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
| | - M O Schmidt
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - M Schmidt
- Physikalisches Institut, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
| | - N V Schmidt
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA
| | - A R Schmier
- University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
| | - R Schotter
- Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, IPHC UMR 7178, F-67000 Strasbourg, France
| | - J Schukraft
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - K Schwarz
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - K Schweda
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - G Scioli
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Bologna, Italy
| | | | - J E Seger
- Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska, USA
| | | | | | - I Selyuzhenkov
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - S Senyukov
- Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, IPHC UMR 7178, F-67000 Strasbourg, France
| | - J J Seo
- Inha University, Incheon, Republic of Korea
| | - D Serebryakov
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - L Šerkšnytė
- Physik Department, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
| | - A Sevcenco
- Institute of Space Science (ISS), Bucharest, Romania
| | - T J Shaba
- iThemba LABS, National Research Foundation, Somerset West, South Africa
| | - A Shabetai
- SUBATECH, IMT Atlantique, Nantes Université, CNRS-IN2P3, Nantes, France
| | - R Shahoyan
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - A Shangaraev
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - A Sharma
- Physics Department, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India
| | - D Sharma
- Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT), Mumbai, India
| | - H Sharma
- The Henryk Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Cracow, Poland
| | - M Sharma
- Physics Department, University of Jammu, Jammu, India
| | - N Sharma
- Physics Department, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India
| | - S Sharma
- Nagasaki Institute of Applied Science, Nagasaki, Japan
| | - S Sharma
- Physics Department, University of Jammu, Jammu, India
| | - U Sharma
- Physics Department, University of Jammu, Jammu, India
| | - A Shatat
- Laboratoire de Physique des 2 Infinis, Irène Joliot-Curie, Orsay, France
| | - O Sheibani
- University of Houston, Houston, Texas, USA
| | - K Shigaki
- Physics Program and International Institute for Sustainability with Knotted Chiral Meta Matter (SKCM2), Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan
| | | | - S Shirinkin
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - Q Shou
- Fudan University, Shanghai, China
| | - Y Sibiriak
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | | | - T Siemiarczuk
- National Centre for Nuclear Research, Warsaw, Poland
| | - T F Silva
- Universidade de São Paulo (USP), São Paulo, Brazil
| | - D Silvermyr
- Lund University Department of Physics, Division of Particle Physics, Lund, Sweden
| | | | - R Simeonov
- Faculty of Physics, Sofia University, Sofia, Bulgaria
| | - B Singh
- Physics Department, University of Jammu, Jammu, India
| | - B Singh
- Physik Department, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
| | - R Singh
- National Institute of Science Education and Research, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Jatni, India
| | - R Singh
- Physics Department, University of Jammu, Jammu, India
| | - R Singh
- Indian Institute of Technology Indore, Indore, India
| | - S Singh
- Department of Physics, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India
| | - V K Singh
- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Kolkata, India
| | - V Singhal
- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Kolkata, India
| | - T Sinha
- Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Kolkata, India
| | - B Sitar
- Comenius University Bratislava, Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics, Bratislava, Slovak Republic
| | - M Sitta
- INFN, Sezione di Torino, Turin, Italy
- Università del Piemonte Orientale, Vercelli, Italy
| | - T B Skaali
- Department of Physics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
| | - G Skorodumovs
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - M Slupecki
- Helsinki Institute of Physics (HIP), Helsinki, Finland
| | - N Smirnov
- Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
| | - R J M Snellings
- Institute for Gravitational and Subatomic Physics (GRASP), Utrecht University/Nikhef, Utrecht, Netherlands
| | - E H Solheim
- Department of Physics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
| | - J Song
- University of Houston, Houston, Texas, USA
| | - A Songmoolnak
- Suranaree University of Technology, Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand
| | - F Soramel
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Padova, Italy
| | - S Sorensen
- University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
| | - R Spijkers
- Nikhef, National Institute for Subatomic Physics, Amsterdam, Netherlands
| | - I Sputowska
- The Henryk Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Cracow, Poland
| | - J Staa
- Lund University Department of Physics, Division of Particle Physics, Lund, Sweden
| | - J Stachel
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - I Stan
- Institute of Space Science (ISS), Bucharest, Romania
| | | | - S F Stiefelmaier
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - D Stocco
- SUBATECH, IMT Atlantique, Nantes Université, CNRS-IN2P3, Nantes, France
| | - I Storehaug
- Department of Physics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
| | - M M Storetvedt
- Faculty of Engineering and Science, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Bergen, Norway
| | - P Stratmann
- Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Institut für Kernphysik, Münster, Germany
| | - S Strazzi
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Bologna, Italy
| | - C P Stylianidis
- Nikhef, National Institute for Subatomic Physics, Amsterdam, Netherlands
| | - A A P Suaide
- Universidade de São Paulo (USP), São Paulo, Brazil
| | - C Suire
- Laboratoire de Physique des 2 Infinis, Irène Joliot-Curie, Orsay, France
| | - M Sukhanov
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - M Suljic
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - V Sumberia
- Physics Department, University of Jammu, Jammu, India
| | - S Sumowidagdo
- National Research and Innovation Agency - BRIN, Jakarta, Indonesia
| | - S Swain
- Institute of Physics, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Bhubaneswar, India
| | - I Szarka
- Comenius University Bratislava, Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics, Bratislava, Slovak Republic
| | - U Tabassam
- COMSATS University Islamabad, Islamabad, Pakistan
| | - S F Taghavi
- Physik Department, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
| | - G Taillepied
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - J Takahashi
- Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas, Brazil
| | - G J Tambave
- Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
| | - S Tang
- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
- Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS/IN2P3, LPC, Clermont-Ferrand, France
| | - Z Tang
- University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China
| | | | - N Tapus
- University Politehnica of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania
| | - L A Tarasovicova
- Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Institut für Kernphysik, Münster, Germany
| | - M G Tarzila
- Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Bucharest, Romania
| | - G F Tassielli
- Dipartimento Interateneo di Fisica "M. Merlin" and Sezione INFN, Bari, Italy
| | - A Tauro
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - A Telesca
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - L Terlizzi
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
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- Bogolyubov Institute for Theoretical Physics, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine
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- Bose Institute, Department of Physics and Centre for Astroparticle Physics and Space Science (CAPSS), Kolkata, India
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- The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, USA
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- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
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- Technical University of Košice, Košice, Slovak Republic
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- Technical University of Košice, Košice, Slovak Republic
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- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
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- Physics Program and International Institute for Sustainability with Knotted Chiral Meta Matter (SKCM2), Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan
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- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
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- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Frascati, Italy
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA
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- Laboratoire de Physique des 2 Infinis, Irène Joliot-Curie, Orsay, France
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- Dipartimento Interateneo di Fisica "M. Merlin" and Sezione INFN, Bari, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze MIFT, Università di Messina, Messina, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Catania, Catania, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze MIFT, Università di Messina, Messina, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Catania, Catania, Italy
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- INFN, Sezione di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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- Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT), Mumbai, India
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
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- Bogolyubov Institute for Theoretical Physics, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine
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- INFN, Sezione di Padova, Padova, Italy
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- Department of Physics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
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- Physik Department, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
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- Université de Lyon, CNRS/IN2P3, Institut de Physique des 2 Infinis de Lyon, Lyon, France
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- INFN, Sezione di Pavia, Pavia, Italy
- Università di Brescia, Brescia, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Cagliari, Italy
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- Faculty of Science, P.J. Šafárik University, Košice, Slovak Republic
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Pavia, Pavia, Italy
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- INFN, Sezione di Torino, Turin, Italy
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- Institute for Gravitational and Subatomic Physics (GRASP), Utrecht University/Nikhef, Utrecht, Netherlands
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- Nikhef, National Institute for Subatomic Physics, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Nikhef, National Institute for Subatomic Physics, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
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- Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Budapest, Hungary
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- Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Budapest, Hungary
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- National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, School of Science, Department of Physics, Athens, Greece
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- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
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- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
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- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
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- High Energy Physics Group, Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Puebla, Mexico
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- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
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- Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Budapest, Hungary
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- Institute for Gravitational and Subatomic Physics (GRASP), Utrecht University/Nikhef, Utrecht, Netherlands
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- Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture, University of Split, Split, Croatia
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- University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
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- INFN, Sezione di Bari, Bari, Italy
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- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
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- Dipartimento di Fisica "E.R. Caianiello" dell'Università and Gruppo Collegato INFN, Salerno, Italy
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- Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Affiliated with an international laboratory covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
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- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
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- Dipartimento Interateneo di Fisica "M. Merlin" and Sezione INFN, Bari, Italy
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
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- Physik Department, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
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- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
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- Faculty of Science, P.J. Šafárik University, Košice, Slovak Republic
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- Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
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- Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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- Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
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- Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
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- Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Institut für Kernphysik, Münster, Germany
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- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
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- Department of Physics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- National Centre for Nuclear Research, Warsaw, Poland
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- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
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- Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Institut für Kernphysik, Münster, Germany
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- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Université Paris-Saclay Centre d'Etudes de Saclay (CEA), IRFU, Départment de Physique Nucléaire (DPhN), Saclay, France
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- The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, USA
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- Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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- University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China
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- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
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- Helmholtz-Institut für Strahlen- und Kernphysik, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Bonn, Germany
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- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Kolkata, India
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- KTO Karatay University, Konya, Turkey
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- Physics Program and International Institute for Sustainability with Knotted Chiral Meta Matter (SKCM2), Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan
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- Physics Program and International Institute for Sustainability with Knotted Chiral Meta Matter (SKCM2), Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan
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- Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
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- Physics Program and International Institute for Sustainability with Knotted Chiral Meta Matter (SKCM2), Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan
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- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
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- Department of Physics, Pusan National University, Pusan, Republic of Korea
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- Inha University, Incheon, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
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- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Trieste, Italy
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
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- Institute for Gravitational and Subatomic Physics (GRASP), Utrecht University/Nikhef, Utrecht, Netherlands
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- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
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- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
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- Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
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- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
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- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
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- Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
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- University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China
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- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
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- China Institute of Atomic Energy, Beijing, China
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- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
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- China Institute of Atomic Energy, Beijing, China
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- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
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- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
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- Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
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- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
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- Bogolyubov Institute for Theoretical Physics, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine
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- INFN, Sezione di Pavia, Pavia, Italy
- Università di Brescia, Brescia, Italy
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Ahmad K, Khan A, Yaseen A, Saleh M, Ali Y, Kakakhel M, Ehsan M. A Symphony of Challenges: Multi-Drug Resistant Tuberculosis, Pleurocutaneous Fistula, and Empyema Necessitans in Concert. Cureus 2023; 15:e49485. [PMID: 38152806 PMCID: PMC10752085 DOI: 10.7759/cureus.49485] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 11/27/2023] [Indexed: 12/29/2023] Open
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This case report details the clinical course of a 37-year-old male with multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) who initially presented with respiratory symptoms. Following a month of anti-TB therapy, the patient developed a painful chest swelling, diagnosed as empyema necessitans, with a subsequent spontaneous rupture leading to a pleurocutaneous fistula. Despite recommendations for surgery, the patient opted for active surveillance. The follow-up revealed symptom improvement. This case underscores the unique challenges of managing rare complications of MDR-TB, particularly when patients decline surgical interventions. The observed symptom improvement, despite the absence of surgery, illuminates the intricate decision-making process and alternative management strategies involved in addressing such complications, highlighting the complexities inherent in MDR-TB care.
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- Kamran Ahmad
- Internal Medicine, Hayatabad Medical Complex Peshawar, Peshawar, PAK
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- Internal Medicine, Khyber Medical College, Peshawar, PAK
- Internal Medicine, Lady Reading Hospital Peshawar, Peshawar, PAK
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- Medicine, Hayatabad Medical Complex Peshawar, Peshawar, PAK
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- Internal Medicine, Ayub Teaching Hospital, Abbottabad, PAK
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- Internal Medicine, Hayatabad Medical Complex Peshawar, Peshawar, PAK
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- Internal Medicine, Hayatabad Medical Complex Peshawar, Peshawar, PAK
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- Hematology, Khyber Girls Medical College, Peshawar, PAK
- Hematology, Hayatabad Medical Complex Peshawar, Peshawar, PAK
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Ali Y, Khan HU. IoT platforms assessment methodology for COVID-19 vaccine logistics and transportation: a multi-methods decision making model. Sci Rep 2023; 13:17575. [PMID: 37845382 PMCID: PMC10579304 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-44966-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/07/2023] [Accepted: 10/13/2023] [Indexed: 10/18/2023] Open
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The supply chain management (SCM) of COVID-19 vaccine is the most daunting task for logistics and supply managers due to temperature sensitivity and complex logistics process. Therefore, several technologies have been applied but the complexity of COVID-19 vaccine makes the Internet of Things (IoT) a strong use case due to its multiple features support like excursion notification, data sharing, connectivity management, secure shipping, real-time tracking and monitoring etc. All these features can only feasible through choosing and deploying the right IoT platform. However, selection of right IoT platform is also a major concern due to lack of experience and technical knowledge of supply chain managers and diversified landscape of IoT platforms. Therefore, we introduce a decision making model for evaluation and decision making of IoT platforms that fits for logistics and transportation (L&T) process of COVID-19 vaccine. This study initially identifies the major challenges addressed during the SCM of COVID-19 vaccine and then provides reasonable solution by presenting the assessment model for selection of rational IoT platform. The proposed model applies hybrid Multi Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) approach for evaluation. It also adopts Estimation-Talk-Estimation (ETE) approach for response collection during the survey. As, this is first kind of model so the proposed model is validated and tested by conducting a survey with experts. The results of the proposed decision making model are also verified by Simple Additive Weighting (SAW) technique which indicates higher results accuracy and reliability of the proposed model. Similarly, the proposed model yields the best possible results and it can be judged by the precision, accuracy and recall values i.e. 93%, 93% and 94% respectively. The survey-based testing also suggests that this model can be adopted in practical scenarios to deal with complexities which may arise during the decision making of IoT platform for COVID-19 SCM process.
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- Yasir Ali
- Shahzeb Shaheed Government Degree College Razzar, Swabi, Higher Education Department, Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
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- Accounting and Information Systems, College of Business and Economics, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar.
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Ajmal A, Ali Y, Khan A, Wadood A, Rehman AU. Identification of novel peptide inhibitors for the KRas-G12C variant to prevent oncogenic signaling. J Biomol Struct Dyn 2023; 41:8866-8875. [PMID: 36300526 DOI: 10.1080/07391102.2022.2138550] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/05/2022] [Accepted: 10/15/2022] [Indexed: 10/31/2022]
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Kirsten rat sarcoma viral oncogene homolog (KRas) activating mutations are common in solid tumors, accounting for 90%, 45%, and 35% of pancreatic, colorectal, and lung cancers (LC), respectively. Each year, nearly 150k new cases (both men and women) of KRas-mutated malignancies are reported in the United States. NSCLC (non-small cell lung cancer) accounts for 80% of all LC cases. KRas mutations are found in 15% to 25% of NSCLC patients. The main cause of NSCLC is the KRas-G12C mutation. The drugs Sotorasib and Adagrasib were recently developed to treat advanced NSCLC caused by the KRas-G12C mutation. Most patients do not respond to KRas-G12C inhibitors due to cellular, molecular, and genetic resistance. Because of their safety, efficacy, and selectivity, peptide inhibitors have the potential to treat newly developing KRas mutations. Based on the KRas mutations, peptide inhibitors that are highly selective and specific to individual lung cancers can be rationally designed. The current study uses an alanine and residue scanning approach to design peptide inhibitors for KRas-G12C based on the known peptide. Our findings show that substitution of F3K, G11T, L8C, T14C, K13D, G11S, and G11P considerably enhances the binding affinity of the novel peptides, whereas F3K, G11T, L8C, and T14C peptides have higher stability and favorable binding to the altered peptides. Overall, our study paves the road for the development of potential therapeutic peptidomimetics that target the KRas-G12C complex and may inhibit the KRas and SOS complex from interacting.Communicated by Ramaswamy H. Sarma.
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- Amar Ajmal
- Department of Biochemistry, Abdul Wali Khan University, Mardan, Pakistan
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- National Center for Bioinformatics, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan
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- Natural and Medical Sciences Research Center, University of Nizwa, Nizwa, Sultanate of Oman
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- Department of Biochemistry, Abdul Wali Khan University, Mardan, Pakistan
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- Department of Biochemistry, Abdul Wali Khan University, Mardan, Pakistan
- Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA
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Ali Y, Kausar M, Farooq M, Farooqi N, Ul Islam Z, Khan S, Aman A, Khan N, Kamil A, Jalil F. Association of IL-17F rs2397084 (E126G), rs11465553 (V155I) and rs763780 (H161R) variants with rheumatoid arthritis and their effects on the stability of protein. PLoS One 2023; 18:e0285874. [PMID: 37751416 PMCID: PMC10522029 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0285874] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/16/2023] [Accepted: 05/03/2023] [Indexed: 09/28/2023] Open
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Interleukin-17F (IL-17F), considered a pro-inflammatory cytokine, has been shown to contribute to skeletal tissue degradation and hence chronic inflammation in rheumatoid arthritis (RA). In this study we utilized bioinformatics tools to analyze the effect of three exonic SNPs (rs2397084, rs11465553, and rs763780) on the structure and function of the IL-17F gene, and evaluated their association with RA in Pakistani patients. The predicted deleterious and damaging effects of identified genetic variants were assessed through the utilization of multiple bioinformatics tools including PROVEAN, SNP&GO, SIFT, and PolyPhen2. Structural and functional effects of these variants on protein structures were evaluated through the use of additional tools such as I-Mutant, MutPred, and ConSurf. Three-dimensional (3D) models of both the wild-type and mutant proteins were constructed through the utilization of I-TASSER software, with subsequent structural comparisons between the models conducted through the use of the TM-align score. A total of 500 individuals, 250 cases and 250 controls, were genotyped through Tri-ARMS-PCR method and the resultant data was statistically analyzed using various inheritance models. Our bioinformatics analysis showed significant structural differences for wild type and mutant protein (TM-scores and RMSD values were 0.85934 and 2.34 for rs2397084 (E126G), 0.87388 and 2.49 for rs11465553 (V155I), and 0.86572 and 0.86572 for rs763780 (H161R) with decrease stability for the later. Overall, these tools enabled us to predict that these variants are crucial in causing disease phenotypes. We further tested each of these single nucleotide variants for their association with RA. Our analysis revealed a strong positive association between the genetic variant rs763780 and the risk of developing rheumatoid arthritis (RA) at both the genotypic and allelic levels. The genotypic association was statistically significant[χ2 = 111.8; P value <0.0001], as was the allelic level [OR 3.444 (2.539-4.672); P value 0.0008]. These findings suggest that the presence of this genetic variant may increase the susceptibility to RA. Similarly, we observed a significant distribution of the genetic variant rs11465553 at the genotypic level [χ2 = 25.24; P value = 0.0001]. However, this variant did not show a significant association with RA at the allelic level [OR = 1.194 (0.930-1.531); P value = 0.183]. However, the distribution of variant rs2397084 was more or less random across our sample with no significant association either at genotypic and or allelic level. Put together, our association study and in silico prediction of decreasing of IL17-F protein stabilty confirmed that two SNPs, rs11465553 and rs763780 are crucial to the suscetibility of and showed that these RA in Pakistani patients.
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- Yasir Ali
- Department of Biotechnology, Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
- School of Biomedical Sciences, Chinese University of Hong Kong, New Territories, Hong Kong
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- Department of Biotechnology, Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
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- Department of Biotechnology, Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
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- Department of Biotechnology, Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
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- Department of Biotechnology, Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
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- Consultant Rheumatologists, Lady Reading Hospital-MTI Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
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- Department of Biotechnology, Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
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- Department of Biotechnology, Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
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- Department of Biotechnology, Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
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- Department of Biotechnology, Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
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Acharya S, Adamová D, Adler A, Aglieri Rinella G, Agnello M, Agrawal N, Ahammed Z, Ahmad S, Ahn SU, Ahuja I, Akindinov A, Al-Turany M, Aleksandrov D, Alessandro B, Alfanda HM, Alfaro Molina R, Ali B, Ali Y, Alici A, Alizadehvandchali N, Alkin A, Alme J, Alocco G, Alt T, Altsybeev I, Anaam MN, Andrei C, Andronic A, Anguelov V, Antinori F, Antonioli P, Anuj C, Apadula N, Aphecetche L, Appelshäuser H, Arata C, Arcelli S, Aresti M, Arnaldi R, Arsene IC, Arslandok M, Augustinus A, Averbeck R, Azmi MD, Badalà A, Baek YW, Bai X, Bailhache R, Bailung Y, Bala R, Balbino A, Baldisseri A, Balis B, Banerjee D, Banoo Z, Barbera R, Barile F, Barioglio L, Barlou M, Barnaföldi GG, Barnby LS, Barret V, Barreto L, Bartels C, Barth K, Bartsch E, Baruffaldi F, Bastid N, Basu S, Batigne G, Battistini D, Batyunya B, Bauri D, Bazo Alba JL, Bearden IG, Beattie C, Becht P, Behera D, Belikov I, Bell Hechavarria ADC, Bellini F, Bellwied R, Belokurova S, Belyaev V, Bencedi G, Beole S, Bercuci A, Berdnikov Y, 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Measurement of the Lifetime and Λ Separation Energy of _{Λ}^{3}H. Phys Rev Lett 2023; 131:102302. [PMID: 37739380 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.131.102302] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/05/2022] [Revised: 01/18/2023] [Accepted: 07/21/2023] [Indexed: 09/24/2023]
Abstract
The most precise measurements to date of the _{Λ}^{3}H lifetime τ and Λ separation energy B_{Λ} are obtained using the data sample of Pb-Pb collisions at sqrt[s_{NN}]=5.02 TeV collected by ALICE at the LHC. The _{Λ}^{3}H is reconstructed via its charged two-body mesonic decay channel (_{Λ}^{3}H→^{3}He+π^{-} and the charge-conjugate process). The measured values τ=[253±11(stat)±6(syst)] ps and B_{Λ}=[102±63(stat)±67(syst)] keV are compatible with predictions from effective field theories and confirm that the _{Λ}^{3}H structure is consistent with a weakly bound system.
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- S Acharya
- Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS/IN2P3, LPC, Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- Nuclear Physics Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Husinec-Řež, Czech Republic
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- Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe Universität Frankfurt Institut für Informatik, Fachbereich Informatik und Mathematik, Frankfurt, Germany
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
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- Dipartimento DISAT del Politecnico and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
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- INFN, Sezione di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Kolkata, India
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- Department of Physics, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India
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- Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information, Daejeon, Republic of Korea
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- Faculty of Science, P.J. Šafárik University, Košice, Slovak Republic
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- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
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- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
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- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
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- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
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- Instituto de Física, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
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- Department of Physics, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India
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- COMSATS University Islamabad, Islamabad, Pakistan
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- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Bologna, Italy
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
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- Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
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- INFN, Sezione di Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy
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- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
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- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
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- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
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- Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Bucharest, Romania
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- Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Institut für Kernphysik, Munster, Germany
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- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of Physics, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, California, United States
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- SUBATECH, IMT Atlantique, Nantes Université, CNRS-IN2P3, Nantes, France
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- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
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- Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie, Université Grenoble-Alpes, CNRS-IN2P3, Grenoble, France
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- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Bologna, Italy
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- INFN, Sezione di Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy
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- INFN, Sezione di Torino, Turin, Italy
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- Department of Physics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
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- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
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- Department of Physics, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India
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- INFN, Sezione di Catania, Catania, Italy
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- Gangneung-Wonju National University, Gangneung, Republic of Korea
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- University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China
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- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
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- Indian Institute of Technology Indore, Indore, India
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- Physics Department, University of Jammu, Jammu, India
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- Dipartimento DISAT del Politecnico and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
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- Université Paris-Saclay Centre d'Etudes de Saclay (CEA), IRFU, Départment de Physique Nucléaire (DPhN), Saclay, France
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- AGH University of Science and Technology, Cracow, Poland
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- Bose Institute, Department of Physics and Centre for Astroparticle Physics and Space Science (CAPSS), Kolkata, India
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- Physics Department, University of Jammu, Jammu, India
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- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Catania, Italy
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- Dipartimento Interateneo di Fisica 'M. Merlin' and Sezione INFN, Bari, Italy
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- Physik Department, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
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- National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, School of Science, Department of Physics, Athens, Greece
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- Nuclear Physics Group, STFC Daresbury Laboratory, Daresbury, United Kingdom
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- Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS/IN2P3, LPC, Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- Universidade de São Paulo (USP), São Paulo, Brazil
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- University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
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- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
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- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Padova, Italy
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- Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS/IN2P3, LPC, Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- Lund University Department of Physics, Division of Particle Physics, Lund, Sweden
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- SUBATECH, IMT Atlantique, Nantes Université, CNRS-IN2P3, Nantes, France
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- Physik Department, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
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- Affiliated with an international laboratory covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
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- Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT), Mumbai, India
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- Sección Física, Departamento de Ciencias, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima, Peru
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- Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States
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- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
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- Indian Institute of Technology Indore, Indore, India
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- Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, IPHC UMR 7178, F-67000 Strasbourg, France, Strasbourg, France
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- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Bologna, Italy
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- University of Houston, Houston, Texas, United States
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- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
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- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
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- Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Budapest, Hungary
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- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
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- Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Bucharest, Romania
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- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
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- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Institute of Space Science (ISS), Bucharest, Romania
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
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- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Kolkata, India
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- Physics Department, University of Jammu, Jammu, India
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- Bose Institute, Department of Physics and Centre for Astroparticle Physics and Space Science (CAPSS), Kolkata, India
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- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
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- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Frascati, Italy
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- Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Nuclear Physics Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Husinec-Řež, Czech Republic
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- The Henryk Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Cracow, Poland
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- Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, IPHC UMR 7178, F-67000 Strasbourg, France, Strasbourg, France
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- Physik Department, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
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- Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Budapest, Hungary
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- Bose Institute, Department of Physics and Centre for Astroparticle Physics and Space Science (CAPSS), Kolkata, India
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- SUBATECH, IMT Atlantique, Nantes Université, CNRS-IN2P3, Nantes, France
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- The University of Texas at Austin, Texas, United States
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- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
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- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
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- Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
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- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - G Boca
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Pavia, Pavia, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Pavia, Pavia, Italy
| | - F Bock
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, United States
| | - T Bodova
- Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
| | - A Bogdanov
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - S Boi
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Cagliari, Italy
| | - J Bok
- Inha University, Incheon, Republic of Korea
| | - L Boldizsár
- Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Budapest, Hungary
| | - A Bolozdynya
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - M Bombara
- Faculty of Science, P.J. Šafárik University, Košice, Slovak Republic
| | - P M Bond
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - G Bonomi
- INFN, Sezione di Pavia, Pavia, Italy
- Università di Brescia, Brescia, Italy
| | - H Borel
- Université Paris-Saclay Centre d'Etudes de Saclay (CEA), IRFU, Départment de Physique Nucléaire (DPhN), Saclay, France
| | - A Borissov
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - A G Borquez Carcamo
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - H Bossi
- Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States
| | - E Botta
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
| | - Y E M Bouziani
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - L Bratrud
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - P Braun-Munzinger
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - M Bregant
- Universidade de São Paulo (USP), São Paulo, Brazil
| | - M Broz
- Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
| | - G E Bruno
- Dipartimento Interateneo di Fisica 'M. Merlin' and Sezione INFN, Bari, Italy
- Politecnico di Bari and Sezione INFN, Bari, Italy
| | - M D Buckland
- University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
| | - D Budnikov
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - H Buesching
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - S Bufalino
- Dipartimento DISAT del Politecnico and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
| | - O Bugnon
- SUBATECH, IMT Atlantique, Nantes Université, CNRS-IN2P3, Nantes, France
| | - P Buhler
- Stefan Meyer Institut für Subatomare Physik (SMI), Vienna, Austria
| | - Z Buthelezi
- iThemba LABS, National Research Foundation, Somerset West, South Africa
- University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
| | - J B Butt
- COMSATS University Islamabad, Islamabad, Pakistan
| | - S A Bysiak
- The Henryk Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Cracow, Poland
| | - M Cai
- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
| | - H Caines
- Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States
| | - A Caliva
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - E Calvo Villar
- Sección Física, Departamento de Ciencias, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima, Peru
| | | | - P Camerini
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Trieste, Italy
| | - F D M Canedo
- Universidade de São Paulo (USP), São Paulo, Brazil
| | - M Carabas
- University Politehnica of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania
| | - A A Carballo
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - F Carnesecchi
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - R Caron
- Université de Lyon, CNRS/IN2P3, Institut de Physique des 2 Infinis de Lyon, Lyon, France
| | - J Castillo Castellanos
- Université Paris-Saclay Centre d'Etudes de Saclay (CEA), IRFU, Départment de Physique Nucléaire (DPhN), Saclay, France
| | - F Catalano
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
- Dipartimento DISAT del Politecnico and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
| | - C Ceballos Sanchez
- Affiliated with an international laboratory covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - I Chakaberia
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, California, United States
| | - P Chakraborty
- Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT), Mumbai, India
| | - S Chandra
- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Kolkata, India
| | - S Chapeland
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - M Chartier
- University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
| | - S Chattopadhyay
- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Kolkata, India
| | - S Chattopadhyay
- Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Kolkata, India
| | - T G Chavez
- High Energy Physics Group, Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Puebla, Mexico
| | - T Cheng
- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - C Cheshkov
- Université de Lyon, CNRS/IN2P3, Institut de Physique des 2 Infinis de Lyon, Lyon, France
| | - B Cheynis
- Université de Lyon, CNRS/IN2P3, Institut de Physique des 2 Infinis de Lyon, Lyon, France
| | | | - D D Chinellato
- Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas, Brazil
| | - E S Chizzali
- Physik Department, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
| | - J Cho
- Inha University, Incheon, Republic of Korea
| | - S Cho
- Inha University, Incheon, Republic of Korea
| | - P Chochula
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - P Christakoglou
- Nikhef, National institute for subatomic physics, Amsterdam, Netherlands
| | - C H Christensen
- Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - P Christiansen
- Lund University Department of Physics, Division of Particle Physics, Lund, Sweden
| | - T Chujo
- University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
| | - M Ciacco
- Dipartimento DISAT del Politecnico and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
| | - C Cicalo
- INFN, Sezione di Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy
| | - L Cifarelli
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Bologna, Italy
| | - F Cindolo
- INFN, Sezione di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
| | - M R Ciupek
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - G Clai
- INFN, Sezione di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
| | | | - J S Colburn
- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
| | - D Colella
- Dipartimento Interateneo di Fisica 'M. Merlin' and Sezione INFN, Bari, Italy
- Politecnico di Bari and Sezione INFN, Bari, Italy
| | - M Colocci
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - M Concas
- INFN, Sezione di Torino, Turin, Italy
| | - G Conesa Balbastre
- Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie, Université Grenoble-Alpes, CNRS-IN2P3, Grenoble, France
| | - Z Conesa Del Valle
- Laboratoire de Physique des 2 Infinis, Irène Joliot-Curie, Orsay, France
| | - G Contin
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Trieste, Italy
| | - J G Contreras
- Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
| | - M L Coquet
- Université Paris-Saclay Centre d'Etudes de Saclay (CEA), IRFU, Départment de Physique Nucléaire (DPhN), Saclay, France
| | - T M Cormier
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, United States
| | - P Cortese
- INFN, Sezione di Torino, Turin, Italy
- Università del Piemonte Orientale, Vercelli, Italy
| | | | - F Costa
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - S Costanza
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Pavia, Pavia, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Pavia, Pavia, Italy
| | - J Crkovská
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - P Crochet
- Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS/IN2P3, LPC, Clermont-Ferrand, France
| | - R Cruz-Torres
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, California, United States
| | - E Cuautle
- Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
| | - P Cui
- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
| | - L Cunqueiro
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, United States
| | - A Dainese
- INFN, Sezione di Padova, Padova, Italy
| | - M C Danisch
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - A Danu
- Institute of Space Science (ISS), Bucharest, Romania
| | - P Das
- National Institute of Science Education and Research, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Jatni, India
| | - P Das
- Bose Institute, Department of Physics and Centre for Astroparticle Physics and Space Science (CAPSS), Kolkata, India
| | - S Das
- Bose Institute, Department of Physics and Centre for Astroparticle Physics and Space Science (CAPSS), Kolkata, India
| | - A R Dash
- Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Institut für Kernphysik, Munster, Germany
| | - S Dash
- Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT), Mumbai, India
| | - A De Caro
- Dipartimento di Fisica 'E.R. Caianiello' dell'Università and Gruppo Collegato INFN, Salerno, Italy
| | | | - J de Cuveland
- Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - A De Falco
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Cagliari, Italy
| | - D De Gruttola
- Dipartimento di Fisica 'E.R. Caianiello' dell'Università and Gruppo Collegato INFN, Salerno, Italy
| | | | - C De Martin
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Trieste, Italy
| | - S De Pasquale
- Dipartimento di Fisica 'E.R. Caianiello' dell'Università and Gruppo Collegato INFN, Salerno, Italy
| | - S Deb
- Indian Institute of Technology Indore, Indore, India
| | - R J Debski
- AGH University of Science and Technology, Cracow, Poland
| | - K R Deja
- Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland
| | - R Del Grande
- Physik Department, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
| | - L Dello Stritto
- Dipartimento di Fisica 'E.R. Caianiello' dell'Università and Gruppo Collegato INFN, Salerno, Italy
| | - W Deng
- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
| | - P Dhankher
- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States
| | - D Di Bari
- Dipartimento Interateneo di Fisica 'M. Merlin' and Sezione INFN, Bari, Italy
| | - A Di Mauro
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - R A Diaz
- Centro de Aplicaciones Tecnológicas y Desarrollo Nuclear (CEADEN), Havana, Cuba
- Affiliated with an international laboratory covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - T Dietel
- University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
| | - Y Ding
- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
- Université de Lyon, CNRS/IN2P3, Institut de Physique des 2 Infinis de Lyon, Lyon, France
| | - R Divià
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - D U Dixit
- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States
| | - Ø Djuvsland
- Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
| | - U Dmitrieva
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - A Dobrin
- Institute of Space Science (ISS), Bucharest, Romania
| | - B Dönigus
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - A K Dubey
- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Kolkata, India
| | | | - A Dubla
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - S Dudi
- Physics Department, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India
| | - P Dupieux
- Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS/IN2P3, LPC, Clermont-Ferrand, France
| | - M Durkac
- Technical University of Košice, Košice, Slovak Republic
| | - N Dzalaiova
- Comenius University Bratislava, Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics, Bratislava, Slovak Republic
| | - T M Eder
- Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Institut für Kernphysik, Munster, Germany
| | - R J Ehlers
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, United States
| | - V N Eikeland
- Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
| | - F Eisenhut
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - D Elia
- INFN, Sezione di Bari, Bari, Italy
| | - B Erazmus
- SUBATECH, IMT Atlantique, Nantes Université, CNRS-IN2P3, Nantes, France
| | - F Ercolessi
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Bologna, Italy
| | - F Erhardt
- Physics department, Faculty of science, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
| | - M R Ersdal
- Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
| | - B Espagnon
- Laboratoire de Physique des 2 Infinis, Irène Joliot-Curie, Orsay, France
| | - G Eulisse
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - D Evans
- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
| | - S Evdokimov
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - L Fabbietti
- Physik Department, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
| | - M Faggin
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Padova, Italy
| | - J Faivre
- Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie, Université Grenoble-Alpes, CNRS-IN2P3, Grenoble, France
| | - F Fan
- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
| | - W Fan
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, California, United States
| | - A Fantoni
- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Frascati, Italy
| | - M Fasel
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, United States
| | - P Fecchio
- Dipartimento DISAT del Politecnico and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
| | | | - G Feofilov
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - A Fernández Téllez
- High Energy Physics Group, Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Puebla, Mexico
| | - M B Ferrer
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - A Ferrero
- Université Paris-Saclay Centre d'Etudes de Saclay (CEA), IRFU, Départment de Physique Nucléaire (DPhN), Saclay, France
| | - C Ferrero
- INFN, Sezione di Torino, Turin, Italy
| | - A Ferretti
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
| | - V J G Feuillard
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - V Filova
- Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
| | - D Finogeev
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - F M Fionda
- INFN, Sezione di Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy
| | - F Flor
- University of Houston, Houston, Texas, United States
| | - A N Flores
- The University of Texas at Austin, Texas, United States
| | - S Foertsch
- iThemba LABS, National Research Foundation, Somerset West, South Africa
| | - I Fokin
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - S Fokin
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | | | - E Frajna
- Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Budapest, Hungary
| | - U Fuchs
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - N Funicello
- Dipartimento di Fisica 'E.R. Caianiello' dell'Università and Gruppo Collegato INFN, Salerno, Italy
| | - C Furget
- Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie, Université Grenoble-Alpes, CNRS-IN2P3, Grenoble, France
| | - A Furs
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | | | - J J Gaardhøje
- Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - M Gagliardi
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
| | - A M Gago
- Sección Física, Departamento de Ciencias, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima, Peru
| | - C D Galvan
- Universidad Autónoma de Sinaloa, Culiacán, Mexico
| | | | - P Ganoti
- National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, School of Science, Department of Physics, Athens, Greece
| | - C Garabatos
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - J R A Garcia
- High Energy Physics Group, Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Puebla, Mexico
| | - E Garcia-Solis
- Chicago State University, Chicago, Illinois, United States
| | - K Garg
- SUBATECH, IMT Atlantique, Nantes Université, CNRS-IN2P3, Nantes, France
| | - C Gargiulo
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - A Garibli
- National Nuclear Research Center, Baku, Azerbaijan
| | - K Garner
- Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Institut für Kernphysik, Munster, Germany
| | - P Gasik
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - A Gautam
- University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, United States
| | - M B Gay Ducati
- Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, Brazil
| | - M Germain
- SUBATECH, IMT Atlantique, Nantes Université, CNRS-IN2P3, Nantes, France
| | - C Ghosh
- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Kolkata, India
| | - S K Ghosh
- Bose Institute, Department of Physics and Centre for Astroparticle Physics and Space Science (CAPSS), Kolkata, India
| | - M Giacalone
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Bologna, Italy
| | - P Giubellino
- INFN, Sezione di Torino, Turin, Italy
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - P Giubilato
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Padova, Italy
| | - A M C Glaenzer
- Université Paris-Saclay Centre d'Etudes de Saclay (CEA), IRFU, Départment de Physique Nucléaire (DPhN), Saclay, France
| | - P Glässel
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - E Glimos
- University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, United States
| | - D J Q Goh
- Nagasaki Institute of Applied Science, Nagasaki, Japan
| | - V Gonzalez
- Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, United States
| | - L H González-Trueba
- Instituto de Física, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
| | - M Gorgon
- AGH University of Science and Technology, Cracow, Poland
| | - S Gotovac
- Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture, University of Split, Split, Croatia
| | - V Grabski
- Instituto de Física, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
| | | | - E Grecka
- Nuclear Physics Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Husinec-Řež, Czech Republic
| | - A Grelli
- Institute for Gravitational and Subatomic Physics (GRASP), Utrecht University/Nikhef, Utrecht, Netherlands
| | - C Grigoras
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - V Grigoriev
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - S Grigoryan
- A.I. Alikhanyan National Science Laboratory (Yerevan Physics Institute) Foundation, Yerevan, Armenia
- Affiliated with an international laboratory covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - F Grosa
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | | | - R Grosso
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - D Grund
- Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
| | - G G Guardiano
- Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas, Brazil
| | - R Guernane
- Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie, Université Grenoble-Alpes, CNRS-IN2P3, Grenoble, France
| | - M Guilbaud
- SUBATECH, IMT Atlantique, Nantes Université, CNRS-IN2P3, Nantes, France
| | - K Gulbrandsen
- Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - T Gundem
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - T Gunji
- University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
| | - W Guo
- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
| | - A Gupta
- Physics Department, University of Jammu, Jammu, India
| | - R Gupta
- Physics Department, University of Jammu, Jammu, India
| | - S P Guzman
- High Energy Physics Group, Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Puebla, Mexico
| | - L Gyulai
- Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Budapest, Hungary
| | - M K Habib
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - C Hadjidakis
- Laboratoire de Physique des 2 Infinis, Irène Joliot-Curie, Orsay, France
| | - H Hamagaki
- Nagasaki Institute of Applied Science, Nagasaki, Japan
| | - A Hamdi
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, California, United States
| | - M Hamid
- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
| | - Y Han
- Yonsei University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
| | - R Hannigan
- The University of Texas at Austin, Texas, United States
| | - M R Haque
- Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland
| | - J W Harris
- Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States
| | - A Harton
- Chicago State University, Chicago, Illinois, United States
| | - H Hassan
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, United States
| | | | - P Hauer
- Helmholtz-Institut für Strahlen- und Kernphysik, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Bonn, Germany
| | - L B Havener
- Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States
| | - S T Heckel
- Physik Department, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
| | - E Hellbär
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - H Helstrup
- Faculty of Engineering and Science, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Bergen, Norway
| | - M Hemmer
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - T Herman
- Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
| | - G Herrera Corral
- Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados (CINVESTAV), Mexico City and Mérida, Mexico
| | - F Herrmann
- Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Institut für Kernphysik, Munster, Germany
| | - S Herrmann
- Université de Lyon, CNRS/IN2P3, Institut de Physique des 2 Infinis de Lyon, Lyon, France
| | - K F Hetland
- Faculty of Engineering and Science, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Bergen, Norway
| | - B Heybeck
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - H Hillemanns
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - C Hills
- University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
| | - B Hippolyte
- Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, IPHC UMR 7178, F-67000 Strasbourg, France, Strasbourg, France
| | - B Hofman
- Institute for Gravitational and Subatomic Physics (GRASP), Utrecht University/Nikhef, Utrecht, Netherlands
| | - B Hohlweger
- Nikhef, National institute for subatomic physics, Amsterdam, Netherlands
| | - J Honermann
- Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Institut für Kernphysik, Munster, Germany
| | - G H Hong
- Yonsei University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
| | - M Horst
- Physik Department, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
| | - A Horzyk
- AGH University of Science and Technology, Cracow, Poland
| | - R Hosokawa
- Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska, United States
| | - Y Hou
- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
| | - P Hristov
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - C Hughes
- University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, United States
| | - P Huhn
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - L M Huhta
- University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland
| | - C V Hulse
- Laboratoire de Physique des 2 Infinis, Irène Joliot-Curie, Orsay, France
| | - T J Humanic
- Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States
| | - H Hushnud
- Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Kolkata, India
| | - A Hutson
- University of Houston, Houston, Texas, United States
| | - D Hutter
- Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - J P Iddon
- University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
| | - R Ilkaev
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - H Ilyas
- COMSATS University Islamabad, Islamabad, Pakistan
| | - M Inaba
- University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
| | - G M Innocenti
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - M Ippolitov
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - A Isakov
- Nuclear Physics Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Husinec-Řež, Czech Republic
| | - T Isidori
- University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, United States
| | - M S Islam
- Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Kolkata, India
| | - M Ivanov
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - M Ivanov
- Comenius University Bratislava, Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics, Bratislava, Slovak Republic
| | - V Ivanov
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - V Izucheev
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - M Jablonski
- AGH University of Science and Technology, Cracow, Poland
| | - B Jacak
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, California, United States
| | - N Jacazio
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - P M Jacobs
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, California, United States
| | - S Jadlovska
- Technical University of Košice, Košice, Slovak Republic
| | - J Jadlovsky
- Technical University of Košice, Košice, Slovak Republic
| | - S Jaelani
- National Research and Innovation Agency - BRIN, Jakarta, Indonesia
| | - L Jaffe
- Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - C Jahnke
- Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas, Brazil
| | | | - M A Janik
- Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland
| | - T Janson
- Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe Universität Frankfurt Institut für Informatik, Fachbereich Informatik und Mathematik, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - M Jercic
- Physics department, Faculty of science, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
| | - A A P Jimenez
- Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
| | - F Jonas
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, United States
| | - P G Jones
- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
| | - J M Jowett
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - J Jung
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - M Jung
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - A Junique
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - A Jusko
- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
| | - M J Kabus
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
- Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland
| | - J Kaewjai
- Suranaree University of Technology, Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand
| | - P Kalinak
- Institute of Experimental Physics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Košice, Slovak Republic
| | - A S Kalteyer
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - A Kalweit
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - V Kaplin
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | | | - D Karatovic
- Physics department, Faculty of science, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
| | - O Karavichev
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - T Karavicheva
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | | | - E Karpechev
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - V Kashyap
- National Institute of Science Education and Research, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Jatni, India
| | - U Kebschull
- Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe Universität Frankfurt Institut für Informatik, Fachbereich Informatik und Mathematik, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - R Keidel
- Zentrum für Technologie und Transfer (ZTT), Worms, Germany
| | - D L D Keijdener
- Institute for Gravitational and Subatomic Physics (GRASP), Utrecht University/Nikhef, Utrecht, Netherlands
| | - M Keil
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - B Ketzer
- Helmholtz-Institut für Strahlen- und Kernphysik, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Bonn, Germany
| | - A M Khan
- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
| | - S Khan
- Department of Physics, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India
| | - A Khanzadeev
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - Y Kharlov
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - A Khatun
- Department of Physics, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India
| | - A Khuntia
- The Henryk Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Cracow, Poland
| | - B Kileng
- Faculty of Engineering and Science, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Bergen, Norway
| | - B Kim
- Department of Physics, Pusan National University, Pusan, Republic of Korea
| | - C Kim
- Department of Physics, Pusan National University, Pusan, Republic of Korea
| | - D J Kim
- University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland
| | - E J Kim
- Jeonbuk National University, Jeonju, Republic of Korea
| | - J Kim
- Yonsei University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
| | - J S Kim
- Gangneung-Wonju National University, Gangneung, Republic of Korea
| | - J Kim
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - J Kim
- Jeonbuk National University, Jeonju, Republic of Korea
| | - M Kim
- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - S Kim
- Department of Physics, Sejong University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
| | - T Kim
- Yonsei University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
| | - K Kimura
- Physics Program and International Institute for Sustainability with Knotted Chiral Meta Matter (SKCM2), Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan
| | - S Kirsch
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - I Kisel
- Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - S Kiselev
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - A Kisiel
- Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland
| | - J P Kitowski
- AGH University of Science and Technology, Cracow, Poland
| | - J L Klay
- California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, California, United States
| | - J Klein
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - S Klein
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, California, United States
| | - C Klein-Bösing
- Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Institut für Kernphysik, Munster, Germany
| | - M Kleiner
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - T Klemenz
- Physik Department, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
| | - A Kluge
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - A G Knospe
- University of Houston, Houston, Texas, United States
| | - C Kobdaj
- Suranaree University of Technology, Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand
| | - T Kollegger
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - A Kondratyev
- Affiliated with an international laboratory covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - E Kondratyuk
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - J Konig
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - S A Konigstorfer
- Physik Department, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
| | - P J Konopka
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - G Kornakov
- Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland
| | - S D Koryciak
- AGH University of Science and Technology, Cracow, Poland
| | - A Kotliarov
- Nuclear Physics Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Husinec-Řež, Czech Republic
| | - V Kovalenko
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - M Kowalski
- The Henryk Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Cracow, Poland
| | - V Kozhuharov
- Faculty of Physics, Sofia University, Sofia, Bulgaria
| | - I Králik
- Institute of Experimental Physics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Košice, Slovak Republic
| | - A Kravčáková
- Faculty of Science, P.J. Šafárik University, Košice, Slovak Republic
| | - L Kreis
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - M Krivda
- Institute of Experimental Physics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Košice, Slovak Republic
- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
| | - F Krizek
- Nuclear Physics Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Husinec-Řež, Czech Republic
| | - K Krizkova Gajdosova
- Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
| | - M Kroesen
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - M Krüger
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - D M Krupova
- Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
| | - E Kryshen
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - V Kučera
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - C Kuhn
- Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, IPHC UMR 7178, F-67000 Strasbourg, France, Strasbourg, France
| | - P G Kuijer
- Nikhef, National institute for subatomic physics, Amsterdam, Netherlands
| | - T Kumaoka
- University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
| | - D Kumar
- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Kolkata, India
| | - L Kumar
- Physics Department, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India
| | - N Kumar
- Physics Department, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India
| | - S Kumar
- Dipartimento Interateneo di Fisica 'M. Merlin' and Sezione INFN, Bari, Italy
| | - S Kundu
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - P Kurashvili
- National Centre for Nuclear Research, Warsaw, Poland
| | - A Kurepin
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - A B Kurepin
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - S Kushpil
- Nuclear Physics Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Husinec-Řež, Czech Republic
| | - J Kvapil
- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
| | - M J Kweon
- Inha University, Incheon, Republic of Korea
| | - J Y Kwon
- Inha University, Incheon, Republic of Korea
| | - Y Kwon
- Yonsei University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
| | - S L La Pointe
- Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - P La Rocca
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Catania, Italy
| | - Y S Lai
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, California, United States
| | - A Lakrathok
- Suranaree University of Technology, Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand
| | - M Lamanna
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - R Langoy
- University of South-Eastern Norway, Kongsberg, Norway
| | - P Larionov
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - E Laudi
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - L Lautner
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
- Physik Department, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
| | - R Lavicka
- Stefan Meyer Institut für Subatomare Physik (SMI), Vienna, Austria
| | - T Lazareva
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - R Lea
- INFN, Sezione di Pavia, Pavia, Italy
- Università di Brescia, Brescia, Italy
| | - G Legras
- Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Institut für Kernphysik, Munster, Germany
| | - J Lehrbach
- Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - R C Lemmon
- Nuclear Physics Group, STFC Daresbury Laboratory, Daresbury, United Kingdom
| | | | - M M Lesch
- Physik Department, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
| | - E D Lesser
- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States
| | - M Lettrich
- Physik Department, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
| | - P Lévai
- Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Budapest, Hungary
| | - X Li
- China Institute of Atomic Energy, Beijing, China
| | - X L Li
- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
| | - J Lien
- University of South-Eastern Norway, Kongsberg, Norway
| | - R Lietava
- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
| | - B Lim
- Department of Physics, Pusan National University, Pusan, Republic of Korea
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
| | - S H Lim
- Department of Physics, Pusan National University, Pusan, Republic of Korea
| | - V Lindenstruth
- Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - A Lindner
- Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Bucharest, Romania
| | - C Lippmann
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - A Liu
- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States
| | - D H Liu
- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
| | - J Liu
- University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
| | - I M Lofnes
- Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
| | - C Loizides
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, United States
| | - P Loncar
- Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture, University of Split, Split, Croatia
| | - J A Lopez
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - X Lopez
- Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS/IN2P3, LPC, Clermont-Ferrand, France
| | - E López Torres
- Centro de Aplicaciones Tecnológicas y Desarrollo Nuclear (CEADEN), Havana, Cuba
| | - P Lu
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
- University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China
| | - J R Luhder
- Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Institut für Kernphysik, Munster, Germany
| | - M Lunardon
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Padova, Italy
| | | | - Y G Ma
- Fudan University, Shanghai, China
| | - A Maevskaya
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - M Mager
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - T Mahmoud
- Helmholtz-Institut für Strahlen- und Kernphysik, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Bonn, Germany
| | - A Maire
- Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, IPHC UMR 7178, F-67000 Strasbourg, France, Strasbourg, France
| | - M V Makariev
- Faculty of Physics, Sofia University, Sofia, Bulgaria
| | - M Malaev
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - G Malfattore
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Bologna, Italy
| | - N M Malik
- Physics Department, University of Jammu, Jammu, India
| | - Q W Malik
- Department of Physics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
| | - S K Malik
- Physics Department, University of Jammu, Jammu, India
| | - L Malinina
- Affiliated with an international laboratory covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - D Mal'Kevich
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - D Mallick
- National Institute of Science Education and Research, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Jatni, India
| | - N Mallick
- Indian Institute of Technology Indore, Indore, India
| | - G Mandaglio
- Dipartimento di Scienze MIFT, Università di Messina, Messina, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Catania, Catania, Italy
| | - V Manko
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - F Manso
- Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS/IN2P3, LPC, Clermont-Ferrand, France
| | | | - Y Mao
- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
| | - G V Margagliotti
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Trieste, Italy
| | - A Margotti
- INFN, Sezione di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
| | - A Marín
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - C Markert
- The University of Texas at Austin, Texas, United States
| | - P Martinengo
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - J L Martinez
- University of Houston, Houston, Texas, United States
| | - M I Martínez
- High Energy Physics Group, Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Puebla, Mexico
| | - G Martínez García
- SUBATECH, IMT Atlantique, Nantes Université, CNRS-IN2P3, Nantes, France
| | - S Masciocchi
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - M Masera
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
| | - A Masoni
- INFN, Sezione di Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy
| | - L Massacrier
- Laboratoire de Physique des 2 Infinis, Irène Joliot-Curie, Orsay, France
| | - A Mastroserio
- INFN, Sezione di Bari, Bari, Italy
- Università degli Studi di Foggia, Foggia, Italy
| | - A M Mathis
- Physik Department, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
| | - O Matonoha
- Lund University Department of Physics, Division of Particle Physics, Lund, Sweden
| | | | - 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
| | - A L Mazuecos
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - F Mazzaschi
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
| | - M Mazzilli
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - J E Mdhluli
- University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
| | - A F Mechler
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - Y Melikyan
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - A Menchaca-Rocha
- Instituto de Física, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
| | - E Meninno
- Dipartimento di Fisica 'E.R. Caianiello' dell'Università and Gruppo Collegato INFN, Salerno, Italy
- Stefan Meyer Institut für Subatomare Physik (SMI), Vienna, Austria
| | - A S Menon
- University of Houston, Houston, Texas, United States
| | - M Meres
- Comenius University Bratislava, Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics, Bratislava, Slovak Republic
| | - S Mhlanga
- iThemba LABS, National Research Foundation, Somerset West, South Africa
- University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
| | - Y Miake
- University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
| | | | - L C Migliorin
- Université de Lyon, CNRS/IN2P3, Institut de Physique des 2 Infinis de Lyon, Lyon, France
| | - D L Mihaylov
- Physik Department, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
| | - K Mikhaylov
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
- Affiliated with an international laboratory covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - A N Mishra
- Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Budapest, Hungary
| | - D Miśkowiec
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - A Modak
- Bose Institute, Department of Physics and Centre for Astroparticle Physics and Space Science (CAPSS), Kolkata, India
| | - A P Mohanty
- Institute for Gravitational and Subatomic Physics (GRASP), Utrecht University/Nikhef, Utrecht, Netherlands
| | - B Mohanty
- National Institute of Science Education and Research, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Jatni, India
| | - M Mohisin Khan
- Department of Physics, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India
| | - M A Molander
- Helsinki Institute of Physics (HIP), Helsinki, Finland
| | - Z Moravcova
- Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - C Mordasini
- Physik Department, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
| | - D A Moreira De Godoy
- Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Institut für Kernphysik, Munster, Germany
| | - I Morozov
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - A Morsch
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - T Mrnjavac
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - V Muccifora
- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Frascati, Italy
| | - S Muhuri
- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Kolkata, India
| | - J D Mulligan
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, California, United States
| | - A Mulliri
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Cagliari, Italy
| | - M G Munhoz
- Universidade de São Paulo (USP), São Paulo, Brazil
| | - R H Munzer
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | | | - S Murray
- University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
| | - L Musa
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - J Musinsky
- Institute of Experimental Physics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Košice, Slovak Republic
| | - J W Myrcha
- Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland
| | - B Naik
- University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
| | - A I Nambrath
- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States
| | - B K Nandi
- Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT), Mumbai, India
| | - R Nania
- INFN, Sezione di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
| | - E Nappi
- INFN, Sezione di Bari, Bari, Italy
| | - A F Nassirpour
- Lund University Department of Physics, Division of Particle Physics, Lund, Sweden
| | - A Nath
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - C Nattrass
- University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, United States
| | - M N Naydenov
- Faculty of Physics, Sofia University, Sofia, Bulgaria
| | - A Neagu
- Department of Physics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
| | - A Negru
- University Politehnica of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania
| | - L Nellen
- Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
| | - S V Nesbo
- Faculty of Engineering and Science, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Bergen, Norway
| | - G Neskovic
- Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - D Nesterov
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - B S Nielsen
- Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - E G Nielsen
- Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - S Nikolaev
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - S Nikulin
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - V Nikulin
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - F Noferini
- INFN, Sezione di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
| | - S Noh
- Chungbuk National University, Cheongju, Republic of Korea
| | - P Nomokonov
- Affiliated with an international laboratory covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - J Norman
- University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
| | | | | | - A Nyanin
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - J Nystrand
- Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
| | - M Ogino
- Nagasaki Institute of Applied Science, Nagasaki, Japan
| | - A Ohlson
- Lund University Department of Physics, Division of Particle Physics, Lund, Sweden
| | - V A Okorokov
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - J Oleniacz
- Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland
| | | | - M H Oliver
- Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States
| | | | | | - A Ortiz Velasquez
- Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
| | - A Oskarsson
- Lund University Department of Physics, Division of Particle Physics, Lund, Sweden
| | - J Otwinowski
- The Henryk Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Cracow, Poland
| | - M Oya
- Physics Program and International Institute for Sustainability with Knotted Chiral Meta Matter (SKCM2), Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan
| | - K Oyama
- Nagasaki Institute of Applied Science, Nagasaki, Japan
| | - Y Pachmayer
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - S Padhan
- Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT), Mumbai, India
| | - D Pagano
- INFN, Sezione di Pavia, Pavia, Italy
- Università di Brescia, Brescia, Italy
| | - G Paić
- Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
| | | | - S Panebianco
- Université Paris-Saclay Centre d'Etudes de Saclay (CEA), IRFU, Départment de Physique Nucléaire (DPhN), Saclay, France
| | - H Park
- University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
| | - J Park
- Inha University, Incheon, Republic of Korea
| | - J E Parkkila
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - R N Patra
- Physics Department, University of Jammu, Jammu, India
| | - B Paul
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Cagliari, Italy
| | - H Pei
- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
| | - T Peitzmann
- Institute for Gravitational and Subatomic Physics (GRASP), Utrecht University/Nikhef, Utrecht, Netherlands
| | - X Peng
- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
| | - M Pennisi
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
| | - L G Pereira
- Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, Brazil
| | - H Pereira Da Costa
- Université Paris-Saclay Centre d'Etudes de Saclay (CEA), IRFU, Départment de Physique Nucléaire (DPhN), Saclay, France
| | - D Peresunko
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - G M Perez
- Centro de Aplicaciones Tecnológicas y Desarrollo Nuclear (CEADEN), Havana, Cuba
| | - S Perrin
- Université Paris-Saclay Centre d'Etudes de Saclay (CEA), IRFU, Départment de Physique Nucléaire (DPhN), Saclay, France
| | - Y Pestov
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - V Petráček
- Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
| | - V Petrov
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - M Petrovici
- Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Bucharest, Romania
| | - R P Pezzi
- Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, Brazil
- SUBATECH, IMT Atlantique, Nantes Université, CNRS-IN2P3, Nantes, France
| | - S Piano
- INFN, Sezione di Trieste, Trieste, Italy
| | - M Pikna
- Comenius University Bratislava, Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics, Bratislava, Slovak Republic
| | - P Pillot
- SUBATECH, IMT Atlantique, Nantes Université, CNRS-IN2P3, Nantes, France
| | - O Pinazza
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
- INFN, Sezione di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
| | - L Pinsky
- University of Houston, Houston, Texas, United States
| | - C Pinto
- Physik Department, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
| | - S Pisano
- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Frascati, Italy
| | - M Płoskoń
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, California, United States
| | - M Planinic
- Physics department, Faculty of science, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
| | - F Pliquett
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - M G Poghosyan
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, United States
| | - S Politano
- Dipartimento DISAT del Politecnico and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
| | - N Poljak
- Physics department, Faculty of science, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
| | - A Pop
- Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Bucharest, Romania
| | | | - J Porter
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, California, United States
| | - V Pozdniakov
- Affiliated with an international laboratory covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - K K Pradhan
- Indian Institute of Technology Indore, Indore, India
| | - S K Prasad
- Bose Institute, Department of Physics and Centre for Astroparticle Physics and Space Science (CAPSS), Kolkata, India
| | - S Prasad
- Indian Institute of Technology Indore, Indore, India
| | | | - F Prino
- INFN, Sezione di Torino, Turin, Italy
| | - C A Pruneau
- Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, United States
| | - I Pshenichnov
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - M Puccio
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - S Pucillo
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
| | - Z Pugelova
- Technical University of Košice, Košice, Slovak Republic
| | - S Qiu
- Nikhef, National institute for subatomic physics, Amsterdam, Netherlands
| | - L Quaglia
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
| | - R E Quishpe
- University of Houston, Houston, Texas, United States
| | - S Ragoni
- Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska, United States
- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
| | - A Rakotozafindrabe
- Université Paris-Saclay Centre d'Etudes de Saclay (CEA), IRFU, Départment de Physique Nucléaire (DPhN), Saclay, France
| | - L Ramello
- INFN, Sezione di Torino, Turin, Italy
- Università del Piemonte Orientale, Vercelli, Italy
| | - F Rami
- Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, IPHC UMR 7178, F-67000 Strasbourg, France, Strasbourg, France
| | - S A R Ramirez
- High Energy Physics Group, Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Puebla, Mexico
| | - T A Rancien
- Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie, Université Grenoble-Alpes, CNRS-IN2P3, Grenoble, France
| | - M Rasa
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Catania, Italy
| | - S S Räsänen
- Helsinki Institute of Physics (HIP), Helsinki, Finland
| | - R Rath
- Indian Institute of Technology Indore, Indore, India
- INFN, Sezione di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
| | - M P Rauch
- Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
| | - I Ravasenga
- Nikhef, National institute for subatomic physics, Amsterdam, Netherlands
| | - K F Read
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, United States
- University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, United States
| | - C Reckziegel
- Universidade Federal do ABC, Santo Andre, Brazil
| | - A R Redelbach
- Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - K Redlich
- National Centre for Nuclear Research, Warsaw, Poland
| | - A Rehman
- Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
| | - F Reidt
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - H A Reme-Ness
- Faculty of Engineering and Science, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Bergen, Norway
| | - Z Rescakova
- Faculty of Science, P.J. Šafárik University, Košice, Slovak Republic
| | - K Reygers
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - A Riabov
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - V Riabov
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - R Ricci
- Dipartimento di Fisica 'E.R. Caianiello' dell'Università and Gruppo Collegato INFN, Salerno, Italy
| | - T Richert
- Lund University Department of Physics, Division of Particle Physics, Lund, Sweden
| | - M Richter
- Department of Physics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
| | - A A Riedel
- Physik Department, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
| | - W Riegler
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - C Ristea
- Institute of Space Science (ISS), Bucharest, Romania
| | | | - K Røed
- Department of Physics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
| | - R Rogalev
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - E Rogochaya
- Affiliated with an international laboratory covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - T S Rogoschinski
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - D Rohr
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - D Röhrich
- Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
| | - P F Rojas
- High Energy Physics Group, Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Puebla, Mexico
| | - S Rojas Torres
- Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
| | - P S Rokita
- Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland
| | - G Romanenko
- Affiliated with an international laboratory covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - F Ronchetti
- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Frascati, Italy
| | - A Rosano
- Dipartimento di Scienze MIFT, Università di Messina, Messina, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Catania, Catania, Italy
| | - E D Rosas
- Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
| | - A Rossi
- INFN, Sezione di Padova, Padova, Italy
| | - A Roy
- Indian Institute of Technology Indore, Indore, India
| | - P Roy
- Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Kolkata, India
| | - S Roy
- Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT), Mumbai, India
| | - N Rubini
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Bologna, Italy
| | - O V Rueda
- Lund University Department of Physics, Division of Particle Physics, Lund, Sweden
- University of Houston, Houston, Texas, United States
| | - D Ruggiano
- Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland
| | - R Rui
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Trieste, Italy
| | - B Rumyantsev
- Affiliated with an international laboratory covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - P G Russek
- AGH University of Science and Technology, Cracow, Poland
| | - R Russo
- Nikhef, National institute for subatomic physics, Amsterdam, Netherlands
| | - A Rustamov
- National Nuclear Research Center, Baku, Azerbaijan
| | - E Ryabinkin
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - Y Ryabov
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - A Rybicki
- The Henryk Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Cracow, Poland
| | - H Rytkonen
- University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland
| | - W Rzesa
- Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland
| | | | - R Sadek
- SUBATECH, IMT Atlantique, Nantes Université, CNRS-IN2P3, Nantes, France
| | - S Sadhu
- Dipartimento Interateneo di Fisica 'M. Merlin' and Sezione INFN, Bari, Italy
| | - S Sadovsky
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - J Saetre
- Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
| | - K Šafařík
- Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
| | - S K Saha
- Bose Institute, Department of Physics and Centre for Astroparticle Physics and Space Science (CAPSS), Kolkata, India
| | - S Saha
- National Institute of Science Education and Research, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Jatni, India
| | - B Sahoo
- Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT), Mumbai, India
| | - R Sahoo
- Indian Institute of Technology Indore, Indore, India
| | - S Sahoo
- Institute of Physics, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Bhubaneswar, India
| | - D Sahu
- Indian Institute of Technology Indore, Indore, India
| | - P K Sahu
- Institute of Physics, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Bhubaneswar, India
| | - J Saini
- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Kolkata, India
| | - K Sajdakova
- Faculty of Science, P.J. Šafárik University, Košice, Slovak Republic
| | - S Sakai
- University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
| | - M P Salvan
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - S Sambyal
- Physics Department, University of Jammu, Jammu, India
| | - I Sanna
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
- Physik Department, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
| | - T B Saramela
- Universidade de São Paulo (USP), São Paulo, Brazil
| | - D Sarkar
- Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, United States
| | - N Sarkar
- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Kolkata, India
| | - P Sarma
- Gauhati University, Department of Physics, Guwahati, India
| | - V Sarritzu
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Cagliari, Italy
| | - V M Sarti
- Physik Department, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
| | - M H P Sas
- Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States
| | - J Schambach
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, United States
| | - H S Scheid
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - C Schiaua
- Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Bucharest, Romania
| | - R Schicker
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - A Schmah
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - C Schmidt
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - H R Schmidt
- Physikalisches Institut, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
| | - M O Schmidt
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - M Schmidt
- Physikalisches Institut, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
| | - N V Schmidt
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, United States
| | - A R Schmier
- University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, United States
| | - R Schotter
- Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, IPHC UMR 7178, F-67000 Strasbourg, France, Strasbourg, France
| | - A Schröter
- Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - J Schukraft
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - K Schwarz
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - K Schweda
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - G Scioli
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Bologna, Italy
| | | | - J E Seger
- Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska, United States
| | | | | | - I Selyuzhenkov
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - S Senyukov
- Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, IPHC UMR 7178, F-67000 Strasbourg, France, Strasbourg, France
| | - J J Seo
- Inha University, Incheon, Republic of Korea
| | - D Serebryakov
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - L Šerkšnytė
- Physik Department, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
| | - A Sevcenco
- Institute of Space Science (ISS), Bucharest, Romania
| | - T J Shaba
- iThemba LABS, National Research Foundation, Somerset West, South Africa
| | - A Shabetai
- SUBATECH, IMT Atlantique, Nantes Université, CNRS-IN2P3, Nantes, France
| | - R Shahoyan
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - A Shangaraev
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - A Sharma
- Physics Department, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India
| | - D Sharma
- Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT), Mumbai, India
| | - H Sharma
- The Henryk Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Cracow, Poland
| | - M Sharma
- Physics Department, University of Jammu, Jammu, India
| | - N Sharma
- Physics Department, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India
| | - S Sharma
- Nagasaki Institute of Applied Science, Nagasaki, Japan
| | - S Sharma
- Physics Department, University of Jammu, Jammu, India
| | - U Sharma
- Physics Department, University of Jammu, Jammu, India
| | - A Shatat
- Laboratoire de Physique des 2 Infinis, Irène Joliot-Curie, Orsay, France
| | - O Sheibani
- University of Houston, Houston, Texas, United States
| | - K Shigaki
- Physics Program and International Institute for Sustainability with Knotted Chiral Meta Matter (SKCM2), Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan
| | | | - J Shin
- Chungbuk National University, Cheongju, Republic of Korea
| | - S Shirinkin
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - Q Shou
- Fudan University, Shanghai, China
| | - Y Sibiriak
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | | | - T Siemiarczuk
- National Centre for Nuclear Research, Warsaw, Poland
| | - T F Silva
- Universidade de São Paulo (USP), São Paulo, Brazil
| | - D Silvermyr
- Lund University Department of Physics, Division of Particle Physics, Lund, Sweden
| | | | - R Simeonov
- Faculty of Physics, Sofia University, Sofia, Bulgaria
| | - B Singh
- Physics Department, University of Jammu, Jammu, India
| | - B Singh
- Physik Department, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
| | - R Singh
- National Institute of Science Education and Research, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Jatni, India
| | - R Singh
- Physics Department, University of Jammu, Jammu, India
| | - R Singh
- Indian Institute of Technology Indore, Indore, India
| | - S Singh
- Department of Physics, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India
| | - V K Singh
- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Kolkata, India
| | - V Singhal
- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Kolkata, India
| | - T Sinha
- Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Kolkata, India
| | - B Sitar
- Comenius University Bratislava, Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics, Bratislava, Slovak Republic
| | - M Sitta
- INFN, Sezione di Torino, Turin, Italy
- Università del Piemonte Orientale, Vercelli, Italy
| | - T B Skaali
- Department of Physics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
| | - G Skorodumovs
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - M Slupecki
- Helsinki Institute of Physics (HIP), Helsinki, Finland
| | - N Smirnov
- Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States
| | - R J M Snellings
- Institute for Gravitational and Subatomic Physics (GRASP), Utrecht University/Nikhef, Utrecht, Netherlands
| | - E H Solheim
- Department of Physics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
| | - J Song
- University of Houston, Houston, Texas, United States
| | - A Songmoolnak
- Suranaree University of Technology, Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand
| | - F Soramel
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Padova, Italy
| | - R Spijkers
- Nikhef, National institute for subatomic physics, Amsterdam, Netherlands
| | - I Sputowska
- The Henryk Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Cracow, Poland
| | - J Staa
- Lund University Department of Physics, Division of Particle Physics, Lund, Sweden
| | - J Stachel
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - I Stan
- Institute of Space Science (ISS), Bucharest, Romania
| | - P J Steffanic
- University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, United States
| | - S F Stiefelmaier
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - D Stocco
- SUBATECH, IMT Atlantique, Nantes Université, CNRS-IN2P3, Nantes, France
| | - I Storehaug
- Department of Physics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
| | - P Stratmann
- Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Institut für Kernphysik, Munster, Germany
| | - S Strazzi
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Bologna, Italy
| | - C P Stylianidis
- Nikhef, National institute for subatomic physics, Amsterdam, Netherlands
| | - A A P Suaide
- Universidade de São Paulo (USP), São Paulo, Brazil
| | - C Suire
- Laboratoire de Physique des 2 Infinis, Irène Joliot-Curie, Orsay, France
| | - M Sukhanov
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - M Suljic
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - R Sultanov
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - V Sumberia
- Physics Department, University of Jammu, Jammu, India
| | - S Sumowidagdo
- National Research and Innovation Agency - BRIN, Jakarta, Indonesia
| | - S Swain
- Institute of Physics, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Bhubaneswar, India
| | - I Szarka
- Comenius University Bratislava, Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics, Bratislava, Slovak Republic
| | - U Tabassam
- COMSATS University Islamabad, Islamabad, Pakistan
| | - S F Taghavi
- Physik Department, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
| | - G Taillepied
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - J Takahashi
- Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas, Brazil
| | - G J Tambave
- Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
| | - S Tang
- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
- Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS/IN2P3, LPC, Clermont-Ferrand, France
| | - Z Tang
- University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China
| | | | - N Tapus
- University Politehnica of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania
| | - L A Tarasovicova
- Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Institut für Kernphysik, Munster, Germany
| | - M G Tarzila
- Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Bucharest, Romania
| | - G F Tassielli
- Dipartimento Interateneo di Fisica 'M. Merlin' and Sezione INFN, Bari, Italy
| | - A Tauro
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - A Telesca
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - L Terlizzi
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
| | - C Terrevoli
- University of Houston, Houston, Texas, United States
| | - G Tersimonov
- Bogolyubov Institute for Theoretical Physics, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine
| | - S Thakur
- Bose Institute, Department of Physics and Centre for Astroparticle Physics and Space Science (CAPSS), Kolkata, India
| | - D Thomas
- The University of Texas at Austin, Texas, United States
| | - A Tikhonov
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - A R Timmins
- University of Houston, Houston, Texas, United States
| | - M Tkacik
- Technical University of Košice, Košice, Slovak Republic
| | - T Tkacik
- Technical University of Košice, Košice, Slovak Republic
| | - A Toia
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - R Tokumoto
- Physics Program and International Institute for Sustainability with Knotted Chiral Meta Matter (SKCM2), Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan
| | - N Topilskaya
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - M Toppi
- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Frascati, Italy
| | - F Torales-Acosta
- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States
| | - T Tork
- Laboratoire de Physique des 2 Infinis, Irène Joliot-Curie, Orsay, France
| | - A G Torres Ramos
- Dipartimento Interateneo di Fisica 'M. Merlin' and Sezione INFN, Bari, Italy
| | - A Trifiró
- Dipartimento di Scienze MIFT, Università di Messina, Messina, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Catania, Catania, Italy
| | - A S Triolo
- Dipartimento di Scienze MIFT, Università di Messina, Messina, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Catania, Catania, Italy
| | - S Tripathy
- INFN, Sezione di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
| | - T Tripathy
- Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT), Mumbai, India
| | - S Trogolo
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - V Trubnikov
- Bogolyubov Institute for Theoretical Physics, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine
| | | | | | - R Turrisi
- INFN, Sezione di Padova, Padova, Italy
| | - T S Tveter
- Department of Physics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
| | - K Ullaland
- Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
| | - B Ulukutlu
- Physik Department, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
| | - A Uras
- Université de Lyon, CNRS/IN2P3, Institut de Physique des 2 Infinis de Lyon, Lyon, France
| | - M Urioni
- INFN, Sezione di Pavia, Pavia, Italy
- Università di Brescia, Brescia, Italy
| | - G L Usai
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Cagliari, Italy
| | - M Vala
- Faculty of Science, P.J. Šafárik University, Košice, Slovak Republic
| | - N Valle
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Pavia, Pavia, Italy
| | - L V R van Doremalen
- Institute for Gravitational and Subatomic Physics (GRASP), Utrecht University/Nikhef, Utrecht, Netherlands
| | - M van Leeuwen
- Nikhef, National institute for subatomic physics, Amsterdam, Netherlands
| | - C A van Veen
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - R J G van Weelden
- Nikhef, National institute for subatomic physics, Amsterdam, Netherlands
| | - P Vande Vyvre
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - D Varga
- Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Budapest, Hungary
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- Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Budapest, Hungary
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- National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, School of Science, Department of Physics, Athens, Greece
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- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
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- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
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- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
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- High Energy Physics Group, Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Puebla, Mexico
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- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
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- Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Budapest, Hungary
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- Institute for Gravitational and Subatomic Physics (GRASP), Utrecht University/Nikhef, Utrecht, Netherlands
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- Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture, University of Split, Split, Croatia
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- University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
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- INFN, Sezione di Bari, Bari, Italy
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- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
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- Dipartimento di Fisica 'E.R. Caianiello' dell'Università and Gruppo Collegato INFN, Salerno, Italy
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- Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Affiliated with an international laboratory covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
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- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
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- Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, United States
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- Dipartimento Interateneo di Fisica 'M. Merlin' and Sezione INFN, Bari, Italy
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
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- Physik Department, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
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- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
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- Faculty of Science, P.J. Šafárik University, Košice, Slovak Republic
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- Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
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- Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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- Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
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- Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
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- Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Institut für Kernphysik, Munster, Germany
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- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
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- Department of Physics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- National Centre for Nuclear Research, Warsaw, Poland
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- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
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- Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Institut für Kernphysik, Munster, Germany
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- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Université Paris-Saclay Centre d'Etudes de Saclay (CEA), IRFU, Départment de Physique Nucléaire (DPhN), Saclay, France
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- The University of Texas at Austin, Texas, United States
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- Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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- University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China
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- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
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- Helmholtz-Institut für Strahlen- und Kernphysik, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Bonn, Germany
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- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Kolkata, India
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- KTO Karatay University, Konya, Turkey
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- Physics Program and International Institute for Sustainability with Knotted Chiral Meta Matter (SKCM2), Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan
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- Physics Program and International Institute for Sustainability with Knotted Chiral Meta Matter (SKCM2), Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan
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- Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
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- Physics Program and International Institute for Sustainability with Knotted Chiral Meta Matter (SKCM2), Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan
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- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
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- Department of Physics, Pusan National University, Pusan, Republic of Korea
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- Inha University, Incheon, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
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- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Trieste, Italy
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
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- Institute for Gravitational and Subatomic Physics (GRASP), Utrecht University/Nikhef, Utrecht, Netherlands
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- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
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- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
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- Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
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- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
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- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
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- Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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- Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
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- University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China
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- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
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- China Institute of Atomic Energy, Beijing, China
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- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
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- China Institute of Atomic Energy, Beijing, China
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- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
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- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
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- Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
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- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
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- Bogolyubov Institute for Theoretical Physics, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine
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- INFN, Sezione di Pavia, Pavia, Italy
- Università di Brescia, Brescia, Italy
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Ali Y, Thomas R, Holgersson S, Isaksson M, Insulander Björk K. Experimental determination of concentration factors of Ni, Ru and Sb in the model diatom Phaeodactylum tricornutum. Sci Rep 2023; 13:13575. [PMID: 37604893 PMCID: PMC10442315 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-38795-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/08/2022] [Accepted: 07/14/2023] [Indexed: 08/23/2023] Open
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This paper describes the experimental determination of concentration factors (CF) for nickel, ruthenium and antimony in the model diatom Phaeodactylum tricornutum Bohlin (Bacillariophyceae), which was chosen as a representative of marine phytoplankton. Better determinations of these CF are needed to improve the modelling of marine ecosystems at release points, where radioactive pollutants enter the ecosystem, for more accurate predictions of radiation dose to humans caused by these pollutants. A literature study revealed that the currently implemented values of these CF are based on very scarce data, and a computational sensitivity study showed that the radiation dose caused by radioisotopes of these elements depend strongly on the phytoplankton CF. Nutrient-enriched water samples from Swedish coastal waters were used as a medium for growing of the diatom species P. tricornutum and radioactive isotopes of the studied elements were added to the cultures during the exponential growth phase. The radioactivity in the P. tricornutum and in the culture medium were measured separately and used for determination of CF. Conservative estimates of the CF based on this phytoplankton proxy on the present data are 6400 L/kg for nickel, 20,000 L/kg for ruthenium and 890 L/kg for antimony, with P. tricornutum biomass masses referring to dry weight. The estimates for nickel and ruthenium are similar to previously published values, which underpins the credibility of radiation dose calculations based on these values. The estimate for antimony is uncertain, but also, to our knowledge, represents the first published experimentally based data on this CF.
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- Department of Medical Radiation Sciences, Institute of Clinical Sciences, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
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- Department of Medical Radiation Sciences, Institute of Clinical Sciences, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
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- Division of Energy and Materials, Department of Chemistry, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden
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- Department of Medical Radiation Sciences, Institute of Clinical Sciences, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
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- Department of Medical Radiation Sciences, Institute of Clinical Sciences, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden.
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Ali Y, Khan H. The effect of technological progress and income per capita on carbon dioxide emission: the moderating role of economic freedom. Environ Sci Pollut Res Int 2023; 30:88563-88576. [PMID: 37436624 DOI: 10.1007/s11356-023-28687-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/25/2023] [Accepted: 07/04/2023] [Indexed: 07/13/2023]
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Climate change in context of environmental issues is pushing most of the countries to set the goals in order to achieve carbon neutrality and sustainable development. The recognition of Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) thirteen (13) is aided by the objective of this study which is to take an urgent action to combat climate change. In this context, this study investigates the effect of technological progress, income, and foreign direct investment on carbon dioxide emission by taking into consideration the moderating effect of economic freedom in 165 global countries from 2000 to 2020. The study employed ordinary least squares (OLS), fixed effects (FE), and two-step system generalized method of moments for analysis. The findings reveal that economic freedom, income per capita, foreign direct investment, and industry increase carbon dioxide emission while technological progress reduces emission in global countries. Surprisingly, economic freedom indirectly increases the level of carbon emissions by technological progress; however, economic freedom indirectly decreases the level of carbon emissions by income per capita. In this regard, this study favors clean eco-friendly technologies and seeks methods for development without harming the environment. Furthermore, the findings of this study have considerable policy suggestions for the sample countries.
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- School of Economics, Shandong University, Jinan, 250100, Shandong, China
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- School of Economics and Management, Zhejiang University of Science and Technology, Hangzhou, China.
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Measurement of the J/ψ Polarization with Respect to the Event Plane in Pb-Pb Collisions at the LHC. Phys Rev Lett 2023; 131:042303. [PMID: 37566833 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.131.042303] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/20/2022] [Revised: 02/09/2023] [Accepted: 03/28/2023] [Indexed: 08/13/2023]
Abstract
We study the polarization of inclusive J/ψ produced in Pb-Pb collisions at sqrt[s_{NN}]=5.02 TeV at the LHC in the dimuon channel, via the measurement of the angular distribution of its decay products. We perform the study in the rapidity region 2.5
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- S Acharya
- Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS/IN2P3, LPC, Clermont-Ferrand, France
- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Kolkata, India
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- Nuclear Physics Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Husinec-Řež, Czech Republic
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- Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe Universität Frankfurt Institut für Informatik, Fachbereich Informatik und Mathematik, Frankfurt, Germany
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
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- Dipartimento DISAT del Politecnico and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
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- INFN, Sezione di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Kolkata, India
| | - S Ahmad
- Department of Physics, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India
| | - S U Ahn
- Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information, Daejeon, Republic of Korea
| | - I Ahuja
- Faculty of Science, Pavol Jozef Šafárik University, Košice, Slovak Republic
| | - A Akindinov
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
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- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
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- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | | | - H M Alfanda
- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
| | - R Alfaro Molina
- Instituto de Física, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
| | - B Ali
- Department of Physics, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India
| | - Y Ali
- COMSATS University Islamabad, Islamabad, Pakistan
| | - A Alici
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Bologna, Italy
| | | | - A Alkin
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
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- Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
| | - G Alocco
- INFN, Sezione di Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy
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- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
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- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
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- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
| | - C Andrei
- Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Bucharest, Romania
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- Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Institut für Kernphysik, Munster, Germany
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- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | | | | | - C Anuj
- Department of Physics, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India
| | - N Apadula
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, USA
| | - L Aphecetche
- SUBATECH, IMT Atlantique, Nantes Université, CNRS-IN2P3, Nantes, France
| | - H Appelshäuser
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
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- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Bologna, Italy
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- INFN, Sezione di Torino, Turin, Italy
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- Department of Physics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
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- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
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- Laboratoire de Physique des 2 Infinis, Irène Joliot-Curie, Orsay, France
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- Department of Physics, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India
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- INFN, Sezione di Catania, Catania, Italy
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- Gangneung-Wonju National University, Gangneung, Republic of Korea
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- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
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- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
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- Indian Institute of Technology Indore, Indore, India
| | - R Bala
- Physics Department, University of Jammu, Jammu, India
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- Dipartimento DISAT del Politecnico and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
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- Départment de Physique Nucléaire (DPhN), Université Paris-Saclay Centre d'Etudes de Saclay (CEA), IRFU, Saclay, France
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- AGH University of Science and Technology, Cracow, Poland
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- Bose Institute, Department of Physics and Centre for Astroparticle Physics and Space Science (CAPSS), Kolkata, India
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- Physics Department, University of Jammu, Jammu, India
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- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Catania, Italy
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- Physik Department, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
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- Department of Physics, School of Science, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece
| | | | - L S Barnby
- Nuclear Physics Group, STFC Daresbury Laboratory, Daresbury, United Kingdom
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- Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS/IN2P3, LPC, Clermont-Ferrand, France
| | - L Barreto
- Universidade de São Paulo (USP), São Paulo, Brazil
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- University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
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- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
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- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Padova, Italy
| | - N Bastid
- Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS/IN2P3, LPC, Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- Lund University Department of Physics, Division of Particle Physics, Lund, Sweden
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- SUBATECH, IMT Atlantique, Nantes Université, CNRS-IN2P3, Nantes, France
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- Physik Department, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
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- Affiliated with an international laboratory covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
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- Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT), Mumbai, India
| | - J L Bazo Alba
- Sección Física, Departamento de Ciencias, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima, Peru
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- Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
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- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
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- Indian Institute of Technology Indore, Indore, India
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- Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, IPHC UMR 7178, F-67000 Strasbourg, France
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- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Bologna, Italy
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- University of Houston, Houston, Texas, USA
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- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
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- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
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- Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
- Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Budapest, Hungary
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- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
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- Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Bucharest, Romania
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- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
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- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Institute of Space Science (ISS), Bucharest, Romania
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
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- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Kolkata, India
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- Physics Department, University of Jammu, Jammu, India
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- Physics Department, University of Jammu, Jammu, India
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- Bose Institute, Department of Physics and Centre for Astroparticle Physics and Space Science (CAPSS), Kolkata, India
| | | | - L Bianchi
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
| | - N Bianchi
- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Frascati, Italy
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- Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
| | - J Bielčíková
- Nuclear Physics Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Husinec-Řež, Czech Republic
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- The Henryk Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Cracow, Poland
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- Physik Department, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
| | - G Biro
- Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Budapest, Hungary
| | - S Biswas
- Bose Institute, Department of Physics and Centre for Astroparticle Physics and Space Science (CAPSS), Kolkata, India
| | - J T Blair
- The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, USA
| | - D Blau
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
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- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - N Bluhme
- Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - C Blume
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - G Boca
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Pavia, Pavia, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Pavia, Pavia, Italy
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- Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA
| | - T Bodova
- Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
| | - A Bogdanov
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
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- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Cagliari, Italy
| | - J Bok
- Inha University, Incheon, Republic of Korea
| | - L Boldizsár
- Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Budapest, Hungary
| | - A Bolozdynya
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
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- Faculty of Science, Pavol Jozef Šafárik University, Košice, Slovak Republic
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - G Bonomi
- INFN, Sezione di Pavia, Pavia, Italy
- Università di Brescia, Brescia, Italy
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- Départment de Physique Nucléaire (DPhN), Université Paris-Saclay Centre d'Etudes de Saclay (CEA), IRFU, Saclay, France
| | - A Borissov
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
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- Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
| | - E Botta
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
| | - L Bratrud
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - P Braun-Munzinger
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - M Bregant
- Universidade de São Paulo (USP), São Paulo, Brazil
| | - M Broz
- Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
| | - G E Bruno
- Dipartimento Interateneo di Fisica "M. Merlin" and Sezione INFN, Bari, Italy
- Politecnico di Bari and Sezione INFN, Bari, Italy
| | - M D Buckland
- University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
| | - D Budnikov
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
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- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - S Bufalino
- Dipartimento DISAT del Politecnico and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
| | - O Bugnon
- SUBATECH, IMT Atlantique, Nantes Université, CNRS-IN2P3, Nantes, France
| | - P Buhler
- Stefan Meyer Institut für Subatomare Physik (SMI), Vienna, Austria
| | - Z Buthelezi
- iThemba LABS, National Research Foundation, Somerset West, South Africa
- University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
| | - J B Butt
- COMSATS University Islamabad, Islamabad, Pakistan
| | - A Bylinkin
- University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, USA
| | - S A Bysiak
- The Henryk Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Cracow, Poland
| | - M Cai
- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Padova, Italy
| | - H Caines
- Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
| | - A Caliva
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - E Calvo Villar
- Sección Física, Departamento de Ciencias, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima, Peru
| | | | - R S Camacho
- High Energy Physics Group, Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Puebla, Mexico
| | - P Camerini
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Trieste, Italy
| | - F D M Canedo
- Universidade de São Paulo (USP), São Paulo, Brazil
| | - M Carabas
- University Politehnica of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania
| | - F Carnesecchi
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - R Caron
- CNRS/IN2P3, Institut de Physique des 2 Infinis de Lyon, Université de Lyon, Lyon, France
- Départment de Physique Nucléaire (DPhN), Université Paris-Saclay Centre d'Etudes de Saclay (CEA), IRFU, Saclay, France
| | - J Castillo Castellanos
- Départment de Physique Nucléaire (DPhN), Université Paris-Saclay Centre d'Etudes de Saclay (CEA), IRFU, Saclay, France
| | - F Catalano
- Dipartimento DISAT del Politecnico and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
| | - C Ceballos Sanchez
- Affiliated with an international laboratory covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - I Chakaberia
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, USA
| | - P Chakraborty
- Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT), Mumbai, India
| | - S Chandra
- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Kolkata, India
| | - S Chapeland
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - M Chartier
- University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
| | - S Chattopadhyay
- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Kolkata, India
| | - S Chattopadhyay
- Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Kolkata, India
| | - T G Chavez
- High Energy Physics Group, Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Puebla, Mexico
| | - T Cheng
- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
| | - C Cheshkov
- CNRS/IN2P3, Institut de Physique des 2 Infinis de Lyon, Université de Lyon, Lyon, France
| | - B Cheynis
- CNRS/IN2P3, Institut de Physique des 2 Infinis de Lyon, Université de Lyon, Lyon, France
| | | | - D D Chinellato
- Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas, Brazil
| | - E S Chizzali
- Physik Department, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
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- Inha University, Incheon, Republic of Korea
| | - S Cho
- Inha University, Incheon, Republic of Korea
| | - P Chochula
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - P Christakoglou
- Nikhef, National Institute for Subatomic Physics, Amsterdam, Netherlands
| | - C H Christensen
- Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - P Christiansen
- Lund University Department of Physics, Division of Particle Physics, Lund, Sweden
| | - T Chujo
- University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
| | - M Ciacco
- Dipartimento DISAT del Politecnico and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
| | - C Cicalo
- INFN, Sezione di Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy
| | - L Cifarelli
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Bologna, Italy
| | - F Cindolo
- INFN, Sezione di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
| | - M R Ciupek
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - G Clai
- INFN, Sezione di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
| | | | - J S Colburn
- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
| | - D Colella
- Dipartimento Interateneo di Fisica "M. Merlin" and Sezione INFN, Bari, Italy
- Politecnico di Bari and Sezione INFN, Bari, Italy
| | - A Collu
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, USA
| | - M Colocci
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - M Concas
- INFN, Sezione di Torino, Turin, Italy
| | - G Conesa Balbastre
- Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie, Université Grenoble-Alpes, CNRS-IN2P3, Grenoble, France
| | - Z Conesa Del Valle
- Laboratoire de Physique des 2 Infinis, Irène Joliot-Curie, Orsay, France
| | - G Contin
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Trieste, Italy
| | - J G Contreras
- Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
| | - M L Coquet
- Départment de Physique Nucléaire (DPhN), Université Paris-Saclay Centre d'Etudes de Saclay (CEA), IRFU, Saclay, France
| | - T M Cormier
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA
| | - P Cortese
- INFN, Sezione di Torino, Turin, Italy
- Università del Piemonte Orientale, Vercelli, Italy
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Pavia, Pavia, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Pavia, Pavia, Italy
| | - P Crochet
- Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS/IN2P3, LPC, Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, USA
| | - E Cuautle
- Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
| | - P Cui
- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
| | - L Cunqueiro
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA
| | - A Dainese
- INFN, Sezione di Padova, Padova, Italy
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- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - A Danu
- Institute of Space Science (ISS), Bucharest, Romania
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- National Institute of Science Education and Research, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Jatni, India
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- Bose Institute, Department of Physics and Centre for Astroparticle Physics and Space Science (CAPSS), Kolkata, India
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- Bose Institute, Department of Physics and Centre for Astroparticle Physics and Space Science (CAPSS), Kolkata, India
| | - S Dash
- Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT), Mumbai, India
| | - A De Caro
- Dipartimento di Fisica "E.R. Caianiello" dell'Università and Gruppo Collegato INFN, Salerno, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
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- Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - A De Falco
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Cagliari, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica "E.R. Caianiello" dell'Università and Gruppo Collegato INFN, Salerno, Italy
| | | | - C De Martin
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Trieste, Italy
| | - S De Pasquale
- Dipartimento di Fisica "E.R. Caianiello" dell'Università and Gruppo Collegato INFN, Salerno, Italy
| | - S Deb
- Indian Institute of Technology Indore, Indore, India
| | | | - K R Deja
- Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland
| | - R Del Grande
- Physik Department, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
| | - L Dello Stritto
- Dipartimento di Fisica "E.R. Caianiello" dell'Università and Gruppo Collegato INFN, Salerno, Italy
| | - W Deng
- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
| | - P Dhankher
- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA
| | - D Di Bari
- Dipartimento Interateneo di Fisica "M. Merlin" and Sezione INFN, Bari, Italy
| | - A Di Mauro
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - R A Diaz
- Centro de Aplicaciones Tecnológicas y Desarrollo Nuclear (CEADEN), Havana, Cuba
- Affiliated with an international laboratory covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - T Dietel
- University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
| | - Y Ding
- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
- CNRS/IN2P3, Institut de Physique des 2 Infinis de Lyon, Université de Lyon, Lyon, France
| | - R Divià
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - D U Dixit
- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA
| | - Ø Djuvsland
- Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
| | - U Dmitrieva
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - A Dobrin
- Institute of Space Science (ISS), Bucharest, Romania
| | - B Dönigus
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - A K Dubey
- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Kolkata, India
| | | | - A Dubla
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - S Dudi
- Physics Department, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India
| | - P Dupieux
- Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS/IN2P3, LPC, Clermont-Ferrand, France
| | - M Durkac
- Technical University of Košice, Košice, Slovak Republic
| | - N Dzalaiova
- Comenius University Bratislava, Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics, Bratislava, Slovak Republic
| | - T M Eder
- Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Institut für Kernphysik, Munster, Germany
| | - R J Ehlers
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA
| | - V N Eikeland
- Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
| | - F Eisenhut
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - D Elia
- INFN, Sezione di Bari, Bari, Italy
| | - B Erazmus
- SUBATECH, IMT Atlantique, Nantes Université, CNRS-IN2P3, Nantes, France
| | - F Ercolessi
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Bologna, Italy
| | - F Erhardt
- Physics Department, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
| | - M R Ersdal
- Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
| | - B Espagnon
- Laboratoire de Physique des 2 Infinis, Irène Joliot-Curie, Orsay, France
| | - G Eulisse
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - D Evans
- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
| | - S Evdokimov
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - L Fabbietti
- Physik Department, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
| | - M Faggin
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Padova, Italy
| | - J Faivre
- Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie, Université Grenoble-Alpes, CNRS-IN2P3, Grenoble, France
| | - F Fan
- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
| | - W Fan
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, USA
| | - A Fantoni
- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Frascati, Italy
| | - M Fasel
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA
| | - P Fecchio
- Dipartimento DISAT del Politecnico and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
| | | | - G Feofilov
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - A Fernández Téllez
- High Energy Physics Group, Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Puebla, Mexico
| | - M B Ferrer
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - A Ferrero
- Départment de Physique Nucléaire (DPhN), Université Paris-Saclay Centre d'Etudes de Saclay (CEA), IRFU, Saclay, France
| | - A Ferretti
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
| | - V J G Feuillard
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - J Figiel
- The Henryk Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Cracow, Poland
| | - V Filova
- Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
| | - D Finogeev
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - F M Fionda
- INFN, Sezione di Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy
| | - G Fiorenza
- Politecnico di Bari and Sezione INFN, Bari, Italy
| | - F Flor
- University of Houston, Houston, Texas, USA
| | - A N Flores
- The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, USA
| | - S Foertsch
- iThemba LABS, National Research Foundation, Somerset West, South Africa
| | - I Fokin
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - S Fokin
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | | | - E Frajna
- Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Budapest, Hungary
| | - U Fuchs
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - N Funicello
- Dipartimento di Fisica "E.R. Caianiello" dell'Università and Gruppo Collegato INFN, Salerno, Italy
| | - C Furget
- Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie, Université Grenoble-Alpes, CNRS-IN2P3, Grenoble, France
| | - A Furs
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - J J Gaardhøje
- Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - M Gagliardi
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
| | - A M Gago
- Sección Física, Departamento de Ciencias, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima, Peru
| | - A Gal
- Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, IPHC UMR 7178, F-67000 Strasbourg, France
| | - C D Galvan
- Universidad Autónoma de Sinaloa, Culiacán, Mexico
| | - P Ganoti
- Department of Physics, School of Science, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece
| | - C Garabatos
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - J R A Garcia
- High Energy Physics Group, Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Puebla, Mexico
| | | | - K Garg
- SUBATECH, IMT Atlantique, Nantes Université, CNRS-IN2P3, Nantes, France
| | - C Gargiulo
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - A Garibli
- National Nuclear Research Center, Baku, Azerbaijan
| | - K Garner
- Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Institut für Kernphysik, Munster, Germany
| | - E F Gauger
- The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, USA
| | - A Gautam
- University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, USA
| | - M B Gay Ducati
- Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, Brazil
| | - M Germain
- SUBATECH, IMT Atlantique, Nantes Université, CNRS-IN2P3, Nantes, France
| | - S K Ghosh
- Bose Institute, Department of Physics and Centre for Astroparticle Physics and Space Science (CAPSS), Kolkata, India
| | - M Giacalone
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Bologna, Italy
| | - P Gianotti
- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Frascati, Italy
| | - P Giubellino
- INFN, Sezione di Torino, Turin, Italy
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - P Giubilato
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Padova, Italy
| | - A M C Glaenzer
- Départment de Physique Nucléaire (DPhN), Université Paris-Saclay Centre d'Etudes de Saclay (CEA), IRFU, Saclay, France
| | - P Glässel
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - E Glimos
- University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
| | - D J Q Goh
- Nagasaki Institute of Applied Science, Nagasaki, Japan
| | - V Gonzalez
- Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, USA
| | - L H González-Trueba
- Instituto de Física, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
| | - S Gorbunov
- Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - M Gorgon
- AGH University of Science and Technology, Cracow, Poland
| | - L Görlich
- The Henryk Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Cracow, Poland
| | - S Gotovac
- Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture, University of Split, Split, Croatia
| | - V Grabski
- Instituto de Física, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
| | | | - E Grecka
- Nuclear Physics Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Husinec-Řež, Czech Republic
| | - L Greiner
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, USA
| | - A Grelli
- Institute for Gravitational and Subatomic Physics (GRASP), Utrecht University/Nikhef, Utrecht, Netherlands
| | - C Grigoras
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - V Grigoriev
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - S Grigoryan
- A.I. Alikhanyan National Science Laboratory (Yerevan Physics Institute) Foundation, Yerevan, Armenia
- Affiliated with an international laboratory covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - F Grosa
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | | | - R Grosso
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - D Grund
- Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
| | - G G Guardiano
- Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas, Brazil
| | - R Guernane
- Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie, Université Grenoble-Alpes, CNRS-IN2P3, Grenoble, France
| | - M Guilbaud
- SUBATECH, IMT Atlantique, Nantes Université, CNRS-IN2P3, Nantes, France
| | - K Gulbrandsen
- Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - T Gunji
- University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
| | - W Guo
- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
| | - A Gupta
- Physics Department, University of Jammu, Jammu, India
| | - R Gupta
- Physics Department, University of Jammu, Jammu, India
| | - S P Guzman
- High Energy Physics Group, Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Puebla, Mexico
| | - L Gyulai
- Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Budapest, Hungary
| | - M K Habib
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - C Hadjidakis
- Laboratoire de Physique des 2 Infinis, Irène Joliot-Curie, Orsay, France
| | - H Hamagaki
- Nagasaki Institute of Applied Science, Nagasaki, Japan
| | - M Hamid
- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
| | - Y Han
- Yonsei University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
| | - R Hannigan
- The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, USA
| | - M R Haque
- Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland
| | - A Harlenderova
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - J W Harris
- Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
| | - A Harton
- Chicago State University, Chicago, Illinois, USA
| | - J A Hasenbichler
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - H Hassan
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA
| | | | - P Hauer
- Helmholtz-Institut für Strahlen- und Kernphysik, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Bonn, Germany
| | - L B Havener
- Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
| | - S T Heckel
- Physik Department, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
| | - E Hellbär
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - H Helstrup
- Faculty of Engineering and Science, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Bergen, Norway
| | - T Herman
- Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
| | - G Herrera Corral
- Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados (CINVESTAV), Mexico City and Mérida, Mexico
| | - F Herrmann
- Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Institut für Kernphysik, Munster, Germany
| | - K F Hetland
- Faculty of Engineering and Science, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Bergen, Norway
| | - B Heybeck
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - H Hillemanns
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - C Hills
- University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
| | - B Hippolyte
- Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, IPHC UMR 7178, F-67000 Strasbourg, France
| | - B Hofman
- Institute for Gravitational and Subatomic Physics (GRASP), Utrecht University/Nikhef, Utrecht, Netherlands
| | - B Hohlweger
- Nikhef, National Institute for Subatomic Physics, Amsterdam, Netherlands
| | - J Honermann
- Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Institut für Kernphysik, Munster, Germany
| | - G H Hong
- Yonsei University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
| | - D Horak
- Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
| | - A Horzyk
- AGH University of Science and Technology, Cracow, Poland
| | - R Hosokawa
- Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska, USA
| | - Y Hou
- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
| | - P Hristov
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - C Hughes
- University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
| | - P Huhn
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - L M Huhta
- University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland
| | - C V Hulse
- Laboratoire de Physique des 2 Infinis, Irène Joliot-Curie, Orsay, France
| | | | - H Hushnud
- Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Kolkata, India
| | - A Hutson
- University of Houston, Houston, Texas, USA
| | - D Hutter
- Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - J P Iddon
- University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
| | - R Ilkaev
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - H Ilyas
- COMSATS University Islamabad, Islamabad, Pakistan
| | - M Inaba
- University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
| | - G M Innocenti
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - M Ippolitov
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - A Isakov
- Nuclear Physics Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Husinec-Řež, Czech Republic
| | - T Isidori
- University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, USA
| | - M S Islam
- Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Kolkata, India
| | - M Ivanov
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - V Ivanov
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - V Izucheev
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - M Jablonski
- AGH University of Science and Technology, Cracow, Poland
| | - B Jacak
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, USA
| | - N Jacazio
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - P M Jacobs
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, USA
| | - S Jadlovska
- Technical University of Košice, Košice, Slovak Republic
| | - J Jadlovsky
- Technical University of Košice, Košice, Slovak Republic
| | - L Jaffe
- Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - C Jahnke
- Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas, Brazil
| | - M A Janik
- Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland
| | - T Janson
- Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe Universität Frankfurt Institut für Informatik, Fachbereich Informatik und Mathematik, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - M Jercic
- Physics Department, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
| | - O Jevons
- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
| | - A A P Jimenez
- Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
| | - F Jonas
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA
- Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Institut für Kernphysik, Munster, Germany
| | - P G Jones
- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
| | - J M Jowett
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - J Jung
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - M Jung
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - A Junique
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - A Jusko
- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
| | - M J Kabus
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
- Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland
| | - J Kaewjai
- Suranaree University of Technology, Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand
| | - P Kalinak
- Institute of Experimental Physics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Košice, Slovak Republic
| | - A S Kalteyer
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - A Kalweit
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - V Kaplin
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | | | - D Karatovic
- Physics Department, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
| | - O Karavichev
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - T Karavicheva
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | | | - E Karpechev
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - V Kashyap
- National Institute of Science Education and Research, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Jatni, India
| | - A Kazantsev
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - U Kebschull
- Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe Universität Frankfurt Institut für Informatik, Fachbereich Informatik und Mathematik, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - R Keidel
- Zentrum für Technologie und Transfer (ZTT), Worms, Germany
| | - D L D Keijdener
- Institute for Gravitational and Subatomic Physics (GRASP), Utrecht University/Nikhef, Utrecht, Netherlands
| | - M Keil
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - B Ketzer
- Helmholtz-Institut für Strahlen- und Kernphysik, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Bonn, Germany
| | - A M Khan
- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
| | - S Khan
- Department of Physics, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India
| | - A Khanzadeev
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - Y Kharlov
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - A Khatun
- Department of Physics, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India
| | - A Khuntia
- The Henryk Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Cracow, Poland
| | - B Kileng
- Faculty of Engineering and Science, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Bergen, Norway
| | - B Kim
- Department of Physics, Pusan National University, Pusan, Republic of Korea
| | - C Kim
- Department of Physics, Pusan National University, Pusan, Republic of Korea
| | - D J Kim
- University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland
| | - E J Kim
- Jeonbuk National University, Jeonju, Republic of Korea
| | - J Kim
- Yonsei University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
| | - J S Kim
- Gangneung-Wonju National University, Gangneung, Republic of Korea
| | - J Kim
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - J Kim
- Jeonbuk National University, Jeonju, Republic of Korea
| | - M Kim
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - S Kim
- Department of Physics, Sejong University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
| | - T Kim
- Yonsei University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
| | - S Kirsch
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - I Kisel
- Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - S Kiselev
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - A Kisiel
- Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland
| | - J P Kitowski
- AGH University of Science and Technology, Cracow, Poland
| | - J L Klay
- California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, California, USA
| | - J Klein
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - S Klein
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, USA
| | - C Klein-Bösing
- Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Institut für Kernphysik, Munster, Germany
| | - M Kleiner
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - T Klemenz
- Physik Department, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
| | - A Kluge
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - A G Knospe
- University of Houston, Houston, Texas, USA
| | - C Kobdaj
- Suranaree University of Technology, Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand
| | - T Kollegger
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - A Kondratyev
- Affiliated with an international laboratory covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - N Kondratyeva
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - E Kondratyuk
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - J Konig
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - S A Konigstorfer
- Physik Department, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
| | - P J Konopka
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - G Kornakov
- Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland
| | - S D Koryciak
- AGH University of Science and Technology, Cracow, Poland
| | - A Kotliarov
- Nuclear Physics Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Husinec-Řež, Czech Republic
| | - O Kovalenko
- National Centre for Nuclear Research, Warsaw, Poland
| | - V Kovalenko
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - M Kowalski
- The Henryk Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Cracow, Poland
| | - I Králik
- Institute of Experimental Physics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Košice, Slovak Republic
| | - A Kravčáková
- Faculty of Science, Pavol Jozef Šafárik University, Košice, Slovak Republic
| | - L Kreis
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - M Krivda
- Institute of Experimental Physics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Košice, Slovak Republic
- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
| | - F Krizek
- Nuclear Physics Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Husinec-Řež, Czech Republic
| | - K Krizkova Gajdosova
- Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
| | - M Kroesen
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - M Krüger
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - D M Krupova
- Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
| | - E Kryshen
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - M Krzewicki
- Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - V Kučera
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - C Kuhn
- Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, IPHC UMR 7178, F-67000 Strasbourg, France
| | - P G Kuijer
- Nikhef, National Institute for Subatomic Physics, Amsterdam, Netherlands
| | - T Kumaoka
- University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
| | - D Kumar
- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Kolkata, India
| | - L Kumar
- Physics Department, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India
| | - N Kumar
- Physics Department, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India
| | - S Kundu
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - P Kurashvili
- National Centre for Nuclear Research, Warsaw, Poland
| | - A Kurepin
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - A B Kurepin
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - S Kushpil
- Nuclear Physics Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Husinec-Řež, Czech Republic
| | - J Kvapil
- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
| | - M J Kweon
- Inha University, Incheon, Republic of Korea
| | - J Y Kwon
- Inha University, Incheon, Republic of Korea
| | - Y Kwon
- Yonsei University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
| | - S L La Pointe
- Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - P La Rocca
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Catania, Italy
| | - Y S Lai
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, USA
| | - A Lakrathok
- Suranaree University of Technology, Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand
| | - M Lamanna
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - R Langoy
- University of South-Eastern Norway, Kongsberg, Norway
| | - P Larionov
- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Frascati, Italy
| | - E Laudi
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - L Lautner
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
- Physik Department, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
| | - R Lavicka
- Stefan Meyer Institut für Subatomare Physik (SMI), Vienna, Austria
| | - T Lazareva
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - R Lea
- INFN, Sezione di Pavia, Pavia, Italy
- Università di Brescia, Brescia, Italy
| | - J Lehrbach
- Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - R C Lemmon
- Nuclear Physics Group, STFC Daresbury Laboratory, Daresbury, United Kingdom
| | | | - M M Lesch
- Physik Department, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
| | - E D Lesser
- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA
| | - M Lettrich
- Physik Department, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
| | - P Lévai
- Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Budapest, Hungary
| | - X Li
- China Institute of Atomic Energy, Beijing, China
| | - X L Li
- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
| | - J Lien
- University of South-Eastern Norway, Kongsberg, Norway
| | - R Lietava
- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
| | - B Lim
- Department of Physics, Pusan National University, Pusan, Republic of Korea
| | - S H Lim
- Department of Physics, Pusan National University, Pusan, Republic of Korea
| | - V Lindenstruth
- Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - A Lindner
- Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Bucharest, Romania
| | - C Lippmann
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - A Liu
- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA
| | - D H Liu
- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
| | - J Liu
- University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
| | - I M Lofnes
- Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
| | - V Loginov
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - C Loizides
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA
| | - P Loncar
- Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture, University of Split, Split, Croatia
| | - J A Lopez
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - X Lopez
- Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS/IN2P3, LPC, Clermont-Ferrand, France
| | - E López Torres
- Centro de Aplicaciones Tecnológicas y Desarrollo Nuclear (CEADEN), Havana, Cuba
| | - P Lu
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
- University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China
| | - J R Luhder
- Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Institut für Kernphysik, Munster, Germany
| | - M Lunardon
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Padova, Italy
| | | | - Y G Ma
- Fudan University, Shanghai, China
| | - A Maevskaya
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - M Mager
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - T Mahmoud
- Helmholtz-Institut für Strahlen- und Kernphysik, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Bonn, Germany
| | - A Maire
- Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, IPHC UMR 7178, F-67000 Strasbourg, France
| | - M Malaev
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - N M Malik
- Physics Department, University of Jammu, Jammu, India
| | - Q W Malik
- Department of Physics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
| | - S K Malik
- Physics Department, University of Jammu, Jammu, India
| | - L Malinina
- Affiliated with an international laboratory covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - D Mal'Kevich
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - D Mallick
- National Institute of Science Education and Research, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Jatni, India
| | - N Mallick
- Indian Institute of Technology Indore, Indore, India
| | - G Mandaglio
- Dipartimento di Scienze MIFT, Università di Messina, Messina, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Catania, Catania, Italy
| | - V Manko
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - F Manso
- Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS/IN2P3, LPC, Clermont-Ferrand, France
| | | | - Y Mao
- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
| | - G V Margagliotti
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Trieste, Italy
| | - A Margotti
- INFN, Sezione di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
| | - A Marín
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - C Markert
- The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, USA
| | - M Marquard
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - N A Martin
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - P Martinengo
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | | | - M I Martínez
- High Energy Physics Group, Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Puebla, Mexico
| | - G Martínez García
- SUBATECH, IMT Atlantique, Nantes Université, CNRS-IN2P3, Nantes, France
| | - S Masciocchi
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - M Masera
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
| | - A Masoni
- INFN, Sezione di Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy
| | - L Massacrier
- Laboratoire de Physique des 2 Infinis, Irène Joliot-Curie, Orsay, France
| | - A Mastroserio
- INFN, Sezione di Bari, Bari, Italy
- Università degli Studi di Foggia, Foggia, Italy
| | - A M Mathis
- Physik Department, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
| | - O Matonoha
- Lund University Department of Physics, Division of Particle Physics, Lund, Sweden
| | | | - 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
| | - A L Mazuecos
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - F Mazzaschi
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
| | - M Mazzilli
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - J E Mdhluli
- University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
| | - A F Mechler
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - Y Melikyan
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - A Menchaca-Rocha
- Instituto de Física, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
| | - E Meninno
- Dipartimento di Fisica "E.R. Caianiello" dell'Università and Gruppo Collegato INFN, Salerno, Italy
- Stefan Meyer Institut für Subatomare Physik (SMI), Vienna, Austria
| | - A S Menon
- University of Houston, Houston, Texas, USA
| | - M Meres
- Comenius University Bratislava, Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics, Bratislava, Slovak Republic
| | - S Mhlanga
- iThemba LABS, National Research Foundation, Somerset West, South Africa
- University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
| | - Y Miake
- University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
| | | | - L C Migliorin
- CNRS/IN2P3, Institut de Physique des 2 Infinis de Lyon, Université de Lyon, Lyon, France
| | - D L Mihaylov
- Physik Department, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
| | - K Mikhaylov
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
- Affiliated with an international laboratory covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - A N Mishra
- Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Budapest, Hungary
| | - D Miśkowiec
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - A Modak
- Bose Institute, Department of Physics and Centre for Astroparticle Physics and Space Science (CAPSS), Kolkata, India
| | - A P Mohanty
- Institute for Gravitational and Subatomic Physics (GRASP), Utrecht University/Nikhef, Utrecht, Netherlands
| | - B Mohanty
- National Institute of Science Education and Research, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Jatni, India
| | - M Mohisin Khan
- Department of Physics, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India
| | - M A Molander
- Helsinki Institute of Physics (HIP), Helsinki, Finland
| | - Z Moravcova
- Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - C Mordasini
- Physik Department, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
| | - D A Moreira De Godoy
- Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Institut für Kernphysik, Munster, Germany
| | - I Morozov
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - A Morsch
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - T Mrnjavac
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - V Muccifora
- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Frascati, Italy
| | - E Mudnic
- Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture, University of Split, Split, Croatia
| | - S Muhuri
- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Kolkata, India
| | - J D Mulligan
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, USA
| | - A Mulliri
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Cagliari, Italy
| | - M G Munhoz
- Universidade de São Paulo (USP), São Paulo, Brazil
| | - R H Munzer
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | | | - S Murray
- University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
| | - L Musa
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - J Musinsky
- Institute of Experimental Physics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Košice, Slovak Republic
| | - J W Myrcha
- Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland
| | - B Naik
- University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
| | - R Nair
- National Centre for Nuclear Research, Warsaw, Poland
| | - B K Nandi
- Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT), Mumbai, India
| | - R Nania
- INFN, Sezione di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
| | - E Nappi
- INFN, Sezione di Bari, Bari, Italy
| | - A F Nassirpour
- Lund University Department of Physics, Division of Particle Physics, Lund, Sweden
| | - A Nath
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - C Nattrass
- University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
| | - A Neagu
- Department of Physics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
| | - A Negru
- University Politehnica of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania
| | - L Nellen
- Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
| | - S V Nesbo
- Faculty of Engineering and Science, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Bergen, Norway
| | - G Neskovic
- Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - D Nesterov
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - B S Nielsen
- Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - E G Nielsen
- Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - S Nikolaev
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - S Nikulin
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - V Nikulin
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - F Noferini
- INFN, Sezione di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
| | - S Noh
- Chungbuk National University, Cheongju, Republic of Korea
| | - P Nomokonov
- Affiliated with an international laboratory covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - J Norman
- University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
| | | | | | - A Nyanin
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - J Nystrand
- Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
| | - M Ogino
- Nagasaki Institute of Applied Science, Nagasaki, Japan
| | - A Ohlson
- Lund University Department of Physics, Division of Particle Physics, Lund, Sweden
| | - V A Okorokov
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - J Oleniacz
- Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland
| | | | - M H Oliver
- Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
| | | | | | - A Ortiz Velasquez
- Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
| | - A Oskarsson
- Lund University Department of Physics, Division of Particle Physics, Lund, Sweden
| | - J Otwinowski
- The Henryk Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Cracow, Poland
| | - M Oya
- Physics Program and International Institute for Sustainability with Knotted Chiral Meta Matter (SKCM2), Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan
| | - K Oyama
- Nagasaki Institute of Applied Science, Nagasaki, Japan
| | - Y Pachmayer
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - S Padhan
- Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT), Mumbai, India
| | - D Pagano
- INFN, Sezione di Pavia, Pavia, Italy
- Università di Brescia, Brescia, Italy
| | - G Paić
- Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
| | | | - S Panebianco
- Départment de Physique Nucléaire (DPhN), Université Paris-Saclay Centre d'Etudes de Saclay (CEA), IRFU, Saclay, France
| | - J Park
- Inha University, Incheon, Republic of Korea
| | - J E Parkkila
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
- University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland
| | - S P Pathak
- University of Houston, Houston, Texas, USA
| | - R N Patra
- Physics Department, University of Jammu, Jammu, India
| | - B Paul
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Cagliari, Italy
| | - H Pei
- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
| | - T Peitzmann
- Institute for Gravitational and Subatomic Physics (GRASP), Utrecht University/Nikhef, Utrecht, Netherlands
| | - X Peng
- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
| | - L G Pereira
- Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, Brazil
| | - H Pereira Da Costa
- Départment de Physique Nucléaire (DPhN), Université Paris-Saclay Centre d'Etudes de Saclay (CEA), IRFU, Saclay, France
| | - D Peresunko
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - G M Perez
- Centro de Aplicaciones Tecnológicas y Desarrollo Nuclear (CEADEN), Havana, Cuba
| | - S Perrin
- Départment de Physique Nucléaire (DPhN), Université Paris-Saclay Centre d'Etudes de Saclay (CEA), IRFU, Saclay, France
| | - Y Pestov
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - V Petráček
- Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
| | - V Petrov
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - M Petrovici
- Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Bucharest, Romania
| | - R P Pezzi
- Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, Brazil
- SUBATECH, IMT Atlantique, Nantes Université, CNRS-IN2P3, Nantes, France
| | - S Piano
- INFN, Sezione di Trieste, Trieste, Italy
| | - M Pikna
- Comenius University Bratislava, Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics, Bratislava, Slovak Republic
| | - P Pillot
- SUBATECH, IMT Atlantique, Nantes Université, CNRS-IN2P3, Nantes, France
| | - O Pinazza
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
- INFN, Sezione di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
| | - L Pinsky
- University of Houston, Houston, Texas, USA
| | - C Pinto
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Catania, Italy
- Physik Department, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
| | - S Pisano
- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Frascati, Italy
| | - M Płoskoń
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, USA
| | - M Planinic
- Physics Department, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
| | - F Pliquett
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - M G Poghosyan
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA
| | - S Politano
- Dipartimento DISAT del Politecnico and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
| | - N Poljak
- Physics Department, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
| | - A Pop
- Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Bucharest, Romania
| | | | - J Porter
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, USA
| | - V Pozdniakov
- Affiliated with an international laboratory covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - S K Prasad
- Bose Institute, Department of Physics and Centre for Astroparticle Physics and Space Science (CAPSS), Kolkata, India
| | - S Prasad
- Indian Institute of Technology Indore, Indore, India
| | | | - F Prino
- INFN, Sezione di Torino, Turin, Italy
| | - C A Pruneau
- Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, USA
| | - I Pshenichnov
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - M Puccio
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - S Qiu
- Nikhef, National Institute for Subatomic Physics, Amsterdam, Netherlands
| | - L Quaglia
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
| | | | - S Ragoni
- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
| | - A Rakotozafindrabe
- Départment de Physique Nucléaire (DPhN), Université Paris-Saclay Centre d'Etudes de Saclay (CEA), IRFU, Saclay, France
| | - L Ramello
- INFN, Sezione di Torino, Turin, Italy
- Università del Piemonte Orientale, Vercelli, Italy
| | - F Rami
- Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, IPHC UMR 7178, F-67000 Strasbourg, France
| | - S A R Ramirez
- High Energy Physics Group, Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Puebla, Mexico
| | - T A Rancien
- Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie, Université Grenoble-Alpes, CNRS-IN2P3, Grenoble, France
| | - R Raniwala
- Physics Department, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur, India
| | - S Raniwala
- Physics Department, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur, India
| | - S S Räsänen
- Helsinki Institute of Physics (HIP), Helsinki, Finland
| | - R Rath
- Indian Institute of Technology Indore, Indore, India
| | - I Ravasenga
- Nikhef, National Institute for Subatomic Physics, Amsterdam, Netherlands
| | - K F Read
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA
- University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
| | - A R Redelbach
- Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - K Redlich
- National Centre for Nuclear Research, Warsaw, Poland
| | - A Rehman
- Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
| | - P Reichelt
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - F Reidt
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - H A Reme-Ness
- Faculty of Engineering and Science, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Bergen, Norway
| | - Z Rescakova
- Faculty of Science, Pavol Jozef Šafárik University, Košice, Slovak Republic
| | - K Reygers
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - A Riabov
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - V Riabov
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - R Ricci
- Dipartimento di Fisica "E.R. Caianiello" dell'Università and Gruppo Collegato INFN, Salerno, Italy
| | - T Richert
- Lund University Department of Physics, Division of Particle Physics, Lund, Sweden
| | - M Richter
- Department of Physics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
| | - W Riegler
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - F Riggi
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Catania, Italy
| | - C Ristea
- Institute of Space Science (ISS), Bucharest, Romania
| | | | - K Røed
- Department of Physics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
| | - R Rogalev
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - E Rogochaya
- Affiliated with an international laboratory covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - T S Rogoschinski
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - D Rohr
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - D Röhrich
- Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
| | - P F Rojas
- High Energy Physics Group, Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Puebla, Mexico
| | - S Rojas Torres
- Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
| | - P S Rokita
- Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland
| | - F Ronchetti
- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Frascati, Italy
| | - A Rosano
- Dipartimento di Scienze MIFT, Università di Messina, Messina, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Catania, Catania, Italy
| | - E D Rosas
- Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
| | - A Rossi
- INFN, Sezione di Padova, Padova, Italy
| | - A Roy
- Indian Institute of Technology Indore, Indore, India
| | - P Roy
- Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Kolkata, India
| | - S Roy
- Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT), Mumbai, India
| | - N Rubini
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Bologna, Italy
| | - O V Rueda
- Lund University Department of Physics, Division of Particle Physics, Lund, Sweden
| | - D Ruggiano
- Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland
| | - R Rui
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Trieste, Italy
| | - B Rumyantsev
- Affiliated with an international laboratory covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - P G Russek
- AGH University of Science and Technology, Cracow, Poland
| | - R Russo
- Nikhef, National Institute for Subatomic Physics, Amsterdam, Netherlands
| | - A Rustamov
- National Nuclear Research Center, Baku, Azerbaijan
| | - E Ryabinkin
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - Y Ryabov
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - A Rybicki
- The Henryk Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Cracow, Poland
| | - H Rytkonen
- University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland
| | - W Rzesa
- Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland
| | | | - R Sadek
- SUBATECH, IMT Atlantique, Nantes Université, CNRS-IN2P3, Nantes, France
| | - S Sadovsky
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - J Saetre
- Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
| | - K Šafařík
- Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
| | - S K Saha
- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Kolkata, India
| | - S Saha
- National Institute of Science Education and Research, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Jatni, India
| | - B Sahoo
- Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT), Mumbai, India
| | - P Sahoo
- Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT), Mumbai, India
| | - R Sahoo
- Indian Institute of Technology Indore, Indore, India
| | - S Sahoo
- Institute of Physics, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Bhubaneswar, India
| | - D Sahu
- Indian Institute of Technology Indore, Indore, India
| | - P K Sahu
- Institute of Physics, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Bhubaneswar, India
| | - J Saini
- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Kolkata, India
| | - K Sajdakova
- Faculty of Science, Pavol Jozef Šafárik University, Košice, Slovak Republic
| | - S Sakai
- University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
| | - M P Salvan
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - S Sambyal
- Physics Department, University of Jammu, Jammu, India
| | - T B Saramela
- Universidade de São Paulo (USP), São Paulo, Brazil
| | - D Sarkar
- Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, USA
| | - N Sarkar
- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Kolkata, India
| | - P Sarma
- Department of Physics, Gauhati University, Guwahati, India
| | - V Sarritzu
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Cagliari, Italy
| | - V M Sarti
- Physik Department, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
| | - M H P Sas
- Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
| | - J Schambach
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA
| | - H S Scheid
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - C Schiaua
- Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Bucharest, Romania
| | - R Schicker
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - A Schmah
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - C Schmidt
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - H R Schmidt
- Physikalisches Institut, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, Tubingen, Germany
| | - M O Schmidt
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - M Schmidt
- Physikalisches Institut, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, Tubingen, Germany
| | - N V Schmidt
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA
| | - A R Schmier
- University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
| | - R Schotter
- Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, IPHC UMR 7178, F-67000 Strasbourg, France
| | - J Schukraft
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - K Schwarz
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - K Schweda
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - G Scioli
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Bologna, Italy
| | | | - J E Seger
- Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska, USA
| | | | | | - I Selyuzhenkov
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - S Senyukov
- Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, IPHC UMR 7178, F-67000 Strasbourg, France
| | - J J Seo
- Inha University, Incheon, Republic of Korea
| | - D Serebryakov
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - L Šerkšnytė
- Physik Department, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
| | - A Sevcenco
- Institute of Space Science (ISS), Bucharest, Romania
| | - T J Shaba
- iThemba LABS, National Research Foundation, Somerset West, South Africa
| | - A Shabanov
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - A Shabetai
- SUBATECH, IMT Atlantique, Nantes Université, CNRS-IN2P3, Nantes, France
| | - R Shahoyan
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - W Shaikh
- Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Kolkata, India
| | - A Shangaraev
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - A Sharma
- Physics Department, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India
| | - D Sharma
- Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT), Mumbai, India
| | - H Sharma
- The Henryk Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Cracow, Poland
| | - M Sharma
- Physics Department, University of Jammu, Jammu, India
| | - N Sharma
- Physics Department, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India
| | - S Sharma
- Physics Department, University of Jammu, Jammu, India
| | - U Sharma
- Physics Department, University of Jammu, Jammu, India
| | - A Shatat
- Laboratoire de Physique des 2 Infinis, Irène Joliot-Curie, Orsay, France
| | - O Sheibani
- University of Houston, Houston, Texas, USA
| | - K Shigaki
- Physics Program and International Institute for Sustainability with Knotted Chiral Meta Matter (SKCM2), Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan
| | | | - S Shirinkin
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - Q Shou
- Fudan University, Shanghai, China
| | - Y Sibiriak
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | | | - T Siemiarczuk
- National Centre for Nuclear Research, Warsaw, Poland
| | - T F Silva
- Universidade de São Paulo (USP), São Paulo, Brazil
| | - D Silvermyr
- Lund University Department of Physics, Division of Particle Physics, Lund, Sweden
| | | | - R Simeonov
- Faculty of Physics, Sofia University, Sofia, Bulgaria
| | - G Simonetti
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - B Singh
- Physics Department, University of Jammu, Jammu, India
| | - B Singh
- Physik Department, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
| | - R Singh
- National Institute of Science Education and Research, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Jatni, India
| | - R Singh
- Physics Department, University of Jammu, Jammu, India
| | - R Singh
- Indian Institute of Technology Indore, Indore, India
| | - V K Singh
- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Kolkata, India
| | - V Singhal
- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Kolkata, India
| | - T Sinha
- Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Kolkata, India
| | - B Sitar
- Comenius University Bratislava, Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics, Bratislava, Slovak Republic
| | - M Sitta
- INFN, Sezione di Torino, Turin, Italy
- Università del Piemonte Orientale, Vercelli, Italy
| | - T B Skaali
- Department of Physics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
| | - G Skorodumovs
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - M Slupecki
- Helsinki Institute of Physics (HIP), Helsinki, Finland
| | - N Smirnov
- Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
| | - R J M Snellings
- Institute for Gravitational and Subatomic Physics (GRASP), Utrecht University/Nikhef, Utrecht, Netherlands
| | - E H Solheim
- Department of Physics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
| | - C Soncco
- Sección Física, Departamento de Ciencias, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima, Peru
| | - J Song
- University of Houston, Houston, Texas, USA
| | - A Songmoolnak
- Suranaree University of Technology, Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand
| | - F Soramel
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Padova, Italy
| | - S Sorensen
- University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
| | - R Spijkers
- Nikhef, National Institute for Subatomic Physics, Amsterdam, Netherlands
| | - I Sputowska
- The Henryk Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Cracow, Poland
| | - J Staa
- Lund University Department of Physics, Division of Particle Physics, Lund, Sweden
| | - J Stachel
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - I Stan
- Institute of Space Science (ISS), Bucharest, Romania
| | | | - S F Stiefelmaier
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - D Stocco
- SUBATECH, IMT Atlantique, Nantes Université, CNRS-IN2P3, Nantes, France
| | - I Storehaug
- Department of Physics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
| | - M M Storetvedt
- Faculty of Engineering and Science, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Bergen, Norway
| | - P Stratmann
- Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Institut für Kernphysik, Munster, Germany
| | - S Strazzi
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Bologna, Italy
| | - C P Stylianidis
- Nikhef, National Institute for Subatomic Physics, Amsterdam, Netherlands
| | - A A P Suaide
- Universidade de São Paulo (USP), São Paulo, Brazil
| | - C Suire
- Laboratoire de Physique des 2 Infinis, Irène Joliot-Curie, Orsay, France
| | - M Sukhanov
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - M Suljic
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - V Sumberia
- Physics Department, University of Jammu, Jammu, India
| | - S Sumowidagdo
- National Research and Innovation Agency - BRIN, Jakarta, Indonesia
| | - S Swain
- Institute of Physics, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Bhubaneswar, India
| | - A Szabo
- Comenius University Bratislava, Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics, Bratislava, Slovak Republic
| | - I Szarka
- Comenius University Bratislava, Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics, Bratislava, Slovak Republic
| | - U Tabassam
- COMSATS University Islamabad, Islamabad, Pakistan
| | - S F Taghavi
- Physik Department, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
| | - G Taillepied
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
- Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS/IN2P3, LPC, Clermont-Ferrand, France
| | - J Takahashi
- Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas, Brazil
| | - G J Tambave
- Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
| | - S Tang
- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
- Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS/IN2P3, LPC, Clermont-Ferrand, France
| | - Z Tang
- University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China
| | | | - N Tapus
- University Politehnica of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania
| | - L A Tarasovicova
- Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Institut für Kernphysik, Munster, Germany
| | - M G Tarzila
- Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Bucharest, Romania
| | - A Tauro
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - A Telesca
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - L Terlizzi
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
| | | | - G Tersimonov
- Bogolyubov Institute for Theoretical Physics, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine
| | - S Thakur
- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Kolkata, India
| | - D Thomas
- The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, USA
| | - R Tieulent
- CNRS/IN2P3, Institut de Physique des 2 Infinis de Lyon, Université de Lyon, Lyon, France
| | - A Tikhonov
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | | | - M Tkacik
- Technical University of Košice, Košice, Slovak Republic
| | - T Tkacik
- Technical University of Košice, Košice, Slovak Republic
| | - A Toia
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - N Topilskaya
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - M Toppi
- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Frascati, Italy
| | - F Torales-Acosta
- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA
| | - T Tork
- Laboratoire de Physique des 2 Infinis, Irène Joliot-Curie, Orsay, France
| | - A G Torres Ramos
- Dipartimento Interateneo di Fisica "M. Merlin" and Sezione INFN, Bari, Italy
| | - A Trifiró
- Dipartimento di Scienze MIFT, Università di Messina, Messina, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Catania, Catania, Italy
| | - A S Triolo
- Dipartimento di Scienze MIFT, Università di Messina, Messina, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Catania, Catania, Italy
| | - S Tripathy
- INFN, Sezione di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
| | - T Tripathy
- Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT), Mumbai, India
| | - S Trogolo
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - V Trubnikov
- Bogolyubov Institute for Theoretical Physics, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine
| | | | | | - R Turrisi
- INFN, Sezione di Padova, Padova, Italy
| | - T S Tveter
- Department of Physics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
| | - K Ullaland
- Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
| | - B Ulukutlu
- Physik Department, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
| | - A Uras
- CNRS/IN2P3, Institut de Physique des 2 Infinis de Lyon, Université de Lyon, Lyon, France
| | - M Urioni
- INFN, Sezione di Pavia, Pavia, Italy
- Università di Brescia, Brescia, Italy
| | - G L Usai
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Cagliari, Italy
| | - M Vala
- Faculty of Science, Pavol Jozef Šafárik University, Košice, Slovak Republic
| | - N Valle
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Pavia, Pavia, Italy
| | - S Vallero
- INFN, Sezione di Torino, Turin, Italy
| | - L V R van Doremalen
- Institute for Gravitational and Subatomic Physics (GRASP), Utrecht University/Nikhef, Utrecht, Netherlands
| | - M van Leeuwen
- Nikhef, National Institute for Subatomic Physics, Amsterdam, Netherlands
| | - C A van Veen
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - R J G van Weelden
- Nikhef, National Institute for Subatomic Physics, Amsterdam, Netherlands
| | - P Vande Vyvre
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - D Varga
- Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Budapest, Hungary
| | - Z Varga
- Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Budapest, Hungary
| | | | - M Vasileiou
- Department of Physics, School of Science, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece
| | - A Vasiliev
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - O Vázquez Doce
- Physik Department, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
| | - V Vechernin
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - E Vercellin
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
| | - S Vergara Limón
- High Energy Physics Group, Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Puebla, Mexico
| | - L Vermunt
- Institute for Gravitational and Subatomic Physics (GRASP), Utrecht University/Nikhef, Utrecht, Netherlands
| | - R Vértesi
- Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Budapest, Hungary
| | - M Verweij
- Institute for Gravitational and Subatomic Physics (GRASP), Utrecht University/Nikhef, Utrecht, Netherlands
| | - L Vickovic
- Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture, University of Split, Split, Croatia
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- University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
| | - O Villalobos Baillie
- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
| | - G Vino
- INFN, Sezione di Bari, Bari, Italy
| | - A Vinogradov
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - T Virgili
- Dipartimento di Fisica "E.R. Caianiello" dell'Università and Gruppo Collegato INFN, Salerno, Italy
| | - V Vislavicius
- Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - A Vodopyanov
- Affiliated with an international laboratory covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - B Volkel
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - M A Völkl
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - K Voloshin
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | | | - G Volpe
- Dipartimento Interateneo di Fisica "M. Merlin" and Sezione INFN, Bari, Italy
| | - B von Haller
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - I Vorobyev
- Physik Department, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
| | - N Vozniuk
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - J Vrláková
- Faculty of Science, Pavol Jozef Šafárik University, Košice, Slovak Republic
| | - B Wagner
- Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
| | - C Wang
- Fudan University, Shanghai, China
| | - D Wang
- Fudan University, Shanghai, China
| | - M Weber
- Stefan Meyer Institut für Subatomare Physik (SMI), Vienna, Austria
| | - A Wegrzynek
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - F T Weiglhofer
- Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - S C Wenzel
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - J P Wessels
- Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Institut für Kernphysik, Munster, Germany
| | | | - J Wiechula
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - J Wikne
- Department of Physics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
| | - G Wilk
- National Centre for Nuclear Research, Warsaw, Poland
| | - J Wilkinson
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - G A Willems
- Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Institut für Kernphysik, Munster, Germany
| | - B Windelband
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - M Winn
- Départment de Physique Nucléaire (DPhN), Université Paris-Saclay Centre d'Etudes de Saclay (CEA), IRFU, Saclay, France
| | - J R Wright
- The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, USA
| | - W Wu
- Fudan University, Shanghai, China
| | - Y Wu
- University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China
| | - R Xu
- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
| | - A K Yadav
- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Kolkata, India
| | - S Yalcin
- KTO Karatay University, Konya, Turkey
| | - Y Yamaguchi
- Physics Program and International Institute for Sustainability with Knotted Chiral Meta Matter (SKCM2), Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan
| | - K Yamakawa
- Physics Program and International Institute for Sustainability with Knotted Chiral Meta Matter (SKCM2), Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan
| | - S Yang
- Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
| | - S Yano
- Physics Program and International Institute for Sustainability with Knotted Chiral Meta Matter (SKCM2), Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan
| | - Z Yin
- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
| | - I-K Yoo
- Department of Physics, Pusan National University, Pusan, Republic of Korea
| | - J H Yoon
- Inha University, Incheon, Republic of Korea
| | - S Yuan
- Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
| | - A Yuncu
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - V Zaccolo
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Trieste, Italy
| | - C Zampolli
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - H J C Zanoli
- Institute for Gravitational and Subatomic Physics (GRASP), Utrecht University/Nikhef, Utrecht, Netherlands
| | - F Zanone
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - N Zardoshti
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
| | - A Zarochentsev
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - P Závada
- Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic
| | - N Zaviyalov
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - M Zhalov
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - B Zhang
- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
| | - S Zhang
- Fudan University, Shanghai, China
| | - X Zhang
- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
| | - Y Zhang
- University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China
| | - M Zhao
- China Institute of Atomic Energy, Beijing, China
| | - V Zherebchevskii
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - Y Zhi
- China Institute of Atomic Energy, Beijing, China
| | - N Zhigareva
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - D Zhou
- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
| | - Y Zhou
- Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - J Zhu
- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - Y Zhu
- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
| | - G Zinovjev
- Bogolyubov Institute for Theoretical Physics, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine
| | - N Zurlo
- INFN, Sezione di Pavia, Pavia, Italy
- Università di Brescia, Brescia, Italy
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Vodopyanov A, Volkel B, Völkl MA, Voloshin K, Voloshin SA, Volpe G, von Haller B, Vorobyev I, Vozniuk N, Vrláková J, Wagner B, Wang C, Wang D, Weber M, Wegrzynek A, Weiglhofer FT, Wenzel SC, Wessels JP, Weyhmiller SL, Wiechula J, Wikne J, Wilk G, Wilkinson J, Willems GA, Windelband B, Winn M, Wright JR, Wu W, Wu Y, Xu R, Yadav AK, Yalcin S, Yamaguchi Y, Yamakawa K, Yang S, Yano S, Yin Z, Yoo IK, Yoon JH, Yuan S, Yuncu A, Zaccolo V, Zampolli C, Zanoli HJC, Zanone F, Zardoshti N, Zarochentsev A, Závada P, Zaviyalov N, Zhalov M, Zhang B, Zhang S, Zhang X, Zhang Y, Zhao M, Zherebchevskii V, Zhi Y, Zhigareva N, Zhou D, Zhou Y, Zhu J, Zhu Y, Zinovjev G, Zurlo N. First Measurement of Antideuteron Number Fluctuations at Energies Available at the Large Hadron Collider. Phys Rev Lett 2023; 131:041901. [PMID: 37566856 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.131.041901] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/05/2022] [Revised: 07/01/2022] [Accepted: 09/15/2022] [Indexed: 08/13/2023]
Abstract
The first measurement of event-by-event antideuteron number fluctuations in high energy heavy-ion collisions is presented. The measurements are carried out at midrapidity (|η|<0.8) as a function of collision centrality in Pb-Pb collisions at sqrt[s_{NN}]=5.02 TeV using the ALICE detector. A significant negative correlation between the produced antiprotons and antideuterons is observed in all collision centralities. The results are compared with a state-of-the-art coalescence calculation. While it describes the ratio of higher order cumulants of the antideuteron multiplicity distribution, it fails to describe quantitatively the magnitude of the correlation between antiproton and antideuteron production. On the other hand, thermal-statistical model calculations describe all the measured observables within uncertainties only for correlation volumes that are different with respect to those describing proton yields and a similar measurement of net-proton number fluctuations.
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- S Acharya
- Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS/IN2P3, LPC, Clermont-Ferrand, France
- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Kolkata, India
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- Nuclear Physics Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Husinec-Řež, Czech Republic
| | - A Adler
- Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe Universität Frankfurt Institut für Informatik, Fachbereich Informatik und Mathematik, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - G Aglieri Rinella
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
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- Dipartimento DISAT del Politecnico and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
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- INFN, Sezione di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Kolkata, India
| | - S Ahmad
- Department of Physics, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India
| | - S U Ahn
- Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information, Daejeon, Republic of Korea
| | - I Ahuja
- Faculty of Science, P.J. Šafárik University, Košice, Slovak Republic
| | - A Akindinov
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - M Al-Turany
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - D Aleksandrov
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | | | - H M Alfanda
- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
| | - R Alfaro Molina
- Instituto de Física, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
| | - B Ali
- Department of Physics, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India
| | - Y Ali
- COMSATS University Islamabad, Islamabad, Pakistan
| | - A Alici
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Bologna, Italy
| | | | - A Alkin
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
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- Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
| | - G Alocco
- INFN, Sezione di Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy
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- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - I Altsybeev
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
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- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
| | - C Andrei
- Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Bucharest, Romania
| | - A Andronic
- Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Institut für Kernphysik, Münster, Germany
| | - V Anguelov
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | | | | | - C Anuj
- Department of Physics, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India
| | - N Apadula
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, USA
| | - L Aphecetche
- SUBATECH, IMT Atlantique, Nantes Université, CNRS-IN2P3, Nantes, France
| | - H Appelshäuser
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - S Arcelli
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Bologna, Italy
| | - R Arnaldi
- INFN, Sezione di Torino, Turin, Italy
| | - I C Arsene
- Department of Physics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
| | - M Arslandok
- Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
| | - A Augustinus
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - R Averbeck
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - S Aziz
- Laboratoire de Physique des 2 Infinis, Irène Joliot-Curie, Orsay, France
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- Department of Physics, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India
| | - A Badalà
- INFN, Sezione di Catania, Catania, Italy
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- Gangneung-Wonju National University, Gangneung, Republic of Korea
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- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - R Bailhache
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - Y Bailung
- Indian Institute of Technology Indore, Indore, India
| | - R Bala
- Physics Department, University of Jammu, Jammu, India
| | - A Balbino
- Dipartimento DISAT del Politecnico and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
| | - A Baldisseri
- Université Paris-Saclay Centre d'Etudes de Saclay (CEA), IRFU, Départment de Physique Nucléaire (DPhN), Saclay, France
| | - B Balis
- AGH University of Science and Technology, Cracow, Poland
| | - D Banerjee
- Bose Institute, Department of Physics and Centre for Astroparticle Physics and Space Science (CAPSS), Kolkata, India
| | - Z Banoo
- Physics Department, University of Jammu, Jammu, India
| | - R Barbera
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Catania, Italy
| | - L Barioglio
- Physik Department, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
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- National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, School of Science, Department of Physics, Athens, Greece
| | | | - L S Barnby
- Nuclear Physics Group, STFC Daresbury Laboratory, Daresbury, United Kingdom
| | - V Barret
- Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS/IN2P3, LPC, Clermont-Ferrand, France
| | - L Barreto
- Universidade de São Paulo (USP), Sao Paulo, Brazil
| | - C Bartels
- University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
| | - K Barth
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
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- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - F Baruffaldi
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Padova, Italy
| | - N Bastid
- Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS/IN2P3, LPC, Clermont-Ferrand, France
| | - S Basu
- Lund University Department of Physics, Division of Particle Physics, Lund, Sweden
| | - G Batigne
- SUBATECH, IMT Atlantique, Nantes Université, CNRS-IN2P3, Nantes, France
| | - D Battistini
- Physik Department, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
| | - B Batyunya
- Affiliated with an international laboratory covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - D Bauri
- Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT), Mumbai, India
| | - J L Bazo Alba
- Sección Física, Departamento de Ciencias, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima, Peru
| | - I G Bearden
- Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - C Beattie
- Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
| | - P Becht
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - D Behera
- Indian Institute of Technology Indore, Indore, India
| | - I Belikov
- Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, IPHC UMR 7178, F-67000 Strasbourg, France
| | | | - R Bellwied
- University of Houston, Houston, Texas, USA
| | - S Belokurova
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - V Belyaev
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - G Bencedi
- Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
- Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Budapest, Hungary
| | - S Beole
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
| | - A Bercuci
- Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Bucharest, Romania
| | - Y Berdnikov
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - A Berdnikova
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - L Bergmann
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - M G Besoiu
- Institute of Space Science (ISS), Bucharest, Romania
| | - L Betev
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - P P Bhaduri
- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Kolkata, India
| | - A Bhasin
- Physics Department, University of Jammu, Jammu, India
| | - I R Bhat
- Physics Department, University of Jammu, Jammu, India
| | - M A Bhat
- Bose Institute, Department of Physics and Centre for Astroparticle Physics and Space Science (CAPSS), Kolkata, India
| | | | - L Bianchi
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
| | - N Bianchi
- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Frascati, Italy
| | - J Bielčík
- Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
| | - J Bielčíková
- Nuclear Physics Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Husinec-Řež, Czech Republic
| | - J Biernat
- The Henryk Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Cracow, Poland
| | - A Bilandzic
- Physik Department, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
| | - G Biro
- Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Budapest, Hungary
| | - S Biswas
- Bose Institute, Department of Physics and Centre for Astroparticle Physics and Space Science (CAPSS), Kolkata, India
| | - J T Blair
- The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, USA
| | - D Blau
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - M B Blidaru
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - N Bluhme
- Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - C Blume
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - G Boca
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Pavia, Pavia, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Pavia, Pavia, Italy
| | - F Bock
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA
| | - T Bodova
- Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
| | - A Bogdanov
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - S Boi
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Cagliari, Italy
| | - J Bok
- Inha University, Incheon, Republic of Korea
| | - L Boldizsár
- Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Budapest, Hungary
| | - A Bolozdynya
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - M Bombara
- Faculty of Science, P.J. Šafárik University, Košice, Slovak Republic
| | - P M Bond
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - G Bonomi
- INFN, Sezione di Pavia, Pavia, Italy
- Università di Brescia, Brescia, Italy
| | - H Borel
- Université Paris-Saclay Centre d'Etudes de Saclay (CEA), IRFU, Départment de Physique Nucléaire (DPhN), Saclay, France
| | - A Borissov
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - H Bossi
- Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
| | - E Botta
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
| | - L Bratrud
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - P Braun-Munzinger
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - M Bregant
- Universidade de São Paulo (USP), Sao Paulo, Brazil
| | - M Broz
- Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
| | - G E Bruno
- Dipartimento Interateneo di Fisica 'M. Merlin' and Sezione INFN, Bari, Italy
- Politecnico di Bari and Sezione INFN, Bari, Italy
| | - M D Buckland
- University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
| | - D Budnikov
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - H Buesching
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - S Bufalino
- Dipartimento DISAT del Politecnico and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
| | - O Bugnon
- SUBATECH, IMT Atlantique, Nantes Université, CNRS-IN2P3, Nantes, France
| | - P Buhler
- Stefan Meyer Institut für Subatomare Physik (SMI), Vienna, Austria
| | - Z Buthelezi
- iThemba LABS, National Research Foundation, Somerset West, South Africa
- University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
| | - J B Butt
- COMSATS University Islamabad, Islamabad, Pakistan
| | - A Bylinkin
- University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, USA
| | - S A Bysiak
- The Henryk Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Cracow, Poland
| | - M Cai
- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Padova, Italy
| | - H Caines
- Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
| | - A Caliva
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - E Calvo Villar
- Sección Física, Departamento de Ciencias, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima, Peru
| | | | - R S Camacho
- High Energy Physics Group, Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Puebla, Mexico
| | - P Camerini
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Trieste, Italy
| | - F D M Canedo
- Universidade de São Paulo (USP), Sao Paulo, Brazil
| | - M Carabas
- University Politehnica of Bucharest, Bucharest, Roma
| | - F Carnesecchi
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Bologna, Italy
| | - R Caron
- Université de Lyon, CNRS/IN2P3, Institut de Physique des 2 Infinis de Lyon, Lyon, France
- Université Paris-Saclay Centre d'Etudes de Saclay (CEA), IRFU, Départment de Physique Nucléaire (DPhN), Saclay, France
| | - J Castillo Castellanos
- Université Paris-Saclay Centre d'Etudes de Saclay (CEA), IRFU, Départment de Physique Nucléaire (DPhN), Saclay, France
| | - F Catalano
- Dipartimento DISAT del Politecnico and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
| | - C Ceballos Sanchez
- Affiliated with an international laboratory covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - I Chakaberia
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, USA
| | - P Chakraborty
- Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT), Mumbai, India
| | - S Chandra
- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Kolkata, India
| | - S Chapeland
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - M Chartier
- University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
| | - S Chattopadhyay
- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Kolkata, India
| | - S Chattopadhyay
- Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Kolkata, India
| | - T G Chavez
- High Energy Physics Group, Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Puebla, Mexico
| | - T Cheng
- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
| | - C Cheshkov
- Université de Lyon, CNRS/IN2P3, Institut de Physique des 2 Infinis de Lyon, Lyon, France
| | - B Cheynis
- Université de Lyon, CNRS/IN2P3, Institut de Physique des 2 Infinis de Lyon, Lyon, France
| | | | - D D Chinellato
- Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas, Brazil
| | - E S Chizzali
- Physik Department, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
| | - S Cho
- Inha University, Incheon, Republic of Korea
| | - P Chochula
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - P Christakoglou
- Nikhef, National institute for subatomic physics, Amsterdam, Netherlands
| | - C H Christensen
- Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - P Christiansen
- Lund University Department of Physics, Division of Particle Physics, Lund, Sweden
| | - T Chujo
- University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
| | - M Ciacco
- Dipartimento DISAT del Politecnico and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
| | - C Cicalo
- INFN, Sezione di Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy
| | - L Cifarelli
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Bologna, Italy
| | - F Cindolo
- INFN, Sezione di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
| | - M R Ciupek
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - G Clai
- INFN, Sezione di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
| | | | - J S Colburn
- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
| | - D Colella
- Dipartimento Interateneo di Fisica 'M. Merlin' and Sezione INFN, Bari, Italy
- Politecnico di Bari and Sezione INFN, Bari, Italy
| | - A Collu
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, USA
| | - M Colocci
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - M Concas
- INFN, Sezione di Torino, Turin, Italy
| | - G Conesa Balbastre
- Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie, Université Grenoble-Alpes, CNRS-IN2P3, Grenoble, France
| | - Z Conesa Del Valle
- Laboratoire de Physique des 2 Infinis, Irène Joliot-Curie, Orsay, France
| | - G Contin
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Trieste, Italy
| | - J G Contreras
- Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
| | - M L Coquet
- Université Paris-Saclay Centre d'Etudes de Saclay (CEA), IRFU, Départment de Physique Nucléaire (DPhN), Saclay, France
| | - T M Cormier
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA
| | - P Cortese
- INFN, Sezione di Torino, Turin, Italy
- Università del Piemonte Orientale, Vercelli, Italy
| | | | - F Costa
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - S Costanza
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Pavia, Pavia, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Pavia, Pavia, Italy
| | - P Crochet
- Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS/IN2P3, LPC, Clermont-Ferrand, France
| | - R Cruz-Torres
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, USA
| | - E Cuautle
- Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
| | - P Cui
- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
| | - L Cunqueiro
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA
| | - A Dainese
- INFN, Sezione di Padova, Padova, Italy
| | - M C Danisch
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - A Danu
- Institute of Space Science (ISS), Bucharest, Romania
| | - P Das
- National Institute of Science Education and Research, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Jatni, India
| | - P Das
- Bose Institute, Department of Physics and Centre for Astroparticle Physics and Space Science (CAPSS), Kolkata, India
| | - S Das
- Bose Institute, Department of Physics and Centre for Astroparticle Physics and Space Science (CAPSS), Kolkata, India
| | - S Dash
- Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT), Mumbai, India
| | - A De Caro
- Dipartimento di Fisica 'E.R. Caianiello' dell'Università and Gruppo Collegato INFN, Salerno, Italy
| | | | - L De Cilladi
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
| | - J de Cuveland
- Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - A De Falco
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Cagliari, Italy
| | - D De Gruttola
- Dipartimento di Fisica 'E.R. Caianiello' dell'Università and Gruppo Collegato INFN, Salerno, Italy
| | | | - C De Martin
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Trieste, Italy
| | - S De Pasquale
- Dipartimento di Fisica 'E.R. Caianiello' dell'Università and Gruppo Collegato INFN, Salerno, Italy
| | - S Deb
- Indian Institute of Technology Indore, Indore, India
| | | | - K R Deja
- Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland
| | - R Del Grande
- Physik Department, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
| | - L Dello Stritto
- Dipartimento di Fisica 'E.R. Caianiello' dell'Università and Gruppo Collegato INFN, Salerno, Italy
| | - W Deng
- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
| | - P Dhankher
- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA
| | - D Di Bari
- Dipartimento Interateneo di Fisica 'M. Merlin' and Sezione INFN, Bari, Italy
| | - A Di Mauro
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - R A Diaz
- Centro de Aplicaciones Tecnológicas y Desarrollo Nuclear (CEADEN), Havana, Cuba
- Affiliated with an international laboratory covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - T Dietel
- University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
| | - Y Ding
- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
- Université de Lyon, CNRS/IN2P3, Institut de Physique des 2 Infinis de Lyon, Lyon, France
| | - R Divià
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - D U Dixit
- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA
| | - Ø Djuvsland
- Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
| | - U Dmitrieva
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - A Dobrin
- Institute of Space Science (ISS), Bucharest, Romania
| | - B Dönigus
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - A K Dubey
- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Kolkata, India
| | | | - A Dubla
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - S Dudi
- Physics Department, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India
| | - P Dupieux
- Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS/IN2P3, LPC, Clermont-Ferrand, France
| | - M Durkac
- Technical University of Košice, Košice, Slovak Republic
| | - N Dzalaiova
- Comenius University Bratislava, Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics, Bratislava, Slovak Republic
| | - T M Eder
- Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Institut für Kernphysik, Münster, Germany
| | - R J Ehlers
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA
| | - V N Eikeland
- Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
| | - F Eisenhut
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - D Elia
- INFN, Sezione di Bari, Bari, Italy
| | - B Erazmus
- SUBATECH, IMT Atlantique, Nantes Université, CNRS-IN2P3, Nantes, France
| | - F Ercolessi
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Bologna, Italy
| | - F Erhardt
- Physics department, Faculty of science, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
| | - A Erokhin
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - M R Ersdal
- Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
| | - B Espagnon
- Laboratoire de Physique des 2 Infinis, Irène Joliot-Curie, Orsay, France
| | - G Eulisse
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - D Evans
- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
| | - S Evdokimov
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - L Fabbietti
- Physik Department, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
| | - M Faggin
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Padova, Italy
| | - J Faivre
- Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie, Université Grenoble-Alpes, CNRS-IN2P3, Grenoble, France
| | - F Fan
- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
| | - W Fan
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, USA
| | - A Fantoni
- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Frascati, Italy
| | - M Fasel
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA
| | - P Fecchio
- Dipartimento DISAT del Politecnico and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
| | | | - G Feofilov
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - A Fernández Téllez
- High Energy Physics Group, Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Puebla, Mexico
| | - M B Ferrer
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - A Ferrero
- Université Paris-Saclay Centre d'Etudes de Saclay (CEA), IRFU, Départment de Physique Nucléaire (DPhN), Saclay, France
| | - A Ferretti
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
| | - V J G Feuillard
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - J Figiel
- The Henryk Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Cracow, Poland
| | - V Filova
- Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
| | - D Finogeev
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - G Fiorenza
- Politecnico di Bari and Sezione INFN, Bari, Italy
| | - F Flor
- University of Houston, Houston, Texas, USA
| | - A N Flores
- The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, USA
| | - S Foertsch
- iThemba LABS, National Research Foundation, Somerset West, South Africa
| | - I Fokin
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - S Fokin
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | | | - E Frajna
- Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Budapest, Hungary
| | - U Fuchs
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - N Funicello
- Dipartimento di Fisica 'E.R. Caianiello' dell'Università and Gruppo Collegato INFN, Salerno, Italy
| | - C Furget
- Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie, Université Grenoble-Alpes, CNRS-IN2P3, Grenoble, France
| | - A Furs
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - J J Gaardhøje
- Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - M Gagliardi
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
| | - A M Gago
- Sección Física, Departamento de Ciencias, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima, Peru
| | - A Gal
- Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, IPHC UMR 7178, F-67000 Strasbourg, France
| | - C D Galvan
- Universidad Autónoma de Sinaloa, Culiacan, Mexico
| | - P Ganoti
- National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, School of Science, Department of Physics, Athens, Greece
| | - C Garabatos
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - J R A Garcia
- High Energy Physics Group, Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Puebla, Mexico
| | | | - K Garg
- SUBATECH, IMT Atlantique, Nantes Université, CNRS-IN2P3, Nantes, France
| | - C Gargiulo
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - A Garibli
- National Nuclear Research Center, Baku, Azerbaijan
| | - K Garner
- Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Institut für Kernphysik, Münster, Germany
| | - E F Gauger
- The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, USA
| | - A Gautam
- University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, USA
| | - M B Gay Ducati
- Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, Brazil
| | - M Germain
- SUBATECH, IMT Atlantique, Nantes Université, CNRS-IN2P3, Nantes, France
| | - S K Ghosh
- Bose Institute, Department of Physics and Centre for Astroparticle Physics and Space Science (CAPSS), Kolkata, India
| | - M Giacalone
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Bologna, Italy
| | - P Gianotti
- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Frascati, Italy
| | - P Giubellino
- INFN, Sezione di Torino, Turin, Italy
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - P Giubilato
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Padova, Italy
| | - A M C Glaenzer
- Université Paris-Saclay Centre d'Etudes de Saclay (CEA), IRFU, Départment de Physique Nucléaire (DPhN), Saclay, France
| | - P Glässel
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - E Glimos
- University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
| | - D J Q Goh
- Nagasaki Institute of Applied Science, Nagasaki, Japan
| | - V Gonzalez
- Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, USA
| | - L H González-Trueba
- Instituto de Física, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
| | - S Gorbunov
- Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - M Gorgon
- AGH University of Science and Technology, Cracow, Poland
| | - L Görlich
- The Henryk Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Cracow, Poland
| | - S Gotovac
- Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture, University of Split, Split, Croatia
| | - V Grabski
- Instituto de Física, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
| | | | - E Grecka
- Nuclear Physics Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Husinec-Řež, Czech Republic
| | - L Greiner
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, USA
| | - A Grelli
- Institute for Gravitational and Subatomic Physics (GRASP), Utrecht University/Nikhef, Utrecht, Netherlands
| | - C Grigoras
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - V Grigoriev
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - S Grigoryan
- A.I. Alikhanyan National Science Laboratory (Yerevan Physics Institute) Foundation, Yerevan, Armenia
- Affiliated with an international laboratory covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - F Grosa
- INFN, Sezione di Torino, Turin, Italy
| | | | - R Grosso
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - D Grund
- Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
| | - G G Guardiano
- Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas, Brazil
| | - R Guernane
- Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie, Université Grenoble-Alpes, CNRS-IN2P3, Grenoble, France
| | - M Guilbaud
- SUBATECH, IMT Atlantique, Nantes Université, CNRS-IN2P3, Nantes, France
| | - K Gulbrandsen
- Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - T Gunji
- University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
| | - W Guo
- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
| | - A Gupta
- Physics Department, University of Jammu, Jammu, India
| | - R Gupta
- Physics Department, University of Jammu, Jammu, India
| | - S P Guzman
- High Energy Physics Group, Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Puebla, Mexico
| | - L Gyulai
- Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Budapest, Hungary
| | - M K Habib
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - C Hadjidakis
- Laboratoire de Physique des 2 Infinis, Irène Joliot-Curie, Orsay, France
| | - H Hamagaki
- Nagasaki Institute of Applied Science, Nagasaki, Japan
| | - M Hamid
- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
| | - Y Han
- Yonsei University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
| | - R Hannigan
- The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, USA
| | - M R Haque
- Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland
| | - A Harlenderova
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - J W Harris
- Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
| | - A Harton
- Chicago State University, Chicago, Illinois, USA
| | - J A Hasenbichler
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - H Hassan
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA
| | | | - P Hauer
- Helmholtz-Institut für Strahlen- und Kernphysik, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Bonn, Germany
| | - L B Havener
- Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
| | - S T Heckel
- Physik Department, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
| | - E Hellbär
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - H Helstrup
- Faculty of Engineering and Science, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Bergen, Norway
| | - T Herman
- Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
| | - G Herrera Corral
- Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados (CINVESTAV), Mexico City and Mérida, Mexico
| | - F Herrmann
- Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Institut für Kernphysik, Münster, Germany
| | - K F Hetland
- Faculty of Engineering and Science, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Bergen, Norway
| | - B Heybeck
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - H Hillemanns
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - C Hills
- University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
| | - B Hippolyte
- Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, IPHC UMR 7178, F-67000 Strasbourg, France
| | - B Hofman
- Institute for Gravitational and Subatomic Physics (GRASP), Utrecht University/Nikhef, Utrecht, Netherlands
| | - B Hohlweger
- Nikhef, National institute for subatomic physics, Amsterdam, Netherlands
| | - J Honermann
- Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Institut für Kernphysik, Münster, Germany
| | - G H Hong
- Yonsei University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
| | - D Horak
- Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
| | - A Horzyk
- AGH University of Science and Technology, Cracow, Poland
| | - R Hosokawa
- Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska, USA
| | - Y Hou
- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
| | - P Hristov
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - C Hughes
- University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
| | - P Huhn
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - L M Huhta
- University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland
| | - C V Hulse
- Laboratoire de Physique des 2 Infinis, Irène Joliot-Curie, Orsay, France
| | | | - H Hushnud
- Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Kolkata, India
| | - A Hutson
- University of Houston, Houston, Texas, USA
| | - D Hutter
- Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - J P Iddon
- University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
| | - R Ilkaev
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - H Ilyas
- COMSATS University Islamabad, Islamabad, Pakistan
| | - M Inaba
- University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
| | - G M Innocenti
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - M Ippolitov
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - A Isakov
- Nuclear Physics Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Husinec-Řež, Czech Republic
| | - T Isidori
- University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, USA
| | - M S Islam
- Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Kolkata, India
| | - M Ivanov
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - V Ivanov
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - V Izucheev
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - M Jablonski
- AGH University of Science and Technology, Cracow, Poland
| | - B Jacak
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, USA
| | - N Jacazio
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - P M Jacobs
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, USA
| | - S Jadlovska
- Technical University of Košice, Košice, Slovak Republic
| | - J Jadlovsky
- Technical University of Košice, Košice, Slovak Republic
| | - L Jaffe
- Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - C Jahnke
- Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas, Brazil
| | - M A Janik
- Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland
| | - T Janson
- Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe Universität Frankfurt Institut für Informatik, Fachbereich Informatik und Mathematik, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - M Jercic
- Physics department, Faculty of science, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
| | - O Jevons
- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
| | - A A P Jimenez
- Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
| | - F Jonas
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA
- Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Institut für Kernphysik, Münster, Germany
| | - P G Jones
- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
| | - J M Jowett
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - J Jung
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - M Jung
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - A Junique
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - A Jusko
- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
| | - M J Kabus
- Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland
| | - J Kaewjai
- Suranaree University of Technology, Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand
| | - P Kalinak
- Institute of Experimental Physics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Košice, Slovak Republic
| | - A S Kalteyer
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - A Kalweit
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - V Kaplin
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | | | - D Karatovic
- Physics department, Faculty of science, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
| | - O Karavichev
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - T Karavicheva
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | | | - E Karpechev
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - V Kashyap
- National Institute of Science Education and Research, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Jatni, India
| | - A Kazantsev
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - U Kebschull
- Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe Universität Frankfurt Institut für Informatik, Fachbereich Informatik und Mathematik, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - R Keidel
- Zentrum für Technologie und Transfer (ZTT), Worms, Germany
| | - D L D Keijdener
- Institute for Gravitational and Subatomic Physics (GRASP), Utrecht University/Nikhef, Utrecht, Netherlands
| | - M Keil
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - B Ketzer
- Helmholtz-Institut für Strahlen- und Kernphysik, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Bonn, Germany
| | - A M Khan
- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
| | - S Khan
- Department of Physics, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India
| | - A Khanzadeev
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - Y Kharlov
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - A Khatun
- Department of Physics, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India
| | - A Khuntia
- The Henryk Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Cracow, Poland
| | - B Kileng
- Faculty of Engineering and Science, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Bergen, Norway
| | - B Kim
- Department of Physics, Pusan National University, Pusan, Republic of Korea
| | - C Kim
- Department of Physics, Pusan National University, Pusan, Republic of Korea
| | - D J Kim
- University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland
| | - E J Kim
- Jeonbuk National University, Jeonju, Republic of Korea
| | - J Kim
- Yonsei University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
| | - J S Kim
- Gangneung-Wonju National University, Gangneung, Republic of Korea
| | - J Kim
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - J Kim
- Jeonbuk National University, Jeonju, Republic of Korea
| | - M Kim
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - S Kim
- Department of Physics, Sejong University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
| | - T Kim
- Yonsei University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
| | - S Kirsch
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - I Kisel
- Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - S Kiselev
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - A Kisiel
- Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland
| | - J P Kitowski
- AGH University of Science and Technology, Cracow, Poland
| | - J L Klay
- California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, California, USA
| | - J Klein
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - S Klein
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, USA
| | - C Klein-Bösing
- Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Institut für Kernphysik, Münster, Germany
| | - M Kleiner
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - T Klemenz
- Physik Department, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
| | - A Kluge
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - A G Knospe
- University of Houston, Houston, Texas, USA
| | - C Kobdaj
- Suranaree University of Technology, Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand
| | - T Kollegger
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - A Kondratyev
- Affiliated with an international laboratory covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - N Kondratyeva
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - E Kondratyuk
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - J Konig
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - S A Konigstorfer
- Physik Department, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
| | - P J Konopka
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - G Kornakov
- Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland
| | - S D Koryciak
- AGH University of Science and Technology, Cracow, Poland
| | - A Kotliarov
- Nuclear Physics Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Husinec-Řež, Czech Republic
| | - O Kovalenko
- National Centre for Nuclear Research, Warsaw, Poland
| | - V Kovalenko
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - M Kowalski
- The Henryk Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Cracow, Poland
| | - I Králik
- Institute of Experimental Physics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Košice, Slovak Republic
| | - A Kravčáková
- Faculty of Science, P.J. Šafárik University, Košice, Slovak Republic
| | - L Kreis
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - M Krivda
- Institute of Experimental Physics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Košice, Slovak Republic
- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
| | - F Krizek
- Nuclear Physics Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Husinec-Řež, Czech Republic
| | - K Krizkova Gajdosova
- Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
| | - M Kroesen
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - M Krüger
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - D M Krupova
- Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
| | - E Kryshen
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - M Krzewicki
- Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - V Kučera
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - C Kuhn
- Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, IPHC UMR 7178, F-67000 Strasbourg, France
| | - P G Kuijer
- Nikhef, National institute for subatomic physics, Amsterdam, Netherlands
| | - T Kumaoka
- University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
| | - D Kumar
- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Kolkata, India
| | - L Kumar
- Physics Department, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India
| | - N Kumar
- Physics Department, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India
| | - S Kundu
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - P Kurashvili
- National Centre for Nuclear Research, Warsaw, Poland
| | - A Kurepin
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - A B Kurepin
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - A Kuryakin
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - S Kushpil
- Nuclear Physics Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Husinec-Řež, Czech Republic
| | - J Kvapil
- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
| | - M J Kweon
- Inha University, Incheon, Republic of Korea
| | - J Y Kwon
- Inha University, Incheon, Republic of Korea
| | - Y Kwon
- Yonsei University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
| | - S L La Pointe
- Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - P La Rocca
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Catania, Italy
| | - Y S Lai
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, USA
| | - A Lakrathok
- Suranaree University of Technology, Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand
| | - M Lamanna
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - R Langoy
- University of South-Eastern Norway, Kongsberg, Norway
| | - P Larionov
- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Frascati, Italy
| | - E Laudi
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - L Lautner
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
- Physik Department, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
| | - R Lavicka
- Stefan Meyer Institut für Subatomare Physik (SMI), Vienna, Austria
| | - T Lazareva
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - R Lea
- INFN, Sezione di Pavia, Pavia, Italy
- Università di Brescia, Brescia, Italy
| | - J Lehrbach
- Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - R C Lemmon
- Nuclear Physics Group, STFC Daresbury Laboratory, Daresbury, United Kingdom
| | | | - M M Lesch
- Physik Department, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
| | - E D Lesser
- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA
| | - M Lettrich
- Physik Department, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
| | - P Lévai
- Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Budapest, Hungary
| | - X Li
- China Institute of Atomic Energy, Beijing, China
| | - X L Li
- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
| | - J Lien
- University of South-Eastern Norway, Kongsberg, Norway
| | - R Lietava
- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
| | - B Lim
- Department of Physics, Pusan National University, Pusan, Republic of Korea
| | - S H Lim
- Department of Physics, Pusan National University, Pusan, Republic of Korea
| | - V Lindenstruth
- Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - A Lindner
- Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Bucharest, Romania
| | - C Lippmann
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - A Liu
- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA
| | - D H Liu
- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
| | - J Liu
- University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
| | - I M Lofnes
- Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
| | - V Loginov
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - C Loizides
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA
| | - P Loncar
- Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture, University of Split, Split, Croatia
| | - J A Lopez
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - X Lopez
- Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS/IN2P3, LPC, Clermont-Ferrand, France
| | - E López Torres
- Centro de Aplicaciones Tecnológicas y Desarrollo Nuclear (CEADEN), Havana, Cuba
| | - P Lu
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
- University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China
| | - J R Luhder
- Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Institut für Kernphysik, Münster, Germany
| | - M Lunardon
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Padova, Italy
| | | | - Y G Ma
- Fudan University, Shanghai, China
| | - A Maevskaya
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - M Mager
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - T Mahmoud
- Helmholtz-Institut für Strahlen- und Kernphysik, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Bonn, Germany
| | - A Maire
- Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, IPHC UMR 7178, F-67000 Strasbourg, France
| | - M Malaev
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - N M Malik
- Physics Department, University of Jammu, Jammu, India
| | - Q W Malik
- Department of Physics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
| | - S K Malik
- Physics Department, University of Jammu, Jammu, India
| | - L Malinina
- Affiliated with an international laboratory covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - D Mal'Kevich
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - D Mallick
- National Institute of Science Education and Research, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Jatni, India
| | - N Mallick
- Indian Institute of Technology Indore, Indore, India
| | - G Mandaglio
- Dipartimento di Scienze MIFT, Università di Messina, Messina, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Catania, Catania, Italy
| | - V Manko
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - F Manso
- Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS/IN2P3, LPC, Clermont-Ferrand, France
| | | | - Y Mao
- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
| | - G V Margagliotti
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Trieste, Italy
| | - A Margotti
- INFN, Sezione di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
| | - A Marín
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - C Markert
- The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, USA
| | - M Marquard
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - N A Martin
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - P Martinengo
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | | | - M I Martínez
- High Energy Physics Group, Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Puebla, Mexico
| | - G Martínez García
- SUBATECH, IMT Atlantique, Nantes Université, CNRS-IN2P3, Nantes, France
| | - S Masciocchi
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - M Masera
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
| | - A Masoni
- INFN, Sezione di Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy
| | - L Massacrier
- Laboratoire de Physique des 2 Infinis, Irène Joliot-Curie, Orsay, France
| | - A Mastroserio
- INFN, Sezione di Bari, Bari, Italy
- Università degli Studi di Foggia, Foggia, Italy
| | - A M Mathis
- Physik Department, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
| | - O Matonoha
- Lund University Department of Physics, Division of Particle Physics, Lund, Sweden
| | | | - 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
| | - A L Mazuecos
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - F Mazzaschi
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
| | - M Mazzilli
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - J E Mdhluli
- University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
| | - A F Mechler
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - Y Melikyan
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - A Menchaca-Rocha
- Instituto de Física, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
| | - E Meninno
- Dipartimento di Fisica 'E.R. Caianiello' dell'Università and Gruppo Collegato INFN, Salerno, Italy
- Stefan Meyer Institut für Subatomare Physik (SMI), Vienna, Austria
| | - A S Menon
- University of Houston, Houston, Texas, USA
| | - M Meres
- Comenius University Bratislava, Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics, Bratislava, Slovak Republic
| | - S Mhlanga
- iThemba LABS, National Research Foundation, Somerset West, South Africa
- University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
| | - Y Miake
- University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
| | | | - L C Migliorin
- Université de Lyon, CNRS/IN2P3, Institut de Physique des 2 Infinis de Lyon, Lyon, France
| | - D L Mihaylov
- Physik Department, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
| | - K Mikhaylov
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
- Affiliated with an international laboratory covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - A N Mishra
- Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Budapest, Hungary
| | - D Miśkowiec
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - A Modak
- Bose Institute, Department of Physics and Centre for Astroparticle Physics and Space Science (CAPSS), Kolkata, India
| | - A P Mohanty
- Institute for Gravitational and Subatomic Physics (GRASP), Utrecht University/Nikhef, Utrecht, Netherlands
| | - B Mohanty
- National Institute of Science Education and Research, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Jatni, India
| | - M Mohisin Khan
- Department of Physics, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India
| | - M A Molander
- Helsinki Institute of Physics (HIP), Helsinki, Finland
| | - Z Moravcova
- Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - C Mordasini
- Physik Department, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
| | - D A Moreira De Godoy
- Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Institut für Kernphysik, Münster, Germany
| | - I Morozov
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - A Morsch
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - T Mrnjavac
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - V Muccifora
- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Frascati, Italy
| | - E Mudnic
- Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture, University of Split, Split, Croatia
| | - S Muhuri
- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Kolkata, India
| | - J D Mulligan
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, USA
| | - A Mulliri
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Cagliari, Italy
| | - M G Munhoz
- Universidade de São Paulo (USP), Sao Paulo, Brazil
| | - R H Munzer
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | | | - S Murray
- University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
| | - L Musa
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - J Musinsky
- Institute of Experimental Physics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Košice, Slovak Republic
| | - J W Myrcha
- Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland
| | - B Naik
- University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
| | - R Nair
- National Centre for Nuclear Research, Warsaw, Poland
| | - B K Nandi
- Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT), Mumbai, India
| | - R Nania
- INFN, Sezione di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
| | - E Nappi
- INFN, Sezione di Bari, Bari, Italy
| | - A F Nassirpour
- Lund University Department of Physics, Division of Particle Physics, Lund, Sweden
| | - A Nath
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - C Nattrass
- University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
| | - T K Nayak
- National Institute of Science Education and Research, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Jatni, India
| | - A Neagu
- Department of Physics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
| | - A Negru
- University Politehnica of Bucharest, Bucharest, Roma
| | - L Nellen
- Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
| | - S V Nesbo
- Faculty of Engineering and Science, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Bergen, Norway
| | - G Neskovic
- Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - D Nesterov
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - B S Nielsen
- Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - E G Nielsen
- Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - S Nikolaev
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - S Nikulin
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - V Nikulin
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - F Noferini
- INFN, Sezione di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
| | - S Noh
- Chungbuk National University, Cheongju, Republic of Korea
| | - P Nomokonov
- Affiliated with an international laboratory covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - J Norman
- University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
| | | | | | - A Nyanin
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - J Nystrand
- Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
| | - M Ogino
- Nagasaki Institute of Applied Science, Nagasaki, Japan
| | - A Ohlson
- Lund University Department of Physics, Division of Particle Physics, Lund, Sweden
| | - V A Okorokov
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - J Oleniacz
- Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland
| | | | - M H Oliver
- Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
| | | | | | - A Ortiz Velasquez
- Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
| | - A Oskarsson
- Lund University Department of Physics, Division of Particle Physics, Lund, Sweden
| | - J Otwinowski
- The Henryk Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Cracow, Poland
| | - M Oya
- Physics Program and International Institute for Sustainability with Knotted Chiral Meta Matter (SKCM2), Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan
| | - K Oyama
- Nagasaki Institute of Applied Science, Nagasaki, Japan
| | - Y Pachmayer
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - S Padhan
- Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT), Mumbai, India
| | - D Pagano
- INFN, Sezione di Pavia, Pavia, Italy
- Università di Brescia, Brescia, Italy
| | - G Paić
- Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
| | | | - S Panebianco
- Université Paris-Saclay Centre d'Etudes de Saclay (CEA), IRFU, Départment de Physique Nucléaire (DPhN), Saclay, France
| | - J Park
- Inha University, Incheon, Republic of Korea
| | - J E Parkkila
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
- University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland
| | - S P Pathak
- University of Houston, Houston, Texas, USA
| | - R N Patra
- Physics Department, University of Jammu, Jammu, India
| | - B Paul
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Cagliari, Italy
| | - H Pei
- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
| | - T Peitzmann
- Institute for Gravitational and Subatomic Physics (GRASP), Utrecht University/Nikhef, Utrecht, Netherlands
| | - X Peng
- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
| | - L G Pereira
- Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, Brazil
| | - H Pereira Da Costa
- Université Paris-Saclay Centre d'Etudes de Saclay (CEA), IRFU, Départment de Physique Nucléaire (DPhN), Saclay, France
| | - D Peresunko
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - G M Perez
- Centro de Aplicaciones Tecnológicas y Desarrollo Nuclear (CEADEN), Havana, Cuba
| | - S Perrin
- Université Paris-Saclay Centre d'Etudes de Saclay (CEA), IRFU, Départment de Physique Nucléaire (DPhN), Saclay, France
| | - Y Pestov
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - V Petráček
- Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
| | - V Petrov
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - M Petrovici
- Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Bucharest, Romania
| | - R P Pezzi
- Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, Brazil
| | - S Piano
- INFN, Sezione di Trieste, Trieste, Italy
| | - M Pikna
- Comenius University Bratislava, Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics, Bratislava, Slovak Republic
| | - P Pillot
- SUBATECH, IMT Atlantique, Nantes Université, CNRS-IN2P3, Nantes, France
| | - O Pinazza
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
- INFN, Sezione di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
| | - L Pinsky
- University of Houston, Houston, Texas, USA
| | - C Pinto
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Catania, Italy
- Physik Department, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
| | - S Pisano
- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Frascati, Italy
| | - M Płoskoń
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, USA
| | - M Planinic
- Physics department, Faculty of science, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
| | - F Pliquett
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - M G Poghosyan
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA
| | - B Polichtchouk
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - S Politano
- Dipartimento DISAT del Politecnico and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
| | - N Poljak
- Physics department, Faculty of science, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
| | - A Pop
- Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Bucharest, Romania
| | | | - J Porter
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, USA
| | - V Pozdniakov
- Affiliated with an international laboratory covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - S K Prasad
- Bose Institute, Department of Physics and Centre for Astroparticle Physics and Space Science (CAPSS), Kolkata, India
| | - S Prasad
- Indian Institute of Technology Indore, Indore, India
| | | | - F Prino
- INFN, Sezione di Torino, Turin, Italy
| | - C A Pruneau
- Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, USA
| | - I Pshenichnov
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - M Puccio
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - S Qiu
- Nikhef, National institute for subatomic physics, Amsterdam, Netherlands
| | - L Quaglia
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
| | | | - S Ragoni
- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
| | - A Rakotozafindrabe
- Université Paris-Saclay Centre d'Etudes de Saclay (CEA), IRFU, Départment de Physique Nucléaire (DPhN), Saclay, France
| | - L Ramello
- INFN, Sezione di Torino, Turin, Italy
- Università del Piemonte Orientale, Vercelli, Italy
| | - F Rami
- Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, IPHC UMR 7178, F-67000 Strasbourg, France
| | - S A R Ramirez
- High Energy Physics Group, Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Puebla, Mexico
| | - T A Rancien
- Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie, Université Grenoble-Alpes, CNRS-IN2P3, Grenoble, France
| | - R Raniwala
- Physics Department, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur, India
| | - S Raniwala
- Physics Department, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur, India
| | - S S Räsänen
- Helsinki Institute of Physics (HIP), Helsinki, Finland
| | - R Rath
- Indian Institute of Technology Indore, Indore, India
| | - I Ravasenga
- Nikhef, National institute for subatomic physics, Amsterdam, Netherlands
| | - K F Read
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA
- University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
| | - A R Redelbach
- Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - K Redlich
- National Centre for Nuclear Research, Warsaw, Poland
| | - A Rehman
- Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
| | - P Reichelt
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - F Reidt
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - H A Reme-Ness
- Faculty of Engineering and Science, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Bergen, Norway
| | - Z Rescakova
- Faculty of Science, P.J. Šafárik University, Košice, Slovak Republic
| | - K Reygers
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - A Riabov
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - V Riabov
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - R Ricci
- Dipartimento di Fisica 'E.R. Caianiello' dell'Università and Gruppo Collegato INFN, Salerno, Italy
| | - T Richert
- Lund University Department of Physics, Division of Particle Physics, Lund, Sweden
| | - M Richter
- Department of Physics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
| | - W Riegler
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - F Riggi
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Catania, Italy
| | - C Ristea
- Institute of Space Science (ISS), Bucharest, Romania
| | | | - K Røed
- Department of Physics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
| | - R Rogalev
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - E Rogochaya
- Affiliated with an international laboratory covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - T S Rogoschinski
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - D Rohr
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - D Röhrich
- Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
| | - P F Rojas
- High Energy Physics Group, Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Puebla, Mexico
| | - S Rojas Torres
- Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
| | - P S Rokita
- Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland
| | - F Ronchetti
- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Frascati, Italy
| | - A Rosano
- Dipartimento di Scienze MIFT, Università di Messina, Messina, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Catania, Catania, Italy
| | - E D Rosas
- Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
| | - A Rossi
- INFN, Sezione di Padova, Padova, Italy
| | - A Roy
- Indian Institute of Technology Indore, Indore, India
| | - P Roy
- Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Kolkata, India
| | - S Roy
- Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT), Mumbai, India
| | - N Rubini
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Bologna, Italy
| | - O V Rueda
- Lund University Department of Physics, Division of Particle Physics, Lund, Sweden
| | - D Ruggiano
- Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland
| | - R Rui
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Trieste, Italy
| | - B Rumyantsev
- Affiliated with an international laboratory covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - P G Russek
- AGH University of Science and Technology, Cracow, Poland
| | - R Russo
- Nikhef, National institute for subatomic physics, Amsterdam, Netherlands
| | - A Rustamov
- National Nuclear Research Center, Baku, Azerbaijan
| | - E Ryabinkin
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - Y Ryabov
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - A Rybicki
- The Henryk Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Cracow, Poland
| | - H Rytkonen
- University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland
| | - W Rzesa
- Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland
| | | | - R Sadek
- SUBATECH, IMT Atlantique, Nantes Université, CNRS-IN2P3, Nantes, France
| | - S Sadovsky
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - J Saetre
- Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
| | - K Šafařík
- Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
| | - S K Saha
- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Kolkata, India
| | - S Saha
- National Institute of Science Education and Research, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Jatni, India
| | - B Sahoo
- Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT), Mumbai, India
| | - P Sahoo
- Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT), Mumbai, India
| | - R Sahoo
- Indian Institute of Technology Indore, Indore, India
| | - S Sahoo
- Institute of Physics, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Bhubaneswar, India
| | - D Sahu
- Indian Institute of Technology Indore, Indore, India
| | - P K Sahu
- Institute of Physics, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Bhubaneswar, India
| | - J Saini
- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Kolkata, India
| | - S Sakai
- University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
| | - M P Salvan
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - S Sambyal
- Physics Department, University of Jammu, Jammu, India
| | - T B Saramela
- Universidade de São Paulo (USP), Sao Paulo, Brazil
| | - D Sarkar
- Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, USA
| | - N Sarkar
- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Kolkata, India
| | - P Sarma
- Gauhati University, Department of Physics, Guwahati, India
| | - V M Sarti
- Physik Department, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
| | - M H P Sas
- Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
| | - J Schambach
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA
| | - H S Scheid
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - C Schiaua
- Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Bucharest, Romania
| | - R Schicker
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - A Schmah
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - C Schmidt
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - H R Schmidt
- Physikalisches Institut, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, Tubingen, Germany
| | - M O Schmidt
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - M Schmidt
- Physikalisches Institut, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, Tubingen, Germany
| | - N V Schmidt
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA
| | - A R Schmier
- University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
| | - R Schotter
- Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, IPHC UMR 7178, F-67000 Strasbourg, France
| | - J Schukraft
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - K Schwarz
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - K Schweda
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - G Scioli
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Bologna, Italy
| | | | - J E Seger
- Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska, USA
| | | | | | - I Selyuzhenkov
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - S Senyukov
- Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, IPHC UMR 7178, F-67000 Strasbourg, France
| | - J J Seo
- Inha University, Incheon, Republic of Korea
| | - D Serebryakov
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - L Šerkšnytė
- Physik Department, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
| | - A Sevcenco
- Institute of Space Science (ISS), Bucharest, Romania
| | - T J Shaba
- iThemba LABS, National Research Foundation, Somerset West, South Africa
| | - A Shabanov
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - A Shabetai
- SUBATECH, IMT Atlantique, Nantes Université, CNRS-IN2P3, Nantes, France
| | - R Shahoyan
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - W Shaikh
- Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Kolkata, India
| | - A Shangaraev
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - A Sharma
- Physics Department, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India
| | - D Sharma
- Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT), Mumbai, India
| | - H Sharma
- The Henryk Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Cracow, Poland
| | - M Sharma
- Physics Department, University of Jammu, Jammu, India
| | - N Sharma
- Physics Department, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India
| | - S Sharma
- Physics Department, University of Jammu, Jammu, India
| | - U Sharma
- Physics Department, University of Jammu, Jammu, India
| | - A Shatat
- Laboratoire de Physique des 2 Infinis, Irène Joliot-Curie, Orsay, France
| | - O Sheibani
- University of Houston, Houston, Texas, USA
| | - K Shigaki
- Physics Program and International Institute for Sustainability with Knotted Chiral Meta Matter (SKCM2), Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan
| | | | - S Shirinkin
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - Q Shou
- Fudan University, Shanghai, China
| | - Y Sibiriak
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | | | - T Siemiarczuk
- National Centre for Nuclear Research, Warsaw, Poland
| | - T F Silva
- Universidade de São Paulo (USP), Sao Paulo, Brazil
| | - D Silvermyr
- Lund University Department of Physics, Division of Particle Physics, Lund, Sweden
| | | | - G Simonetti
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - B Singh
- Physics Department, University of Jammu, Jammu, India
| | - B Singh
- Physik Department, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
| | - R Singh
- National Institute of Science Education and Research, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Jatni, India
| | - R Singh
- Physics Department, University of Jammu, Jammu, India
| | - R Singh
- Indian Institute of Technology Indore, Indore, India
| | - V K Singh
- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Kolkata, India
| | - V Singhal
- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Kolkata, India
| | - T Sinha
- Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Kolkata, India
| | - B Sitar
- Comenius University Bratislava, Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics, Bratislava, Slovak Republic
| | - M Sitta
- INFN, Sezione di Torino, Turin, Italy
- Università del Piemonte Orientale, Vercelli, Italy
| | - T B Skaali
- Department of Physics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
| | - G Skorodumovs
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - M Slupecki
- Helsinki Institute of Physics (HIP), Helsinki, Finland
| | - N Smirnov
- Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
| | - R J M Snellings
- Institute for Gravitational and Subatomic Physics (GRASP), Utrecht University/Nikhef, Utrecht, Netherlands
| | - E H Solheim
- Department of Physics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
| | - C Soncco
- Sección Física, Departamento de Ciencias, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima, Peru
| | - J Song
- University of Houston, Houston, Texas, USA
| | - A Songmoolnak
- Suranaree University of Technology, Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand
| | - F Soramel
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Padova, Italy
| | - S Sorensen
- University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
| | - R Spijkers
- Nikhef, National institute for subatomic physics, Amsterdam, Netherlands
| | - I Sputowska
- The Henryk Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Cracow, Poland
| | - J Staa
- Lund University Department of Physics, Division of Particle Physics, Lund, Sweden
| | - J Stachel
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - I Stan
- Institute of Space Science (ISS), Bucharest, Romania
| | | | - S F Stiefelmaier
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - D Stocco
- SUBATECH, IMT Atlantique, Nantes Université, CNRS-IN2P3, Nantes, France
| | - I Storehaug
- Department of Physics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
| | - M M Storetvedt
- Faculty of Engineering and Science, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Bergen, Norway
| | - P Stratmann
- Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Institut für Kernphysik, Münster, Germany
| | - S Strazzi
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Bologna, Italy
| | - C P Stylianidis
- Nikhef, National institute for subatomic physics, Amsterdam, Netherlands
| | - A A P Suaide
- Universidade de São Paulo (USP), Sao Paulo, Brazil
| | - C Suire
- Laboratoire de Physique des 2 Infinis, Irène Joliot-Curie, Orsay, France
| | - M Sukhanov
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - M Suljic
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - V Sumberia
- Physics Department, University of Jammu, Jammu, India
| | - S Sumowidagdo
- National Research and Innovation Agency - BRIN, Jakarta, Indonesia
| | - S Swain
- Institute of Physics, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Bhubaneswar, India
| | - A Szabo
- Comenius University Bratislava, Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics, Bratislava, Slovak Republic
| | - I Szarka
- Comenius University Bratislava, Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics, Bratislava, Slovak Republic
| | - U Tabassam
- COMSATS University Islamabad, Islamabad, Pakistan
| | - S F Taghavi
- Physik Department, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
| | - G Taillepied
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
- Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS/IN2P3, LPC, Clermont-Ferrand, France
| | - J Takahashi
- Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas, Brazil
| | - G J Tambave
- Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
| | - S Tang
- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
- Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS/IN2P3, LPC, Clermont-Ferrand, France
| | - Z Tang
- University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China
| | | | - N Tapus
- University Politehnica of Bucharest, Bucharest, Roma
| | - L A Tarasovicova
- Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Institut für Kernphysik, Münster, Germany
| | - M G Tarzila
- Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Bucharest, Romania
| | - A Tauro
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - G Tejeda Muñoz
- High Energy Physics Group, Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Puebla, Mexico
| | - A Telesca
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - L Terlizzi
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
| | | | - G Tersimonov
- Bogolyubov Institute for Theoretical Physics, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine
| | - S Thakur
- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Kolkata, India
| | - D Thomas
- The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, USA
| | - R Tieulent
- Université de Lyon, CNRS/IN2P3, Institut de Physique des 2 Infinis de Lyon, Lyon, France
| | - A Tikhonov
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | | | - M Tkacik
- Technical University of Košice, Košice, Slovak Republic
| | - T Tkacik
- Technical University of Košice, Košice, Slovak Republic
| | - A Toia
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - N Topilskaya
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - M Toppi
- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Frascati, Italy
| | - F Torales-Acosta
- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA
| | - T Tork
- Laboratoire de Physique des 2 Infinis, Irène Joliot-Curie, Orsay, France
| | - A G Torres Ramos
- Dipartimento Interateneo di Fisica 'M. Merlin' and Sezione INFN, Bari, Italy
| | - A Trifiró
- Dipartimento di Scienze MIFT, Università di Messina, Messina, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Catania, Catania, Italy
| | - A S Triolo
- Dipartimento di Scienze MIFT, Università di Messina, Messina, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Catania, Catania, Italy
| | - S Tripathy
- INFN, Sezione di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
| | - T Tripathy
- Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT), Mumbai, India
| | - S Trogolo
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - V Trubnikov
- Bogolyubov Institute for Theoretical Physics, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine
| | | | | | - A Tumkin
- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
| | - R Turrisi
- INFN, Sezione di Padova, Padova, Italy
| | - T S Tveter
- Department of Physics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
| | - K Ullaland
- Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
| | - B Ulukutlu
- Physik Department, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
| | - A Uras
- Université de Lyon, CNRS/IN2P3, Institut de Physique des 2 Infinis de Lyon, Lyon, France
| | - M Urioni
- INFN, Sezione di Pavia, Pavia, Italy
- Università di Brescia, Brescia, Italy
| | - G L Usai
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Cagliari, Italy
| | - M Vala
- Faculty of Science, P.J. Šafárik University, Košice, Slovak Republic
| | - N Valle
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Pavia, Pavia, Italy
| | - S Vallero
- INFN, Sezione di Torino, Turin, Italy
| | - L V R van Doremalen
- Institute for Gravitational and Subatomic Physics (GRASP), Utrecht University/Nikhef, Utrecht, Netherlands
| | - M van Leeuwen
- Nikhef, National institute for subatomic physics, Amsterdam, Netherlands
| | - C A van Veen
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - R J G van Weelden
- Nikhef, National institute for subatomic physics, Amsterdam, Netherlands
| | - P Vande Vyvre
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - D Varga
- Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Budapest, Hungary
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- Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Budapest, Hungary
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- National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, School of Science, Department of Physics, Athens, Greece
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- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
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- Physik Department, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
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- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
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- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
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- High Energy Physics Group, Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Puebla, Mexico
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- Institute for Gravitational and Subatomic Physics (GRASP), Utrecht University/Nikhef, Utrecht, Netherlands
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- Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Budapest, Hungary
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- Institute for Gravitational and Subatomic Physics (GRASP), Utrecht University/Nikhef, Utrecht, Netherlands
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- Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture, University of Split, Split, Croatia
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- University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
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- INFN, Sezione di Bari, Bari, Italy
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- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
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- Dipartimento di Fisica 'E.R. Caianiello' dell'Università and Gruppo Collegato INFN, Salerno, Italy
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- Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Affiliated with an international laboratory covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
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- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
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- Dipartimento Interateneo di Fisica 'M. Merlin' and Sezione INFN, Bari, Italy
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
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- Physik Department, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
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- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
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- Faculty of Science, P.J. Šafárik University, Košice, Slovak Republic
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- Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
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- Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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- Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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- Stefan Meyer Institut für Subatomare Physik (SMI), Vienna, Austria
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
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- Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
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- Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Institut für Kernphysik, Münster, Germany
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- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
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- Department of Physics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- National Centre for Nuclear Research, Warsaw, Poland
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- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
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- Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Institut für Kernphysik, Münster, Germany
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- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Université Paris-Saclay Centre d'Etudes de Saclay (CEA), IRFU, Départment de Physique Nucléaire (DPhN), Saclay, France
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- The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, USA
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- Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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- University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China
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- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
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- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Kolkata, India
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- KTO Karatay University, Konya, Turkey
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- Physics Program and International Institute for Sustainability with Knotted Chiral Meta Matter (SKCM2), Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan
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- Physics Program and International Institute for Sustainability with Knotted Chiral Meta Matter (SKCM2), Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan
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- Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
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- Physics Program and International Institute for Sustainability with Knotted Chiral Meta Matter (SKCM2), Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan
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- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
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- Department of Physics, Pusan National University, Pusan, Republic of Korea
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- Inha University, Incheon, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
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- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Trieste, Italy
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
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- Institute for Gravitational and Subatomic Physics (GRASP), Utrecht University/Nikhef, Utrecht, Netherlands
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- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
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- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
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- Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
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- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
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- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
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- Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
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- University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China
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- China Institute of Atomic Energy, Beijing, China
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- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
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- China Institute of Atomic Energy, Beijing, China
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- Affiliated with an institute covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
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- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
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- Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
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- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
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- Bogolyubov Institute for Theoretical Physics, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine
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- INFN, Sezione di Pavia, Pavia, Italy
- Università di Brescia, Brescia, Italy
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Farooq QUA, Aiman S, Ali Y, Shaukat Z, Ali Y, Khan A, Samad A, Wadood A, Li C. A comprehensive protein interaction map and druggability investigation prioritized dengue virus NS1 protein as promising therapeutic candidate. PLoS One 2023; 18:e0287905. [PMID: 37498862 PMCID: PMC10374080 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0287905] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/17/2023] [Accepted: 06/15/2023] [Indexed: 07/29/2023] Open
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Dengue Virus (DENV) is a serious threat to human life worldwide and is one of the most dangerous vector-borne diseases, causing thousands of deaths annually. We constructed a comprehensive PPI map of DENV with its host Homo sapiens and performed various bioinformatics analyses. We found 1195 interactions between 858 human and 10 DENV proteins. Pathway enrichment analysis was performed on the two sets of gene products, and the top 5 human proteins with the maximum number of interactions with dengue viral proteins revealed noticeable results. The non-structural protein NS1 in DENV had the maximum number of interactions with the host protein, followed by NS5 and NS3. Among the human proteins, HBA1 and UBE2I were associated with 7 viral proteins, and 3 human proteins (CSNK2A1, RRP12, and HSP90AB1) were found to interact with 6 viral proteins. Pharmacophore-based virtual screening of millions of compounds in the public databases was performed to identify potential DENV-NS1 inhibitors. The lead compounds were selected based on RMSD values, docking scores, and strong binding affinities. The top ten hit compounds were subjected to ADME profiling which identified compounds C2 (MolPort-044-180-163) and C6 (MolPort-001-742-737) as lead inhibitors against DENV-NS1. Molecular dynamics trajectory analysis and intermolecular interactions between NS1 and the ligands displayed the molecular stability of the complexes in the cellular environment. The in-silico approaches used in this study could pave the way for the development of potential specie-specific drugs and help in eliminating deadly viral infections. Therefore, experimental and clinical assays are required to validate the results of this study.
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- Qurrat Ul Ain Farooq
- Faculty of Environmental and Life Sciences, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing, China
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- Faculty of Environmental and Life Sciences, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing, China
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- National Center for Bioinformatics, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan
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- Faculty of Information Technology, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing, China
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- School of Biomedical Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
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- Department of Biochemistry, Abdul Wali Khan University, Mardan, Pakistan
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- Department of Biochemistry, Abdul Wali Khan University, Mardan, Pakistan
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- Department of Biochemistry, Abdul Wali Khan University, Mardan, Pakistan
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- Faculty of Environmental and Life Sciences, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing, China
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Aiman S, Ali Y, Malik A, Alkholief M, Ahmad A, Akhtar S, Ali S, Khan A, Li C, Shams S. Immunoinformatic-guided novel mRNA vaccine designing to elicit immunogenic responses against the endemic Monkeypox virus. J Biomol Struct Dyn 2023:1-15. [PMID: 37424185 DOI: 10.1080/07391102.2023.2233627] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 07/11/2023]
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Monkeypox virus (MPXV) is an orthopoxvirus, causing zoonotic infections in humans with smallpox-like symptoms. The WHO reported MPXV cases in May 2022 and the outbreak caused significant morbidity threats to immunocompromised individuals and children. Currently, no clinically validated therapies are available against MPXV infections. The present study is based on immunoinformatics approaches to design mRNA-based novel vaccine models against MPXV. Three proteins were prioritized based on high antigenicity, low allergenicity, and toxicity values to predict T- and B-cell epitopes. Lead T- and B-cell epitopes were used to design vaccine constructs, linked with epitope-specific linkers and adjuvant to enhance immune responses. Additional sequences, including Kozak sequence, MITD sequence, tPA sequence, Goblin 5', 3' UTRs, and a poly(A) tail were added to design stable and highly immunogenic mRNA vaccine construct. High-quality structures were predicted by molecular modeling and 3D-structural validation of the vaccine construct. Population coverage and epitope-conservancy speculated broader protection of designed vaccine model against multiple MPXV infectious strains. MPXV-V4 was eventually prioritized based on its physicochemical and immunological parameters and docking scores. Molecular dynamics and immune simulations analyses predicted significant structural stability and binding affinity of the top-ranked vaccine model with immune receptors to elicit cellular and humoral immunogenic responses against the MPXV. The pursuance of experimental and clinical follow-up of these prioritized constructs may lay the groundwork to develop safe and effective vaccine against MPXV.Communicated by Ramaswamy H. Sarma.
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- Sara Aiman
- Faculty of Environmental and Life Sciences, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing, China
- Department of Biochemistry, Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan, Mardan, Pakistan
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- Institute of Chemistry, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia
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- Department of Pharmaceutics, College of Pharmacy, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Pharmaceutics, College of Pharmacy, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Biotechnology, Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan, Mardan, Pakistan
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- A.T. Still University of Health Sciences, Kirksville, MO, USA
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- Department of Biotechnology, Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan, Mardan, Pakistan
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- Department of Biochemistry, Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan, Mardan, Pakistan
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- Faculty of Environmental and Life Sciences, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing, China
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- Department of Biochemistry, Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan, Mardan, Pakistan
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Ali Y, Mousa A, Mohamed H, Ibrahim M, Naveed M, Alsamawi M. Candida pneumonia in young and immunocompetent lady: A case report and literature review. IDCases 2023; 33:e01840. [PMID: 37539094 PMCID: PMC10393732 DOI: 10.1016/j.idcr.2023.e01840] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/11/2023] [Revised: 07/02/2023] [Accepted: 07/04/2023] [Indexed: 08/05/2023] Open
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Background Candida is a frequent respiratory tract colonizer. True candida pneumonia is rare and seen with predominance in immunosuppressed patients. Our aim is to document a previously unreported case of Candida pneumonia in a young and immunocompetent patient, highlighting, an unusual pathological manifestation of this infection in immunocompetent individuals. Case summary We report a previously healthy young lady who remained symptomatic with fever, cough and shortness of breath for three weeks duration despite treatment with extensive antibiotics regimen for community acquired pneumonia. She was eventually treated as a probable, rare case of candida pneumonia. The patient demonstrated a dramatic response to single antifungal treatment both clinically and biochemically within the first 24hrs of treatment. Candida albican was isolated on repetitive cultures form the sputum and bronchoalevolar lavage samples. The patient had negative blood cultures. Her HRCT scan revealed bilateral basal air space opacities with peri bronchovascular distribution and centrilobular nodules with branching pattern suggestive of tree in bud predominantly in lower lobes. Her endobronchial biopsies was mostly unremarkable apart from rare non-necrotizing granuloma. Conclusion Candida can rarely cause clinically significant pneumonia in immunocompetent patients and should be considered in the differential diagnosis of granulomatous lung disease.
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- Y. Ali
- Internal Medicine Department, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar
- Medical education department, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar
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- Internal Medicine Department, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar
- Medical education department, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar
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- Medical education department, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar
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- Internal Medicine Department, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar
- Medical education department, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar
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- Pulmonology, Internal medicine, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar
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- Infectious disease, Internal Medicine, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar
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Abrar S, Hafeez A, Khan MN, Rahim S, Ali Y, Bibi R. Non-Participatory Observation Of Integrated Management Of Childhood Illness Practices At Selected Basic Health Units Of District Abbottabad, Kp, Pakistan: A Qualitative Hermeneutic Study. J Ayub Med Coll Abbottabad 2023; 35:457-461. [PMID: 38404092 DOI: 10.55519/jamc-03-10839] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/27/2024]
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BACKGROUND It was in 1995 when a strategy was devised to reduce under-five mortality in countries with a prevalence of child mortality above 40/1000 live births. This strategy is called "Integrated Management of Childhood Illness" (IMCI). Improvement in the skills of healthcare workers (HCWs) depends on the IMCI training received by them. To make IMCI training more effective and scale up, a global technical consultation committee in Geneva recommended implementing an innovative training approach in 2014: the distance learning IMCI (dIMCI). This study was conducted to observe qualitatively the practices of IMCI-trained HCWs at their respective workplaces. METHODS This qualitative hermeneutic study was conducted through non-probability criterion sampling in the district Abbottabad of Pakistan on all 26 basic health units trained in IMCI (either standard or distance learning) from December 9, 2019, to March 9, 2020. Data collection was done by qualitatively observing consultations and interactions of caretakers of under-five children at basic health units. Inductive thematic analysis was used. This qualitative exploration was underpinned by Hans Georg Gadamer's philosophy of hermeneutics. RESULTS Four themes emerged from the observation notes. These themes are gratification after consultation, altercation for medication, non-observance of protocol, and methodical consultation. CONCLUSIONS Improvement in the skills of HCWs in the form of IMCI training, either through distance learning or the common eleven-day standard method, can improve caretakers' satisfaction. However, awareness at the community level is needed for better compliance.
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- Saidul Abrar
- Department of Community Medicine, Gajju Khan Medical College Swabi, Pakistan
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- Al-Sayed Children Hospital Mardan, Pakistan
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- Department of Community Medicine, Makran Medical College Turbat, Pakistan
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- Department of Community Medicine, Women Medical College Abbottabad, Pakistan
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Ali Y, Khan A, Akhtar M, Khan S, Islam ZU, Farooqi N, Shah AA, Chen Y, Jalil F. Exploring the Associations and Molecular Impacts of miR-146a/rs2910164 and miR-196a2/rs185070757 with Rheumatoid Arthritis in a Pakistani Population. Lifestyle Genom 2023; 16:139-150. [PMID: 37369185 DOI: 10.1159/000526937] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/16/2022] [Accepted: 08/22/2022] [Indexed: 06/29/2023] Open
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INTRODUCTION MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are a new class of molecules that participate in post-transcriptional regulation of gene expression and hence have been reported to have a crucial role in the pathogenesis of rheumatoid arthritis (RA). We aimed to investigate the association of miR-146a rs2910164 (G/C) and miR-196a2 rs185070757 (T/G) with RA susceptibility in Pakistani patients and to bioinformatically predict the molecular function of these miRNAs. METHODS A case-control study on 600 individuals was conducted, including 300 RA patients and 300 matching healthy controls. Genotyping was performed by tetra-primer amplification of refractory mutation system-polymerase chain reaction, and the association between variants and RA was statistically determined using different models. RESULTS For the variant rs2910164 (G/C) in miR-146a, no difference in genotype distribution was observed between RA cases and controls, as determined using co-dominant (χ2 = 4.33; p = 0.114), homozygous dominant (C/C vs. G/G + C/G) (OR = 0.740 [0.531-1.032]; p = 0.091), homozygous recessive (G/G vs. C/C + G/C) (odds ratio [OR] = 01.432 [0.930-2.206]; p = 0.126), heterozygous (G/C vs. C/C + G/G) (OR = 1.084 [0.786-1.494]; p = 0.682), and additive (OR 0.778 [0.617-0.981]; p = 0.039) models. Similarly, the GT genotype in the rs185070757 (T/G) miR-196a2 variant did not differ between cases and controls with any models (p > 0.05). For the first time, we report no association of miR-146a rs2910164 (G/C) and miR-196a2 rs185070757 (T/G) with RA in a Pakistani population. A subsequent bioinformatic analysis revealed that the CC genotype of miR-146a rs2910164 might have a protective role against RA pathogenesis, with no effect observed with the miR-196a2 rs185070757. CONCLUSION Our findings suggest that these miRNAs might have little-to-no impact on the RA pathogenesis in the Pakistani population.
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- Yasir Ali
- Department of Biotechnology, Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
- School of Biomedical Sciences, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
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- Department of Biotechnology, Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
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- Department of Biotechnology, Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
- Department of Biotechnology, COMSATS University Islamabad, Abbottabad Campus, Abbottabad, Pakistan
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- Consultant Rheumatologist, Lady Reading Hospital-MTI Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
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- Department of Biotechnology, Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
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- Department of Biotechnology, Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
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- Department of Biotechnology, University of Malakand, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
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- School of Biomedical Sciences, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
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- Department of Biotechnology, Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
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Subhan F, Ali Y, Zhao S. Unraveling preference heterogeneity in willingness-to-pay for enhanced road safety: A hybrid approach of machine learning and quantile regression. Accident Analysis & Prevention 2023; 190:107176. [PMID: 37354850 DOI: 10.1016/j.aap.2023.107176] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/28/2022] [Revised: 12/12/2022] [Accepted: 06/12/2023] [Indexed: 06/26/2023]
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Investing in road safety enhancement programs highly depends on the economic valuation of road traffic accidents and their outcomes. Such evaluation underpins road safety interventions in cost-benefit analysis. To this end, understanding and modeling public willingness-to-pay for enhanced road safety have received significant attention in the past few decades. However, despite considerable modeling efforts, some issues still persist in earlier studies, namely, (i) using standard regression approaches that assume a homogeneous impact of explanatory variables on willingness-to-pay, not accounting for heterogeneity, and depends on a priori distribution of the dependent variable, and (ii) the absence of higher-order interactions from models, leading to omitted variable bias and erroneous model inferences. To overcome this critical research gap, our study proposes a new modeling framework, integrating a machine learning technique (decision tree) to identify a priori relationships for higher-order interactions and a quantile regression model to account for heterogeneity along the entire range of willingness-to-pay. The proposed framework examines the determinants of willingness-to-pay for enhanced road safety using a sample of car drivers from Peshawar, Pakistan. Modeling results indicate that variables not significant in a linear model become significant at specific quantiles of the willingness-to-pay distribution. Further, including higher-order interactions among the explanatory variables provides additional insights into the complex relationship between willingness-to-pay and its determinants. In addition, willingness-to-pay for fatal and severe injury risk reductions is estimated at different quartiles and used to calculate the values of corresponding risk reductions. Overall, the proposed framework provides a better understanding of public sensitivities to willingness-to-pay for enhanced road safety.
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- Fazle Subhan
- School of Economics and Management, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, PR China.
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- School of Architecture, Building, and Civil Engineering, Loughborough University, Leicestershire LE11 3TU, United Kingdom.
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- School of Transportation and Logistics, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, PR China.
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Hussain M, Rawas F, Ali Y, Edhayan G, Lyapichev KA, Nawgiri R. Flow cytometry improves the diagnostic value of fine needle aspiration cytology in a spleen with neuroendocrine tumor: A case report. Diagn Cytopathol 2023. [PMID: 37329326 DOI: 10.1002/dc.25180] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/12/2023] [Revised: 05/26/2023] [Accepted: 05/30/2023] [Indexed: 06/19/2023]
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Fine needle aspirations are infrequently performed on the spleen due to concerns for hemorrhagic complications. As a result, splenic lesions can be challenging to diagnose given the limited amount of available specimen. Metastasis to the spleen is rare and metastatic neuroendocrine tumors to the spleen are scarce in literature. The diagnosis of splenic lesions from fine needle aspirate entails processing which prolongs the turnaround time, particularly if the cytomorphology is non-typical and a limited sample can further complicate this process. We describe a case in which flow cytometry performed on fine needle aspiration of a splenic lesion suggested a diagnosis of neuroendocrine neoplasm involving the spleen. Further workup confirmed this diagnosis. Flow cytometry can recognize neuroendocrine tumors involving the spleen in a timely manner so that appropriate immunohistochemistry tests on limited specimens can be performed to aid in their accurate diagnosis.
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- Mahreen Hussain
- Department of Anatomical and Clinical Pathology, The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, USA
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- Department of Anatomical and Clinical Pathology, The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, USA
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- Department of Anatomical and Clinical Pathology, The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, USA
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- Department of Radiology, The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, USA
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- Department of Anatomical and Clinical Pathology, The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, USA
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- Department of Anatomical and Clinical Pathology, The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, USA
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Ali Y, Haque MM. Modelling braking behaviour of distracted young drivers in car-following interactions: A grouped random parameters duration model with heterogeneity-in-means. Accid Anal Prev 2023; 185:107015. [PMID: 36889237 DOI: 10.1016/j.aap.2023.107015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/29/2022] [Revised: 01/27/2023] [Accepted: 02/21/2023] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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Braking is an important characteristic of driving behaviour that has a direct relationship with rear-end collisions in a car-following task. Braking becomes more crucial when drivers' cognitive workload increases because of using mobile phones whilst driving. This study, therefore, investigates and compares the effects of using mobile phones whilst driving on braking behaviour. Thirty-two young licenced drivers, evenly split by gender, faced a safety-critical event, that is, leader's hard braking, in a car-following situation. Each participant drove the CARRS-Q Advanced Driving Simulator and was required to respond to a braking event in the simulated environment in three phone conditions: baseline (no phone conversation), handheld, and hands-free. A random parameters duration modelling approach is employed to (i) model drivers' braking (or deceleration) times using a parametric survival model, (ii) capture unobserved heterogeneity associated with braking times, and (iii) account for repeated experiment design. The model identifies the handheld phone condition as a random parameter whilst vehicle dynamics variables, hands-free phone condition, and driver-specific variables are found as fixed parameters. The model suggests that most distracted drivers (in the handheld condition) reduce their initial speeds more slowly than undistracted drivers, reflecting their delayed initial braking that may lead to abrupt braking to avoid a rear-end collision. Further, another group of distracted drivers exhibits faster braking (in the handheld condition), recognising the risk associated with mobile phone usage and delayed initial braking. Provisional licence holders are found to be slower in reducing their initial speeds than open licence holders, indicating their risk-taking behaviour because of their less experience and more sensitivity to mobile phone distraction. Overall, mobile phone distraction appears to impair the braking behaviour of young drivers, which poses significant safety concerns for traffic streams.
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- Yasir Ali
- Loughborough University, School of Architecture, Building, and Civil Engineering, Leicestershire LE11 3TU, United Kingdom.
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- Queensland University of Technology, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Brisbane, QLD 4000, Australia.
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Ahmad SU, Ali Y, Jan Z, Rasheed S, Nazir NUA, Khan A, Rukh Abbas S, Wadood A, Rehman AU. Computational screening and analysis of deleterious nsSNPs in human p14ARF ( CDKN2A gene) protein using molecular dynamic simulation approach. J Biomol Struct Dyn 2023; 41:3964-3975. [PMID: 35446184 DOI: 10.1080/07391102.2022.2059570] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/29/2021] [Accepted: 03/24/2022] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor 2 A (CDKN2A) gene belongs to the cyclin-dependent kinase family that code for two transcripts (p16INK4A and p14ARF), both work as tumor suppressors proteins. The mutation that occurs in the p14ARF protein can lead to different types of cancers. Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) are an important type of genetic alteration that can lead to different types of diseases. In this study, we applied the computational strategy on human p14ARF protein to identify the potential deleterious nsSNPs and check their impact on the structure, function, and protein stability. We applied more than ten prediction tools to screen the retrieved 288 nsSNPs, consequently extracting four deleterious nsSNPs i.e., rs139725688 (R10G), rs139725688 (R21W), rs374360796 (F23L) and rs747717236 (L124R). Homology modeling, conservation and conformational analysis of mutant models were performed to examine the divergence of these variants from the native p14ARF structure. All-atom molecular dynamics simulation revealed a significant impact of these mutations on protein stability, compactness, globularity, solvent accessibility and secondary structure elements. Protein-protein interactions indicated that p14ARF operates as a hub linking clusters of different proteins and that changes in p14ARF may result in the disassociation of numerous signal cascades. Our current study is the first survey of computational analysis on p14ARF protein that determines the association of these nsSNPs with the altered function of p14ARF protein and leads to the development of various types of cancers. This research proposes the described functional SNPs as possible targets for proteomic investigations, diagnostic procedures, and treatments.Communicated by Ramaswamy H. Sarma.
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- Syed Umair Ahmad
- Department of Bioinformatics, Hazara University, Mansehra, Pakistan
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- National Center for Bioinformatics, Quaid-i- Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan
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- Department of Bioinformatics, Hazara University, Mansehra, Pakistan
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- National Center for Bioinformatics, Quaid-i- Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan
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- Atta Ur Rahman School of Applied Biosciences, National University of Sciences and Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan
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- Department of Botany, Abdul Wali Khan University, Mardan, KPK, Pakistan
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- Atta Ur Rahman School of Applied Biosciences, National University of Sciences and Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan
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- Department of Biochemistry, Abdul Wali Khan University, Mardan, KPK, Pakistan
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA
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Khan HA, Asif MU, Ijaz MK, Alharbi M, Ali Y, Ahmad F, Azhar R, Ahmad S, Irfan M, Javed M, Naseer N, Aziz A. In Silico Characterization and Analysis of Clinically Significant Variants of Lipase-H (LIPH Gene) Protein Associated with Hypotrichosis. Pharmaceuticals (Basel) 2023; 16:803. [PMID: 37375751 DOI: 10.3390/ph16060803] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/09/2023] [Revised: 05/14/2023] [Accepted: 05/24/2023] [Indexed: 06/29/2023] Open
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Hypotrichosis is an uncommon type of alopecia (hair loss) characterized by coarse scalp hair caused by the reduced or fully terminated activity of the Lipase-H (LIPH) enzyme. LIPH gene mutations contribute to the development of irregular or non-functional proteins. Because several cellular processes, including cell maturation and proliferation, are inhibited when this enzyme is inactive, the hair follicles become structurally unreliable, undeveloped, and immature. This results in brittle hair, as well as altered hair shaft development and structure. Because of these nsSNPs, the protein's structure and/or function may be altered. Given the difficulty in discovering functional SNPs in genes associated with disease, it is possible to assess potential functional SNPs before conducting broader population investigations. As a result, in our in silico analysis, we separated potentially hazardous nsSNPs of the LIPH gene from benign representatives using a variety of sequencing and architecture-based bioinformatics approaches. Using seven prediction algorithms, 9 out of a total of 215 nsSNPs were shown to be the most likely to cause harm. In order to distinguish between potentially harmful and benign nsSNPs of the LIPH gene, in our in silico investigation, we employed a range of sequence- and architecture-based bioinformatics techniques. Three nsSNPs (W108R, C246S, and H248N) were chosen as potentially harmful. The present findings will likely be helpful in future large population-based studies, as well as in drug discovery, particularly in the creation of personalized medicine, since this study provides an initial thorough investigation of the functional nsSNPs of LIPH.
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- Hamza Ali Khan
- Department of Computer Science and Bioinformatics, Khushal Khan Khattak University, Karak 27200, Pakistan
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- Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, College of Pharmacy, King Saud University, Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabia
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- National Center for Bioinformatics, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad 45320, Pakistan
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- National Center for Bioinformatics, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad 45320, Pakistan
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- National Center for Bioinformatics, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad 45320, Pakistan
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- Department of Health and Biological Sciences, Abasyn University, Peshawar 25000, Pakistan
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- Department of Oral Biology, College of Dentistry, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA
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- National Center for Bioinformatics, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad 45320, Pakistan
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- National Center for Bioinformatics, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad 45320, Pakistan
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- Department of Computer Science and Bioinformatics, Khushal Khan Khattak University, Karak 27200, Pakistan
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Farooqi N, Rahman A, Ali Y, Ali K, Khan MEH, Jones DA, Abdelkarim M, Ullah F, Jalil F. Phylogenetic analysis of promoter regions of human Dolichol kinase (DOLK) and orthologous genes using bioinformatics tools. Open Life Sci 2023; 18:20220591. [PMID: 37250845 PMCID: PMC10224619 DOI: 10.1515/biol-2022-0591] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/13/2022] [Revised: 02/07/2023] [Accepted: 03/12/2023] [Indexed: 05/31/2023] Open
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The Dolichol kinase (DOLK) gene encodes the polytopic DOLK protein associated with the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) N-glycosylation pathway catalyzing the final step in the biosynthesis of dolichol phosphate. Dolichol phosphate is an oligosaccharide carrier required for N-glycosylation of DOLK protein, with its deficiency leading to a severe hypo glycosylation phenotype in humans which can cause congenital disorders of glycosylation and death in early infancy. The aim of the present study is to identify the phylogenetic relationship between human and ortholog species based on their conserved sequences in DOLK gene. Sequence alignment of DOLK was carried out in this study and the evolutionarily conserved regulatory sequences were identified using bioinformatics. Promoter sequence of human DOLK was compared with orthologous sequences from different organisms. Conserved non-coding sequences (CNS) and motifs in promoter regions were found by analyzing upstream promoter sequences of Homo sapiens DOLK and its orthologous genes in other organisms. Conserved sequences were predicted in the promoter regions in CNS1 and CNS2. Conserved protein sequences were also identified by alignment of the orthologous sequences. Organisms with similar gene sequences are assumed to be closely related and the ER N-glycosylation pathway is conserved in them.
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- Nadia Farooqi
- Department of Zoology, Women Campus, University of Swat, 19120, Swat, Pakistan
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- Department of Botany, Laboratory of Plant Ecology and Dendrochronology, University of Malakand, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
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- Department of Biotechnology, Faculty of Chemical and Life Sciences, Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan, 23200, Mardan, Pakistan
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- College of General Education, University of Doha for Science and Technology, Al Tarafa, Jelaiah Street, Duhail North, PO Box 24449Doha, Qatar
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- College of General Education, University of Doha for Science and Technology, Al Tarafa, Jelaiah Street, Duhail North, PO Box 24449Doha, Qatar
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- College of Health Sciences, University of Doha for Science and Technology, Al Tarafa, Jelaiah Street, Duhail North, PO Box 24449Doha, Qatar
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- College of General Education, University of Doha for Science and Technology, Al Tarafa, Jelaiah Street, Duhail North, PO Box 24449Doha, Qatar
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- Centre for Biotechnology and Microbiology, University of Swat, 19120, Swat, Pakistan
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- Department of Biotechnology, Faculty of Chemical and Life Sciences, Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan, 23200, Mardan, Pakistan
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Wali A, Yang Z, Arken A, Ali Y, Wang YH, Kelaimu R, Mavlonov GT, Yili A, Aisa HA. Simplified Two-Step Purification of Hyaluronidase from Buthus martensii Manchurian Scorpion Venom. Chem Nat Compd 2023. [DOI: 10.1007/s10600-023-03992-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/05/2023]
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Ali Y, Khan HU. A Survey on harnessing the Applications of Mobile Computing in Healthcare during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Challenges and Solutions. Comput Netw 2023; 224:109605. [PMID: 36776582 PMCID: PMC9894776 DOI: 10.1016/j.comnet.2023.109605] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/27/2022] [Revised: 11/17/2022] [Accepted: 01/31/2023] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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The COVID-19 pandemic ravaged almost every walk of life but it triggered many challenges for the healthcare system, globally. Different cutting-edge technologies such as Internet of things (IoT), machine learning, Virtual Reality (VR), Big data, Blockchain etc. have been adopted to cope with this menace. In this regard, various surveys have been conducted to highlight the importance of these technologies. However, among these technologies, the role of mobile computing is of paramount importance which is not found in the existing literature. Hence, this survey in mainly targeted to highlight the significant role of mobile computing in alleviating the impacts of COVID-19 in healthcare sector. The major applications of mobile computing such as software-based solutions, hardware-based solutions and wireless communication-based support for diagnosis, prevention, self-symptom reporting, contact tracing, social distancing, telemedicine and treatment related to coronavirus are discussed in detailed and comprehensive fashion. A state-of-the-art work is presented to identify the challenges along with possible solutions in adoption of mobile computing with respect to COVID-19 pandemic. Hopefully, this research will help the researchers, policymakers and healthcare professionals to understand the current research gaps and future research directions in this domain. To the best level of our knowledge, this is the first survey of its type to address the COVID-19 pandemic by exploring the holistic contribution of mobile computing technologies in healthcare area.
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- Yasir Ali
- Higher Education Department, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Government Degree College Kotha Swabi, KP, Pakistan
- Higher Education Department, Shahzeb Shaheed Government Degree College Razzar, Swabi, KP, Pakistan
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- Accounting and Information, College of Business and Economics, Qatar University, Doha Qatar
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Rehman AU, Khurshid B, Ali Y, Rasheed S, Wadood A, Ng HL, Chen HF, Wei Z, Luo R, Zhang J. Computational approaches for the design of modulators targeting protein-protein interactions. Expert Opin Drug Discov 2023; 18:315-333. [PMID: 36715303 PMCID: PMC10149343 DOI: 10.1080/17460441.2023.2171396] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/06/2022] [Accepted: 01/18/2023] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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BACKGROUND Protein-protein interactions (PPIs) are intriguing targets for designing novel small-molecule inhibitors. The role of PPIs in various infectious and neurodegenerative disorders makes them potential therapeutic targets . Despite being portrayed as undruggable targets, due to their flat surfaces, disorderedness, and lack of grooves. Recent progresses in computational biology have led researchers to reconsider PPIs in drug discovery. AREAS COVERED In this review, we introduce in-silico methods used to identify PPI interfaces and present an in-depth overview of various computational methodologies that are successfully applied to annotate the PPIs. We also discuss several successful case studies that use computational tools to understand PPIs modulation and their key roles in various physiological processes. EXPERT OPINION Computational methods face challenges due to the inherent flexibility of proteins, which makes them expensive, and result in the use of rigid models. This problem becomes more significant in PPIs due to their flexible and flat interfaces. Computational methods like molecular dynamics (MD) simulation and machine learning can integrate the chemical structure data into biochemical and can be used for target identification and modulation. These computational methodologies have been crucial in understanding the structure of PPIs, designing PPI modulators, discovering new drug targets, and predicting treatment outcomes.
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- Ashfaq Ur Rehman
- Departments of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering, and Biomedical Engineering, Graduate Program in Chemical and Materials Physics, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, USA
- Key Laboratory of Cell Differentiation and Apoptosis of Chinese Ministry of Education, Medicinal Bioinformatics Center, Shanghai Jiao-Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, Zhejiang, China
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- Department of Biochemistry, Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan, Pakistan
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- National Center for Bioinformatics, Quaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan
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- National Center for Bioinformatics, Quaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan
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- Department of Biochemistry, Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan, Pakistan
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, USA
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- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Metabolism, Joint International Research Laboratory of Metabolic & Developmental Sciences, Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, National Experimental Teaching Center for Life Sciences and Biotechnology, School of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, Zhejiang, China
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- Medicinal Chemistry and Bioinformatics Center, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, Shandong, China
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- Departments of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering, and Biomedical Engineering, Graduate Program in Chemical and Materials Physics, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, USA
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- Key Laboratory of Cell Differentiation and Apoptosis of Chinese Ministry of Education, Medicinal Bioinformatics Center, Shanghai Jiao-Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, Zhejiang, China
- School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, Henan, China
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Zahid S, Ali Y, Rashid S. Structural-based design of HD-TAC7 PROteolysis TArgeting chimeras (PROTACs) candidate transformations to abrogate SARS-CoV-2 infection. J Biomol Struct Dyn 2023; 41:14566-14581. [PMID: 36841549 DOI: 10.1080/07391102.2023.2183037] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/27/2022] [Accepted: 02/16/2023] [Indexed: 02/27/2023]
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Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is responsible for about 672 million infections and 6.85 million deaths worldwide. Upon SARS-CoV-2 infection, Histone deacetylases (HDACs) hyperactivate the pro-inflammatory response resulting in stimulation of Acetyl-Coenzyme A and cholesterol for viral entry. HDAC3 inhibition results in the anti-inflammatory activity and reduction of pro-inflammatory cytokines that may restrict COVID-19 progression. Here, we have designed 44 conformational ensembles of previously known HD-TAC7 by enumerating torsions of dihedral angles tested for their binding preferences against HDAC3. Through scrutinizing their placements at active site and binding affinities, three hits were isolated. Cereblon (CRBN) is a well-known E3 ligase that facilitates Proteolysis Targeting Chimeras (PROTACs) targeting. Three entities, including HDAC3-binding moiety (4-acetamido-N-(2-amino-4 fluorophenyl) benzamide), a 6-carbon linker, and CRBN binding ligand (pomalidomide) were assembled to design 4 PROTACs followed by energy minimization and docking against HDAC3 and CRBN, respectively. Subsequent molecular dynamics (MD) and free energy analyses corroborated similar binding trends and favorable energy values. Among all cases, Met88, GLu106, Pro352, Trp380 and Trp388 residues of CRBN, and Pro23, Arg28, Lys194, Phe199, Leu266, Thr299 and Ile346 residues of HDAC3 were engaged in PROTAC binding. Thus, conformational dynamics of both HDAC3 and CRBN moieties are essential for the placement of PROTAC, resulting in target degradation. Overall, the proposed bifunctional small molecules may effectively target HDAC3, stimulating innate immune response to restrict COVID-19 hyperinflammation. This study supports the basis for designing new PROTACs by limiting the conformational search space that may prove more efficient for targeting the protein of interest.Communicated by Ramaswamy H. Sarma.
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- Sana Zahid
- National Center for Bioinformatics, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan
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- National Center for Bioinformatics, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan
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- National Center for Bioinformatics, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan
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Ali Y, Imtiaz H, Tahir MM, Gul F, Saddozai UAK, ur Rehman A, Ren ZG, Khattak S, Ji XY. Fragment-Based Approaches Identified Tecovirimat-Competitive Novel Drug Candidate for Targeting the F13 Protein of the Monkeypox Virus. Viruses 2023; 15:v15020570. [PMID: 36851785 PMCID: PMC9959752 DOI: 10.3390/v15020570] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/10/2023] [Revised: 02/13/2023] [Accepted: 02/17/2023] [Indexed: 02/22/2023] Open
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Monkeypox is a serious public health issue in tropical and subtropical areas. Antivirals that target monkeypox proteins might lead to more effective and efficient therapy. The F13 protein is essential for the growth and maturation of the monkeypox virus. F13 inhibition might be a viable therapeutic target for monkeypox. The in silico fragment-based drug discovery method for developing antivirals may provide novel therapeutic options. In this study, we generated 800 compounds based on tecovirimat, an FDA-approved drug that is efficacious at nanomolar quantities against monkeypox. These compounds were evaluated to identify the most promising fragments based on binding affinity and pharmacological characteristics. The top hits from the chemical screening were docked into the active site of the F13 protein. Molecular dynamics simulations were performed on the top two probable new candidates from molecular docking. The ligand-enzyme interaction analysis revealed that the C2 ligand had lower binding free energy than the standard ligand tecovirimat. Water bridges, among other interactions, were shown to stabilize the C2 molecule. Conformational transitions and secondary structure changes in F13 protein upon C2 binding show more native three-dimensional folding of the protein. Prediction of pharmacological properties revealed that compound C2 may be promising as a drug candidate for monkeypox fever. However, additional in vitro and in vivo testing is required for validation.
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- Yasir Ali
- National Center for Bioinformatics, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad 45320, Pakistan
- Henan International Joint Laboratory for Nuclear Protein Regulation, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Henan University, Kaifeng 475004, China
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- Tehsil Headquarter Hospital Bhera, Sargodha, Punjab 40540, Pakistan
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- National Center for Bioinformatics, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad 45320, Pakistan
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- Henan International Joint Laboratory for Nuclear Protein Regulation, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Henan University, Kaifeng 475004, China
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA 2697-3900, USA
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- The First Affiliated Hospital, Henan University, Kaifeng 475004, China
- Correspondence: (Z.-G.R.); (S.K.); (X.-Y.J.)
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- Henan International Joint Laboratory for Nuclear Protein Regulation, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Henan University, Kaifeng 475004, China
- Correspondence: (Z.-G.R.); (S.K.); (X.-Y.J.)
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- Henan International Joint Laboratory for Nuclear Protein Regulation, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Henan University, Kaifeng 475004, China
- Kaifeng Key Laboratory for Infectious Diseases and Biosafety, Kaifeng 475004, China
- Faculty of Basic Medical Subjects, Shu-Qing Medical College of Zhengzhou, Mazhai, Erqi District, Zhengzhou 450064, China
- Correspondence: (Z.-G.R.); (S.K.); (X.-Y.J.)
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Ali Y, Chen Y, Islam ZU, Aman A, Almutairi MM, Alouffi A, Mohammed A, Shah AA, Rehman ZU, Hussain I, Ali A, Jalil F. MIR149 rs2292832 and MIR499 rs3746444 Genetic Variants Associated with the Risk of Rheumatoid Arthritis. Genes (Basel) 2023; 14:431. [PMID: 36833357 PMCID: PMC9956572 DOI: 10.3390/genes14020431] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/30/2022] [Revised: 01/01/2023] [Accepted: 01/19/2023] [Indexed: 02/11/2023] Open
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INTRODUCTION MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are small non-coding RNAs that play a key role in post-transcriptional modulation of individual genes' expression. Several miRNA variants from different populations are known to be associated with an increased risk of rheumatoid arthritis (RA). AIM This study was undertaken with the aim to investigate the association of single nucleotide variants; namely, rs2292832, rs3746444, rs11614913, rs1044165, and rs767649 of MIR149, MIR499, MIR196, MIR223, and MIR155, respectively, with RA in the Pakistani population. METHODS A case-control study was performed by recruiting and genotyping a total of 600 individuals (300 cases and 300 controls) for these five variants using a TaqMan single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) genotyping assay. The resultant genotypic data was statistically analyzed through a chi-squared test for its association with RA under different inheritance models. RESULTS We found a significant association of rs2292832 with RA at genotypic (co-dominant (p < 0.0001), dominant (CC vs. TT + CT: OR 2.063 (1.437-2.962); p = 0.0001), recessive (TT vs. CT + CC: OR 0.376 (0.259-0.548); p < 0.0001)), and allelic (allele C) levels ((OR 0.506 (0.402-0637); p < 0.0001)). Similarly, the rs3746444 showed a significant association with RA under co-dominant (p = 0.0001), dominant (GG vs. AA + AG: OR 5.246 (3.414-8.061); p < 0.0001), recessive (AA vs. GG + AG: OR 0.653 (0.466-0.916); p = 0.014), and additive models (G vs. A; OR 0.779 (0.620-0.978); p = 0.03). However, we did not observe any significant association of rs11614913, rs1044165, or rs767649 with RA in our subjects. CONCLUSION To our knowledge, this was the first study that investigated and found an association between functional polymorphisms in miRNAs and RA in the Pakistani population.
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- Yasir Ali
- Department of Biotechnology, Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan, Mardan 23200, Pakistan
- School of Biomedical Sciences, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong 999077, China
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- School of Biomedical Sciences, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong 999077, China
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- Department of Biotechnology, Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan, Mardan 23200, Pakistan
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- Department of Biotechnology, Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan, Mardan 23200, Pakistan
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- Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, College of Pharmacy, King Saud University, Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabia
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- King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology, Riyadh 12354, Saudi Arabia
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- Division of Molecular Therapeutics and Formulation, School of Pharmacy, University of Nottingham, Nottingham NG7 2RD, UK
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- Department of Biotechnology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Malakand, Chakdara 18800, Pakistan
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- Department of Medicine, Lady Reading Hospital (LRH), Peshawar 25000, Pakistan
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- Department of Zoology, Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan, Mardan 23200, Pakistan
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- Department of Biotechnology, Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan, Mardan 23200, Pakistan
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Khattak S, Rauf MA, Ali Y, Yousaf MT, Liu Z, Wu DD, Ji XY. The monkeypox diagnosis, treatments and prevention: A review. Front Cell Infect Microbiol 2023; 12:1088471. [PMID: 36814644 PMCID: PMC9939471 DOI: 10.3389/fcimb.2022.1088471] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/03/2022] [Accepted: 12/30/2022] [Indexed: 02/08/2023] Open
Abstract
The world is currently dealing with a second viral outbreak, monkeypox, which has the potential to become an epidemic after the COVID-19 pandemic. People who reside in or close to forest might be exposed indirectly or at a low level, resulting in subclinical disease. However, the disease has lately emerged in shipped African wild mice in the United States. Smallpox can cause similar signs and symptoms to monkeypox, such as malaise, fever, flu-like signs, headache, distinctive rash, and back pain. Because Smallpox has been eliminated, similar symptoms in a monkeypox endemic zone should be treated cautiously. Monkeypox is transmitted to humans primarily via interaction with diseased animals. Infection through inoculation via interaction with skin or scratches and mucosal lesions on the animals is conceivable significantly once the skin barrier is disrupted by scratches, bites, or other disturbances or trauma. Even though it is clinically unclear from other pox-like infections, laboratory diagnosis is essential. There is no approved treatment for human monkeypox virus infection, however, smallpox vaccination can defend counter to the disease. Human sensitivity to monkeypox virus infection has grown after mass vaccination was discontinued in the 1980s. Infection may be prevented by reducing interaction with sick patients or animals and reducing respiratory exposure among people who are infected.
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Affiliation(s)
- Saadullah Khattak
- Henan International Joint Laboratory for Nuclear Protein Regulation, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Henan University, Kaifeng, Henan, China
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- School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, United States
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- National Center for Bioinformatics, Quaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan
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- Institute of Microbiology, Faculty of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Gomal University, Dera Ismail Khan, Pakistan
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- Department of General Practice, Henan Provincial Peoples Hospital, People's Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, Henan, China,*Correspondence: Zhihui Liu, ; Dong-Dong Wu, ; Xin-Ying Ji,
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- Henan International Joint Laboratory for Nuclear Protein Regulation, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Henan University, Kaifeng, Henan, China,School of Stomatology, Henan University, Kaifeng, Henan, China,*Correspondence: Zhihui Liu, ; Dong-Dong Wu, ; Xin-Ying Ji,
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- Henan International Joint Laboratory for Nuclear Protein Regulation, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Henan University, Kaifeng, Henan, China,*Correspondence: Zhihui Liu, ; Dong-Dong Wu, ; Xin-Ying Ji,
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