K. R. Andrews¹, A. Angerami¹⁴, K. Aoki^34,56, N. Apadula⁶², E. Appelt⁶⁶, Y. Aramaki^12,56, R. Armendariz⁸, E. C. Aschenauer⁷, E. T. Atomssa³⁵, R. Averbeck⁶², T. C. Awes⁵², B. Azmoun⁷, V. Babintsev²⁴, M. Bai⁶, G. Baksay¹⁹, L. Baksay¹⁹, B. Bannier⁶², K. N. Barish⁸, B. Bassalleck⁴⁹, A. T. Basye¹, S. Bathe^5,8,57, V. Baublis⁵⁵, C. Baumann⁴⁴, A. Bazilevsky⁷, S. Belikov^7,*, R. Belmont^43,66, J. Ben-Benjamin⁴⁵, R. Bennett⁶², J. H. Bhom⁷⁰, D. S. Blau³³, J. S. Bok^50,70, K. Boyle^57,62, M. L. Brooks³⁸, D. Broxmeyer⁴⁵, H. Buesching⁷, V. Bumazhnov²⁴, G. Bunce^7,57, S. Butsyk³⁸, S. Campbell⁶², A. Caringi⁴⁵, P. Castera⁶², C.-H. Chen⁶², C. Y. Chi¹⁴, M. Chiu⁷, I. J. Choi^25,70, J. B. Choi¹⁰, R. K. Choudhury⁴, P. Christiansen⁴⁰, T. Chujo⁶⁵, P. Chung⁶¹, O. Chvala⁸, V. Cianciolo⁵², Z. Citron⁶², B. A. Cole¹⁴, Z. Conesa del Valle³⁵, M. Connors⁶², M. Csanád¹⁷, T. Csörgő⁶⁹, T. Dahms⁶², S. Dairaku^34,56, I. Danchev⁶⁶, K. Das²⁰, A. Datta⁴², G. David⁷, M. K. Dayananda²¹, A. Denisov²⁴, A. Deshpande^57,62, E. J. Desmond⁷, K. V. Dharmawardane⁵⁰, O. Dietzsch⁵⁹, A. Dion^28,62, M. Donadelli⁵⁹, O. Drapier³⁵, A. Drees⁶², K. A. Drees⁶, J. M. Durham^38,62, A. Durum²⁴, D. Dutta⁴, L. D’Orazio⁴¹, S. Edwards²⁰, Y. V. Efremenko⁵², F. Ellinghaus¹³, T. Engelmore¹⁴, A. Enokizono⁵², H. En’yo^56,57, S. Esumi⁶⁵, B. Fadem⁴⁵, D. E. Fields⁴⁹, M. Finger⁹, M. Finger, Jr.⁹, F. Fleuret³⁵, S. L. Fokin³³, Z. Fraenkel^68,*, J. E. Frantz^51,62, A. Franz⁷, A. D. Frawley²⁰, K. Fujiwara⁵⁶, Y. Fukao⁵⁶, T. Fusayasu⁴⁷, C. Gal⁶², I. Garishvili⁶³, A. Glenn³⁷, H. Gong⁶², X. Gong⁶¹, M. Gonin³⁵, Y. Goto^56,57, R. Granier de Cassagnac³⁵, N. Grau^2,14, S. V. Greene⁶⁶, G. Grim³⁸, M. Grosse Perdekamp²⁵, T. Gunji¹², L. Guo³⁸, H.-Å. Gustafsson^40,*, J. S. Haggerty⁷, K. I. Hahn¹⁸, H. Hamagaki¹², J. Hamblen⁶³, R. Han⁵⁴, J. Hanks¹⁴, C. Harper⁴⁵, K. Hashimoto^56,58, E. Haslum⁴⁰, R. Hayano¹², X. He²¹, M. Heffner³⁷, T. K. Hemmick⁶², T. Hester⁸, J. C. Hill²⁸, M. Hohlmann¹⁹, R. S. Hollis⁸, W. Holzmann¹⁴, K. Homma²³, B. Hong³², T. Horaguchi^23,65, Y. Hori¹², D. Hornback^52,63, S. Huang⁶⁶, T. Ichihara^56,57, R. Ichimiya⁵⁶, H. Iinuma³¹, Y. Ikeda⁶⁵, K. Imai^29,34,56, M. Inaba⁶⁵, A. Iordanova⁸, D. Isenhower¹, M. Ishihara⁵⁶, M. Issah⁶⁶, D. Ivanischev⁵⁵, Y. Iwanaga²³, B. V. Jacak⁶², J. Jia^7,61, X. Jiang³⁸, J. Jin¹⁴, D. John⁶³, B. M. Johnson⁷, T. Jones¹, K. S. Joo⁴⁶, D. Jouan⁵³, D. S. Jumper¹, F. Kajihara¹², J. Kamin⁶², S. Kaneti⁶², B. H. Kang²², J. H. Kang⁷⁰, J. S. Kang²², J. Kapustinsky³⁸, K. Karatsu^34,56, M. Kasai^56,58, D. Kawall^42,57, M. Kawashima^56,58, A. V. Kazantsev³³, T. Kempel²⁸, A. Khanzadeev⁵⁵, K. M. Kijima²³, J. Kikuchi⁶⁷, A. Kim¹⁸, B. I. Kim³², D. J. Kim³⁰, E.-J. Kim¹⁰, Y.-J. Kim²⁵, Y. K. Kim²², E. Kinney¹³, Á. Kiss¹⁷, E. Kistenev⁷, D. Kleinjan⁸, P. Kline⁶², L. Kochenda⁵⁵, B. Komkov⁵⁵, M. Konno⁶⁵, J. Koster²⁵, D. Kotov⁵⁵, A. Král¹⁵, A. Kravitz¹⁴, G. J. Kunde³⁸, K. Kurita^56,58, M. Kurosawa⁵⁶, Y. Kwon⁷⁰, G. S. Kyle⁵⁰, R. Lacey⁶¹, Y. S. Lai¹⁴, J. G. Lajoie²⁸, A. Lebedev²⁸, D. M. Lee³⁸, J. Lee¹⁸, K. B. Lee³², K. S. Lee³², S. H. Lee⁶², S. R. Lee¹⁰, M. J. Leitch³⁸, M. A. L. Leite⁵⁹, X. Li¹¹, P. Lichtenwalner⁴⁵, P. Liebing⁵⁷, S. H. Lim⁷⁰, L. A. Linden Levy¹³, T. Liška¹⁵, H. Liu³⁸, M. X. Liu³⁸, B. Love⁶⁶, D. Lynch⁷, C. F. Maguire⁶⁶, Y. I. Makdisi⁶, M. D. Malik⁴⁹, A. Manion⁶², V. I. Manko³³, E. Mannel¹⁴, Y. Mao^54,56, H. Masui⁶⁵, F. Matathias¹⁴, M. McCumber^13,62, P. L. McGaughey³⁸, D. McGlinchey^13,20, C. McKinney²⁵, N. Means⁶², M. Mendoza⁸, B. Meredith²⁵, Y. Miake⁶⁵, T. Mibe³¹, A. C. Mignerey⁴¹, K. Miki^56,65, A. Milov^7,68, J. T. Mitchell⁷, Y. Miyachi^56,64, A. K. Mohanty⁴, H. J. Moon⁴⁶, Y. Morino¹², A. Morreale⁸, D. P. Morrison^7,†, S. Motschwiller⁴⁵, T. V. Moukhanova³³, T. Murakami³⁴, J. Murata^56,58, S. Nagamiya^31,56, J. L. Nagle^13,‡, M. Naglis⁶⁸, M. I. Nagy⁶⁹, I. Nakagawa^56,57, Y. Nakamiya²³, K. R. Nakamura^34,56, T. Nakamura⁵⁶, K. Nakano⁵⁶, S. Nam¹⁸, J. Newby³⁷, M. Nguyen⁶², M. Nihashi²³, R. Nouicer⁷, A. S. Nyanin³³, C. Oakley²¹, E. O’Brien⁷, S. X. Oda¹², C. A. Ogilvie²⁸, M. Oka⁶⁵, K. Okada⁵⁷, Y. Onuki⁵⁶, A. Oskarsson⁴⁰, M. Ouchida^23,56, K. Ozawa¹², R. Pak⁷, V. Pantuev^26,62, V. Papavassiliou⁵⁰, B. H. Park²², I. H. Park¹⁸, S. K. Park³², W. J. Park³², S. F. Pate⁵⁰, L. Patel²¹, H. Pei²⁸, J.-C. Peng²⁵, H. Pereira¹⁶, D.Yu. Peressounko³³, R. Petti^7,62, C. Pinkenburg⁷, R. P. Pisani⁷, M. Proissl⁶², M. L. Purschke⁷, H. Qu²¹, J. Rak³⁰, I. Ravinovich⁶⁸, K. F. Read^52,63, S. Rembeczki¹⁹, K. Reygers⁴⁴, V. Riabov^48,55, Y. Riabov⁵⁵, E. Richardson⁴¹, D. Roach⁶⁶, G. Roche³⁹, S. D. Rolnick⁸, M. Rosati²⁸, C. A. Rosen¹³, S. S. E. Rosendahl⁴⁰, P. Ružička²⁷, B. Sahlmueller^44,62, N. Saito³¹, T. Sakaguchi⁷, K. Sakashita^56,64, V. Samsonov^48,55, S. Sano^12,67, M. Sarsour²¹, T. Sato⁶⁵, M. Savastio⁶², S. Sawada³¹, K. Sedgwick⁸, J. Seele¹³, R. Seidl^25,57, R. Seto⁸, D. Sharma⁶⁸, I. Shein²⁴, T.-A. Shibata^56,64, K. Shigaki²³, H. H. Shim³², M. Shimomura⁶⁵, K. Shoji^34,56, P. Shukla⁴, A. Sickles⁷, C. L. Silva²⁸, D. Silvermyr⁵², C. Silvestre¹⁶, K. S. Sim³², B. K. Singh³, C. P. Singh³, V. Singh³, M. Slunečka⁹, T. Sodre⁴⁵, R. A. Soltz³⁷, W. E. Sondheim³⁸, S. P. Sorensen⁶³, I. V. Sourikova⁷, P. W. Stankus⁵², E. Stenlund⁴⁰, S. P. Stoll⁷, T. Sugitate²³, A. Sukhanov⁷, J. Sun⁶², J. Sziklai⁶⁹, E. M. Takagui⁵⁹, A. Takahara¹², A. Taketani^56,57, R. Tanabe⁶⁵, Y. Tanaka⁴⁷, S. Taneja⁶², K. Tanida^34,56,57,60, M. J. Tannenbaum⁷, S. Tarafdar³, A. Taranenko^48,61, E. Tennant⁵⁰, H. Themann⁶², D. Thomas¹, T. L. Thomas⁴⁹, M. Togawa⁵⁷, A. Toia⁶², L. Tomášek²⁷, M. Tomášek²⁷, H. Torii²³, R. S. Towell¹, I. Tserruya⁶⁸, Y. Tsuchimoto²³, K. Utsunomiya¹², C. Vale⁷, H. Valle⁶⁶, H. W. van Hecke³⁸, E. Vazquez-Zambrano¹⁴, A. Veicht^14,25, J. Velkovska⁶⁶, R. Vértesi⁶⁹, M. Virius¹⁵, A. Vossen²⁵, V. Vrba²⁷, E. Vznuzdaev⁵⁵, X. R. Wang⁵⁰, D. Watanabe²³, K. Watanabe⁶⁵, Y. Watanabe^56,57, Y. S. Watanabe¹², F. Wei²⁸, R. Wei⁶¹, J. Wessels⁴⁴, S. N. White⁷, D. Winter¹⁴, C. L. Woody⁷, R. M. Wright¹, M. Wysocki¹³, Y. L. Yamaguchi^12,56, K. Yamaura²³, R. Yang²⁵, A. Yanovich²⁴, J. Ying²¹, S. Yokkaichi^56,57, J. S. Yoo¹⁸, Z. You^38,54, G. R. Young⁵², I. Younus^36,49, I. E. Yushmanov³³, W. A. Zajc¹⁴, A. Zelenski⁶, and S. Zhou¹¹ (PHENIX Collaboration)

• ¹Abilene Christian University, Abilene, Texas 79699, USA
• ²Department of Physics, Augustana College, Sioux Falls, South Dakota 57197, USA
• ³Department of Physics, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi 221005, India
• ⁴Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Bombay 400 085, India
• ⁵Baruch College, City University of New York, New York, New York 10010, USA
• ⁶Collider-Accelerator Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973-5000, USA
• ⁷Physics Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973-5000, USA
• ⁸University of California–Riverside, Riverside, California 92521, USA
• ⁹Charles University, Ovocný trh 5, Praha 1, 116 36 Prague, Czech Republic
• ¹⁰Chonbuk National University, Jeonju 561-756, Korea
• ¹¹Science and Technology on Nuclear Data Laboratory, China Institute of Atomic Energy, Beijing 102413, People’s Republic of China
• ¹²Center for Nuclear Study, Graduate School of Science, University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan
• ¹³University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309, USA
• ¹⁴Columbia University, New York, New York 10027, USA and Nevis Laboratories, Irvington, New York 10533, USA
• ¹⁵Czech Technical University, Zikova 4, 166 36 Prague 6, Czech Republic
• ¹⁶Dapnia, CEA Saclay, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
• ¹⁷ELTE, Eötvös Loránd University, H- 1117 Budapest, Pázmány P. s. 1/A, Hungary
• ¹⁸Ewha Womans University, Seoul 120-750, Korea
• ¹⁹Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Florida 32901, USA
• ²⁰Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida 32306, USA
• ²¹Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia 30303, USA
• ²²Hanyang University, Seoul 133-792, Korea
• ²³Hiroshima University, Kagamiyama, Higashi-Hiroshima 739-8526, Japan
• ²⁴IHEP Protvino, State Research Center of Russian Federation, Institute for High Energy Physics, Protvino 142281, Russia
• ²⁵University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA
• ²⁶Institute for Nuclear Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences, prospekt 60-letiya Oktyabrya 7a, Moscow 117312, Russia
• ²⁷Institute of Physics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Na Slovance 2, 182 21 Prague 8, Czech Republic
• ²⁸Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011, USA
• ²⁹Advanced Science Research Center, Japan Atomic Energy Agency, 2-4 Shirakata Shirane, Tokai-mura, Naka-gun, Ibaraki-ken 319-1195, Japan
• ³⁰Helsinki Institute of Physics and University of Jyväskylä, P.O. Box 35, FI-40014 Jyväskylä, Finland
• ³¹KEK, High Energy Accelerator Research Organization, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0801, Japan
• ³²Korea University, Seoul 136-701, Korea
• ³³Russian Research Center “Kurchatov Institute,” Moscow 123098, Russia
• ³⁴Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan
• ³⁵Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet, Ecole Polytechnique, CNRS-IN2P3, Route de Saclay, F-91128 Palaiseau, France
• ³⁶Physics Department, Lahore University of Management Sciences, Lahore, Pakistan
• ³⁷Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550, USA
• ³⁸Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, USA
• ³⁹LPC, Université Blaise Pascal, CNRS-IN2P3, Clermont-Fd, 63177 Aubiere Cedex, France
• ⁴⁰Department of Physics, Lund University, Box 118, SE-221 00 Lund, Sweden
• ⁴¹University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA
• ⁴²Department of Physics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003-9337, USA
• ⁴³Department of Physics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1040, USA
• ⁴⁴Institut fur Kernphysik, University of Muenster, D-48149 Muenster, Germany
• ⁴⁵Muhlenberg College, Allentown, Pennsylvania 18104-5586, USA
• ⁴⁶Myongji University, Yongin, Kyonggido 449-728, Korea
• ⁴⁷Nagasaki Institute of Applied Science, Nagasaki-shi, Nagasaki 851-0193, Japan
• ⁴⁸National Research Nuclear University, MEPhI, Moscow Engineering Physics Institute, Moscow, 115409, Russia
• ⁴⁹University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131, USA
• ⁵⁰New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico 88003, USA
• ⁵¹Department of Physics and Astronomy, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio 45701, USA
• ⁵²Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA
• ⁵³IPN-Orsay, Universite Paris Sud, CNRS-IN2P3, BP1, F-91406 Orsay, France
• ⁵⁴Peking University, Beijing 100871, People’s Republic of China
• ⁵⁵PNPI, Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, Gatchina, Leningrad region 188300, Russia
• ⁵⁶RIKEN Nishina Center for Accelerator-Based Science, Wako, Saitama 351-0198, Japan
• ⁵⁷RIKEN BNL Research Center, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973-5000, USA
• ⁵⁸Physics Department, Rikkyo University, 3-34-1 Nishi-Ikebukuro, Toshima, Tokyo 171-8501, Japan
• ⁵⁹Universidade de São Paulo, Instituto de Física, Caixa Postal 66318, São Paulo CEP05315-970, Brazil
• ⁶⁰Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
• ⁶¹Chemistry Department, Stony Brook University, SUNY, Stony Brook, New York 11794-3400, USA
• ⁶²Department of Physics and Astronomy, Stony Brook University, SUNY, Stony Brook, New York 11794-3800, USA
• ⁶³University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, USA
• ⁶⁴Department of Physics, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Oh-okayama, Meguro, Tokyo 152-8551, Japan
• ⁶⁵Institute of Physics, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305, Japan
• ⁶⁶Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37235, USA
• ⁶⁷Waseda University, Advanced Research Institute for Science and Engineering, 17 Kikui-cho, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 162-0044, Japan
• ⁶⁸Weizmann Institute, Rehovot 76100, Israel
• ⁶⁹Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics, Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Wigner RCP, RMKI) H-1525 Budapest 114, PO Box 49, Budapest, Hungary
• ⁷⁰Yonsei University, IPAP, Seoul 120-749, Korea

• ^*Deceased.
• ^†PHENIX Co-Spokesperson. morrison@bnl.gov
• ^‡PHENIX Co-Spokesperson. jamie.nagle@colorado.edu