K. Aoki^32,51, L. Aphecetche⁵⁹, R. Armendariz⁴⁵, S. H. Aronson⁶, J. Asai⁵², E. T. Atomssa³³, R. Averbeck⁵⁸, T. C. Awes⁴⁷, B. Azmoun⁶, V. Babintsev²¹, G. Baksay¹⁷, L. Baksay¹⁷, A. Baldisseri¹⁴, K. N. Barish⁷, P. D. Barnes^36,*, B. Bassalleck⁴⁴, S. Bathe^4,7, S. Batsouli^12,47, V. Baublis⁵⁰, F. Bauer⁷, A. Bazilevsky⁶, S. Belikov^6,25,*, R. Bennett⁵⁸, Y. Berdnikov⁵⁴, A. A. Bickley¹¹, M. T. Bjorndal¹², J. G. Boissevain³⁶, H. Borel¹⁴, K. Boyle⁵⁸, M. L. Brooks³⁶, D. S. Brown⁴⁵, D. Bucher⁴⁰, H. Buesching⁶, V. Bumazhnov²¹, G. Bunce^6,52, J. M. Burward-Hoy³⁶, S. Butsyk^36,58, S. Campbell⁵⁸, J.-S. Chai²⁸, B. S. Chang⁶⁷, J.-L. Charvet¹⁴, S. Chernichenko²¹, C. Y. Chi¹², J. Chiba²⁹, M. Chiu^12,22, I. J. Choi⁶⁷, T. Chujo⁶³, P. Chung⁵⁷, A. Churyn²¹, V. Cianciolo⁴⁷, C. R. Cleven¹⁹, Y. Cobigo¹⁴, B. A. Cole¹², M. P. Comets⁴⁸, P. Constantin^25,36, M. Csanád¹⁶, T. Csörgő⁶⁶, T. Dahms⁵⁸, K. Das¹⁸, G. David⁶, M. B. Deaton¹, K. Dehmelt¹⁷, H. Delagrange⁵⁹, A. Denisov²¹, D. d'Enterria¹², A. Deshpande^52,58, E. J. Desmond⁶, O. Dietzsch⁵⁵, A. Dion⁵⁸, M. Donadelli⁵⁵, J. L. Drachenberg¹, O. Drapier³³, A. Drees⁵⁸, A. K. Dubey⁶⁵, A. Durum²¹, V. Dzhordzhadze^7,60, Y. V. Efremenko⁴⁷, J. Egdemir⁵⁸, F. Ellinghaus¹¹, W. S. Emam⁷, A. Enokizono^20,35, H. En'yo^51,52, B. Espagnon⁴⁸, S. Esumi⁶², K. O. Eyser⁷, D. E. Fields^44,52, M. Finger^8,27, M. Finger, Jr.^8,27, F. Fleuret³³, S. L. Fokin³¹, B. Forestier³⁷, Z. Fraenkel^65,*, J. E. Frantz^12,46,58, A. Franz⁶, A. D. Frawley¹⁸, K. Fujiwara⁵¹, Y. Fukao^32,51, S.-Y. Fung⁷, T. Fusayasu⁴², S. Gadrat³⁷, I. Garishvili⁶⁰, F. Gastineau⁵⁹, M. Germain⁵⁹, A. Glenn^11,60, H. Gong⁵⁸, M. Gonin³³, J. Gosset¹⁴, Y. Goto^51,52, R. Granier de Cassagnac³³, N. Grau^2,25, S. V. Greene⁶³, M. Grosse Perdekamp^22,52, T. Gunji¹⁰, H.-Å. Gustafsson^38,*, T. Hachiya^20,51, A. Hadj Henni⁵⁹, C. Haegemann⁴⁴, J. S. Haggerty⁶, M. N. Hagiwara¹, H. Hamagaki¹⁰, R. Han⁴⁹, H. Harada²⁰, E. P. Hartouni³⁵, K. Haruna²⁰, M. Harvey⁶, E. Haslum³⁸, K. Hasuko⁵¹, R. Hayano¹⁰, X. He¹⁹, M. Heffner³⁵, T. K. Hemmick⁵⁸, T. Hester⁷, J. M. Heuser⁵¹, H. Hiejima²², J. C. Hill²⁵, R. Hobbs⁴⁴, M. Hohlmann¹⁷, M. Holmes⁶³, W. Holzmann⁵⁷, K. Homma²⁰, B. Hong³⁰, T. Horaguchi^51,61, D. Hornback⁶⁰, S. Huang⁶³, M. G. Hur²⁸, T. Ichihara^51,52, H. Iinuma^32,51, K. Imai^26,32,51, M. Inaba⁶², Y. Inoue^51,53, D. Isenhower¹, L. Isenhower¹, M. Ishihara⁵¹, T. Isobe¹⁰, M. Issah⁵⁷, A. Isupov²⁷, B. V. Jacak⁵⁸, J. Jia¹², J. Jin¹², O. Jinnouchi⁵², B. M. Johnson⁶, K. S. Joo⁴¹, D. Jouan⁴⁸, F. Kajihara^10,51, S. Kametani^10,64, N. Kamihara^51,61, J. Kamin⁵⁸, M. Kaneta⁵², J. H. Kang⁶⁷, H. Kanou^51,61, T. Kawagishi⁶², D. Kawall⁵², A. V. Kazantsev³¹, S. Kelly¹¹, A. Khanzadeev⁵⁰, J. Kikuchi⁶⁴, D. H. Kim⁴¹, D. J. Kim⁶⁷, E. Kim⁵⁶, Y.-S. Kim²⁸, E. Kinney¹¹, Á. Kiss¹⁶, E. Kistenev⁶, A. Kiyomichi⁵¹, J. Klay³⁵, C. Klein-Boesing⁴⁰, L. Kochenda⁵⁰, V. Kochetkov²¹, B. Komkov⁵⁰, M. Konno⁶², D. Kotchetkov⁷, A. Kozlov⁶⁵, A. Král¹³, A. Kravitz¹², P. J. Kroon⁶, J. Kubart^8,24, G. J. Kunde³⁶, N. Kurihara¹⁰, K. Kurita^51,53, M. J. Kweon³⁰, Y. Kwon^60,67, G. S. Kyle⁴⁵, R. Lacey⁵⁷, Y. S. Lai¹², J. G. Lajoie²⁵, A. Lebedev²⁵, Y. Le Bornec⁴⁸, S. Leckey⁵⁸, D. M. Lee³⁶, M. K. Lee⁶⁷, T. Lee⁵⁶, M. J. Leitch³⁶, M. A. L. Leite⁵⁵, B. Lenzi⁵⁵, X. Li⁹, X. H. Li⁷, H. Lim⁵⁶, T. Liška¹³, A. Litvinenko²⁷, M. X. Liu³⁶, B. Love⁶³, D. Lynch⁶, C. F. Maguire⁶³, Y. I. Makdisi^5,6, A. Malakhov²⁷, M. D. Malik⁴⁴, V. I. Manko³¹, Y. Mao^49,51, L. Mašek^8,24, H. Masui⁶², F. Matathias^12,58, M. C. McCain²², M. McCumber⁵⁸, P. L. McGaughey³⁶, Y. Miake⁶², P. Mikeš^8,24, K. Miki⁶², T. E. Miller⁶³, A. Milov⁵⁸, S. Mioduszewski⁶, G. C. Mishra¹⁹, M. Mishra³, J. T. Mitchell⁶, M. Mitrovski⁵⁷, A. Morreale⁷, D. P. Morrison^6,†, J. M. Moss³⁶, T. V. Moukhanova³¹, D. Mukhopadhyay⁶³, J. Murata^51,53, S. Nagamiya^29,51, Y. Nagata⁶², J. L. Nagle^11,‡, M. Naglis⁶⁵, I. Nakagawa^51,52, Y. Nakamiya²⁰, T. Nakamura²⁰, K. Nakano^51,61, J. Newby³⁵, M. Nguyen⁵⁸, B. E. Norman³⁶, R. Nouicer⁶, A. S. Nyanin³¹, J. Nystrand³⁸, E. O'Brien⁶, S. X. Oda¹⁰, C. A. Ogilvie²⁵, H. Ohnishi⁵¹, I. D. Ojha⁶³, M. Oka⁶², K. Okada⁵², O. O. Omiwade¹, A. Oskarsson³⁸, I. Otterlund³⁸, M. Ouchida²⁰, K. Ozawa¹⁰, R. Pak⁶, D. Pal⁶³, A. P. T. Palounek³⁶, V. Pantuev^23,58, V. Papavassiliou⁴⁵, J. Park⁵⁶, W. J. Park³⁰, S. F. Pate⁴⁵, H. Pei²⁵, J.-C. Peng²², H. Pereira¹⁴, V. Peresedov²⁷, D. Yu. Peressounko³¹, C. Pinkenburg⁶, R. P. Pisani⁶, M. L. Purschke⁶, A. K. Purwar^36,58, H. Qu¹⁹, J. Rak^25,44, A. Rakotozafindrabe³³, I. Ravinovich⁶⁵, K. F. Read^47,60, S. Rembeczki¹⁷, M. Reuter⁵⁸, K. Reygers⁴⁰, V. Riabov^43,50, Y. Riabov⁵⁰, G. Roche³⁷, A. Romana^33,*, M. Rosati²⁵, S. S. E. Rosendahl³⁸, P. Rosnet³⁷, P. Rukoyatkin²⁷, V. L. Rykov⁵¹, S. S. Ryu⁶⁷, B. Sahlmueller^40,58, N. Saito^32,51,52, T. Sakaguchi^6,10,64, S. Sakai⁶², H. Sakata²⁰, V. Samsonov^43,50, H. D. Sato^32,51, S. Sato^6,26,29, S. Sawada²⁹, J. Seele¹¹, R. Seidl²², V. Semenov²¹, R. Seto⁷, D. Sharma⁶⁵, T. K. Shea⁶, I. Shein²¹, A. Shevel^50,57, T.-A. Shibata^51,61, K. Shigaki²⁰, M. Shimomura⁶², T. Shohjoh⁶², K. Shoji^32,51, A. Sickles^22,58, C. L. Silva⁵⁵, D. Silvermyr⁴⁷, C. Silvestre¹⁴, K. S. Sim³⁰, C. P. Singh³, V. Singh³, S. Skutnik²⁵, M. Slunečka^8,27, W. C. Smith¹, A. Soldatov²¹, R. A. Soltz³⁵, W. E. Sondheim³⁶, S. P. Sorensen⁶⁰, I. V. Sourikova⁶, F. Staley¹⁴, P. W. Stankus⁴⁷, E. Stenlund³⁸, M. Stepanov^45,*, A. Ster⁶⁶, S. P. Stoll⁶, T. Sugitate²⁰, C. Suire⁴⁸, J. P. Sullivan³⁶, J. Sziklai⁶⁶, T. Tabaru⁵², S. Takagi⁶², E. M. Takagui⁵⁵, A. Taketani^51,52, K. H. Tanaka²⁹, Y. Tanaka⁴², K. Tanida^51,52,56, M. J. Tannenbaum⁶, A. Taranenko^43,57, P. Tarján¹⁵, T. L. Thomas⁴⁴, T. Todoroki^51,62, M. Togawa^32,51, A. Toia⁵⁸, J. Tojo⁵¹, L. Tomášek²⁴, H. Torii⁵¹, R. S. Towell¹, V-N. Tram³³, I. Tserruya⁶⁵, Y. Tsuchimoto^20,51, S. K. Tuli^3,*, H. Tydesjö³⁸, N. Tyurin²¹, C. Vale²⁵, H. Valle⁶³, H. W. van Hecke³⁶, J. Velkovska⁶³, R. Vértesi¹⁵, A. A. Vinogradov³¹, M. Virius¹³, V. Vrba²⁴, E. Vznuzdaev⁵⁰, M. Wagner^32,51, D. Walker⁵⁸, X. R. Wang⁴⁵, Y. Watanabe^51,52, J. Wessels⁴⁰, S. N. White⁶, N. Willis⁴⁸, D. Winter¹², C. L. Woody⁶, M. Wysocki¹¹, W. Xie^7,52, Y. L. Yamaguchi⁶⁴, A. Yanovich²¹, Z. Yasin⁷, J. Ying¹⁹, S. Yokkaichi^51,52, G. R. Young⁴⁷, I. Younus^34,44, I. E. Yushmanov³¹, W. A. Zajc¹², O. Zaudtke⁴⁰, C. Zhang^12,47, S. Zhou⁹, J. Zimányi^66,*, and L. Zolin²⁷ (PHENIX Collaboration)

• ¹Abilene Christian University, Abilene, Texas 79699, USA
• ²Department of Physics, Augustana University, Sioux Falls, South Dakota 57197, USA
• ³Department of Physics, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi 221005, India
• ⁴Baruch College, City University of New York, New York, New York 10010, USA
• ⁵Collider-Accelerator Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973-5000, USA
• ⁶Physics Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973-5000, USA
• ⁷University of California-Riverside, Riverside, California 92521, USA
• ⁸Charles University, Ovocný trh 5, Praha 1, 116 36 Prague, Czech Republic
• ⁹Science and Technology on Nuclear Data Laboratory, China Institute of Atomic Energy, Beijing 102413, People's Republic of China
• ¹⁰Center for Nuclear Study, Graduate School of Science, University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan
• ¹¹University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309, USA
• ¹²Columbia University, New York, New York 10027, USA and Nevis Laboratories, Irvington, New York 10533, USA
• ¹³Czech Technical University, Zikova 4, 166 36 Prague 6, Czech Republic
• ¹⁴Dapnia, CEA Saclay, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
• ¹⁵Debrecen University, H-4010 Debrecen, Egyetem tér 1, Hungary
• ¹⁶ELTE, Eötvös Loránd University, H-1117 Budapest, Pázmany Péter sétány 1/A, Hungary
• ¹⁷Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Florida 32901, USA
• ¹⁸Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida 32306, USA
• ¹⁹Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia 30303, USA
• ²⁰Hiroshima University, Kagamiyama, Higashi-Hiroshima 739-8526, Japan
• ²¹IHEP Protvino, State Research Center of Russian Federation, Institute for High Energy Physics, Protvino 142281, Russia
• ²²University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA
• ²³Institute for Nuclear Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences, prospekt 60-letiya Oktyabrya 7a, Moscow 117312, Russia
• ²⁴Institute of Physics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Na Slovance 2, 182 21 Prague 8, Czech Republic
• ²⁵Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011, USA
• ²⁶Advanced Science Research Center, Japan Atomic Energy Agency, 2-4 Shirakata Shirane, Tokai-mura, Naka-gun, Ibaraki-ken 319-1195, Japan
• ²⁷Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, 141980 Dubna, Moscow Region, Russia
• ²⁸KAERI, Cyclotron Application Laboratory, Seoul, Korea
• ²⁹KEK, High Energy Accelerator Research Organization, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0801, Japan
• ³⁰Korea University, Seoul 136-701, Korea
• ³¹Russian Research Center “Kurchatov Institute,” Moscow 123098, Russia
• ³²Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan
• ³³Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet, Ecole Polytechnique, CNRS-IN2P3, Route de Saclay, F-91128 Palaiseau, France
• ³⁴Physics Department, Lahore University of Management Sciences, Lahore 54792, Pakistan
• ³⁵Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550, USA
• ³⁶Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, USA
• ³⁷LPC, Université Blaise Pascal, CNRS-IN2P3, Clermont-Fd, 63177 Aubiere Cedex, France
• ³⁸Department of Physics, Lund University, Box 118, SE-221 00 Lund, Sweden
• ³⁹Department of Physics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1040, USA
• ⁴⁰Institut für Kernphysik, University of Muenster, D-48149 Muenster, Germany
• ⁴¹Myongji University, Yongin, Kyonggido 449-728, Korea
• ⁴²Nagasaki Institute of Applied Science, Nagasaki-shi, Nagasaki 851-0193, Japan
• ⁴³National Research Nuclear University, MEPhI, Moscow Engineering Physics Institute, Moscow 115409, Russia
• ⁴⁴University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131, USA
• ⁴⁵New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico 88003, USA
• ⁴⁶Department of Physics and Astronomy, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio 45701, USA
• ⁴⁷Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA
• ⁴⁸IPN-Orsay, Universite Paris Sud, CNRS-IN2P3, BP1, F-91406 Orsay, France
• ⁴⁹Peking University, Beijing 100871, People's Republic of China
• ⁵⁰PNPI, Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, Gatchina, Leningrad Region 188300, Russia
• ⁵¹RIKEN Nishina Center for Accelerator-Based Science, Wako, Saitama 351-0198, Japan
• ⁵²RIKEN BNL Research Center, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973-5000, USA
• ⁵³Physics Department, Rikkyo University, 3-34-1 Nishi-Ikebukuro, Toshima, Tokyo 171-8501, Japan
• ⁵⁴Saint Petersburg State Polytechnic University, St. Petersburg 195251, Russia
• ⁵⁵Universidade de São Paulo, Instituto de Física, Caixa Postal 66318, São Paulo CEP05315-970, Brazil
• ⁵⁶Department of Physics and Astronomy, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-742, Korea
• ⁵⁷Chemistry Department, Stony Brook University, SUNY, Stony Brook, New York 11794-3400, USA
• ⁵⁸Department of Physics and Astronomy, Stony Brook University, SUNY, Stony Brook, New York 11794-3800, USA
• ⁵⁹SUBATECH (Ecole des Mines de Nantes, CNRS-IN2P3, Université de Nantes) BP 20722-44307, Nantes, France
• ⁶⁰University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, USA
• ⁶¹Department of Physics, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Oh-okayama, Meguro, Tokyo 152-8551, Japan
• ⁶²Center for Integrated Research in Fundamental Science and Engineering, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305, Japan
• ⁶³Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37235, USA
• ⁶⁴Waseda University, Advanced Research Institute for Science and Engineering, 17 Kikui-cho, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 162-0044, Japan
• ⁶⁵Weizmann Institute, Rehovot 76100, Israel
• ⁶⁶Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics, Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Wigner RCP, RMKI), Budapest 114, P.O. Box 49, H-1525 Budapest, Hungary
• ⁶⁷Yonsei University, IPAP, Seoul 120-749, Korea

• ^*Deceased.
• ^†PHENIX Cospokesperson: morrison@bnl.gov
• ^‡PHENIX Cospokesperson: jamie.nagle@colorado.edu