V. Andrieux⁴⁵, S. Antsupov⁶⁴, K. Aoki^32,61, N. Apadula^28,67, H. Asano^35,61, E. T. Atomssa⁶⁷, T. C. Awes⁵⁶, B. Azmoun⁷, V. Babintsev²⁴, M. Bai⁶, X. Bai¹⁰, N. S. Bandara⁴³, B. Bannier⁶⁷, E. Bannikov⁶⁴, K. N. Barish⁸, S. Bathe^5,62, V. Baublis⁵⁹, C. Baumann⁷, S. Baumgart⁶¹, A. Bazilevsky⁷, M. Beaumier⁸, R. Belmont^12,54, A. Berdnikov⁶⁴, Y. Berdnikov⁶⁴, L. Bichon⁷³, D. Black⁸, B. Blankenship⁷³, D. S. Blau^34,51, J. S. Bok⁵³, V. Borisov⁶⁴, K. Boyle⁶², M. L. Brooks³⁹, J. Bryslawskyj^5,8, H. Buesching⁷, V. Bumazhnov²⁴, S. Butsyk⁵², S. Campbell^13,28, R. Cervantes⁶⁷, C.-H. Chen⁶², D. Chen⁶⁷, M. Chiu⁷, C. Y. Chi¹³, I. J. Choi²⁵, J. B. Choi^30,*, S. Choi⁶⁵, P. Christiansen⁴⁰, T. Chujo⁷¹, V. Cianciolo⁵⁶, Z. Citron⁷⁴, B. A. Cole¹³, M. Connors^19,62, R. Corliss⁶⁷, N. Cronin^47,67, N. Crossette⁴⁷, M. Csanád¹⁶, T. Csörgő^44,75, L. D’Orazio⁴², T. W. Danley⁵⁵, A. Datta⁵², M. S. Daugherity¹, G. David^7,67, K. DeBlasio⁵², K. Dehmelt⁶⁷, A. Denisov²⁴, A. Deshpande^62,67, E. J. Desmond⁷, L. Ding²⁸, A. Dion⁶⁷, D. Dixit⁶⁷, V. Doomra⁶⁷, J. H. Do⁷⁶, O. Drapier³⁶, A. Drees⁶⁷, K. A. Drees⁶, J. M. Durham³⁹, A. Durum²⁴, H. En’yo^61,62, T. Engelmore¹³, A. Enokizono^61,63, R. Esha⁶⁷, K. O. Eyser⁷, B. Fadem⁴⁷, W. Fan⁶⁷, N. Feege⁶⁷, D. E. Fields⁵², M. Finger, Jr.⁹, M. Finger⁹, D. Firak^15,67, D. Fitzgerald⁴⁵, F. Fleuret³⁶, S. L. Fokin³⁴, J. E. Frantz⁵⁵, A. Franz⁷, A. D. Frawley¹⁸, Y. Fukao³², Y. Fukuda⁷¹, T. Fusayasu⁴⁹, K. Gainey¹, P. Gallus¹⁴, C. Gal⁶⁷, P. Garg^3,67, A. Garishvili⁶⁹, I. Garishvili³⁸, H. Ge⁶⁷, F. Giordano²⁵, A. Glenn³⁸, X. Gong⁶⁶, M. Gonin³⁶, Y. Goto^61,62, R. Granier de Cassagnac³⁶, N. Grau², S. V. Greene⁷³, M. Grosse Perdekamp²⁵, T. Gunji¹¹, T. Guo⁶⁷, H. Guragain¹⁹, Y. Gu⁶⁶, T. Hachiya^61,62, J. S. Haggerty⁷, K. I. Hahn¹⁷, H. Hamagaki¹¹, H. F. Hamilton¹, J. Hanks⁶⁷, S. Y. Han^17,33, S. Hasegawa²⁹, T. O. S. Haseler¹⁹, K. Hashimoto^61,63, R. Hayano¹¹, T. K. Hemmick⁶⁷, T. Hester⁸, X. He¹⁹, J. C. Hill²⁸, K. Hill¹², A. Hodges^19,25, R. S. Hollis⁸, K. Homma²¹, B. Hong³³, T. Hoshino²¹, N. Hotvedt²⁸, J. Huang^7,39, T. Ichihara^61,62, Y. Ikeda⁶¹, K. Imai²⁹, Y. Imazu⁶¹, M. Inaba⁷¹, A. Iordanova⁸, D. Isenhower¹, A. Isinhue⁴⁷, D. Ivanishchev⁵⁹, S. J. Jeon⁴⁸, M. Jezghani¹⁹, X. Jiang³⁹, Z. Ji⁶⁷, B. M. Johnson^7,19, K. S. Joo⁴⁸, D. Jouan⁵⁷, D. S. Jumper²⁵, J. Kamin⁶⁷, S. Kanda^11,32, B. H. Kang²⁰, J. H. Kang⁷⁶, J. S. Kang²⁰, D. Kapukchyan⁸, J. Kapustinsky³⁹, S. Karthas⁶⁷, D. Kawall⁴³, A. V. Kazantsev³⁴, J. A. Key⁵², V. Khachatryan⁶⁷, P. K. Khandai³, A. Khanzadeev⁵⁹, K. M. Kijima²¹, C. Kim^8,33, D. J. Kim³¹, E.-J. Kim³⁰, M. Kim⁶⁵, Y.-J. Kim²⁵, Y. K. Kim²⁰, D. Kincses¹⁶, E. Kistenev⁷, J. Klatsky¹⁸, D. Kleinjan⁸, P. Kline⁶⁷, T. Koblesky¹², M. Kofarago^16,75, B. Komkov⁵⁹, J. Koster⁶², D. Kotchetkov⁵⁵, D. Kotov^59,64, L. Kovacs¹⁶, F. Krizek³¹, S. Kudo⁷¹, K. Kurita⁶³, M. Kurosawa^61,62, Y. Kwon⁷⁶, Y. S. Lai¹³, J. G. Lajoie^28,56, A. Lebedev²⁸, D. M. Lee³⁹, G. H. Lee³⁰, J. Lee^17,68, K. B. Lee³⁹, K. S. Lee³³, S. Lee⁷⁶, S. H. Lee^28,67, M. J. Leitch³⁹, M. Leitgab²⁵, Y. H. Leung⁶⁷, B. Lewis⁶⁷, S. H. Lim^39,60,76, M. X. Liu³⁹, X. Li¹⁰, X. Li³⁹, V.-R. Loggins²⁵, S. Lokos¹⁶, D. A. Loomis⁴⁵, K. Lovasz¹⁵, D. Lynch⁷, C. F. Maguire⁷³, T. Majoros¹⁵, Y. I. Makdisi⁶, M. Makek^74,77, A. Manion⁶⁷, V. I. Manko³⁴, E. Mannel⁷, M. McCumber^12,39, P. L. McGaughey³⁹, D. McGlinchey^12,18,39, C. McKinney²⁵, A. Meles⁵³, M. Mendoza⁸, B. Meredith²⁵, Y. Miake⁷¹, T. Mibe³², A. C. Mignerey⁴², A. Milov⁷⁴, D. K. Mishra⁴, J. T. Mitchell⁷, M. Mitrankova^64,67, Iu. Mitrankov^64,67, G. Mitsuka^32,62, S. Miyasaka^61,70, S. Mizuno^61,71, A. K. Mohanty⁴, S. Mohapatra⁶⁶, P. Montuenga²⁵, T. Moon^33,76, D. P. Morrison⁷, M. Moskowitz⁴⁷, T. V. Moukhanova³⁴, B. Mulilo^33,61,78, T. Murakami^35,61, J. Murata^61,63, A. Mwai⁶⁶, T. Nagae³⁵, K. Nagai⁷⁰, S. Nagamiya^32,61, K. Nagashima²¹, T. Nagashima⁶³, J. L. Nagle¹², M. I. Nagy¹⁶, I. Nakagawa^61,62, Y. Nakamiya²¹, K. R. Nakamura^35,61, T. Nakamura⁶¹, K. Nakano^61,70, C. Nattrass⁶⁹, P. K. Netrakanti⁴, M. Nihashi^21,61, T. Niida⁷¹, R. Nouicer^7,62, N. Novitzky^31,67, T. Novák^44,75, G. Nukazuka^61,62, A. S. Nyanin³⁴, E. O’Brien⁷, C. A. Ogilvie²⁸, H. Oide¹¹, K. Okada⁶², J. D. Orjuela Koop¹², M. Orosz^15,23, J. D. Osborn^45,56, A. Oskarsson⁴⁰, G. J. Ottino⁵², K. Ozawa^32,71, R. Pak⁷, V. Pantuev²⁶, V. Papavassiliou⁵³, I. H. Park^17,68, J. S. Park⁶⁵, S. Park^46,61,65,67, S. K. Park³³, L. Patel¹⁹, M. Patel²⁸, S. F. Pate⁵³, J.-C. Peng²⁵, D. V. Perepelitsa^7,12,13, G. D. N. Perera⁵³, D. Yu. Peressounko³⁴, C. E. PerezLara⁶⁷, J. Perry²⁸, R. Petti^7,67, M. Phipps^7,25, C. Pinkenburg⁷, R. P. Pisani⁷, M. Potekhin⁷, M. L. Purschke⁷, H. Qu¹, J. Rak³¹, I. Ravinovich⁷⁴, K. F. Read^56,69, D. Reynolds⁶⁶, V. Riabov^51,59, Y. Riabov^59,64, E. Richardson⁴², D. Richford^5,72, T. Rinn²⁸, N. Riveli⁵⁵, D. Roach⁷³, S. D. Rolnick⁸, M. Rosati²⁸, Z. Rowan⁵, M. S. Ryu²⁰, A. S. Safonov⁶⁴, B. Sahlmueller⁶⁷, N. Saito³², T. Sakaguchi⁷, H. Sako²⁹, V. Samsonov^51,59, M. Sarsour¹⁹, S. Sato²⁹, S. Sawada³², B. Schaefer⁷³, B. K. Schmoll⁶⁹, K. Sedgwick⁸, J. Seele⁶², R. Seidl^61,62, Y. Sekiguchi¹¹, A. Seleznev⁶⁴, A. Sen^19,28,69, R. Seto⁸, P. Sett⁴, A. Sexton⁴², D. Sharma⁶⁷, A. Shaver²⁸, I. Shein²⁴, Z. Shi³⁹, T.-A. Shibata^61,70, K. Shigaki²¹, M. Shimomura^28,50, T. Shioya⁷¹, K. Shoji⁶¹, P. Shukla⁴, A. Sickles^7,25, C. L. Silva³⁹, D. Silvermyr^40,56, B. K. Singh³, C. P. Singh^3,*, V. Singh³, M. Skolnik⁴⁷, M. Slunečka⁹, K. L. Smith^18,39, M. Snowball³⁹, S. Solano⁴⁷, R. A. Soltz³⁸, W. E. Sondheim³⁹, S. P. Sorensen⁶⁹, I. V. Sourikova⁷, P. W. Stankus⁵⁶, P. Steinberg⁷, E. Stenlund⁴⁰, M. Stepanov^43,*, A. Ster⁷⁵, S. P. Stoll⁷, M. R. Stone¹², T. Sugitate²¹, A. Sukhanov⁷, T. Sumita⁶¹, J. Sun⁶⁷, Z. Sun^15,23,67, J. Sziklai⁷⁵, A. Takahara¹¹, A. Taketani^61,62, Y. Tanaka⁴⁹, K. Tanida^29,62,65, M. J. Tannenbaum⁷, S. Tarafdar^3,73,74, A. Taranenko^51,66, G. Tarnai¹⁵, E. Tennant⁵³, R. Tieulent^19,41, A. Timilsina²⁸, T. Todoroki^61,62,71, M. Tomášek^14,27, H. Torii¹¹, C. L. Towell¹, R. S. Towell¹, I. Tserruya⁷⁴, Y. Ueda²¹, B. Ujvari^15,23, H. W. van Hecke³⁹, M. Vargyas^16,75, E. Vazquez-Zambrano¹³, A. Veicht¹³, J. Velkovska⁷³, M. Virius¹⁴, V. Vrba^14,27, N. Vukman⁷⁷, E. Vznuzdaev⁵⁹, R. Vértesi⁷⁵, X. R. Wang^53,62, D. Watanabe²¹, K. Watanabe^61,63, Y. Watanabe^61,62, Y. S. Watanabe^11,32, F. Wei⁵³, S. Whitaker²⁸, S. Wolin²⁵, C. L. Woody⁷, M. Wysocki⁵⁶, B. Xia⁵⁵, L. Xue¹⁹, C. Xu⁵³, Q. Xu⁷³, S. Yalcin⁶⁷, Y. L. Yamaguchi^11,67, H. Yamamoto⁷¹, A. Yanovich²⁴, S. Yokkaichi^61,62, I. Yoon⁶⁵, J. H. Yoo³³, I. Younus^37,52, Z. You³⁹, I. E. Yushmanov³⁴, H. Yu^53,58, W. A. Zajc¹³, A. Zelenski⁶, S. Zhou¹⁰, and L. Zou⁸ (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
• 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, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, 180 00 Troja, Prague, Czech Republic
• ¹⁰Science and Technology on Nuclear Data Laboratory, China Institute of Atomic Energy, Beijing 102413, People’s Republic of China
• ¹¹Center for Nuclear Study, Graduate School of Science, University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan
• ¹²University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309, USA
• ¹³Columbia University, New York, New York 10027, USA and Nevis Laboratories, Irvington, New York 10533, USA
• ¹⁴Czech Technical University, Zikova 4, 166 36 Prague 6, Czech Republic
• ¹⁵Debrecen University, H-4010 Debrecen, Egyetem tér 1, Hungary
• ¹⁶ELTE, Eötvös Loránd University, H-1117 Budapest, Pázmány P. s. 1/A, Hungary
• ¹⁷Ewha Womans University, Seoul 120-750, Korea
• ¹⁸Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida 32306, USA
• ¹⁹Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia 30303, USA
• ²⁰Hanyang University, Seoul 133-792, Korea
• ²¹Physics Program and International Institute for Sustainability with Knotted Chiral Meta Matter (WPI-SKCM²), Hiroshima University, Higashi-Hiroshima, Hiroshima 739-8526, Japan
• ²²Department of Physics and Astronomy, Howard University, Washington, DC 20059, USA
• ²³HUN-REN ATOMKI, H-4026 Debrecen, Bem tér 18/c, Hungary
• 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
• ³⁰Jeonbuk National University, Jeonju, 54896, Korea
• ³¹Helsinki Institute of Physics and University of Jyväskylä, P.O. Box 35, FI-40014 Jyväskylä, Finland
• ³²KEK, High Energy Accelerator Research Organization, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0801, Japan
• ³³Korea University, Seoul 02841, Korea
• ³⁴National Research Center “Kurchatov Institute,” Moscow, 123098 Russia
• ³⁵Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan
• ³⁶Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet, Ecole Polytechnique, CNRS-IN2P3, Route de Saclay, F-91128, Palaiseau, France
• ³⁷Physics Department, Lahore University of Management Sciences, Lahore 54792, Pakistan
• ³⁸Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550, USA
• ³⁹Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, USA
• ⁴⁰Department of Physics, Lund University, Box 118, SE-221 00 Lund, Sweden
• ⁴¹IPNL, CNRS/IN2P3, Université Lyon 1, F-69622, Villeurbanne, France
• ⁴²University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA
• ⁴³Department of Physics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003-9337, USA
• ⁴⁴MATE, Laboratory of Femtoscopy, Károly Róbert Campus, H-3200 Gyöngyös, Mátraiút 36, Hungary
• ⁴⁵Department of Physics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1040, USA
• ⁴⁶Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, Mississippi 39762, USA
• ⁴⁷Muhlenberg College, Allentown, Pennsylvania 18104-5586, USA
• ⁴⁸Myongji University, Yongin, Kyonggido 449-728, Korea
• ⁴⁹Nagasaki Institute of Applied Science, Nagasaki-shi, Nagasaki 851-0193, Japan
• ⁵⁰Nara Women’s University, Kita-uoya Nishi-machi Nara 630-8506, Japan
• ⁵¹National Research Nuclear University, MEPhI, Moscow Engineering Physics Institute, Moscow, 115409, Russia
• ⁵²University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131, USA
• ⁵³New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico 88003, USA
• ⁵⁴Physics and Astronomy Department, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, North Carolina 27412, USA
• ⁵⁵Department of Physics and Astronomy, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio 45701, USA
• ⁵⁶Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA
• ⁵⁷IPN-Orsay, Univ. Paris-Sud, CNRS/IN2P3, Université Paris-Saclay, BP1, F-91406, Orsay, France
• ⁵⁸Peking University, Beijing 100871, People’s Republic of China
• ⁵⁹PNPI, Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, Gatchina, Leningrad region, 188300, Russia
• ⁶⁰Pusan National University, Pusan 46241, Korea
• ⁶¹RIKEN Nishina Center for Accelerator-Based Science, Wako, Saitama 351-0198, Japan
• ⁶²RIKEN BNL Research Center, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973-5000, USA
• ⁶³Physics Department, Rikkyo University, 3-34-1 Nishi-Ikebukuro, Toshima, Tokyo 171-8501, Japan
• ⁶⁴Saint Petersburg State Polytechnic University, St. Petersburg, 195251 Russia
• ⁶⁵Department of Physics and Astronomy, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-742, Korea
• ⁶⁶Chemistry Department, Stony Brook University, SUNY, Stony Brook, New York 11794-3400, USA
• ⁶⁷Department of Physics and Astronomy, Stony Brook University, SUNY, Stony Brook, New York 11794-3800, USA
• ⁶⁸Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, 440-746, Korea
• ⁶⁹University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, USA
• ⁷⁰Department of Physics, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Oh-okayama, Meguro, Tokyo 152-8551, Japan
• ⁷¹Tomonaga Center for the History of the Universe, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305, Japan
• ⁷²United States Merchant Marine Academy, Kings Point, New York 11024, USA
• ⁷³Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37235, USA
• ⁷⁴Weizmann Institute, Rehovot 76100, Israel
• ⁷⁵Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics, HUN-REN Wigner Research Centre for Physics, (HUN-REN Wigner RCP, RMI) H-1525 Budapest 114, POBox 49, Budapest, Hungary
• ⁷⁶Yonsei University, IPAP, Seoul 120-749, Korea
• ⁷⁷Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, Bijenička c. 32 HR-10002 Zagreb, Croatia
• ⁷⁸Department of Physics, School of Natural Sciences, University of Zambia, Great East Road Campus, Box 32379, Lusaka, Zambia

• ^*Deceased.
• ^†Contact author: akiba@rcf.rhic.bnl.gov