B. Mulilo

The second-order azimuthal anisotropy coefficients ( $v_{2}$ ) of neutral $π$ mesons ( $π^{0}$ ) have been measured as a function of the transverse momentum ( $p_{T}$ ) and centrality of Cu $+$ …

hep-ex2025

Transverse single-spin asymmetry of forward $η$ mesons in $p^{↑} + p$ collisions at $s = 200$ GeV

PHENIX Collaboration, N. J. Abdulameer, U. Acharya +380

Utilizing the 2012 transversely polarized proton data from the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at Brookhaven National Laboratory, the forward $η$ -meson transverse single-spin asymm…

hep-ex2025

Cross sections of $η$ mesons in $p$ $+$ $p$ collisions at forward rapidity at $s = 500$ GeV and central rapidity at $s = 510$ GeV

PHENIX Collaboration, N. J. Abdulameer, U. Acharya +497

We present the first measurements of the forward and midrapidity $η$ -meson cross sections from $p$ $+$ $p$ collisions at $s = 500$ and $510$ ~GeV, respectively. We also report th…

nucl-ex2025

Low-mass vector-meson production at forward rapidity in $p$ $+$ $p$ and Au $+$ Au collisions at $s_{_{N N}} = 200$ ~GeV

PHENIX Collaboration, N. J. Abdulameer, U. Acharya +352

The PHENIX experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider has measured low-mass vector-meson ( $ω + ρ$ and $ϕ$ ) production through the dimuon decay channel at forward rapidity $(1.…

nucl-ex2025

Azimuthal anisotropy of direct photons in Au $+$ Au collisions at $s_{_{N N}} = 200$ GeV

PHENIX Collaboration, N. J. Abdulameer, U. Acharya +322

The PHENIX experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider measured the second Fourier component $v_{2}$ of the direct-photon azimuthal anisotropy at midrapidity in Au $+$ Au collisi…

nucl-ex2024

Measurement of elliptic flow of J $/ ψ$ in $s_{_{N N}} = 200$ GeV Au $+$ Au collisions at forward rapidity

PHENIX Collaboration, N. J. Abdulameer, U. Acharya +365

We report the first measurement of the azimuthal anisotropy of J $/ ψ$ at forward rapidity ( $1.2 < ∣ η ∣ < 2.2$ ) in Au $+$ Au collisions at $s_{_{N N}} = 200$ GeV at the Relativistic Hea…

hep-ex2024

Multiplicity dependent $J / ψ$ and $ψ (2 S)$ production at forward and backward rapidity in $p$ $+$ $p$ collisions at $s = 200$ GeV

PHENIX Collaboration, N. J. Abdulameer, U. Acharya +298

The $J / ψ$ and $ψ (2 S)$ charmonium states, composed of $c c ˉ$ quark pairs and known since the 1970s, are widely believed to serve as ideal probes to test quantum chromodynamics i…

nucl-ex2024★ 7 cited

Centrality dependence of Lévy-stable two-pion Bose-Einstein correlations in $s_{_{N N}} = 200$ GeV Au $+$ Au collisions

PHENIX Collaboration, N. J. Abdulameer, U. Acharya +394

The PHENIX experiment measured the centrality dependence of two-pion Bose-Einstein correlation functions in $s_{_{N N}} = 200$ ~GeV Au $+$ Au collisions at the Relativistic Heavy…

nucl-ex2024★ 5 cited

Jet modification via $π^{0}$ -hadron correlations in Au $+$ Au collisions at $s_{_{N N}} = 200$ GeV

PHENIX Collaboration, N. J. Abdulameer, U. Acharya +532

High-momentum two-particle correlations are a useful tool for studying jet-quenching effects in the quark-gluon plasma. Angular correlations between neutral-pion triggers and charg…

nucl-ex2023★ 8 cited

Identified charged-hadron production in $p$ $+$ Al, $^{3}$ He $+$ Au, and Cu $+$ Au collisions at $s_{_{N N}} = 200$ GeV and in U $+$ U collisions at $s_{_{N N}} = 193$ GeV

PHENIX Collaboration, N. J. Abdulameer, U. Acharya +477

The PHENIX experiment has performed a systematic study of identified charged-hadron ( $π^{\pm}$ , $K^{\pm}$ , $p$ , $p ˉ$ ) production at midrapidity in $p$ $+$ Al, $^{3}$ He $+$ Au, Cu $+$ Au c…

nucl-ex2023★ 13 cited

Disentangling centrality bias and final-state effects in the production of high- $p_{T}$ $π^{0}$ using direct $γ$ in $d$ $+$ Au collisions at $s_{_{N N}} = 200$ GeV

N. J. Abdulameer, U. Acharya, C. Aidala +275

PHENIX presents a simultaneous measurement of the production of direct $γ$ and $π^{0}$ in $d$ $+$ Au collisions at $s_{_{N N}} = 200$ GeV over a $p_{T}$ range of 7.5 to 18 GeV/ $c$ fo…

hep-ex2023★ 4 cited

Transverse single-spin asymmetry of charged hadrons at forward and backward rapidity in polarized $p$ + $p$ , $p$ +Al, and $p$ +Au collisions at $s_{N N} = 200$ GeV}

N. J. Abdulameer, U. Acharya, C. Aidala +319

Reported here are transverse single-spin asymmetries ( $A_{N}$ ) in the production of charged hadrons as a function of transverse momentum ( $p_{T}$ ) and Feynman- $x$ ( $x_{F}$ ) in polarize…

hep-ex2023

Transverse single-spin asymmetry of midrapidity $π^{0}$ and $η$ mesons in $p$ +Au and $p$ +Al collisions at $s_{_{N N}} =$ 200 GeV

N. J. Abdulameer, U. Acharya, C. Aidala +319

Presented are the first measurements of the transverse single-spin asymmetries ( $A_{N}$ ) for neutral pions and eta mesons in $p$ +Au and $p$ +Al collisions at $s_{_{N N}} = 200$ Ge…

nucl-ex2022★ 13 cited

Measurement of $ϕ$ -meson production in Cu $+$ Au at $s_{_{N N}} = 200$ GeV and U $+$ U at $s_{_{N N}} = 193$ GeV

N. J. Abdulameer, U. Acharya, C. Aidala +408

The PHENIX experiment reports systematic measurements at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider of $ϕ$ -meson production in asymmetric Cu $+$ Au collisions at $s_{_{N N}}$ =200 GeV…

physics.soc-ph2022

Young Physicists Forum and the Importance for Education and Capacity Development for Africa

Benard Mulilo, Mounia Laassiri, Diallo Boye

Higher education and advanced scientific research lead to social, economic, and political development of any country. All developed societies like the current 2022 G7 countries: Ca…

physics.soc-ph2022

ASFAP Working Group Summary of Societal Engagements

Mounia Laassiri, Marie Clementine Nibamureke, Bertrand Tchanche Fankam +8

The second African Conference of Fundamental and Applied Physics (ACP2021) took place in the week of March 7-11, 2022. During this conference, all the African Strategy for Fundamen…

physics.ed-ph2022

Activity Report of the Second African Conference on Fundamental and Applied Physics, ACP2021

Kétévi A. Assamagan, Obinna Abah, Amare Abebe +38

The African School of Fundamental Physics and Applications, also known as the African School of Physics (ASP), was initiated in 2010, as a three-week biennial event, to offer addit…

hep-ex2022

Improving constraints on gluon spin-momentum correlations in transversely polarized protons via midrapidity open-heavy-flavor electrons in $p^{↑} + p$ collisions at $s = 200$ GeV

N. J. Abdulameer, U. Acharya, C. Aidala +321

Polarized proton-proton collisions provide leading-order access to gluons, presenting an opportunity to constrain gluon spin-momentum correlations within transversely polarized pro…

nucl-ex2022★ 20 cited

Nonprompt direct-photon production in Au $+$ Au collisions at $s_{_{N N}} = 200$ GeV

U. A. Acharya, A. Adare, C. Aidala +332

The measurement of the direct-photon spectrum from Au $+$ Au collisions at $s_{_{N N}} = 200$ GeV is presented by the PHENIX collaboration using the external-photon-conversion te…

nucl-ex2022★ 3 cited

Charm- and Bottom-Quark Production in Au $+$ Au Collisions at $s_{_{N N}}$ = 200 GeV

PHENIX Collaboration, N. J. Abdulameer, U. Acharya +342

The invariant yield of electrons from open-heavy-flavor decays for $1 < p_{T} < 8$ GeV/ $c$ at midrapidity $∣ y ∣ < 0.35$ in Au $+$ Au collisions at $s_{_{N N}}$ = 200 GeV has been measur…

nucl-ex2022

Low- $p_{T}$ direct-photon production in Au $+$ Au collisions at $s_{_{N N}} = 39$ and 62.4 GeV

N. J. Abdulameer, U. Acharya, A. Adare +431

The measurement of direct photons from Au $+$ Au collisions at $s_{_{N N}} = 39$ and 62.4 GeV in the transverse-momentum range $0.4 < p_{T} < 3$ Gev/ $c$ is presented by the PHENIX coll…

nucl-ex2022

Measurements of second-harmonic Fourier coefficients from azimuthal anisotropies in $p$ $+$ $p$ , $p$ $+$ Au, $d$ $+$ Au, and $^{3}$ He $+$ Au collisions at $s_{_{N N}} = 200$ GeV

N. J. Abdulameer, U. Acharya, A. Adare +389

Recently, the PHENIX Collaboration has published second- and third-harmonic Fourier coefficients $v_{2}$ and $v_{3}$ for midrapidity ( $∣ η ∣ < 0.35$ ) charged hadrons in 0\%--5\% central $p…

nucl-ex2022★ 11 cited

Study of $ϕ$ -meson production in $p$ $+$ Al, $p$ $+$ Au, $d$ $+$ Au, and $^{3}$ He $+$ Au collisions at $s_{_{N N}} = 200$ GeV

U. Acharya, A. Adare, C. Aidala +367

Small nuclear collisions are mainly sensitive to cold-nuclear-matter effects; however, the collective behavior observed in these collisions shows a hint of hot-nuclear-matter effec…

hep-ex2022

Measurement of Direct-Photon Cross Section and Double-Helicity Asymmetry at $s = 510$ GeV in $p + p$ Collisions

PHENIX Collaboration, N. J. Abdulameer, U. Acharya +358

We present measurements of the cross section and double-helicity asymmetry $A_{LL}$ of direct-photon production in $p + p$ collisions at $s = 510$ GeV. The measureme…

Elliptic flow of π0 mesons in Cu+Au collisions at sNN​​​=200 GeV and U+U at sNN​​​=193 GeV

Transverse single-spin asymmetry of forward η mesons in p↑+p collisions at s​=200 GeV

Cross sections of η mesons in p+p collisions at forward rapidity at s​=500 GeV and central rapidity at s​=510 GeV

Low-mass vector-meson production at forward rapidity in p+p and Au+Au collisions at sNN​​​=200~GeV

Azimuthal anisotropy of direct photons in Au+Au collisions at sNN​​​=200 GeV

Measurement of elliptic flow of J/ψ in sNN​​​=200 GeV Au+Au collisions at forward rapidity

Multiplicity dependent J/ψ and ψ(2S) production at forward and backward rapidity in p+p collisions at s​=200 GeV

Centrality dependence of Lévy-stable two-pion Bose-Einstein correlations in sNN​​​=200 GeV Au+Au collisions

Jet modification via π0-hadron correlations in Au+Au collisions at sNN​​​=200 GeV

Identified charged-hadron production in p+Al, 3He+Au, and Cu+Au collisions at sNN​​​=200 GeV and in U+U collisions at sNN​​​=193 GeV

Disentangling centrality bias and final-state effects in the production of high-pT​ π0 using direct γ in d+Au collisions at sNN​​​=200 GeV

Transverse single-spin asymmetry of charged hadrons at forward and backward rapidity in polarized p+p, p+Al, and p+Au collisions at sNN​​=200 GeV}

Transverse single-spin asymmetry of midrapidity π0 and η mesons in p+Au and p+Al collisions at sNN​​​= 200 GeV

Measurement of ϕ-meson production in Cu+Au at sNN​​​=200 GeV and U+U at sNN​​​=193 GeV