Dear friends
I am back from my vacation absence.
I have read the latest version of the mult. paper.
I like what I see and would urge submittal ASAP to PLB. I suppose that
the length requirements have been checked.
A.
A few comments of small importance:
p. 4, para 2: The quoted pseudo... -> THis pseudorapidity coverage
reflects the geometrical coverage of the array and the extended range
...
p 6 para 3 l-6 from bottom: remove; also ,before 'be located'.
p 7 l 1. two background-> summed background
p8 l7: is necessary to eliminate -> eliminates
p8 l9: Based on HIJING simulations it is estimated that this corresponds
to 95% of the total nuclear cross section.
p 9 para 2 l2 : within ... acceptance -> in the range
p 11 last para: In summary, the BRAHMS...
last para l 4 remove 'apparent'
l 8 : ... behavior is seen for nucleus-nucleus
collisions and is in fact already reached at the lower energy.
B.
A more substantial comment:
We are all still bothered by the difference between tiles and Si for the
most peripheral collisions. This difference looks like a TMA additive
offset of 10-15 particles. Thus it only reveals itself for low total
number of particles.
Does this difference subsist if the centrality selection is made with a
3rd party detector?
(e.g. the BB?).
In any case if we have no clue as to the reason for this discrepancy and
to a remedy I still propose to show fig. 16 as is, and accept the
difference as a measure of our syst,. error.
C.
I thought we ' pluralis communalis' did not like references to
preprints etc, but only favored fully published papers. I have no
personal problem with such references, but we should not zigzag in our
policy. Leave it now and in the future.
Steve suggest to submit the paper by Friday: You certainly have my
blessing!
And congratulation collectively for a godd job!
cheers
JJ
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