Hi JJ,
Welcome back!
I will make the wording changes and post a draft with all of the
changes that I've received (mostly very minor wording) later today.
Unfortunately, the "procedural issue" that I alluded to in my earlier
message
is real. Notification of our intent to publish was not sent to the other
experiments before Flemming left for vacation. I will be gone until
next Sunday, so the present "plan" is to have Flemming send
notification on Monday when he gets back, and I'll submit the following
Monday (I'll try to post to arXiv next Sunday).
The size issue is an interesting one. We are well over the recommended
size for
Physics Letters. However, the journal seems to be willing to bend on
this rule--Looking
at several recent issues, I found a number of papers that were
comparably overlength.
The Information for Authors discussion presents the size recommendations as
a recomendation and not as a hard limit.
I think we are reasonably concise in our presentation and so I am hoping
that
this will count in our favor. However, I don't have any experience here.
Hiro has looked at different mulitiplicity cuts: Si alone, Tile alone,
BB alone,
Si+Tile, and does not see any significant difference in the dN/deta
distributions. In
particular, this does not resolve the Si/Tile "problem". I think we are
need to live
with this...
I'm not sure about the reference question. For political reasons if
nothing else, I think
we need to keep the latest Phobos preprint references. The only
reference that
people can not look up is the one to our NIM contribution. My own
feeling is that
this is weak and should probably not be there. My impression, however,
is that most
of the working group wants to keep it. I don't feel strongly one way or
the other.
Regards, Steve
Jens Jorgen Gaardhoje wrote:
> 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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