Hi Steve > Dear Jens Jorgen and Claus, > Thanks for the additional time. Ahead of additional comments on the > language, I want to reiterate a comment that I made previously, but has not > been resolved in the latest draft: > > We lay out a very specific procedure for determining centrality at BRAHMS in > our previous dN/dEta papers. It does NOT involve requiring a single > tile hit. The > tile multiplicity spectrum for hits < 4 is STRONGLY dominated by FALSE > events. I agree this is not going to affect the physics of the current > paper since, after all, the conclusion is that there is no centrality > dependence. However, > it is still a mistake to have obvious contradictions in the papers > presented by > the Collaboration. It is just possible that someone might be reading them! > > I am unable to suggest another wording for this sections since I don't > know how you > actually did the centrality determination. The centrality determination in the analysis is done using only the TMA (the cholm method) which has a nice correlation with the combined TMA+SiMA method. There are no cuts on the number of hits in TMA in the software, so if this is not in the trigger we should remove this sentence from the paper. However, it should have no impact on the results in the paper. Cheers, Claus +-------------------------------------------------------------+ | Claus Jørgensen | | Cand. Scient. Phone : (+45) 33 32 49 49 | | Cell : (+45) 27 28 49 49 | | Niels Bohr Institute, Ta-2, Office : (+45) 35 32 53 07 | | Blegdamsvej 17, DK-2100, E-mail : ekman@nbi.dk | | University of Copenhagen Home : www.nbi.dk/~ekman/ | +-------------------------------------------------------------+
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