From: Ian Bearden (bearden@nbi.dk)
Date: Tue Jul 08 2003 - 08:58:15 EDT
Dear Collaborators, Here is my proposed answer to Dr. Malenfant. In the absence of comments, I will send this at 1200 EDT today. Best regards, Ian Bearden __________________________________________________ Dear Dr. Malenfant, We are very pleased both with the fantastic response time and with the very positive referee report. We have read the lecture notes referred to by referee A. The value of 42 mb for the inelastic pp cross section at 200 GeV (center of mass energy) is the current best estimate (cf. Particle Data Book). This value includes, of course, diffractive processes. In our work (I. Arsene et al. LG8974) we have used published pbar+p data (from UA1) as a reference, and have compared this to the published p+p data from STAR and find excellent agreement. We have no reason to doubt that the UA1 and STAR collaborations have corrected appropriately for trigger inefficiencies (which would correctly take care of the diffractive events). We therefore see no reason to alter the text of our manuscript, and hope that it can proceed rapidly toward publication. Sincerly, Ian Bearden on behalf of the BRAHMS collaboration
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