Dear collaborator, we have just received and acted upon a final round on referee reports to the paper on stopping in central collisions. You may recall we have been through two round answering detailled questions essentially on decay corrections, and extensions into unmeasured regions. Apperently the ref B did not like our replies so it went to a thir refereee who wholeheartely supported the paper be published in PRL . We have mae a brief reply to the editors and sincerely expect it will be accepted as is. I attach for you information the latest round of ref reporting best regards flemming ----------------------------------------------- Re: LM9682 Nuclear stopping in Au+Au collisions at $sqrt s sub {N N}$=200 GeV by I.G. Bearden, D. Beavis, C. Besliu, B. Budick, H. Boggild, et al. Dr. P.H.L. Christiansen European Organization for Nuc. Res. CERN CH-1211 Geneva 23 SWITZERLAND Dear Dr. Christiansen, The above manuscript has been reviewed by our referees. Acceptance of your paper for publication is likely, but we first ask you to consider carefully the enclosed comments. Please accompany your resubmittal by a summary of the changes made, and a brief response to any recommendations and criticisms. Yours sincerely, Christopher Wesselborg Senior Assistant Editor Physical Review Letters Email: prl@aps.org Fax: 631-591-4141 http://prl.aps.org/ P.S. Please ensure that the introduction is acceptable to the general physics audience that Physical Review Letters addresses. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Third Report of Referee A -- LM9682/Bearden ---------------------------------------------------------------------- I reviewed the second revised version of the manuscript "Nuclear Stopping in Au+Au Collisions at sqrt(snn)=200 GeV" by I.G. Bearden et al. (LM9682). I'm satisified with the changes made by the authors and have no further comments on the manuscript. The issue concerning the extrapolation uncertainties remain but I do not see a way to overcome them without a measurement in the region y>3. In my view the upper and lower limits are sufficient and are explained clearly. In summary I recommend the publication in PRL without reservations. A minor typo. Second paragraph, second to last sentence "the the". ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Third Report of Referee B -- LM9682/Bearden ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The authors did not address my request to include some model predictions into the comparison. It seems to me that the authors focused only on the issue of rapidity-loss-scaling and its violation at RHIC. In terms of physics content, this is not enough because we need to understand both the cause and the energy dependence of the rapidity shift. The functional forms used in the manuscript do not provide any insights to the underlying mechanism. Without some comparison to model results, I do not think the paper will be appropriate for a general reader. For the above reasons, I cannot, regretfully, recommend the manuscript for publication in Phys. Rev. Lett. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Report of Referee C -- LM9682/Bearden ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The paper reports long awaited data on the nuclear stopping in ultra relativistic reactions at RHIC. The Brahms Collaboration has targeted this goal since its beginning. The data - although not covering the full rapidity region- are analyzed and discussed using state of the art modelling and assumptions on the baryon distribution where no data have been obtained. The observed transparency and deviation from data at lower energies is an important fact which deserves immediate publication in Phys Rev Letters. IMPORTANT: We cannot publish your manuscript without the following information: We have yet to receive a valid copyright form for this manuscript. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Flemming Videbaek Physics Department Brookhaven National Laboratory e-mail: videbaek@bnl.gov phone: 631-344-4106 _______________________________________________ Brahms-l mailing list Brahms-l@lists.bnl.gov http://lists.bnl.gov/mailman/listinfo/brahms-lReceived on Tue Jul 13 20:30:53 2004
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.8 : Tue Jul 13 2004 - 20:31:17 EDT