[Bonuslist] Fwd: Acceptance CP10332 Tkachenko

[Kuhn, Sebastian E.]

Who says the news these days have to ALWAYS be grim… Looks like the very excruciating Collaboration review process has paid off!

Although, in fairness, I have to say that we already got a list of editorial changes that we'll have to work on - so we're not completely done yet.

Greetings - Sebastian

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From: "prc at aps.org<mailto:prc at aps.org>" <prc at aps.org<mailto:prc at aps.org>>
Subject: Acceptance CP10332 Tkachenko
Date: March 25, 2014 9:18:23 PM GMT-03:00
To: "Kuhn, Sebastian E." <skuhn at odu.edu<mailto:skuhn at odu.edu>>
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Re: CP10332
   Measurement of the structure function of the nearly free neutron using
   spectator tagging in inelastic  2H(e,e prime p s)X scattering with
   CLAS
   by S. Tkachenko, N. Baillie, S. E. Kuhn, et al.

Dear Dr. Kuhn,

We are pleased to inform you that your manuscript has been accepted for
publication as a Regular Article in Physical Review C.  We would also
like to bring the appended referee comments to your attention.

Your manuscript will now be prepared for the production process.  If
any issues arise we will contact you; otherwise your manuscript will
be forwarded directly to our production department.  Please do not send
a revised manuscript or figures at this time unless requested.

Yours sincerely,

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Report of the Referee -- CP10332/Tkachenko
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The paper is a comprehensive description of the measurement of the
structure function of the neutron in the deuteron using spectator
tagging. For a partonic interpretation, the data have been taken at
the relatively low beam energies of about 2, 4, and 5 GeV at Jefferson
Lab. Thus, most of the invariant mass region is affected by the
nucleon resonance excitation. However, with the upgrade, the
measurement can be extended well into a region where the partonic
description is valid. Further, measurement of tagged structure
functions would be a major program at a future electron-ion collider.
Thus, I find the work to be important, timely, and of high quality.

The description of the Radial TPC is complete and informative. The
analysis of the data is thorough and straightforward to follow. The
use of two complementary analysis methods gives confidence in the
ultimate result. I was impressed by the care with systematic
uncertainties. 12.5% (8.7%) point-to-point systematic uncertainty in
the structure function (ratio of structure functions) seems reasonable
to me. The study of the ratio of experiment to simulation vs. θpq
showed variation that was interpreted as due to FSI and target
fragmentation effects.

Figure 19 shows the determination of the neutron structure function
Fn2 in the DIS region from this work. The data agree well with
existing PDF parametrizations.

This paper impressed me with its content and the great care with the
analysis of the data. It describes in detail a new experimental
technique, one that will likely be used and developed in the future. I
recommend that the paper be accepted for publication.


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