[Clascomment] OPT-IN: Tensor Correlations Measured in 3He(e,e′ pp)n

Larry Weinstein weinstei at jlab.org
Wed Aug 11 11:13:18 EDT 2010


Dear Keith,

Thank you for your comments.  I have tried to fix the spacing issues.  I 
fixed the noun/verb agreement.

I decided to delete the confusing paragraph.  On reflection, that 
paragraph obscures the primary argument of the paper.

Keith Griffioen wrote:
> The paper is well-written.  There are a few spacing issues with punctuation that an editor will catch.  However, \"data\" is used as a singular noun in three instances.
>
> \"this data\" should be \"these data\" or \"this data set\".  This occurs in the text and in a caption.
>
> \"data has been\" needs to be \"data have been\"
>
> Top of the page, second column on page 4:  This is confusing.  The energy of the A-2 system (NN correlation) is
> ptot^2/(2M_(A-2)), but then you talk about a 3N correlation with, presumably the energy of the residual A-3 system as
> ptot^2/(2M_p).  Why isn\'t this ptot^2/(2M_(A-3))?   Don\'t you mean to say that ptpt^2/(2M_(A-2)) = ptot^2/(2M_p) for A=3,
> therefore a large ptot NN correlation for A=3 is hard to distinguish from a 3N correlation with all nucleons sharing the momentum?
>
>    

-- 
				Sincerely,
				Larry

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