[Clascomment] OPT-IN: Measurement of the Spin and Parity of the Lambda(1405)

[Reinhard Schumacher]

Hello Volker,
	We agree with your suggestions and made changes related to all of them. 
  The revised paper should be posted for final review in a day or so.

Reinhard

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On 11/05/2013 03:25 PM, Volker Burkert wrote:
> Hi Kei and Reinhard,
>
> Congratulations to another nice paper on the Lambda(1405).
> I think the article is very well written and I have only a couple minor comments for your consideration.
>
> 1) page 3, left column, line 13. The central values of the W bins are given but not the bin widths. Is it
>   100 MeV as in previous paper?
>
> 2) page 3, right column, line 8 from bottom. The sentence "The black points are the data ....hypothesis."
> is a repetition of the text in the caption to Figure 3.  I suggest to delete it in the text.
>
> 3) page 5, left column, last paragraph. It seems to me the phrase ".... is most consistent with J^P=1/2^0,
>   and other combinations are less favored by the data." is to weak and does not support strongly enough
> the claim in the paper title "Measurement of the Spin and Parity of the Lambda(1405)"  or the claim in
> the abstract ".. that the Lambda(1405) has spin-parity J^P=1/2^-".
>
> Volker
>