[Clascomment] OPT-IN: Data analysis techniques, differential cross sections and spin density matrix elements for the reaction gamma p -> phi p

[Reinhard Schumacher]

Hello Biplab,

	I read your comments on my comments.  Here is a second iteration on those comments, for the points where I still have a question.  

Title: I still feel that the present title is still over-playing the fact that you did a lot of work on the analysis methods.  Every analysis is a lot of work, and unique in some way.   I would remove that first phrase.

line 115: Its far from clear to me why you would let a referee dictate the content of 'your' paper.  There is no drawback to mentioning the other paper, and several things to gain.

Eq 11:  ah, yes.   I see.

line 529: Yes, I see the point, of course.  Perhaps you could rephrase the sentence "The dwindling phase space at higher MKK...."

Fig 7:  I downloaded the paper again, and again got scrambled figure legends and labels for this and many other figures.  (???)

line 1020: Just reread your sentence about a slow rise with energy of both B and C.  In Fig 31 B is falling and then flattening, and C is rising only if you ignore the most prominent feature of the distribution.  I think you have to qualify your statement.

Fig 36:  I still stand by my previous comment, though I could be wrong...  The GJ frame is defined in the rest frame of the V, which is what your label indicates.  But you show the V as moving and the IP at rest.  You want to illustrate a V being created out of the collision of a gamma and the IP, don't you?

Reinhard