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

[Biplab Dey]

>It is not for the referee to tell you what should and what should 
not be in the paper. You are the author. If you choose >to ignore the 
other collaboration paper on the subject you should give the 
collaboration explanations for doing so. This >will look very strange for
external world as if within the CLAS collaboration the right hand does 
not know what the left >hand does.

Dear Eugene,

Thank you for your comments. We are certainly not ``ignoring'' the ODU publication. We are just apprehensive about what the referee will say. Which is why we are suggesting that the referee tell us what to write and we (the lead authors) stay out of it. Of course, if you have any complaints about the paper as such, I'd be happy to respond to that.


We would also like to point out that we never interfered in the ODU publication process. We could have asked them to refer to our Baryons'10 proceedings, or even my thesis -- both of which were in public domain --  but we didn't want to create trouble for Heghine, so we didn't raise any issues. We find it somewhat weird this doesn't seem to be reciprocated however.


As I said, let us discuss with the referee on what is the minimal complicated way to make the reference and we'll put that in.

Heghine has already have had her publication on her thesis topic, which is great. I would request you (and others) to let me get done with mine and move on.

Thank you,
-Biplab (for the authors)
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