[Clascomment] OPT-IN: Resolving the proton form factor problem by comparing electron and positron scattering from the proton

[Mac Mestayer]

Dear Dave;

The paper review committee has considered the collaboration comments
to the "TPE paper" and find that the authors have adequately
answered all significant issues.  We approve the paper for submission
for publications.

 			regards, Mac Mestayer (for the committee)

"mestayer at jlab.org", (757)-269-7252

On Mon, 24 Nov 2014, Larry Weinstein wrote:

> Dear Mac, Mike, and Marco,
>
> Here are the final versions of the PRL paper draft and the supplementary 
> material.  The collaboration comments were excellent, but mainly concerned 
> minor details of grammar and syntax.  The primary changes are that we have 
> (1) toned down the title and (2) changed the description of the statistical 
> significance from a straight line fit to a true confidence interval.  We now 
> claim
>
>   Our data points plus the previous ε = 0 point [36] prefer the
>   hadronic TPE calculation Ref. [17] by 2.5σover the no-TPE (R′ = 0)
>   hypothesis. A calculation of TPE effects on a structureless point
>   proton is disfavored by almost 5σ. Our results are consistent with
>   the theoret- ical calculations and are more precise than the
>   previousworld’s measurements.
>
> We are producing versions of figs 1 and 2 with larger labels and higher 
> resolution and will include them prior to publication.  If desired, we can 
> include a version of Fig 2 showing the high-epsilon bins in the supplementary 
> materials.
>
> We request permission to submit this paper to PRL.
>
> --
> 				Sincerely,
> 				Larry
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------
> Lawrence Weinstein
> University Professor
> Physics Department
> Old Dominion University
> Norfolk, VA 23529
> 757 683 5803
> 757 683 3038 (fax)
> weinstein at odu.edu
> http://www.lions.odu.edu/~lweinste/
>
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