[Clascomment] OPT-IN: Determination of the Proton Spin Structure Functions for 0.05 < Q2 < 5 GeV2 using CLAS

[Enzo DeSanctis]

Congratulations for this good paper. I suggest the following minor corrections.

Page 2, line 100: the symbol “M” should be in italic.

Page 10, lines 737-741: I found the sentence misleading. We checked the count rates of different files to detect temporary problems encountered during the experiment. I think you removed the files with count rates outside the prescribed range only if temporary problems were found on the logbook. Otherwise, they cannot be removed.

Page 11 and 12: I suggest using a different color for fiducial cuts on the figures 7, 8 and 9 because they are not clearly visible online.

Page 14, caption of Fig. 13: drop the full stop in the last line, before “two cuts applied”.

Page 14, line 925: I suggest we use the most updated edition of the PDG, instead of that of the year 2006.

Page 16, line 1020: the sentence “which was 29 m downstream of the target” can be dropped, as it is a repetition of what said at page 7, line 511.

Page 17, Fig. 18: the curves shown (that I think are only a guide for the eye) are not described. 

Page 23, Fig. 26: In a black and white print, the energies of the three points are not easily readable; I suggest we use different symbols instead than different colors for the three points.

Page 23, Fig. 27: in order to make more readable data in a black and white print, I would write: “… (blue open circles) [21] and Bates (purple triangles) [43] data, in the bottom panel.”

Page 24, Fig. 28 caption, lines 2 and 3: ïƒ  “(blue open circles, in the bottom two panels) [21], and E155x data [40] (purple triangles on the lift side of the bottom panel) “

Page 31, Table II, raw 7: I would write 0.154+/-0.200

Page 33, Fig. 39: the shaded bands are not clearly distinguished in a black and white print.

Page 34, Fig. 40: the shaded bands are not clearly distinguished in a black and white print.