[Clascomment] OPT-IN: First Exclusive Measurement of Deep Virtual Compton Scattering off 4 He: Toward the 3D tomography of nuclei

[Reinhard Schumacher]

Hello Raphael et al.,

I read through your draft article "First Exclusive Measurement of
DVCS... Nuclei" and have just a few comments and suggestions.  It is
very nice as a "first-ever" type of measurement, and it seems like a
good candidate for publication as a Letter.

Figures 3, 4 and 6 all have text that is too small to read easily, and
I believe those figures will be rejected by the editorial office of
the journal for that reason.  The solution could be that you can
remake each of those figures with the same overall final size but
bigger fonts.  It looks to me like they can fit with all the same
information given.

Also, when I read the paper, Figure 3 is not very interesting.  It
does not give the reader significant additional information about the
results.  Thus, I think you could delete this figure and give yourself
thereby more room for text.

I have learned that Physical Review now allows titles to be included
with the references.  I find it more interesting to check the
references on an article if the titles are given, so you could try
adding the titles for better readability of the paper.  All it takes
is for you to have the right version of Bibtex to include the titles.
As far as I know, the length of the section of references does not
count toward the PRL page and word limits.

Reference 38 is to M. Hattawy's thesis, but the citation is to a
hard-to-find local institutional document.  Many CLAS papers point the
reader to the CLAS PhD thesis web page of the student:
https://www.jlab.org/Hall-B/general/clas_thesis.html.  Consider adding
this information to the reference item.

Reinhard