[Clascomment] OPT-IN:Suppression of neutral pion production in deep-inelastic scattering off nuclei with the CLAS detector

[Taisiya Mineeva]

Dear Dave,

Thank you for your comments and for your suggestion to use the color
gradient scheme and to further advocate for such a presentation.

Once I tried the gradient palette for Fig.2 and different colors for
targets, I realized how much clearer the main message of the plot stands
out. It is very helpful to be aware of the formal guidelines now and in
future, based on  "Vary hue to distinguish categories"  where categories
are various targets and  "Vary luminance to represent numbers" where
numbers are z-bins. In the upcoming CLAS12 experiment we will have
multi-fold measurements where such presentations will be widely used. As
far as Fig.3, the clustering of various symbols around the center of each z
bin is indeed used to illustrate the  commonality in values of multiplicity
ratio for various Q2 and nu. I appreciate having confirmation that this
message came across clear.

In regards to the acknowledgments, I somehow did not find a standard
template of acknowledgments in the opt-in database, there is only
'GetAuthors' option for the paper.  I borrowed the full list of various
funders from a recently published paper. Thanks for bringing this to my
attention.

With best regards,
Taisiya

On Fri, May 19, 2023 at 10:07 AM David Ireland <David.Ireland at glasgow.ac.uk>
wrote:

> Hi Taisiya, et al.,
>
> Well done for getting the paper to this stage. These are interesting
> results, and point the way to more potential research.
>
> Since I was partially responsible for suggesting the presentation of the
> figures (and all due respect to Daniel!), I'd like to defend your
> presentation. There are many guides on using color in plots, but one
> example is in:
>
> https://seaborn.pydata.org/tutorial/color_palettes.html
>
> The two important messages in that piece are: "Vary hue to distinguish
> categories", and in your case the different targets correspond to different
> categories;  "Vary luminance to represent numbers", and in figure 2, the
> (numerical) bins in z are those numbers that need to be represented (in
> addition to the dependence on p_T^2). You have followed these guidelines.
> There are of course an infinite set of color pallettes to use for either
> variation, so the choice is in the eye of the beholder.
>
> As to figure 3, to my mind the heterogeneity of the symbols actually
> serves to illustrate the commonality in values of the multiplicity ratio
> for a variety of different kinematics. The fact that they all cluster
> around well defined values for each target at each value of z is a visual
> indication that there is an effect that appears to be largely independent
> of the kinematics.
>
> Please include "the UK Science and Technology Facilities Council" in the
> acknowledgments, but I should point out that there should be (at least used
> to be) a standard template of acknowledgments for various funders that can
> be found in the file generated in the opt-in process.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Dave
>
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