[E01107] Your_manuscript CC10279 Nuruzzaman

[Dipangkar Dutta]

Hi All,
Below are the referee comments to the kaon results from E01107. I think we
should be able to respond to these comments relatively quickly. We will
circulate the response as soon as it is ready (hopefully by next week).
Cheers
Dipangkar



Re: CC10279
   Nuclear transparency and effective kaon-nucleon cross section from the
   A(e,e prime K +) reaction
   by Nuruzzaman, D. Dutta, J. Arrington, et al.

Dear Dr. Nuruzzaman,

The above manuscript has been reviewed by one of our referees. Comments
from the report appear below.

These comments suggest that specific revisions of your manuscript are
in order. When you resubmit your manuscript, please include a summary
of the changes made and a succinct response to all recommendations or
criticisms contained in the report.

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PROBLEMS WITH MANUSCRIPT:

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changes would be needed in order for your figures to conform to the
style of the Physical Review.  Please check all figures for the
following problems and make appropriate changes in the text of the
paper itself wherever needed for consistency.


Figure(s) [1, 3 (particularly the superscripts)]:
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Report of the Referee -- CC10279/Nuruzzaman
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The essential result is a measurement of transparency as a ratio of
ratios (nuclear, deuteron, hydrogen, for data and MC) Later in the
paper these transparencies are further characterized by a simple
model with an absorption cross section. One result is a large
reduction (scale factor) in this required cross section relative
to the corresponding free cross section.

To interpret this result, it is essential to be clear just what is
in the Monte Carlo that defined transparency and what is not in it.
In my first reading, I had the impression that Pauli blocking and
short range correlations were somehow included in the Monte Carlo.
But later it seemed that these effects were among the possible
sources of the large rescaling factor.

I would like a little more clarity, item by item, just what is
included in the Monte Carlo calculation that leads to transparency
and what known effects are not included. I found the unpublished
thesis from the reference and I am still not clear about what was
included in a kaon simulation.

One issue that I noticed was an inconsistency between the description
of Figure 3 and the figure itself.

Quoting from the text:

"In Fig. 3 we have shown these effective proton numbers along with
our results, however, in order to display equivalent quantities we
have taken the ratio of the effective proton number"

This does not seem to be the case in the figure.





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