Hi All,<br>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).<br>
Cheers<br>Dipangkar<br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_quote">Re: CC10279<br>
Nuclear transparency and effective kaon-nucleon cross section from the<br>
A(e,e prime K +) reaction<br>
by Nuruzzaman, D. Dutta, J. Arrington, et al.<br>
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Report of the Referee -- CC10279/Nuruzzaman<br>
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The essential result is a measurement of transparency as a ratio of<br>
ratios (nuclear, deuteron, hydrogen, for data and MC) Later in the<br>
paper these transparencies are further characterized by a simple<br>
model with an absorption cross section. One result is a large<br>
reduction (scale factor) in this required cross section relative<br>
to the corresponding free cross section.<br>
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To interpret this result, it is essential to be clear just what is<br>
in the Monte Carlo that defined transparency and what is not in it.<br>
In my first reading, I had the impression that Pauli blocking and<br>
short range correlations were somehow included in the Monte Carlo.<br>
But later it seemed that these effects were among the possible<br>
sources of the large rescaling factor.<br>
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I would like a little more clarity, item by item, just what is<br>
included in the Monte Carlo calculation that leads to transparency<br>
and what known effects are not included. I found the unpublished<br>
thesis from the reference and I am still not clear about what was<br>
included in a kaon simulation.<br>
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One issue that I noticed was an inconsistency between the description<br>
of Figure 3 and the figure itself.<br>
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Quoting from the text:<br>
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"In Fig. 3 we have shown these effective proton numbers along with<br>
our results, however, in order to display equivalent quantities we<br>
have taken the ratio of the effective proton number"<br>
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This does not seem to be the case in the figure.<br>
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</div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>-- <br>Dipangkar Dutta Assistant Professor<br>Department of Physics & Astronomy<br>Mississippi State University<br>
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