[Halla_parity] Fwd: Your_manuscript LD14867 Wang

Fri May 31 11:11:31 EDT 2013

Dear All:

As most of you knew that at the end of April we submitted to PRL our draft paper on the nucleon resonance parity-violating asymmetries collected during the PVDIS experiment. It was circulated within the Halla_coll mailing list twice.  After the submission, it was pointed out to me that some of the authors were not part of the Halla_coll list and I apologize if you were left out in our original circulations.

We have just received comments back from the PRL reviewers, please see below.  It looks like they are focused mostly on:
1) More explanation of QCD <-- if we claim quark-hadron duality;
2) More explanation of gamma-Z box diagram corrections <-- if we claim these results are important for such corrections;
3) More explanation of the results presented and how they should be compared to calculations;

I'd like to address these comments within 1-2 weeks. If you have detailed suggestions for how to address these comments, and/or general/detailed comments on other aspects of the draft, please send them to me within the 1-2 week time frame.  (Although when I can compile the comments and come up with an updated draft will depend more on my personal schedule)

The draft version can be viewed on arXiv:
  http://arxiv.org/abs/arXiv:1304.7741

I'd also like to provide a few more notes/updates on the status of PVDIS publications:

1) Our NIM paper on the DAQ is now in print and the final version can be viewed at arXiv:1302.2854 [physics.ins-det]. This is not identical to the published version due to editing/formatting issues, but should be really close.

2) We are working on a short physics paper on the main DIS results and a long archival paper to provide all analysis details for BOTH DIS and resonance results. The short paper will need quite some work (and time), but the technical part of the long archival paper is nearly complete and can be made available for those who are interested. 

3) The existence of the long paper will help to address one of the comments from reviewer #1. 

Best regards,

Xiaochao

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Subject: Your_manuscript LD14867 Wang

Re: LD14867
    Measurement of the parity-violating asymmetry in electron-deuteron
    scattering in the nucleon resonance region
    by D. Wang, K. Pan, R. Subedi, et al.

Dear Dr. Zheng,

The above manuscript has been reviewed by our referees.  We ask you
to consider the appended comments from the reports.

While we cannot make a definite commitment, the probable course of
action if you choose to resubmit is indicated below.

( ) Acceptance, if the editors can judge that all or most of the
    criticism has been met.

(x) Return to the previous referee(s) for review if available.

( ) Submittal to new referee(s) for review.

With any resubmittal, please include a summary of changes made                  
and a brief response to all recommendations and criticisms.

Yours sincerely,

Abhishek Agarwal
Assistant Editor
Physical Review Letters
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Report of Referee A -- LD14867/Wang
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The paper reports on a measurement of parity violation in electron
scattering on a deuteron target in the nucleon resonance region.
Actually, the "nucleon resonance region" is a little vague as there
are several resonance regions and perhaps this should be better
defined for the non-specialist. In general the paper is reasonably
understood and appropriate details of the analysis provided. It
appears that the paper and results are valid. However, it will be
important to archive in a longer paper, the calculation and
application of all applied data corrections and errors.

The results are in agreement with quark/gluon duality, and the
experiment is the first demonstration that duality holds on a nuclear
target in the resonance region. It also provides information on the
gamma-Z interference structure functions. The paper is important as a
first observation in this energy/momentum transfer region, but how all
this relates to QCD is probably lost to the non-specialist. Thus, a
little more effort in justifying the impact of the results would have
been helpful. A number of minor English corrections and expansions are
needed (e.g. define HD).

This reviewer recommends publication, although the paper could have
more impact if some of the issues raised above were addressed.

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Report of Referee B -- LD14867/Wang
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The results presented in the submitted paper are very interesting and
important for the verification of quark-hadron duality in the nucleon
electroweak \gamma-Z interference structure functions. This paper is
sufficient to the publication in PRL after some clarifications of
definitions and interconnections between the measured asymmetries.

My comments are below.

Page 2, left column, line 14. Reference on the first results of HERMES
experiment in this field is needed, see A. Airapetian et al, PRL, 90,
9, 092002-1 (2003).

P.2, L, l -19. Could be mentioned that A is experimentally measured
asymmetry.

P.2, L, l -8 (from bottom). Here is the main set of questions. How
asymmetry A is connected with A_PV described in Eq.1? How
electromagnetic and \gamma-Z interference structure functions are
measured?

P.2, R, l -20. \gamma-Z box diagram could be presented as a figure
there or in another place. As it is mentioned in abstract and summary,
the definition of the relevant diagram is needed for the clarification
of the studied reaction.

P. 4, R, Table 1. How presented asymmetries are connected with each
other and final A_PV shown in Fig.1 and compared with calculations?
Some tuning of the text on pages 3 and 4 is quite desirable.

P.5, L, Fig.1. May be definition of ppm, given in the text above,
could be repeated here, but it is quite optional.