<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Dear Volker and Latifa,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thank you for sending the white paper. It is a very impressive piece of work.</div><div class="">I had a question about the DVCS projections in Fig. 9 on p. 16. Does this include </div><div class="">consideration of the Bethe-Heitler contribution and kinematic cuts to distinguish the</div><div class="">DVCS contribution? Are there any considerations of pi0 backgrounds? Ongoing </div><div class="">studies indicate that these can put a significant constraint on the accessible Q^2-x_B</div><div class="">region in which DVCS can be measured. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">With best regards,</div><div class="">Richard<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Aug 3, 2022, at 10:33 AM, Volker Burkert <<a href="mailto:burkert@jlab.org" class="">burkert@jlab.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class=""><div style="margin: 0px 0in; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 24px; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class=""><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; margin: 0px; padding: 0in;" class="">Dear Colleagues, </span></div><p style="margin: 0px 0in; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 24px; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class=""><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; margin: 0px; padding: 0in;" class=""> </span></p><div style="margin: 0px 0in; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 24px; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class=""><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; margin: 0px; padding: 0in;" class="">We are sending you this email because you have registered to participate in at least one of the workshops presented below, which were held on December 15-16, 2020, March 17-19, 2021, and July 19-23, 2021. </span></div><div style="margin: 0px 0in; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 24px; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class=""><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; margin: 0px; padding: 0in;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px 0in; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 24px; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class=""><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; margin: 0px; padding: 0in;" class="">One of the main goals of these workshops was to develop a white paper focused on high-impact science requiring high integrated luminosity at the low-to-medium center-of-mass energy of the U.S. Electron-Ion Collider project. </span></div><div style="margin: 0px 0in; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 24px; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class=""><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; margin: 0px; padding: 0in;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 24px; font-family: Calibri;" class=""><span lang="FR" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; margin: 0px; padding: 0in;" class="">This white paper is ready to be submitted for publication. 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