ECCE Public Announcements

["Wenliang (Bill) Li" <billlee AT jlab.org>]

Dear all,

As planned, we had a short meeting updating the status of the Exclusive, Diffractive & Tagging summary paper yesterday. Overall, the paper is in a good shape, Sections 1-4 are ready for review and there are still a few action items that need to be addressed.

This email will provide an updated timeline regarding the complication and review of the Exclusive, Diffractive & Tagging summary paper.

Here we would like to thank the review team for leading the internal group review: G. Huber, Z. Papandreou, J. Roche, A. Schmidt. Note that two of the four reviewers have completed 1st round of comments so far, and we are in the process of addressing them.

Due to the change of date for the ECCE publication meeting, our plan for the paper is updated accordingly:

1. Monday (May 16) at 12:00 PM EDT, we will present our paper at the ECCE bi-weekly publication meeting to the consortium.
2. Friday (May 20), the paper will be ready for comments by the consortium.

As mentioned earlier, there are a few items that need to be addressed before we release the paper to the consortium:

a) The author's list needs to be in the desired order, namely, students and postdocs in alphabetical order, followed by all members of the WG in alphabetical order, then the rest of the consortium in alphabetical order.

b) Zisis and Garth have completed their 1st round of review, the comments must be addressed ASAP. (Rachel and Bill are leading this effort).

c) One of the comments from the internal reviewer stated that Section 4 (physics impact section) lacks cohesion. We would like to urge the authors of this section to read the entire section and improve the cohesion (cross-referencing, consistent notations and symbols, eliminating duplicated material and contradictory statements). This aspect will be reviewed again during the 2nd round of internal review (which starts next Tuesday).

d) Axel will take care of the Summary section.

e) The paper abstract is still to be written. Here, we would like to ask the internal review members (Axel, Garth, Julie, and Zisis) to come up with a draft. Please note that this can be done at the last minute.

f) Dhevan, Gary, Mark, Richard, and Bill are still working on Sec.5, it will be ready for internal review by next Monday.

Overall, we are very close to the finishing line and we just need a small push in the next week to complete this great effort.

Many thanks

Axel, Rachel, Julie, and Bill

P.S. Please see the instruction for generating the standardized figures below:

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For important key figures, we must polish them to the following standard:
https://nbviewer.org/github/ECCE-EIC/tutorials/blob/master/ECCEStyle/ECCEStyle-Python.ipynb

We don't want to ask everyone to use the same template, please preserve a few common features when generating the key plot which includes: the ECCE label, scattering configuration, and readable axis labels.

Please consider using the following style script to standardize the font or configuration (download them to your local directory):
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ECCE-EIC/macros/master/common/ECCEStyle.C
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ECCE-EIC/macros/master/common/ECCEStyle.h

To use them, please you can use the following root macro command to trigger the style:

    gInterpreter->Declare("""#include \"ECCEStyle.C\"""");
    gInterpreter->ProcessLine("SetECCEStyle()");

The ECCE label can be generated with the following TLegend example:

    auto legend1 = new TLegend(.35,.75,.65,.93);
    gStyle->SetLegendBorderSize(0);
    legend1->AddEntry("","#it{#bf{ECCE}} Simulation","");
    legend1->AddEntry("","e+p 18+275 GeV","");

For the intermediary plots, please remove the overhead labels and reduce the white space on the plot. Please also double-check the bin sizes: choppy-looking plots should be re-binned to show a smoother shape.

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