sPHENIX is a new detector at RHIC.

["Sickles, Anne M" <sickles AT illinois.edu>]

Hi,

Thanks for the updated draft.  My comments are below.

Best,

Anne

abstract: it would be good to mention the non-heavy ion uses of sPHENIX (perhaps a sentence from the cold QCD topical group).

line 19, 21: “are used” -> “will be used”?

line 114: “damaging the fibers” -> “degrading the light output of the fibers”

line 135-136: “insensitive to neither…” fix

line 209-212: “A gap of…” this sentence has some grammar problems “fibers and the SiPM”? “misaligned by 0.2mm” ? 

line 227: “decreasing aging…” -> “which decreases aging and improves the ability…”

line 514: “FTBF” was already defined on line 60

line 529: a reference to the beam spot size?

line 564: remove “one” (presumably firing multiple veto counters would also cause an even to be rejected)

line 567 & figure 14 are still not consistent since "2>= particles” != “more than 2 particles”

line 559: “sixteen” -> “16”

line 673: reference for 105 cm?

line 666: remove “through”

line 671: L_eff is formatted differently in the two places it appears in this line

line 703: “max-energy tower” -> “the tower with the maximum energy”

line 706: “best” -> “largest”

line 712-713: can the figures be rearranged so that this single line isn’t alone on the page?

line 717: “W-Epoxy” -> “WSciFi"

line 733: remove “projection”

line 744: “SPACL” -> “WSciFi”

line 767: “1/(hadron rejection)” -> “inverse of the hadron rejection” or something similar

line 793 & 803: figures 26 a & b should be swapped so they are referenced in the correct order

line 795: “exponential+Landau” -> “sum of an exponential and a Landau distribution”

line 806: write out “approximately”

line 811: commas around I(ch)

line 866: here there is a space between the figure number and subfigure letter but previously there was not, it should be consistent

line 876: “Birks’ “

reference 1: include the arXiv number for the MIE proposal

On Mar 8, 2017, at 10:09 AM, Ron Belmont <ron.belmont AT colorado.edu> wrote:

Dear All,

We greatly appreciate the very valuable comments from the collaboration on the first draft of the 2016 beam test paper.  We have made our best effort to address all of your comments in this new draft.  You can find the latest draft here: https://wiki.bnl.gov/sPHENIX/images/7/7f/Beam-test-results_second-collab-release.pdf and furthermore you can find all comments received and responses here: https://wiki.bnl.gov/sPHENIX/index.php/T-1044_publication_collaboration_comments .  You will also find in this new draft the proposed author list based on responses to the survey.  If your name is not on the paper and you believe it should be, this is your *last chance* to fill out the survey here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdyrXUoNoiS65D6VqVPNPyGZJQYk_5IiIYqcUW9G4ak5c19gw/viewform?c=0&w=1 Please also be sure to review the acknowledgements and let us know if any changes are needed.

With best regards,

The T-1044 paper committee

(Abhisek, Jin, Megan, Virginia, and Ron, with special thanks to outgoing committee member Vera)

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