STAR HardProbes PWG

[Nihar Sahoo <nihar AT rcf.rhic.bnl.gov>]

Hello Veronica,

Sorry for my late reply.
I just went through your proceedings, I find it is in good shape.
I sign off.

Best
Nihar

On 2024-06-21 19:11, Yi Yang wrote:
> Hi Veronika,
>
> As I said that I don't have any further comments on it, let me push it
> to STAR talk and Nihar can comment there if he has any.
>
> Cheers,
> Yi
>
> On Fri, Jun 21, 2024 at 7:05 PM Veronika Prozorova
> <v.d.prozorova AT gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Dear convenors,
> >
> > Please, let me know if you have any further comments on my
> > proceedings.
> >
> > Thank you.
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Veronika
> >
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> > ср, 19 июн. 2024 г. в 23:20, Yi Yang
> > <yiyang0429 AT gmail.com>:
> >
> > Hi Veronika,
> >
> > Thanks a lot for the updated version. It looks great to me and I
> > don't have any further comments on it.
> > Regarding the "this section" part, I was confused by myself, it
> > looks right to me now. Thanks for the clarification.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Yi
> >
> > On Tue, Jun 18, 2024 at 4:07 PM Veronika Prozorova
> > <v.d.prozorova AT gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Yi,
> >
> > Thank you very much for the comments. Please, find the updated
> > version here:
> https://drupal.star.bnl.gov/STAR/system/files/ProceedingsIJMPA_ver3.pdf
> > I just have one explanation for your comment to the Results section.
> > My thought was that in this section I present some of the plots
> > referring to the HFE yield calculation. That is why I wrote "In this
> > section". In the previous section I was describing the analysis
> > details. Let me know if it's still confusing, so I can change it.
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Veronika
> >
> > пн, 17 июн. 2024 г. в 08:44, Yi Yang
> > <yiyang0429 AT gmail.com>:
> >
> > Hi Veronika,
> >
> > Thanks a lot for the nice proceedings and sorry for the late reply.
> > I was half way through version 1, but let me do it on version 2. I
> > only have some minor comments for your consideration.
> > - Abstract:
> > - high-energy heavy-ion --> high-energy HIC   (or remove "(HIC)"
> > in the first sentence)
> > - I would suggest using "heavy quarks" or "heavy-flavor quarks"
> > consistently.
> > - Introduction:
> > - Actually I won't use HQ for heavy quarks (or heavy-flavor
> > quarks), it just reads a bit strange to me, but totally up to you.
> > - I would suggest using "heavy quarks" or "heavy-flavor quarks"
> > consistently.
> > - the ideal probes of Quark-Gluon Plasma --> the ideal probes of
> > QGP
> > - Add reference 1 to the text (after Fig.1 depicts... 200 GeV),
> > you only have it in the Fig.1's caption.
> >
> > - Analysis:
> > - (i) photonic --> (i) Photonic
> > - (ii) hadron-decayed --> (ii) Hadron-decayed
> > - It would be good to add references for TPC, TOF, and BEMC
> > - The Time Projection Chamber is --> The TPC is
> > - The Time Of Fight detector information --> The TOF detector
> > information
> > - You need to introduce what DCA is.
> > - Results:
> > - In this section --> In the previous section?
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Yi
> >
> > On Thu, Jun 13, 2024 at 5:23 PM Veronika Prozorova via Star-hp-l
> > <star-hp-l AT lists.bnl.gov> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Isaac,
> >
> > Thank you very much for the comments and sorry for the late reply.
> > You can find the updated version here:
> https://drupal.star.bnl.gov/STAR/system/files/ProceedingsIJMPA_ver2.pdf
> > Pease, let me know if you have any further comments.
> >
> > A few answers to your comments:
> > _Should it actually be ">= 1.5 GeV/c^2"? Or 1.25 GeV/c^2 as it is in
> > the next line, and everywhere else?_
> > Yes, it should be like this. For TOF we are using hybrid mode from
> > 1.5 GeV/c^2, while for BEMC we apply the cut starting from 1.25
> > GeV/c.
> >
> > _Fig. 3: the label is overlapping with the curves. It's also not
> > explained in the caption what "number" is referring to._
> >
> > That was my bad. I use "number" just for me to know where to look in
> > the code. I removed it now.
> > Best regards,
> > Veronika
> >
> > вт, 28 мая 2024 г. в 22:36, Mooney, Isaac via Star-hp-l
> > <star-hp-l AT lists.bnl.gov>:
> > Hi Veronika,
> >
> > Sorry for being so late to give you comments as this email came
> > right around the Hard Probes abstract submissions and I lost track
> > of it. The proceedings read very well already, but I have some small
> > points below.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Isaac
> >
> > Please add "for the STAR Collaboration" after your name.
> >
> > It would be good to move the citation in Fig. 1's caption up to
> > after "200 GeV" so it's clear the reference corresponds to that
> > data. Also now that it's published, it would be good to modify
> > slightly to "compared with previous STAR (stars) and PHENIX (empty
> > squares) results..." so it doesn't seem like you're implying that
> > the other data is published while these data are not.
> >
> > Upright/roman text for "incl", "pho", "HDE", "purity", "measured",
> > "LS", "merged", etc. Switch "<" and ">" in eq. 2 to "\langle" and
> > "\rangle".
> >
> > Should it actually be ">= 1.5 GeV/c^2"? Or 1.25 GeV/c^2 as it is in
> > the next line, and everywhere else?
> >
> > "are pared with" -> "are paired with"
> >
> > "In the event that the pair comprises either an electron..." -> "In
> > the event that the pair comprises either two electrons or two
> > positrons..."
> >
> > Fig. 2: since everything is the same except the centrality
> > selection, you can omit every legend/label from the right-hand plot
> > except "40 - 60%" so people don't spend too much time trying to
> > figure out what the difference is.
> >
> > It's a bit confusing in Sec. 2.2 to say that an unlike-sign pair "is
> > indicative of the signal" since you're going to then subtract the
> > photonic electron yield from the inclusive as a contamination
> > basically. I understand you mean "signal" of real PE, but people
> > might be confused and think you mean signal of real HFE since this
> > is the goal of the study. Maybe change "indicative of the signal" to
> > "indicative of real PE".
> >
> > Fig. 3: the label is overlapping with the curves. It's also not
> > explained in the caption what "number" is referring to.
> >
> > At the top of the last page, the description of the plots flips
> > "right" and "left" (also in the caption). There's also an extra
> > "(left)" in the text. Lastly, should be "are shown...are
> > approximately".
> >
> > Could save space by saying "These proceedings present an ongoing
> > analysis..." and remove "This analysis is ongoing".
> >
> > "NPE electron" is redundant -> just "NPE" or "non-photonic
> > electron".
> >
> > You do cite the 54 GeV HFE v2 analysis, but it's a bit odd not to
> > mention it explicitly in the text (unless I missed it). It could fit
> > well in the paragraph on pg. 2 starting "Fig. 1 depicts recent STAR
> > results...". Maybe at the end of the paragraph: "...such as 54.4
> > GeV, following up on a recent STAR publication of elliptic flow of
> > HFE at this energy." or something like that.
> >
> > > On May 16, 2024, at 08:21, webmaster--- via Star-hp-l
> > <star-hp-l AT lists.bnl.gov> wrote:
> > > Dear Star-hp-l AT lists.bnl.gov members,
> > >
> > > Veronika Prozorova (v.d.prozorova AT gmail.com) has submitted a
> > material for a
> > > review, please have a look:
> > > https://drupal.star.bnl.gov/STAR/node/67804
> > >
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