STAR HardProbes PWG

[tc88qy <tc88qy AT rcf.rhic.bnl.gov>]

Hello Priyanka

 I am ok with these reply.
Figure 1 does not delivering physics information, I do not saw a plot 
with "STAR" on it before.
Probably Barbara can give comments on this and give a decision.

Qian

On 2024-11-30 21:08, "Roy Chowdhury Priyanka (DOKT)" wrote:
> Dear Convenors and all,
>
>  I received the following comments on my SQM proceeding. I implemented
> most of those and uploaded V5 in the same node as previous one.
> https://drupal.star.bnl.gov/STAR/node/68859
>
>  Please find my responses to these comments and questions.
>
>  Abstract: particle emit and the -> are emitted and on the  ---> DONE
>  Abstract: Such correlations ... in the hadronic phase. -> this
> sentence has to be rephrased in the sense of clearly stating that the
> correlations can bring information about the interaction of charm
> quarks with the QGP medium and of charmed hadrons in the hadronic
> rescattering phase. ---> I am not sure if I can make this statement as
> we don't have any theory model which can connect the findings through
> femtoscopy at final state can connect the interaction at initial
> stages, so kept the line unchanged
>  page 1: In the early ... establishment [1]. -> Heavy quarks such as
> charm (c) and its charge conjugate (c-bar) are created in the early
> stages of ultra-relativistic collisions of heavy ions. Therefore, they
> probe all stages of the evolution of heavy-ion collisions -
> Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP), hadronization, chemical and kinetic
> freeze-out.  ----> DONE
>  page 1: remove the sentence with the big bang. It is not really
> linked to the rest of the text.   —-> DONE
>  page 1: interact with the medium -> which medium? QGP? Than clearly
> state it    ----> DONE
> page 1: paarticular -> particular   -----> DONE
> page 1: Phase... [5]. -> Phase-space evolution of emission source and
> final-state interactions can be both studied with such measurements in
> heavy-ion collisions [5]. ------> DONE
> page 2: suggest to remove the branching ratio -> Kpi. Moreover, 'and
> set of topological criteria' is somehow not linked to the rest of the
> sentence -> rephrase   ------> DONE
> page 2: Fig.1 shows the reconstructed D0 and D0-bar invariant mass
> distributions using STAR data of Au+Au collisions at sqrt(s_NN) = 200
> GeV [4].   —---> DONE
> page 2: remove 'for this study'   —----> DONE
> Figure 1:
>  _) you have purity labels, but you do not discuss them at all. So
> either remove them or quote them later on where you explain Eq.(2). It
> is better maybe to remove them , because in these plots you show only
> D0 candidates, while you refer to the purity in terms of D0-identified
> hadron pairs. If in the figure you quote the D0 purity, write it
> clearly in the caption and/or in the text.   —--> __I mentioned
> about D0 purity right above the fig 1, this comment is unclear to me_
>  ) Add Au+Au, sqrt(s_NN) and STAR label   —---> Can I put "STAR" in
> the inv mass plots??
>  _) red curved should be added to the legend  ----> Not yet
> implemented_
>  ) caption: you discuss here for the first time the LS pairs. This
> should be properly addressed in the text. Moreover, it is not clear
> whether the red curves are a result from the LS subtraction, or just
> results from the fitting procedure. Note also that the black points
> are US, but what happens is that the US background can be described
> well with LS pairs. Please revise the caption and the corresponding
> text to avoid confusions.   —---> Modified
> page 2: The computed value of the correlation function can be affected
> ---> DONE
> page 2: identifying -> identified  -------> DONE
> page 3: 'to reduce contamination ... present in the system' -> this is
> a bit hard to ready, if you can please rephrase to make clearer.  --->
> DONE
> page 3: n-sigma -> you have to explain that you discuss PID here and
> describe what is it.  ---> Rephrased with a reference, but looking for
> a better reference
> page 4: Theory calculations... pairs [9]. -> Please write properly
> that in the left panel the theory predictions are for a mixture of
> D0-pi+ and D+-pi0 and in the right panel for D0-K+ pairs.  -----> DONE
> page 4: what do you mean by 'at the origin'?  -----> Modified
>
>  The reviewer informed me that they intend to finalize the proceeding
> by Dec 3rd but I received the comments not much earlier. So, apologize
> for the last moment rush.
>
>  Please let me know if you have any questions and comments to address.
>
>
>  Regards,
>  Priyanka