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<td>Acceptance LV16638 Bernauer</td>
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<td>Tue, 23 Mar 2021 12:53:10 -0400</td>
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Re: LV16638<br>
Measurement of the charge-averaged elastic lepton-proton
scattering<br>
cross section by the OLYMPUS experiment<br>
by J. C. Bernauer, A. Schmidt, B. S. Henderson, et al.<br>
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Dear Dr. Bernauer,<br>
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We are pleased to inform you that your manuscript has been
accepted<br>
for publication in Physical Review Letters. We would also like to<br>
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Third Report of Referee A -- LV16638/Bernauer<br>
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The author has responded well to my question in my second round of
the<br>
review and I am happy with the response. I recommend the
publication<br>
of this paper in PRL.<br>
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Third Report of Referee B -- LV16638/Bernauer<br>
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<br>
I am glad that Referee A compared the modified numbers in Table II
in<br>
the second version to the ones from the first version of the<br>
manuscript after my first report led the authors to discover a bug
in<br>
their uncertainty calculations. While the magnitude of the changes
is<br>
concerning, I am satisfied by the authors' explanation for why
they<br>
are now confident that the quoted uncertainties in Table II are<br>
reliable. In any case the changes are not order-of-magnitude level
and<br>
the changes do not appear to meaningfully affect the physics<br>
conclusions of the paper or the likely impact of these results on
form<br>
factor extractions. Having said that, it is important that the<br>
published uncertainties be correct, because these results will
likely<br>
be re-used many times in future global analyses.<br>
<br>
I thank the authors for adding the curve of Ye et al. to Figure 2.
It<br>
seems to be in very good agreement with the data, which maybe
suggests<br>
that Ye et al. are on the right track with their method for
applying<br>
two-photon-exchange corrections to the data. It would have also
been<br>
nice to see the uncertainty band of the Ye et al. analysis<br>
superimposed together with the central curve, but I realize this
might<br>
have required more substantial work, might be more difficult to<br>
implement correctly without introducing mistakes or
misinterpretations<br>
for this observable, and also might have made the plot too "busy",
so<br>
I can certainly see the advantage of showing only the central
curve.<br>
<br>
So in summary, the plot is fine as-is. I do not believe that the
paper<br>
needs further revision, assuming that the uncertainties given in
Table<br>
II are now the correct ones.<br>
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<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">--
Dr. Jan C. Bernauer
Assistant Professor
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Stony Brook University
Stony Brook, NY 11794-3800 </pre>
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