[Olympus] Acceptance LV16638 Bernauer

[Richard G Milner]

Axel and Jan,

Congratulations!  Well done.

Best regards,
Richard

> On Mar 23, 2021, at 1:58 PM, Jan C. Bernauer <jan.bernauer at stonybrook.edu> wrote:
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> Party?
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> Party!
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> Subject: 	Acceptance LV16638 Bernauer
> Date: 	Tue, 23 Mar 2021 12:53:10 -0400
> From: 	prl at aps.org
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> To: 	jan.bernauer at stonybrook.edu
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> Re: LV16638
> Measurement of the charge-averaged elastic lepton-proton scattering
> cross section by the OLYMPUS experiment
> by J. C. Bernauer, A. Schmidt, B. S. Henderson, et al.
> 
> Dear Dr. Bernauer,
> 
> We are pleased to inform you that your manuscript has been accepted
> for publication in Physical Review Letters. We would also like to
> bring the appended referee comments to your attention.
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> Third Report of Referee A -- LV16638/Bernauer
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> The author has responded well to my question in my second round of the
> review and I am happy with the response. I recommend the publication
> of this paper in PRL.
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> Third Report of Referee B -- LV16638/Bernauer
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> I am glad that Referee A compared the modified numbers in Table II in
> the second version to the ones from the first version of the
> manuscript after my first report led the authors to discover a bug in
> their uncertainty calculations. While the magnitude of the changes is
> concerning, I am satisfied by the authors' explanation for why they
> are now confident that the quoted uncertainties in Table II are
> reliable. In any case the changes are not order-of-magnitude level and
> the changes do not appear to meaningfully affect the physics
> conclusions of the paper or the likely impact of these results on form
> factor extractions. Having said that, it is important that the
> published uncertainties be correct, because these results will likely
> be re-used many times in future global analyses.
> 
> I thank the authors for adding the curve of Ye et al. to Figure 2. It
> seems to be in very good agreement with the data, which maybe suggests
> that Ye et al. are on the right track with their method for applying
> two-photon-exchange corrections to the data. It would have also been
> nice to see the uncertainty band of the Ye et al. analysis
> superimposed together with the central curve, but I realize this might
> have required more substantial work, might be more difficult to
> implement correctly without introducing mistakes or misinterpretations
> for this observable, and also might have made the plot too "busy", so
> I can certainly see the advantage of showing only the central curve.
> 
> So in summary, the plot is fine as-is. I do not believe that the paper
> needs further revision, assuming that the uncertainties given in Table
> II are now the correct ones.
> 
> -- 
> Dr. Jan C. Bernauer
> Assistant Professor
> Department of Physics and Astronomy 
> Stony Brook University
> Stony Brook, NY 11794-3800 
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