The comments have been submitted as LHCB-PAPER-2018-005-001-COMMENT-007. Thanks to those who gave comments.
> On 05 Mar 2018, at 17:50, Tjeerd Ketel <tjeerd@nikhef.nl> wrote:
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> Dear Laurent,
>
> As promised.
>
> Tjeerd
>
> On Maandag 5 Maart 2018 15:12 CET, Laurent Dufour <laurent.dufour@cern.ch> wrote:
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>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> Tomorrow is the deadline to send comments on this beautiful paper. So far I have only received very little.
>> Please, provide something still today!
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Laurent
>>
>>> On 28 Feb 2018, at 14:42, Patrick Koppenburg <patrick.koppenburg@cern.ch> wrote:
>>>
>>> Dear all,
>>>
>>> Laurent has kindly (been) volunteered to read this. Please send comments to him.
>>>
>>> Here are my comments:
>>>
>>> Dear Mengzhen Wang
>>>
>>> Congratulations for this nice observation with three protons in the final state (a record?)
>>>
>>> Physics:
>>> L.100: S/sqrt(S+B) is not a significance. Call it a figure of merit if you need a name. How have you determined S? You say "expected". Expected how?
>>>
>>> General:
>>>
>>> Line-by-line:
>>> Abstract:
>>> Do you examine the phase space? We would say the Dalitz plane.
>>> L.4: The footnote placement is very unfortunate.
>>> L.6: It is unclear why you cut the dibaryon into [cd][ud][ud]. Your analysis should not depend on or assume any internal structure. We suggest you write "Such states could manifest via the decay \Lb->pbarDC (no +), where Dc is a cdudud dibaryon state with
mass...
>>> L.18: Here we expect a sentence on the dataset you analyse.
>>> L.42: Remove "Candidate" here to avoid confusion with candidate Lb later. You could write "Selected events"
>>> L.46: you write signal here, but we presume this also applied to your control mode.
>>> L.58: pt is already used in L.33
>>> L.68: use gender-neutral language. We call this a companion in LHCb papers.
>>> L.72: the \Lb vertex.
>>> L.81: remove "again"
>>> L.84: when both following conditions
>>> L.97: from candidates with mass above
>>> L.100: see above under Physics
>>> L.130: candidates -> decays (they are not candidates any longer)
>>> L.131, 176: extract -> determine. Br -> {\br BR}
>>> L.135: total should be in roman
>>> L.138: remove roughly
>>> Eq.1: all subscripts should be in roman
>>> L.159: ... where the uncertainty is statistical only (?).
>>> L.164-5: suddenly "we"
>>> L.211, 233, 284: statistics -> sample size
>>> L.249: we again
>>> Fig.2: The inset does not convey much information. It's just harder to read because of the finer binning. Make this an supplementary plot.
>>> L.269: {\rm BW}
>>> L.272, 278: add resonance after Sigma_c
>>> Figure.3: y axis: this is background subtracted, so not candidates. We suggest "entries" or yield. Caption: You should define what "surrounding" means.
>>> L.311: using data corresponding to 3\invfb
>>> Fig.5: The distance between y labels and legend is too small. Use a BW-friendly palette. This plot is unreadable in BW. You could also use "Box" as we did in paper 2014-020.
>>>
>>> [2] Remove capitalisation. You could also just cite the original
http://inspirehep.net/record/11881
>>> [18] Use template (svn update first)
>>>
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> Patrick
>>>
>>> On 25/02/18 15:29, Patrick Koppenburg wrote:
>>>> Dear all,
>>>>
>>>> There is a new paper assigned to us. A rare baryonic decay. Anyone volunteering to collect comments?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>>
>>>> Patrick
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -------- Forwarded Message --------
>>>> Subject: First circulation of publication draft for PAPER-2018-005, Observation of the decay $\Lambda^0_b \to \Lambda_c^+ p \bar{p} \pi^-$
>>>> Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2018 03:41:26 +0000
>>>> From: fergus.wilson@stfc.ac.uk
>>>> To: lhcb-general@cern.ch
>>>> CC: LHCb-PAPER-2018-005-reviewers@cern.ch
>>>>
>>>> Dear Colleagues,
>>>>
>>>> A draft paper is available for your comments (targeting Moriond EW). Team leaders, verify the author list and check for reading obligations. The following institutes are requested to make institutional comments via the CDS link given below:
>>>>
>>>> Oxford__United_Kingdom
>>>> Padova__Italy
>>>> NIKHEF__Amsterdam__The_Netherlands
>>>> Bucharest-Magurele__Romania
>>>> TU_Dortmund__Germany
>>>> LAL__Orsay__France
>>>>
>>>> Title : Observation of the decay $\Lambda^0_b \to \Lambda_c^+ p \bar{p} \pi^-$
>>>> Journal : PLB
>>>> Contact authors : Mengzhen_Wang
>>>> Reviewers : Monica_Pepe-Altarelli (chair), Rolf_Oldeman
>>>> EB reviewer : Roberta_Santacesaria
>>>> EB readers : Franco_Bedeschi, Alberto_Correa_dos_Reis
>>>> Analysis note : ANA-2017-009
>>>> Deadline : 6-Mar-2018
>>>> e-group : lhcb-paper-2018-005-reviewers
>>>> CDS link :
>>>>
https://cds.cern.ch/record/2305638
>>>>
>>>> Authors : LHCb
>>>> Twiki :
>>>>
https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/viewauth/LHCbPhysics/LbToLcPPPi
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> It is the responsibility of the contact authors to provide replies to all comments made. Subsequent modifications to the draft will be made in consultation with the reviewers and during the EB reading. Following this, there will be a final meeting of the
editorial board, with contact authors and reviewers present, when final decisions will be made. As the last step, the collaboration will be given a final opportunity to comment during a 'silent approval' period.
>>>>
>>>> You can find all paper and conference report drafts open for comments via the EB web-page, by clicking on Current Drafts:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
http://lhcb.web.cern.ch/lhcb/lhcb_page/collaboration/organization/editorial_board/default.html
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Best regards,
>>>> Fergus
>>>>
>>>> -------------------------------------------------------
>>>> Fergus Wilson, PPD & CERN, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Campus, Didcot,
>>>> Oxon, OX11 0QX, UK. Tel: +44-(0)1235 445259 Fax: +44-(0)1235-445672
>>>> CERN Tel: +41-22 76 77379 Skype: ferguswilson5259
>>>>
>>>>
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