Coulomb Final State Interaction in Heavy Ion Collisions for Lévy Sources

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

I have found some minor errors:

1) add the address of the second affiliation to Sándor Lökös in the author list.

2) line 19: use e.g. instead of eg. The same in line 23.

3) use hyphen between Levy and type (as you did int the abstract) in line 25, 31, 117, 127 and 196.

4) line 49: Einstein-)correlations -> Einstein) correlations.

5) line 67: ref. is missing.

6) line 137: int the -> in the

7) line 139: correct the brackets in the formula.

It is not clear for me how you got formulas (22) - (25). Can you explain? 

In the last paragraph of page 6 you say low q and higher q. Can you say it explicitly?

How did you get parameters A_a, A_b, ... etc, after line 175? Did they come from a fit? Then what is the chi2/ndf?

Author Response

I have found some minor errors:

We thank the referee for the positive and careful evaluation of our manuscript.

1) add the address of the second affiliation to Sándor Lökös in the author list.

Done.

2) line 19: use e.g. instead of eg. The same in line 23.

Done.

3) use hyphen between Levy and type (as you did int the abstract) in line 25, 31, 117, 127 and 196.

Done.

4) line 49: Einstein-)correlations -> Einstein) correlations.

Done.

5) line 67: ref. is missing.

Done.

6) line 137: int the -> in the

Done.

7) line 139: correct the brackets in the formula.

Done.

It is not clear for me how you got formulas (22) - (25). Can you explain?

First, we fitted the q-dependent Coulomb-correction for several alpha and R values. Then we checked the alpha and R dependence of the parameters of the first fits. These were empirically parametrized with those formulas. We now explicitely mention this in the text.

In the last paragraph of page 6 you say low q and higher q. Can you say it explicitly?

Thanks for the remark, we now we detailed these regions.

How did you get parameters A_a, A_b, ... etc, after line 175? Did they come from a fit? Then what is the chi2/ndf?

These indeed come from a fit, but the chi2/ndf is not fully representative, since the statistical uncertainties of the datapoints come from a numerical calculation. Hence, we rather investigated the the difference of the final parametrized result and the result from the numerical table.

Reviewer 2 Report

The paper studies Bose-einshtein correlations in heavy ion collisions that are the basis of the so called interference technique that is used to determine the form and the scale of the sources/participants in heavy ion collisions. The authors use Bowlewr -Sinyukov formalism to study the effect of coulomb corrections on the so called Levy sources, that generalise the conventional Gaussian prametrization. The results can be used by experimentalists using the interferometer technique.

there is missing reference in line 67

Author Response

The paper studies Bose-einshtein correlations in heavy ion collisions that are the basis of the so called interference technique that is used to determine the form and the scale of the sources/participants in heavy ion collisions. The authors use Bowler -Sinyukov formalism to study the effect of coulomb corrections on the so called Levy sources, that generalise the conventional Gaussian prametrization. The results can be used by experimentalists using the interferometer technique.

We thank the refereee for the evaluation of our manuscript.

there is missing reference in line 67

Thank you, corrected!