Resonance Reconstruction in the MPD

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

The authors discussed the experimental challenges for the reconstruction of resonances in heavy-ion experiments and examine the MPD capabilities for the reconstruction.
The paper is written very well and the results are interesting. I thus recommend to publish in its current form. 

Some minor suggestions : 

1. Line 20, harmonization  -> hadronization 

2. Line 165, reconstruction  -> restoration

3. Fig.1-3, put more information on figure legend, for example, the energy, momentum range etc. 

4. You may cite more references about resonance reconstruction or other low energy physics review : http://0-dx-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/particles3020022

Author Response

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The authors discussed the experimental challenges for the reconstruction of resonances in heavy-ion experiments and examine the MPD capabilities for the reconstruction.
The paper is written very well and the results are interesting. I thus recommend to publish in its current form.
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We thank the referee for a high appraisal of the manuscript. All comments provided were taken into account. Please see below for more details.

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Some minor suggestions :
1. Line 20, harmonization -> hadronization
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Changed harmonization to hadronization

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2. Line 165, reconstruction -> restoration
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Changed reconstruction to restoration

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3. Fig.1-3, put more information on figure legend, for example, the energy, momentum range etc.
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Legends to figs. 1,3 have been modified as requested. Fig.2 is left as is since it is already quite busy and it is just an illustration.

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4. You may cite more references about resonance reconstruction or other low energy physics review : http://0-dx-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/particles3020022
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Added the requested reference, now it is ref.3

Reviewer 2 Report

The paper describes the methods for particle identification in a study for the Nica project. This is a typical manuscript reporting the development of detecting systems for high energy physics experiments. The text is clear and the methodology is completely described, as well as the analysis of the results. There is no significant contribution to the development of detectors, however, this is the way the scientific community found to report the capabilities of new detectors and new experiments. Since MDPI has no specific journal to this end, the Physics journal seems to be the most appropriate for publishing this work. The manuscript can be accepted as it is.

Author Response

We thank the referee for a high appraisal of the manuscript. Given that no essential comments are provided we keep the draft as is except for a few minor grammar corrections.