Measurement of the Hadronic Resonance Production with ALICE at the CERN LHC^†

Round  1

Reviewer 1 Report

This manuscript summarized the recent measurements of hadronic resonance production by the ALICE Collaboration at the Large Hadron Collider. The presentation is clear. The theory interpretations of the measurements are plausible. I recommend this paper to be published in the Universe. I only have a few minor suggestions to the manuscript as follows,

It will be great if the author can add some discussion about the theory to data comparison in Figs. 2 and 3.

The author interpreted in the suppression of the ratio of K*(892) to K as the effect of hadronic rescatterings in central PbPb collisions. It would be great if the author can cite some reference on this point in the text.

The spectral function of rho meson has a rather broad width. Can author provide some details about how rho(770) mesons were reconstructed in the measurement?

Author Response

Please look at the attached file.

Author Response File: Author Response.pdf

Reviewer 2 Report

The author (on behalf of the ALICE Collaboration) did a nice compact presentation of their recent work on resonance dynamics in highly relativistic heavy-ion collisions (HIC). The comparison of their results with those results of the more elementary pp and pA reactions is indeed important to understand the re-scattering, and thus the dynamics, of highly excited hadronic matter in HIC.

Thus, I accept the manuscript for publication, with only one suggestion: 

Fig.1 shows integrated yields, while the y-axes in Fig.1 are labeled with an differential symbol, namely dN/dy. I would use here a simpler label, for instance "yields". 

Author Response

The y-axis in Fig.1 is for the pT-integrated yield per unit of rapidity.