The DsTau Experiment: A Study for Tau-Neutrino Production

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

Please consult my attached report

Comments for author File: Comments.pdf

Author Response

Dear Professor,

Thank you so much for your review!

After I consulted my supervisors, the paper was improved. The English was checked and the ideas were more clearly formulated (especially for the Abstract and the Introduction). 

The first two figures were cited, from reference [5].

Figure 5 in my paper was replaced with a better one (I wrote in advance to the assigned editor).

Reference [5] was updated with the now published article. In December, [5] was only in arXiv, now it is published. 

Thank you again!

Reviewer 2 Report

A direct production of the tau flavor neutrinos is important to study the fundamental properties of neutrinos, in perticular for the test of the lepton universality. This work on the DsTau experiment is a very good idea to directly produce tau neutrinos.

The simulation work seems solid. I only have one issue that what is the yield of tau neutrinos in the current proton accelerators? is it enough to do some oscillation searches? Please comment on this point in the manuscript.

Author Response

Dear Professor,

Thank you so much for your review!

After I consulted my supervisors, the paper was improved. The English was checked and the ideas were more clearly formulated (especially for the Abstract and the Introduction). 

The first two figures were cited, from reference [5].

Figure 5 in my paper was replaced with a better one (I wrote in advance to the assigned editor).

Reference [5] was updated with the now published article. In December, [5] was only in arXiv, now it is published. 

Also, I added some information regarding the neutrino yield, from SHiP experiment.

Thank you again!