Radiative Corrections to Semileptonic Beta Decays: Progress and Challenges
Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
The manuscript is organised as a review about recent progress on the electroweak radiative corrections in semileptonic beta decays. The main theory frameworks are reviewed with some specific examples for pion, free neutron, kaon and JP =0+ nuclei. Open problems are also outlined. This field of research is of interest for precision tests of the Standard Model (SM) and the possible impact on physics beyond SM. The manuscript is quite clear, well organized and some appendixes and a wide bibliography complete the review.
I only suggest a minor change: since the manuscript is quite long, an initial index/contents about the covered topics would be very useful.
Author Response
We thank the referee for the suggestion. We have added a table of contents before the introduction.
Reviewer 2 Report
In the review article entitled “Radiative corrections to semileptonic beta decays: Progress and challenges”, the author has reviewed some recent progress in the theory of electroweak radiative corrections in semileptonic decay processes. This review article is very useful for the community of the precision tests of the standard model. I recommend its publication in the journal Particles after some minor revisions.
Page 1, line 14, the meanings of all symbols in “phi_i -> phi_f l nu” should be explained when they appear for the first time.
Page 1, line 22, “V-A” should be explained when it appears for the first time.
Page 1, line 26, “CP” should be explained when it appears for the first time.
Page 1, line 31, “beyond the Standard Model (BSN)” -> “beyond the SM (BSM)”.
Page 2, before and in Eq. (1), the meanings of all symbols should be explained when they appear for the first time.
Page 2, line 28, in “3sigma”, sigma should be explained when it appears for the first time.
Page 2, line 60, in “O(G_F alpha)”, the meanings of all symbols should be explained when they appear for the first time.
On other pages, the situations are similar. The meanings of symbols should be explained when they appear for the first time in the paper.
In summary, the author should check the whole paper to ensure that all symbols are explained when they appear for the first time.
Author Response
We thank the referee for the suggestions. We added definitions to all the quantities mentioned by the referee, and also went through the whole manuscript to make sure that all quantities that first appear are defined.
