The Search for Short Baseline Neutrino Oscillation with the ICARUS Detectorâ€
Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
This manuscript presents a clear and interesting status report of the ICARUS experiment. I find it to be well-written in all its parts. I only have minor comments regarding some references that need to be added.
"The Neutrino-4 collaboration claimed a reactor neutrino disappearance" -> Reference needed (for example: Pisma Zh.Eksp.Teor.Fiz. 109 (2019))
"agree with the predicted value of 0.1576 cm/μs" -> Reference needed
At least a couple of references are necessary both to clarify the effect of the space charge in the TPC and to provide a more solid statement about the possible velocity of the positive ions in argon. This is particularly important for readers who may not be familiar with this subject. For instance:
"there are slow moving positively charged argon ions that originated within the detector, known as space charge. Accumulation of space charge
resulted in electric field distortions in near-surface LAr-TPCs." -> I recommend adding the reference Astropart.Phys. 92 (2017) 11-20.
"These argon ions, which drift slowly toward the cathode at a drift velocity (a few millimeters per second)" -> Reference needed
In my view, the manuscript can be published with these modifications.
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Reviewer 2 Report
Please describe and define the detector and its subsystems more clearly in the introduction section, instead of mentioning one thing at a time when they become relevant to the content. (Such as subsystems in Line 47, East and West Cryostat in Line 70, side CRT, etc.) A figure of the detector would help the readers.
A few of the figures are never mentioned in the main text. Figure 1 needs a lot more explanations.
Many references are missing, to name a few- ICARUS detector itself, NuMI, Neutrino-4.
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