It has been a long time to be accepted by
.
The REFEREES' comments are
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Second Report of Referee A -- LE11990/Kyeong
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The authors have addressed my concerns to my satisfaction.
In particular, they have demonstrated that significant thought
and study have been committed to the issue of correlations among
the fitted signal yields and among the PDF parameters taken from
the PDG that parameterize the resonance shapes in the fit to data.
I believe the effects of such correlations are correctly accounted
for in the results and the systematic uncertainties. Moreover, their
modifications in answer to Referee B's concerns have significantly
strengthened the presentation of the manuscript. In light of the
recommendations in my previous report, I now recommend publishing
the manuscript without further review or changes.
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Second Report of Referee B -- LE11990/Kyeong
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This is the second review of this manuscript. The authors are to be
congratulated for the additional studies they presented and their
careful consideration of the reviewers' comments. This referee (B)
is satisfied with the revisions to the manuscript, including the
improved introductory and concluding paragraphs.
Recognizing that ultimately the judgment on publication is
qualitative, this paper does not appear to be of sufficient broad
interest or importance to merit publication in PRL. This paper
certainly advances understanding of charmless B-meson decay modes,
but does not directly improve the polarization measurements of the
vector-vector decay modes which can be addressed theoretically.
The work reported in this paper is of the highest standard and it
is important in the field. The paper should be published in Physical
Review D.
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Report of Referee C -- LE11990/Kyeong
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This manuscript has been extensively reviewed by the two competent
referees and after reading it I have no further comment other than
join the praises for the excellent quality of the analysis and
paper itself, and the validity of the results.
The remaining point is whether this paper would satisfy the recently
more tightened requirement on "substantial advancement" for a PRL
article. Results presented in the paper are clearly providing
important information for further understanding of the field
of the hadronic B meson decays, which is essential to describe
how New Physics would manifest itself in the charmless hadronic
B decays. Although those measurements are important pieces of a
complex puzzle needed to gain an overall picture, they themselves
do not provide decisive information on possible appearance of
New Physics. Therefore, if one applies very strictly the criteria
provided by the PRL editor to the referees, I would resonate the
conclusion of Referee B and recommend the paper to be published in
PRD, even with the present format, may be as a Rapid Communication.