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\title{Electromagnetic Decay of the $\Sigma^{*0}$ to $\Lambda\gamma$}

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\author{D.~Keller}\affiliation{\ohio} \author{K.~Hicks}\affiliation{\ohio} \collaboration{The CLAS Collaboration} \noaffiliation \date{\today}

\begin{abstract} The electromagnetic decay $\Sigma^0(1385) \to \Lambda \gamma$ was studied using the CLAS detector at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility. A real photon beam with a maximum energy of 3.8 GeV was incident on a proton target, producing an exclusive final state of $K^+\Sigma^{*0}$. We report the ratio of decay widths $\Sigma^0(1385) \to \Lambda\gamma$/ $\Sigma^0(1385) \to \Lambda\pi^0$ = $1.42 \pm 0.12$\% where the uncertainty includes statistical and systematic uncertainties. This result is slightly smaller, but consistent within uncertainties, than a previous measurement by Taylor {\it et al.}. This ratio is about 2-3 times larger than most theoretical predictions. \end{abstract}

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\section{Introduction}

One well-known success of the constituent quark model (CQM) is its prediction of the magnetic moments of the low-mass baryons, using just the SU(6) wave functions \cite{Beg,Rubin}. Calculations for the magnetic moments \cite{IsgKar}, assuming that quarks behave as pointlike Dirac dipoles, is typically within $\sim$10\% of the current measured values \cite{PDG}. However, today we know that the spin of the proton is much more complex, with only about one-third of the proton's spin coming from the valence quarks \cite{SMC} and the rest of the spin from a combination of the gluon spins and orbital motion of the quarks \cite{Brodsky,DMVV}. Clearly, the CQM is an over-simplification of the spin dynamics inside baryons yet somehow the CQM captures the degrees of freedom that are relevant to the magnetic moments that have been measured. Further measurements of baryon magnetic moments, via electromagnetic decay of excited baryons, will continue to test our understanding of baryon wavefunctions.

Experimentally, it is difficult to measure the EM transitions of decuplet-to-octet baryons because of competition between electromagnetic (EM) decays and strong decays. For example, the branching ratio for EM decay of the $\Delta$ resonance has been measured at about 0.55\% \cite{PDG} and branching ratios for other decuplet baryons are predicted to be of the same order of magnitude. For the $\Delta$, it is possible to measure the EM transition form factors directly via pion photoproduction \cite{Dalitz,Sato}.

It has been shown \cite{Lee} that pion cloud effects contribute significantly ($\sim$40\%) to the $\gamma p \to \Delta^+$ magnetic dipole transition form factor, $G_M(Q^2)$, at low $Q^2$ (below $\sim 0.1$ GeV$^2$). In the naive non-relativistic quark model \cite{CQM}, the value of $G_M(0)$ is directly proportional to the proton magnetic moment \cite{Lee}, and measurements of $G_M$ near $Q^2=0$ can only be explained (within this quark model) if the experimental magnetic moment is lowered by about 30\%. This again suggests that the CQM is an over-simplification of reality.

To extend these measurements to the other decuplet baryons, which have non-zero strangeness, hyperons must be produced through strangeness-conserving reactions. Then their EM decay, which has a small branching ratio, must be measured directly. Although these measurements are difficult, it is important to measure the EM decays of strange baryons because we get information on their wavefunctions, which in turn constrains theoretical models of baryon structure.

The measurements of EM transition form factors for decuplet baryons with strangeness may also be sensitive to meson cloud effects, at roughly the same level. Comparison of data for the EM decay of decuplet hyperons, $\Sigma^*$, to the predictions of quark models provides a measure of the importance of meson cloud diagrams in the $\Sigma^* \to Y\gamma$ transition.

Here, we present measurements of the EM decay $\Sigma^{*0} \to \Lambda \gamma$ normalized to the strong decay $\Sigma^{*0} \to \Lambda \pi^0$. The present results can be compared to previous measurements of the $\Sigma^{*0}$ EM decay \cite{Taylor} that had a larger uncertainty ($\sim$25\% statistical and $\sim$15\% systematic uncertainty). The smaller uncertainties here are due to a larger data set (more than 10 times bigger) and subsequently a better control over systematic uncertainties. The reduced uncertainty is important because, as mentioned above, meson cloud effects are predicted to be on the order of $\sim$30-40\%. In order to know quantitatively the effect of meson clouds for baryons with non-zero strangeness, it is desirable to keep measurement uncertainties below $\sim$10\%.

\begin{table*}[htb] \caption{Theoretical predictions for the models shown and experimental values for the electromagnetic decay widths (in keV).} \begin{center} \begin{tabular}{lccc} Model &13:20, 20 October 2010 (MDT)$\Delta(1232) \to N\gamma$13:20, 20 October 2010 (MDT) &13:20, 20 October 2010 (MDT)$\Sigma(1193) \to \Lambda \gamma$13:20, 20 October 2010 (MDT) &13:20, 20 October 2010 (MDT)$\Sigma(1385) \to \Lambda \gamma$13:20, 20 October 2010 (MDT) \\ \hline\hline NRQM \cite{Koniuk,kaxiras,DHK} & 360 & 8.6 & 273 \\ RCQM \cite{warns} & & 4.1 & 267 \\ $\chi$CQM \cite{wagner} & 350 & & 265 \\ MIT Bag \cite{kaxiras} & & 4.6 & 152 \\ Soliton \cite{Schat} & & & 243 \\ Skyrme \cite{Abada,Haberichter} & 309-326 & & 157-209 \\ Algebraic model \cite{Bijker} & 341.5 & 8.6 & 221.3 \\ HB$\chi$PT \cite{butler}$^\dag$ & (670-790) & & 290-470 \\ & & & \\ \hline Experiment\cite{PDG} & 660$\pm$47 & 9.1$\pm$0.9 & 470$\pm$160 \\ \hline\hline $^\dag$ Normalized to experiment for the $\Delta \to N\gamma$ range shown. \end{tabular} \end{center} \label{tab:widths} \end{table*}

There are many theoretical calculations of the EM decays of decuplet hyperons such as: the non-relativistic quark model (NRQM) \cite{DHK,Koniuk}, a relativized constituent quark model (RCQM) \cite{warns}, a chiral constituent quark model ($\chi$CQM) \cite{wagner}, the MIT bag model \cite{kaxiras}, the bound-state soliton model \cite{Schat}, a three-flavor generalization of the Skyrme model that uses the collective approach \cite{Abada,Haberichter}, an algebraic model of hadron structure \cite{Bijker}, and heavy baryon chiral perturbation theory (HB$\chi$PT) \cite{butler}, among others. Table \ref{tab:widths} summarizes the theoretical predictions and experimental branching ratios for the EM transitions of interest.

A comprehensive study of electromagnetic strangeness production has been undertaken using the CLAS detector at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility. Many data on ground-state hyperon photoproduction have already been published \cite{mcnabb,bradford,mccracken} using data from the so-called $g1$ and $g11$ data sets. The $g1$ experiment had an open trigger \cite{mcnabb} and lower data acquisition speed, whereas the $g11$ experiment required at least two particles to be detected \cite{mccracken}, and higher beam current, giving a much higher data acquisition speed. The result is that the $g11$ data had over 20 times more useful triggers than in the $g1$ data. The present results used the $g11$ data set, whereas Taylor \etal used the $g1$ data set. Previous CLAS results give a great deal of confidence to the corresponding calibration of these data sets \cite{mccracken}.

The EM decay of the $\Sigma^{*0}$ is only about 1\% of the total decay width. To isolate this signal from the dominant strong decay $\Sigma^{*0} \to \Lambda \pi^0$, the missing mass of the detected particles, $\gamma p \to K^+ \Lambda (X)$ is calculated. Because of its proximity to the $\pi^{0}$ peak in the mass spectrum from strong decay, the EM decay signal is difficult to separate using simple peak-fitting methods. The strategy here is to understand and eliminate as much background as possible using standard kinematic cuts, and then use a kinematic fitting procedure for each channel. As described below, by varying the cut points on the confidence levels of each kinematic fit, the systematic uncertainty associated with the extracted ratio for EM decay can be quantitatively determined. The increased statistics for the $g11$ data helps greatly to study the systematic uncertainty.

\section{The Experiment}

For the present measurements, a bremsstrahlung photon beam was produced from a 4.019 GeV electron beam, resulting in a photon energy range of 1.6-3.8 GeV. The photon energy was deduced from a magnetic spectrometer \cite{tagnim} that ``tagged" the electron with an energy resolution of $\sim 2\%$. A liquid-hydrogen target was used that was 40 cm long and placed such that the center of the target sat at 10 cm upstream from the center of CLAS. As mentioned above, a two particle trigger in coincidence with the tagged electron was used. The data acquisition recorded approximately 20 billion events. Details of the experimental setup are given elsewhere \cite{mccracken,mecking}.

\subsection{Event Selection}

We selected events for the reaction $\gamma p \to K^{+}\Sigma^{*0}$, where the $\Sigma^{*0}$ decays with 87.0$\pm$1.5$\%$ probability to $\Lambda\pi^{0}$ and 1.3$\pm$0.4\% probability to $\Lambda\gamma$ \cite{PDG}. The $\Lambda$ then decays with 63.9$\pm$0.5$\%$ probability to $p\pi^-$, leading to the final states $\gamma p \to K^{+} p \pi^{-} \pi^{0}$ and $\gamma p \to K^{+} p \pi^{-} \gamma$, respectively \cite{PDG}. The charged particles are detected by the CLAS drift chambers, giving their momentum, and by the time-of-flight scintillators, giving their velocity. The $\pi^{0}$ and $\gamma$ must be deduced indirectly using conservation of energy and momentum.

In the present analysis, the mass of the detected particles were calculated from the measured velocity and momentum. The mass is given by \begin{equation} m_{cal} = \sqrt{{p^{2}(1 - \beta^{2}) \over \beta^{2}c^{2}}}, \end{equation} where $\beta = L/ct_{meas}$ for path length $L$ and measured time of flight $t_{meas}$, and $c$ is the speed of light. The pions, kaons, and protons were identified using mass cuts of $0.0\leq M_{\pi^{-}} \leq 0.3$ GeV, $0.3 < M_{K^+} < 0.8$ GeV, and $0.8\leq M_{p} \leq 1.2$ GeV, respectively. From this initial identification it is possible to incorporate additional timing information to improve event selection with quality constraints. The time of flight $t_{meas}$ is the time difference between the event vertex time and the time at which the particle strikes the time-of-flight scintillator walls on the outside shell of the CLAS detector. We define $\Delta t = t_{meas} - t_{cal}$, where $t_{cal}$ is the time of flight calculated for an assumed mass such that \begin{equation} t_{cal} = {L \over c} \sqrt{1 + { \left(m \over p \right)}^{2}}, \end{equation} where $m$ is the assumed mass for the particle of interest and $p$ is the momentum magnitude. A cut on $\Delta t$ or $m_{cal}$ should be effectively equivalent.

Using $\Delta t$ for each particle it is possible to reject events that are not associated with the correct RF beam bunches, which are separated by 2 ns. This is done by accepting only events with $|\Delta t| \leq$1 ns.

\begin{figure} \epsfig{file=fig1-T1.eps,width=\columnwidth} \caption{Missing mass squared $(M^2_{x})$ for the reaction $\gamma p \to p \pi^{+} \pi^{-} (X)$ where the $\pi^{+}$ was a potentially misidentified kaon. The dotted line indicates the cut used.} \label{T1} \end{figure}

Energy loss for charged particles as they pass through various materials in the CLAS detector requires an adjustment to the particle energy. The charged particle's momentum is corrected for the average $dE/dx$ losses in the target material, target wall, carbon epoxy pipe, and the start counter scintillators surrounding the target. After correcting for energy loss, several kinematic cuts are applied as described below.

\begin{figure} \epsfig{file=fig2-IMLam.eps,width=\columnwidth} \caption{The invariant mass of the $p$-$\pi^{-}$ showing the $\Lambda$ peak with a Gaussian fit giving a $\sigma=1.3$ MeV.} \label{lam} \end{figure}

Due to the finite resolution of the measured velocity and momentum, in addition to particle decay-in-flight, it is possible that some kaons could be misidentified as pions. To clean up the kaon signal for the analysis, it is common to purposely recalculate the energy of the identified kaon using the mass of the pion. Then the missing mass squared is studied for the reaction $\gamma p \rightarrow p \pi^+\pi^-(X)$, where the $\pi^+$ is actually identified by the above mass cuts as a $K^+$. A spike at zero mass squared indicates that the reaction $\gamma p \rightarrow p \pi^+\pi^-$ is prominent. The particle misidentified events can be removed by cutting slightly above zero, as shown in Fig. \ref{T1}. A cut at 0.01 GeV$^{2}$, shown as the dotted line in the Figure, is used so as to not cut into the good $K^{+}$ events. Reactions such as $\rho \to \pi^{+} \pi^{-}$, where the $\pi^+$ is mistakenly identified as a $K^+$, are also eliminated by this cut.

\begin{figure} \epsfig{file=fig3-MMkp3.eps,width=\columnwidth} \caption{Missing mass for the reaction $\gamma p \to K^{+}(X)$, for events passing the cut on the $\Lambda$ mass.} \label{offKp} \end{figure}

The four-momentum of the detected $\Lambda$ was reconstructed from the proton and $\pi^{-}$ four-momenta (see Fig. \ref{lam}). The invariant mass peak was fitted with a Gaussian to achieve a resolution of $\sigma = 1.3$ MeV, which is consistent with the instrumental resolution. After cutting on the $\Lambda$ in the range 1.112 to 1.119 GeV, the excited-state hyperon mass spectrum (constructed from the missing mass off the $K^+$) is shown in Fig. \ref{offKp}.

\begin{figure} \epsfig{file=fig4-MMLam.eps,width=\columnwidth} \caption{Missing mass for the reaction $\gamma p \to \Lambda(X)$ for events passing cuts on the $\Lambda$ and $\Sigma^*$ masses. } \label{offLam} \end{figure}

After making a cut on the $\Sigma^*$ peak from 1.34-1.43, as shown in Fig. \ref{offKp}, one can study the missing mass off of the $\Lambda$, shown in Fig. \ref{offLam}. Small peaks are seen at the mass of the kaon and also at the $K^{*}(892)$ mass. The kaon peak is from exclusive $\gamma p \to K^+ \Lambda$ production due to accidental coincidences, which can easily be cut out. The dotted line shows the $M_x(\Lambda) > 0.55$ GeV cut used to eliminate this background.

\begin{figure} \epsfig{file=fig5-mm.eps,width=\columnwidth} \caption{Missing mass squared for the reaction $\gamma p \to K^{+} p\pi^{-}(X)$ after all kinematic cuts. } \label{MM1} \end{figure}

After the foregoing cuts, the missing mass of the reaction $\gamma p \to K^{+} p \pi^{-} (X)$ is shown in Fig. \ref{MM1}. A very prominent peak is seen at the mass of the $\pi^{0}$ with a very small number of counts at zero missing mass due to the EM decay. The counts above the $\pi^{0}$ peak are mostly due to the $\gamma p \to K^{+} \Sigma^{0}(X)$ reaction from photoproduction of higher mass hyperons. Because the tail of the $\pi^{0}$ peak continues over into the zero missing mass region, it is difficult to cleanly resolve the EM decay signal. A standard Gaussian fit cannot easily separate the EM decay from the various backgrounds, so care must be take to use a method that can take the $\pi^{0}$ leakage into account.

\section{Kinematic Fitting}

The kinematic fitting technique takes advantage of the information in the measured kinematic variables and their uncertainties to fit constraints of energy and momentum conservation, thereby improving the measured quantities through use of constraint equations. This procedure is useful to improve the separation of signal from background. The method of Lagrange multipliers is the approach implemented here to fit the constraints with a least squares criteria \cite{keller}.

Assume there are $n$ independently measured data values $y$, which in turn are functions of $m$ unknown variables $q_i$, with $m\leq n$. The condition that $y=f_{k}(q_i)$ is introduced where $f_{k}$ is a function dependent on the data points that are being tested for each $k$ independent variable at each point.

Because each $y_k$ is a measurement with corresponding standard deviation $\sigma_k$, the equation $y_k=f_k(q_i)$ cannot be satisfied exactly for $m < n$. It is possible to require that the relationship be closely numerically satisfied by defining the $\chi^{2}$ relation such that $$\chi^{2} = \sum_k { {(y_k - f_k(q))}^2 \over {\sigma_k^2} },$$ and demanding that selected values of $q_i$ preserve only the smallest $\chi^{2}$.

The unknowns are divided into a set of measured variables ($\vec\eta$) such as the measured momentum components and unmeasured variables ($\vec u$) such as missing momentum. Now introduce a variable $\mathcal{L}_i$ to be used for each constraint equation. These variables are the Lagrange multipliers and are used to write the equation for $\chi^{2}$ for a set of constraint equations $\mathcal{F}$ such that, \begin{equation} \chi^2(\vec\eta,\vec u,\mathcal{L})= (\vec\eta_0-\vec\eta)^T V^{-1} (\vec\eta_0-\vec\eta)+ 2 \mathcal{L}^T \mathcal{F} \end{equation} where $\vec\eta_0$ is a vector of initial measured quantities and $V^{-1}$ is the inverse of the covariance matrix containing all of the known uncertainties on the measured parameters. The $\chi^{2}$ minimization occurs by differentiating $\chi^{2}$ with respect to each of the variables, while linearizing the constraint equations and obtaining improved measured values from the fit. The output for of the improved measured values are used as the input for a series of iterations. The iteration procedure is continued until the difference in magnitude between the current $\chi^2$ and the previous value is smaller than $\Delta\chi^2_{test}$ ($\le$0.001).

The implemented covariance matrix $V$ was corrected for multiple scattering and the energy loss in the target cell, the carbon epoxy scattering chamber, and the start counter. These corrections to the diagonal terms in the covariance matrix are applied according to the distance each charged particle travels through the corresponding material.

\section{Simulations}

A Monte Carlo simulation of the CLAS detector was performed using GEANT \cite{geant}, set up for the $g11$ run conditions. Events were generated for the radiative channels ($\Sigma^0(1385) \rightarrow \Lambda\gamma$), the normalization reaction ($\Sigma^0(1385)\rightarrow\Lambda\pi^0$), and several background reactions, see Table \ref{acc2} for a complete list. Using the data as a guide, the photon beam energy dependence of $K^+$ production and the $K^+$ angular dependence were used iteratively to tune the Monte Carlo to match the data. After reconstruction, the kinematic distributions for the proton, $\pi^-$, and $K^+$ agreed very well between the Monte Carlo and the data. The generated Monte Carlo events were analyzed using the same analysis procedure as for the data.

After studying the various channels of interest and background, a $t$-dependence of 2.0 GeV$^2$ was used for the generated $\gamma p \to K^+\Lambda(1405)$ channel. The differential cross section from data were used for the generator to produce all the $\Sigma^{*}$ simulations.

\section{Analysis Procedure}

Because of the possibility of a false EM decay signal caused by double bremsstrahlung in the radiator, care is taken to minimize this effect. The reaction $\gamma_1 + \gamma_2p \to K^{+} \Lambda + \gamma_1$ can mimic the final state of interest $\gamma p \to K^{+} \Lambda \gamma$. The $\gamma_1$ from double bremsstrahlung will point down the $z$-axis (along the beam), which can also occur if the event is accidental or due to inefficiencies in the tagger plane from incorrect electron selection. By calculating the transverse missing momentum ($P_{xy}^2=P^2_x+P^2_y$) it is possible to eliminate double bremsstrahlung. The peak at small values in the distribution in Fig. \ref{PXY} was removed with the dashed line cut at $P_{xy}>0.03$ GeV/c.

\begin{figure} \epsfig{file=fig6-PXY.eps,width=\columnwidth} \caption{Transverse missing momentum (left) and transverse missing momentum squared (right)for the reaction $\gamma p \to K^+ \Lambda (X)$ } \label{PXY} \end{figure}

To ensure only high quality $\Lambda$ events, a kinematic fit can be used on the proton and $\pi^{-}$ track to a $\Lambda$ invariant mass hypothesis. To ensure that no systematic bias is introduced, we fit the $\Lambda$ invariant mass together with a total missing mass hypothesis. Each track for all detected particles is fit to a particular missing particle hypothesis, while requiring that the proton and $\pi^{-}$ be constrained to have an invariant mass of the $\Lambda$. This is done by using the undetected particle mass in the constraint equation while also meeting the $\Lambda$ constraint. After the detected particle tracks are kinematically fit, each event is filtered with a confidence level cut. In this fit there are three unknowns ($\vec p_{x}$) and five constraint equations, four from conservation of momentum and the additional invariant mass condition. This makes it a 2C kinematic fit.

To separate the various contributions of the $\Sigma^{*0}$ EM decay and the strong decay ($\Lambda\pi^{0}$), the events were fit using the hypotheses for each topology: \begin{center} \begin{tabular}{ccc} &$\gamma p \rightarrow K^+ p \pi^{-} (\pi^0)$ & 2C\\ &$\gamma p \rightarrow K^+ p \pi^{-} (\gamma)$ & 2C.\\ \end{tabular} \end{center} The constraint equations are \begin{equation} \mathcal{F} = \left[ \begin{array}{c} (E_{\pi}+E_{p})^2 -(\vec p_{\pi} + \vec p_p)^2 - M_{\Lambda}^{2} \\ E_{beam}+M_p-E_K-E_p-E_{\pi}-E_x \\ \vec p_{beam} - \vec p_K - \vec p_p -\vec p_{\pi} -\vec p_x \end{array} \right]=\vec 0, \end{equation} where $\vec P_x$ and $E_x$ are the momentum and energy of the undetected $\pi^0$ or $\gamma$.

To test the functionality of the kinematic fit used to separate the radiative signal from the overwhelming $\pi^0$ background, the probability density function for two degrees of freedom is used to fit the resulting $\chi^2$ distribution. The fit function takes the form, \begin{equation} f(\chi^{2})=\frac{P_{0}}{2}e^{-P_{1}\chi^{2}/2}+P_{2}, \end{equation} where $P_2$ is a background term, $P_{1}$ is a quantitative closeness parameter (which gives a measure of how close the distribution in the histogram is to the ideal theoretical $\chi^{2}$ distribution), and $P_{0}$ is for normalization. For a kinematic fit to a missing $\gamma$, with significant background contamination from the $\pi^0$, the $\chi^{2}$ distribution will be highly distorted. The ideal $P_1$ from a fit to a $\chi^2$ distribution with no background is determined from simulations. The deviation of the $P_1$ fit parameter from the ideal $P_1$ is used as an indicator of how much signal to background is going into the kinematic fit with the radiative hypothesis and how effective a confidence level cut is expected to be for that given deviation.

Using the $\pi^{0}$-hypothesis for the kinematic fit, the $\chi^{2}$ distribution follows the trend of the probability density function for two degrees of freedom, see Fig \ref{conpi0}A. The confidence level in Fig. \ref{conpi0}B is flat and even for the vast majority of event.

\begin{figure} \epsfig{file=fig7-pi0fits.eps,width=\columnwidth} \caption{ (A) $\chi^2$ distribution and (B) Confidence Level distribution, for a missing $\pi^{0}$ hypothesis in the kinematic fit.} \label{conpi0} \end{figure}

For the $\gamma$-hypothesis, without any cuts to reduce the $\pi^0$ background, the $\chi^{2}$ distribution does not conform to that expected for a 2C fit. Due to the sensitive nature of the $\chi^{2}$ distribution for two degrees of freedom a fit to obtain the $P_1$ parameter does not return a realistic value. This can be seen in the distorted shape of the distribution in Fig. \ref{cong}A. Additionally, the confidence level distribution rises up near the low confidence end (Fig. \ref{cong}B) and is clearly not as flat as the distribution in Fig. \ref{conpi0}B. This is an indication that the vast majority of data being kinematically fit at this stage are not satisfying the base assumption of a massless missing particle. This suggests that, even with a high confidence level cut, there is still an overwhelming amount of $\pi^{0}$ events leaking through. However, it is possible to take an additional step in the kinematic fitting procedure for cleaner separation.

A two-step kinematic fitting procedure is used. First, a fit to a $\pi^{0}$-hypothesis is done and only the low confidence level ($P^a_{\pi}(\chi^2)$) events are retained, followed by a fit of these candidate events to a $\gamma$-hypothesis and retaining high confidence level ($P^b_{\gamma}(\chi^2)$) events. Because of the previous kinematic cuts, there should now be primarily $\pi^{0}$ background and the true EM decay signal. Any other background is expected to be very small relative to the signal and will be accounted for through simulations. By first fitting to a $\pi^{0}$-hypothesis and taking the low confidence level candidates, one reduces the probability that the surviving candidates will have a missing mass of the $\pi^{0}$ before they are fit to a $\gamma$-hypothesis.

The selection of the confidence level cuts $P^a_{\pi}(\chi^2)$, and $P^b_{\gamma}(\chi^2)$ is derived using simulations. After testing the ability to recover various mixed ratios, on the order of the expected experimental ratio ($\sim 1\%$), Monte Carlo (MC) was generated for a given ratio of the $\gamma p \to K^{+} \Sigma^{*0} \to K^{+} \Lambda \pi^{0}$ and $\gamma p \to K^{+} \Sigma^{*0} \to K^{+} \Lambda \gamma$ channels. The optimization occurs when considering both increase in statistical uncertainty from a higher $P^a_{\pi}(\chi^2)$ cut and the increase in MC ratio ``recovery uncertainty from a lower $P^a_{\pi}(\chi^2)$ cut. The final confidence level cut in $P^b_{\gamma}(\chi^2)$ is determined by the fit parameter $P_1$ indicating how much $\pi^0$ background is left after the $P^a_{\pi}(\chi^2)$ cut. Again statistical uncertainty and the MC ratio ``recovery uncertainty is considered in the optimization of the $P^b_{\gamma}(\chi^2)$ cut.

\begin{figure} \epsfig{file=fig8-gfits.eps,width=\columnwidth} \caption{(A) The $\chi^2$ distribution and (B) the Confidence Level distribution for a missing $\gamma$ hypothesis in the kinematic fit before the two-step kinematic fit. (C) The $\chi^2$ distribution and the (D) the Confidence Level distribution for a missing $\gamma$ hypothesis in the kinematic fit after the $P^a_{\pi}(\chi^2)<0.1\%$ cut. } \label{cong} \end{figure}

The results of the optimization study indicate that a confidence level cut of $P^a_{\pi}(\chi^2)<0.1\%$ reduces the $\pi^0$ background well enough that a $P^b_{\gamma}(\chi^2)>10\%$ cut can be used to isolate the radiative signal in the kinematic fit to $\gamma$.

After the two-step kinematic fitting procedure, one can again study the $\gamma$-hypothesis $\chi^{2}$ fit now looks more like a standard distribution for two degree of freedom, see Fig. \ref{cong} (C). The confidence level now appears relatively flat in Fig. \ref{cong} (D), as it should. This is an indication that an improvement has been made on the quality of candidates going into the fit with respect to the hypothesis. This gives some assurance that the candidates going into the secondary fit can accurately be filtered with a confidence level cut.

To ensure the quality of the $\pi^0$ extraction, the same two-step kinematic fitting procedure is done by first fitting to a $\gamma$ hypothesis and taking a low confidence level $P^a_{\gamma}(\chi^2)$ candidates, then fitting to the $\pi^0$ hypothesis and taking only the high confidence level $P^b_{\pi}(\chi^2)$ candidates.

Once the confidence level cuts are optimized for extracting both the $\pi^0$ and radiative signal the final selected candidates in each cases can be seen in the missing mass spectrum, see Fig. \ref{spectrum}. The extracted counts are shown for (A) the $\pi^0$,(B) the electromagnetic signal, and (C) together in the full spectrum of the missing mass squared.

\begin{figure} \epsfig{file=spectrum.eps,width=\columnwidth} \caption{(A) The $n_{\pi}$ counts extracted using the confidence level cuts $P^a_{\gamma}<0.01$ and $P^b_{\pi}>0.1$. (B) The $n_{\gamma}$ counts extracted using the confidence level cuts $P^a_{\pi}<0.01$ and $P^b_{\gamma}>0.1$. (C) The counts $n_{\pi}$ and $n_{\gamma}$ shown in the spectrum before any kinematic fit.} \label{spectrum} \end{figure}

\begin{table*} \caption{Acceptances (in units of $10^{-3}$) for the channels used in the calculation of the branching ratios. Here there is a $P^a(\chi^2)<0.1\%$ confidence level used with a $P^b(\chi^2)<10\%$ cuts. The uncertainties are statistical only.} \begin{center} \begin{tabular}{lcccc} Reaction & $A_\pi$ & $A_\gamma$ & $A_{\gamma\pi}$ \\ \hline $\Lambda(1405)\rightarrow\Sigma^0\pi^0$

      &0.0495$\pm$0.0031 &0.001$\pm$0.0001 & 1.189$\pm$0.019 \\

$\Lambda(1405)\rightarrow\Sigma^+\pi^-$

      & 0.029$\pm$0.002 & 0.0013$\pm$0.0001 & 0.0078$\pm$0.001   \\   

$\Lambda(1405)\rightarrow\Lambda\gamma$

      & 0.0011$\pm$0.0001 &1.65$\pm$0.031& 0.0223$\pm$0.002 \\

$\Lambda(1405)\rightarrow\Sigma^0\gamma$

      & 0.170$\pm$0.012 & 0.191$\pm$0.009 & 0.437$\pm$0.013 \\

$\Sigma(1385)\rightarrow\Lambda\pi$

      & 1.421$\pm$0.0278 & 0.0321$\pm$0.002 & 0.0312$\pm$0.002 \\

$\Sigma(1385)\rightarrow\Sigma^+\pi^-$

      & 0.161$\pm$0.01 & 0.00254$\pm$0.001& 0.00138$\pm$0.0006 \\

$\Sigma(1385)\rightarrow\Lambda\gamma$

      & 0.0184$\pm$0.002 &  2.335$\pm$0.039 &  0.0704$\pm$0.005 \\

$\Sigma(1385)\rightarrow\Sigma^0\gamma$

      &  0.191$\pm$0.011 & 0.058$\pm$0.0001 & 0.225$\pm$0.015 \\ 

$\Lambda K^{*+}\rightarrow K^{+}\pi^{0}$

      &  0.213$\pm$0.010 & 0.010$\pm$0.006  & 2.931$\pm$0.051 \\        

$\Lambda K^{*+}\rightarrow K^{+}\gamma$

      &  0.0022$\pm$0.0001 & 0.158$\pm$0.003 & 2.351$\pm$0.046 \\          
      \hline

\end{tabular} \end{center} \label{acc2} \end{table*}

The $\pi^0$ leakage into the $\gamma$ channel is the dominant correction to the branching ratio. The final result also needs to be corrected for backgrounds, such as $K^* \to K^+X$ and decays to $\Sigma^+\pi^-$, as well as the contribution to the numerator from $\Lambda(1405) \to \Lambda\gamma$. Taking these backgrounds into consideration, and following the notation of Taylor \etal \cite{Taylor}, the formula for the branching ratio is \begin{eqnarray} R&=&\frac{1}{\Delta n_\pi A^\Sigma_\gamma (\Lambda\gamma) - \Delta n_\gamma A^\Sigma_\pi(\Lambda\gamma)} \nonumber \\ & & \times \left[\Delta n_\gamma

\left(A^\Sigma_\pi(\Lambda\pi)+\frac{R^{\Sigma\pi}_{\Lambda\pi}}{2}

A^\Sigma_\pi(\Sigma\pi)\right)\right. \nonumber \\ & & \left.-\Delta n_\pi

\left(A^\Sigma_\gamma(\Lambda\pi)+\frac{R^{\Sigma\pi}_{\Lambda\pi}}{2}

A^\Sigma_\gamma(\Sigma\pi)\right)\right), \label{finalR} \end{eqnarray} where terms starting with $A$ are acceptance factors (given below) and \begin{eqnarray} \Delta n_\pi&=&n_\pi-N_\pi(\Lambda^*\rightarrow \Sigma^+\pi^-)

                  -N_\pi(\Lambda^*\rightarrow \Sigma^0\pi^0) \nonumber \\
      & &         -N_\pi(\Lambda^*\rightarrow \Sigma^0\gamma)  
                  -N_\pi(\Lambda^*\rightarrow \Lambda \gamma), \\

\Delta n_\gamma&=&n_\gamma-N_\gamma(\Lambda^*\rightarrow \Sigma^+\pi^-)

                  -N_\gamma(\Lambda^*\rightarrow \Sigma^0\pi^0) \nonumber\\
       & &        -N_\gamma(\Lambda^*\rightarrow \Sigma^0\gamma)

-N_\gamma(\Lambda^*\rightarrow \Lambda \gamma), \end{eqnarray} with $n_\gamma$ ($n_\pi$) equal to the yield of the kinematic fits, representing the measured number of photon (pion) candidates. In the notation used, lower case $n$ represents some observed count while upper case $N$ represents the acceptance corrected or derived quantities, where the $\pi$ and $\gamma$ subscripts indicate the kinematic fit hypothesis and the decay channel is shown in the parentheses (note that $\Lambda^*$ denotes the $\Lambda(1405)$). These corrections are necessary to take into account due to the fact that the structure of the background underneath the $\Sigma(1385)$ is not zero, which could lead to over-counting of the $\Sigma(1385)$ contribution. For the detector acceptance, the notation has the pion (photon) hypothesis from decay of the $\Sigma(1385)$ given by $A^\Sigma_{\pi}$ ($A^\Sigma_{\gamma}$) so that $A^\Sigma_\gamma(\Lambda\pi)$ denotes the relative leakage of the $\Sigma^{*0} \to \Lambda\pi$ decay channel into the $\Lambda\gamma$ extraction and $A^\Sigma_\pi(\Lambda\gamma)$ denotes the relative leakage of the $\Lambda\gamma$ decay channel into the $\Lambda\pi$ extraction.

Table \ref{acc2} lists all decay channels taken into consideration and the value of the acceptance for the confidence level cuts $P^a_{\pi^{0}}(\chi^{2}) \leq 0.1$\% followed by $P^b_{\gamma} (\chi^{2}) > 10$\% for the $\gamma$-hypothesis and $P^a_{\gamma} (\chi^{2}) \leq 0.1$\% followed by $P^b_{\pi^{0}}(\chi^{2}) > 10$\% for the $\pi^0$-hypothesis. Using this form for corrections, an estimate of the number $n_\Lambda$ for the $\Lambda(1405)$ in our event sample is required. The corrections for the $\gamma$ channel are given by \begin{eqnarray} N_{\gamma}(\Lambda^*\rightarrow\Lambda\gamma)&=&

{ A^\Lambda_{\gamma}(\Lambda\gamma) BR(\Lambda^*\rightarrow\Lambda\gamma)
n_\Lambda \over A^\Lambda_{\gamma\pi}(\Sigma^0\pi^0)
+A^\Lambda_{\gamma\pi} (\Sigma^+\pi^-)},\\

N_{\gamma}(\Lambda^*\rightarrow\Sigma^0\gamma)&=&

{ A^\Lambda_{\gamma}(\Sigma^0\gamma) BR(\Lambda^*\rightarrow\Sigma^0\gamma)
n_\Lambda \over A^\Lambda_{\gamma\pi}(\Sigma^0\pi^0)
+A^\Lambda_{\gamma\pi} (\Sigma^+\pi^-)},\\

N_{\gamma}(\Lambda^*\rightarrow\Sigma^0\pi^0)&=& { A^\Lambda_{\gamma}(\Sigma^0\pi^0) n_\Lambda

\over A^\Lambda_{\gamma\pi}(\Sigma^0\pi^0)
+A^\Lambda_{\gamma\pi} (\Sigma^+\pi^-)},\\

N_{\gamma}(\Lambda^*\rightarrow\Sigma^+\pi^-)&=& { A^\Lambda_{\gamma}(\Sigma^+\pi^-) n_\Lambda

\over A^\Lambda_{\gamma\pi}(\Sigma^0\pi^0)
+A^\Lambda_{\gamma\pi} (\Sigma^+\pi^-)}

\end{eqnarray} where $BR$ is the branching ratio for the decay shown, and likewise for the $\pi^{0}$ channel.

Isospin symmetry is assumed so that $BR(\Sigma^0\pi^0)=BR(\Sigma^+\pi^-)=BR(\Sigma^-\pi^+)\approx 1/3$ for the $\Lambda(1405)$ decay channels. The subscript ``$\gamma\pi$ denotes the acceptance for events that do not satisfy the confidence level cuts for either hypotheses of the kinematic fit ({\it i.e.} it is likely to come from some background reaction). The value for $BR(\Lambda(1405) \to \Lambda \gamma)$ is taken from Ref. \cite{Burkhardt}.

In order to find $n_\Lambda$ one can look at the events for which neither the $\gamma$ nor the $\pi^0$ hypothesis is satisfied. The value of $n_\Lambda$ is difficult to determine due to the non-Breit-Wigner shape of the $\Lambda(1405)$ decay. A better approach is to use Monte Carlo to fill the background according to its internal decay kinematics and normalize it to the data such that the MC matches the data, thereby giving an estimate of $n_\Lambda$.

\begin{figure} \epsfig{file=fig9-mcbg1.eps,width=\columnwidth} \caption{Missing mass of $\gamma p \to K^+ \Lambda (X)$ for data (points with error bars) and Monte Carlo simulations for the $\gamma p \to K^+ \Lambda(1405)$ reaction (histogram) normalized to the data.} \label{bgfill} \end{figure}

Figure \ref{bgfill} shows the MC simulations matching to the data, giving our estimate for the $n_\Lambda$. This can be used to correct all backgrounds except for the $K^{*}$.

The $\gamma p \to K^{*0} \Sigma^{+}$ reaction was investigated with MC simulation and compared with data. This background was determined to have a negligible effect on the final result, since there is no $\Lambda$ in the final state. For the $\gamma p \to K^{*+}\Lambda$ reaction, few events survive all of the cuts. To include corrections for the few events that do survive, an estimate of the $K^{*+}$ background must be established. The correction for this background has the form \begin{equation} N_\pi(K^*\rightarrow K \pi^0) = \frac{ n(K^{*+} \to K^{+}\pi^{0}) } {BR(K^{*+} \to K^{+}\pi^{0}) A_{\pi} (K^{*+} \to K^{+}\pi^{0})}, \end{equation} where $n(K^{*+} \to K^{+}\pi^{0})$ is the estimated number of $K^{*+} \to K^{+}\pi^{0}$ events in our data sample. Assuming isospin symmetry, $BR(K^{*+} \to K^{+}\pi^{0})=1/3$ is the decay probability and $A_{\pi}(K^{*+} \to K^{+}\pi^{0})$ is the acceptance under the $\pi^{0}$-hypothesis. Similarly, the radiative decay of the $K^{*}$ has the form \begin{eqnarray} &N_\gamma(K^*\rightarrow K \gamma) = R(K^{*+} \to K^{+}\pi^{0})&\\ & \times A_{\pi}(K^{*+} \to K^{+}\pi^{0})N_\pi(K^* \rightarrow K \pi^{0}),& \nonumber \end{eqnarray} with $N_\pi(K^* \rightarrow K \pi^0)$ from the previous equation and $BR(K^{*+} \to K^{+}\gamma) \simeq 9.9 \times 10 ^{-4}$.

An estimate of the number of $K^{*}$ events was obtained from matching the MC simulations to the data. The $K^{*+} \to K^{+}\pi^{0}$ mass distribution has been fit as shown in Fig. \ref{mc_fit_bg1}. In addition, fits to the $K^+ \pi^0$ invariant mass were done by varying the kinematic cuts for the $\Sigma^+$ mass (see Fig. \ref{offKp}) to get more statistics, and the number of $K^*$ events extrapolated to the nominal $\Sigma^{*0}$ mass cut (1.34-1.43 GeV). Both methods gave similar results for $n(K^{*+} \to K^+\pi^0)$ used for the background correction in the final ratio.

\begin{figure} \epsfig{file=fig10-mcfitbg1.eps,width=\columnwidth} \caption{Missing mass off the $\Lambda$ fit with a Gaussian and with lower hyperon restrictions.} \label{mc_fit_bg1} \end{figure}

\begin{table} \caption{Dependence of corrected branching ratio for variation of the confidence level cuts shown.} \begin{center} \begin{tabular}{lccc} $P^{b}_{\gamma}(\%)$ & $P^{a}_{\pi}(\%)$ & R$(\%)$ & \\ \hline 15 & 7.5 & 1.388$\pm$ 0.12 & \\ 15 & 5 & 1.390$\pm$ 0.12 & \\ 10 & 5 & 1.422$\pm$ 0.12 & \\ 10 & 1 & 1.420$\pm$ 0.12 & \\ 10 & 0.5 & 1.421$\pm$ 0.12 & \\ 5 & 0.1 & 1.448$\pm$ 0.12 & \\ 5 & 0.05 & 1.436$\pm$ 0.12 & \\ \hline \end{tabular} \end{center} \label{con_cut2} \end{table}

\subsection{Results}

Following the above procedure for background subtraction, we now investigate the systematic uncertainties. Table \ref{con_cut2} shows the final ratio, Eq. (\ref{finalR}), for variations over a range of confidence level cuts. The primary source of variation is the secondary cut on $P_\gamma$.

The range of the systematic uncertainty in $R$ in Table \ref{con_cut2} is smaller than the statistical uncertainty, in part because each combination of cuts has a large overlap of events ({\it i.e.} the same subset of events is present for all choices of cuts). Since the kinematic fit requires a constraint on the $\Lambda$ mass, the kinematic cut on the invariant mass of the $p\pi^-$ has no effect. However, the other kinematic cuts (such as the $\Sigma^{*0}$ mass cut) are unconstrained in the kinematic fit, and so these cuts were varied and their systematic uncertainties determined. In addition, the acceptances given in Table \ref{acc2} are sensitive to the $t$-slope used to generate the MC simulations (which were tuned to fit the data) and so these systematic uncertainties were also determined. Adding each of the systematic uncertainty contributions in quadrature, upper and lower bounds in uncertainty were found for the ratio.

The final calculated ratio with all uncertainties is \begin{equation}

R^{\Lambda \gamma}_{\Lambda \pi}=\frac{\Gamma[\Sigma^0(1385)\rightarrow\Lambda\gamma]}{\Gamma[\Sigma^0(1385)\rightarrow\Lambda\pi^0]}
=1.42\pm0.12(stat)_{-0.07}^{+0.11}(sys)

\end{equation}

Previously published work \cite{Taylor} on this branching ratio yielded a ratio of $1.53\pm0.39^{+0.15}_{-0.17}$. The value given here is consistent within uncertainties of the previous value, but has smaller uncertainties. The smaller uncertainty is important, as the previous uncertainty was on the same order as the theoretical meson cloud corrections to the EM decay of the $\Delta$. If similar meson cloud corrections are to be proven true for EM decay of the $\Sigma^{*0}$ baryon, then the smaller experimental uncertainty is a significant improvement.

In addition, the larger statistics of the current data set allow a better exploration of the systematic uncertainties. Although our systematic uncertainty is about the same as for the previously published ratio, the larger statistics allow for a more reliable determination of the systematic uncertainties.

The authors thank the staff of the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility who made this experiment possible. This work was supported in part by the bla bla bla...

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Carman's suggestions

D.S. Carman comments on Sig*0 radiative decay paper.

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 Abstract.
   Line 4. Use "...0.12\%, where the ...".
   Line 6. Awkward mention of Taylor work. I suggest leaving his name
     until the body of the paper. How about "... but consistent within
     uncertainties with the only other published result."?
 PACS numbers. Missing
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     Line 8. Use "... more complex than the CQM representation, with ...".
     Line 10. Use "... of the spin resulting from a combination ...".
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     Line 13. Use "... baryons, yet somehow ...".
     Line 16. Use "... electromagnetic decays of excited ...".
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     Line 1. Use "... the electromagnetic (EM) transitions ...".
     Line 3. Use "... between EM decays and strong ...".
   Paragraph 3.
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       in Ref.[12]?
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     Line 5. Use "... quark models, provides a ...".
     Line 7. A reference is needed here.
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     Line 7. Use "... and, subsequently, a better control ...".

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 Table I.
   Caption. Use "... for the models referenced in the text and the
     experimental values for the ...".
   In the last line use "Experiment [4]".
   Comment. You list decay widths here, but for the Sig*0, these values
     are not directly comparable to what you measure as you quote the
     ratio of the Lamda+gamma to Lambda+pi0 decays. Do you have information
     from any of the models to quote your form of the decay ratio?
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     Line 9. Use "... particles were detected [25], and used a higher ...".
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     Line 12. Use "... than the g1 data set.".
     Line 13. Add Ref. to Taylor work here.
     Line 14. Use "... CLAS results from g11 give a great ...".
     Line 15. Use "... of this data set [25].".
   Paragraph 3.
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     Line 15. I suggest "... to study and to determine the systematic
       uncertainty associated with the measurement.".
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     Line 5. Use "... sat 10 cm upstream from ...".
     Line 6. Use "... a two charged particle trigger ...".
   Paragraph 2.
     Line 3. Is this quoted probability of 1.3% from Simon's work?
     Line 4. Use "... decays weakly with 63.9 ... to p\pi^-$ [4], ...".
     Line 6. Remove Ref.[4] from end of sentence. Also, use "... are
       tracked by the CLAS drift chambers  through the magnetic field
       of the spectrometer, giving their momentum, and are detected by
       the time-of-flight scintillators, ...".
     Line 10. Use "... and momentum via the missing mass technique.".
   Paragraph 3.
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 Fig. 1 caption.
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   Line 3. Use "... dotted line at 0.01~GeV$^2$ indicates the ...".
 Fig. 2 comment. Show cuts on the plot and update the caption to
   describe the cut lines.
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     Line 5. Use "... wall, target scattering chamber, and the ...".
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     Line 15. Use "Reactions involving decays such as $\rho ...".
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   Paragraph 3.
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     Line 4. Use "... the kaon and the $K^*$(892).".
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     Line 4. Use "... of counts about zero missing ...".
     Line 7. Use "higher-mass".
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 Fig. 4 caption.
   Line 2. Describe dashed line in the caption.
 Fig. 5.
   Comment. I don't feel like you have adequately described the
     events at negative missing mass and how they might contribute
     to the Lambda+gamma and Lambda+pi0 events.
 Left Column.
   Paragraph 1.
     Comment. It seems in this paragraph you want to mention that you
       need to separate non-Lambda+gamma and non-Lambda+pi0 events from
       the events of interest.
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     Equation needs a number.
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     Line 5. Use "... equation, which are the Lagrange multipliers that
       are used ...".
     Eq.(3). Add a comma at the end for proper punctuation.
     Line 2 after Eq.(3). You should state where the covariance matrix
       comes from in this fitting. It is not some abstract quantity.
     Line 7 after Eq.(3). Use "... from the fit. These values are used ...".
   Paragraph 4.
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   Line 2. Use "... (right) for the reaction ...".
   Line 3. Add a period at the end of the sentence. Also, describe the
     dashed line in the figure caption.
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   Line 1. Use "confidence level".
   Line 2. Use "... distribution for a missing ...".
 Left Column.
   Paragraph 2.
     Line 3. The sentence that begins "The differential cross sections 
       from data ..." is misleading as it implies that you have actually
       used your data to measure these quantities. You have not.
     Line 4. Use "... cross sections from data ...".
   Paragraph 3.
     Line 10. Use "... P_y^2)$, it is possible ...".
     Line 13. Use units with c=1 for consistency.
   Paragraph 4.
     Line 13. Your notation is getting confusing here. You use p_x with
       x standing for missing momentum component, momentum component, and
       missing particle. I would suggest using "X" for missing particle
       quantities. Check usage throughout paper.
     Comment. I would suggest you add a statement as to why you do not
       employ the Sig*0 mass as an explicit constraint in your kinematic
       fit.
   Paragraph 5.
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     Line 2. Use "... decay ($\Lambda \gamma$) and the strong ...".
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     Eq.(5). Give the reference for this equation.
     Comment. I would suggest that you explicitly mention the "ideal"
       fit gives P_1 close to unity (with whatever caveats you think are
       needed).
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     Line 3. Use "... of freedom from Eq.(5), see Fig. 7A.".
     Line 4. Use "... Fig. 7B is reasonably flat for the vast majority
       of events.".
     Line 5. You should describe events in the peak about zero.
   Paragraph 4.
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 Fig. 8 
   Caption line 1. Use "confidence level".
   Comment. I would show the fit from Eq.(5) overlaid and give the
     parameters.
 Fig. 9.
   Comment 1. This plot is too small to read, especially the number of
     entries, which I think is important information to clearly provide.
   Comment 2. What do you mean by the last sentence? Aren't these spectra
     directly from the kinematic fit?
 Left Column.
   Paragraph 2.
     Line 5. Use "... retaining the high confidence ...".
     Line 8. You state "Any other background is expected to be very ...",
      is this relative to Lambda+gamma or Lambda+pi0? This makes a
      difference in the scale that you communicate to the reader.
   Paragraph 3.
     Line 1. Remove the comma after P.
     Line 5. Use "... of the data were generated for a given ratio ...".
     Line 7. Use "... both the increase in statistical ...".
     Line 7. The sentence "The optimization occurs when considering ..."
       confuses me. What do you mean by "MC ratio "recovery" uncertainty?
     Line 9. Use "... in the MC ratio ...".
     Line 12. Use "Again, the statistical uncertainty ...".
     Line 14. Use "... are considered in the ...".
   Paragraph 5.
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     Line 3. Use "... for each case can be seen ...".
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 Table II caption.
   Line 1. Use "... the branching ratio.".
   Line 2. Use "... 10\% cut. The uncertainties listed are ...".
 Left Column.
   Paragraph 1.
     Line 1. I suggest "... for the branching ratio 
       $R=N_{\Lambda \gamma}/N_{\Lambda \pi}$ is".
     Line 9 after Eq.(8). Use "... fact that the background underneath ...".
     Line 14 after Eq.(8). Use "... A_\gamma^\Sigma)$, so that ...".
     Comment. Eq.(6) and Eqs.(7),(8) are not going to be understandable
       by many. I suggest a brief appendix added to the paper where a
       "skeleton" derivation of Eq.(6) is provided to assist the reader.
   Paragraph 2.
     Lines 3 and 5. Subscript should be pi not pi0.
     Line 5. You state "Using this form ...". What "form" are you
       referring to?
     Line 6. Use "... for the corrections, an estimate ...".
 Right Column.
   Paragraph 1.
     Add comma after Eq.(12).
   Paragraph 2.
     Line 7. Give the Lam(1405) branching ratio here.
   Paragraph 3.
     Line 1. Use "... to find $n_\Lambda$, one can look ...".
   Paragraph 4.
     Line 1. Use "... simulations normalizing to the data over the
       range XXX ...".
     Comment. This paragraph should be merged with the previous paragraph..
     Comment. Explicitly mention the relevant yields from the fits for
       Lam+gam, Lam+pi0, Lam(1405).

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 Fig. 11.
   Comment 1. The fit parameters are not necessary to include for the
     background.
   Comment 2. Make figure so that it is readable in black and white. 
     Describe the different line types/curves in the caption.
   Comment 3. Make x-axis label complete by listing the reaction on the
     axis like you did for your other plots.
   Caption.
     Line 1. List the complete reaction like you did for the other plots.
     Line 2. What do you mean by "lower hyperon restrictions"?
 Left Column.
   Paragraph 1.
     Line 3 after Eq.(13). Use "... 1/3, is the decay ...".
     Eq.(14) comment. The equation looks a bit awkward somehow. Move the
       top part to the left and the bottom part to the right.
     Line 1 after Eq.(14). Use "... \pi^0)$ from Eq.(13) and ...".
   Paragraph 2.
     Line 1. State a number for the K* events.
   Results section.
     Section heading. Use "RESULTS" for consistency with other labels.
     Comments. I think you need a better/more complete discussion on the
       systematic uncertainties. They are such an important part of the
       measurement quoted here and your section is too sketchy. I like the
       table in the analysis note (although perhaps it could be condensed 
       at bit).
 Right Column.
   Eq.(15). Should end in a period for proper punctuation.

Page 9.

 - Put refs in order cited. It looks like [10],[11],[12] need checking.
 - [11]. Isn't the second part of this ref. an errata?
 - [17]. Use "... Soyeur, Phys. ...".
 - [20]. Use "... Scoccola, and ...".
 - [26]. Remove spurious space after "et al.".
 - [27]. Remove spurious space after "et al.".
 - [28]. Include a URL to this "internal" CLAS link.

Forest's suggestions

T.A. Forest comments on Sig*0 radiative decay paper.

General comment: It is hard to find a sentence without an introductory clause. While this is a style, it does get monotonous having most of the sentences begin this way.

Page 1.

 Abstract.
   Line 3. Change "We report the ratio of decay widths" to "We report the decay width ratio"
   Line 5.  Replace the last 2 sentences with "This ratio is about 2-3 times larger than most theoretical predictions but consistent with the only other experimental measurement."
 
 Left Column.
   Paragraph 1.
     Line 2. Change "... the magnetic moments of the low-mass baryons" to "low-mass baryon magnetic moments"
     Line 16. Change ", via electromagnetic decay of excited baryons, " to "utilizing the electromagnetic decay of excited baryons"
   Paragraph 2.
     Line 1. Change "... competition between electromagnetic (EM) decays and strong decays"
              to " the competition between the EM and strong decays"
     Line 5. change " measured at about 0.55%" to "measured to be about 0.55%"

 Right Column.
  Paragraph 1.
     Line 7. Change "... because we get information..." to "to extract information"
  Paragraph 2.
     Why the new paragraph?  Can these two sentences join the previous paragraph?
      Line 4. change " Comparison of data for the EM decay of decuplet hyperons" 
              to  "A comparison of the EM decay measurements of decuplet hyperons"
  Paragraph 3.
     Line 7. Change Carman's suggestion "... and, subsequently, a better control ...".
                to   "... and, subsequently, better control ...".

Page 2.

Left Column
   Paragraph 2.

   Line 6:  The comparison between g1 and g11 is written to suggest that the trigger was responsible for higher DAQ rates.  Is this intentional?  Do you mean to say that the event rate using a selective trigger resulted in lower accidental rates and  thereby the ability to run at higher beam currents or do you mean that the DAQ hardware was improved, or both?  The sentence implies to me that the trigger allowed the DAQ hardware to record data faster.

     Line 13. "Previous CLAS results give a great deal of confidence to the ..."  What does this sentence want to convey to the reader?  That the calibration of g1 and g11 were consistent with each other?

   Paragraph 4.
     Line 2. I disagree with Dan's suggestion that you  use "4.019-GeV" perhaps he means "4.019~GeV"

 Right Column.
   Paragraph 1.
     Line 4. I disagree with Dan's suggestion that you use "40-cm long".
     Line 5. Use "... was 10 cm upstream from ...".
  Paragraph 2.

     Line 8. Change ", giving their velocity" to ", their velocity"

Page 3.

 Left Column.
   Paragraph 3.
     Line 1. Use "The energy lost by charged particles passing through the CLAS detector was accounted for by adjusting the measured particle's energy according to the average dE/dx losses in the target material,....".

 Right Column.
   Paragraph 1.
     Line 14. Identify Figure number being referred to.
   Paragraph 2.

     Line 4: change " The invariant mass peak was fitted with a Gaussian to achieve a resolution of \sigma=1.3 MeV..."
             to " A Gaussian fit to the invariant mass peak resulted in a \sigma of 1.3 MeV that was consistent with the instrumental energy resolution."
  Paragraph 3.
     Line 6. Change "... which can easily..." to " and can be easily"

Page 4.

 Left Column.
   Paragraph 1.
     Line 3: Change "... , so care must be take to use a method ..." to ", an alternative background subtraction technique to estimate the pi-zero contamination is required."

  Paragraph 2.
     Line 5. change "through use of" to "using"
     Line 6 : Indicate the amount the signal to background separation was improved.

 Right Column.
   Paragraph 2.
     Line 1: Insert "a" between "with" and "corresponding"
     Line 4: "closely numerically"? change the entire sentence to a statement of minimizing \chi^2.

   Paragraph 3.
     Line 2: end the sentence before the word "such"
     Line 4.  Merge the 2 sentences: "The \chi^2 equation is defined in terms of the Lagrange multipliers , \cal{L}_i, and the set of cosntratin equations, \cal{F}, as :"

     Line 6 after Eq.(3):  Change "obtaining improved measured valued from the fit"
              to "obtaining a new set of fit values"?

     Comment: How do you prevent being in a local minimum for the \chi^2 difference?

 Paragraph 4.
     Line 2 : Change "the energy loss" to "energy loss" 

Page 5.

 Left Column.
   Paragraph 2.
     Line 2. should it say "a constant value of t = 2.0 GeV^2 was used"?

   Paragraph 3.
     The first sentence should be rewritten.  something like 
               "The analysis procedure needs to account for a false EM decay signal caused by double bremsstrahlung in the radiator" 
   Paragraph 4.

     Line 1:  Use "a kinematic fit can be used to require that the proton and pi- particles are daughters of a decaying \lambda particle."
     Last line: "This makes it a kinematic fit with 2 constraints (2C)."

Right Column.

   Paragraph 4.
     Line 2. change " does not conform to that expected for a 2C fit" to
            "is not consistent with the 2C fit."

Page 6.

 Fig 9: should the caption say that the P_{\pi}^a < 0.001.  same for P_{\gamma}^b? or is it wrong in paragraph 4, left column.

 Left Column.
   Paragraph 1.
     Line 1. Use "... for a cleaner separation ...".
   Paragraph 2:
       Line 7: Use " a \pi^0 background"

   Paragraph 3.
     Line 4. use "..., a Monte Carlo..."

   Paragraph 4.
     Line 3 : Should you refer the reader to the separation seen in Fig 9 C and remove the statement "well enough" allowing the reader make the subjective evaluation.  Perhaps just move this 1 sentence paragraph to the right column paragraph 2.

Page 7.

 Left Column.
   Paragraph 1.
     Line 6. use "... lower case n represents an"
     Line 10: remove "the" before parentheses
     Line 14: use "an over-counting"
     Lin 16: change "from decay of the \sigma" to "from the \sigma decay"
  Right Column.
    Paragraph 3.
     Line 5. Use "... a Monte Carlo".
   Paragraph 5.
     Line 1. Use "... the MC...".

Page 8.

 Left Column.
   Paragraph 1.
     Line 3 after Eq.(13).  I disagree with Dan on the comment Use "... 1/3, is the decay ...".

   Paragraph 2.
     Line 2. change "from matching" to "by matching"
     Line 6: the last half of this sentence should be clarified.  You extrapolated the number of K* events to the nominal \sigma mass cut?

   Paragraph 4.
      Line 1: use "...for R in ..."

Page 9.

    Paragraph 2:
       Line 2: use "allows"

Forest's 2nd round suggestions

General comments:

1.) use a spell checker 2.) remove qualitative measures or replace them with quantitative ones. examples are: "agreed very well", " helps greatly", "great deal of confidence". These should not appear in a scientific manuscript. 3.) check units everywhere. The unit for mass is GeV/c^2. My theorist wife jokes about how experimentalists don't know this. let's start disappointing her 4.) make font sizes in figures similar to font size of figure caption.

>> Page 1. Introduction:

Paragraph 1 line 4: "Calculations for" change to "Calculations of"

         1 line 5: change ", is" to ", are"  the noun is plural; "Calculations"

         1 line 12: suggest changing "orbital motion" to "angular momentum" to be more specific.  

         1 line 15: suggest changing "magnetic moments that have been measured" to " measured magnetic moments"

Paragraph 2 last sentence:

suggest changing to " The EM transition form factors for the Delta may be directly measured via pion photoproduction"

Paragraph 5 line 11: "to know quantitatively" change to "to quantify" > >> Page 2. >> Left Column. >> Paragraph 1.

Line 6: suggest changing " so-called g1 and g11" to " CLAS run group g1 & g11 data sets" Line 10: suggest changing " giving a" to "resulting in" Line12: What is a useful trigger? Do the authors want to say that there were 20 times more events reconstructed from the g11 trigger sample than the g1?

Line 13: change "used" to "use"

last sentence: "great deal of confidence" either quantify or remove this subjective statement.  Scientific writing should be objective.

>> Paragraph 2. >> Line 15. Typo on "determine".

           I suggest changing the sentence there to be ..."the g11 data was instrumental in determining the"...

Right Column:

  Paragraph 1 line 7: " a two charged particle trigger...".  I suggest " a trigger requiring 2 charged particles in coincidence with .."
Line 9:  Why not specify how many events were reconstructed as well?  " 20 billion events from which X gamma +p -> K+ Sigma&0 events were reconstructed."

>> >> Page 3. >> Left Column. >> Paragraph 1 line 2: Would the word "further" instead of "quality" be more descriptive and foreshadow the cuts to be described below?

>> Right Column. >> Paragraph 1. >> Line 2. Shouldn't the units of GeV/c^2 be used for mass?

       Line 1 & 5: The authors write that particle misidentified events are "removed". Would "reduced" be more accurate or do the authors want me to conclude that they completely eliminate such events?  Should the authors estimate the amount of contamination which remains?

paragraph 3 line 2: What does " missing mass off of the lambda" mean? Why not just specify the reaction gamma + p -> Lambda + X.

>> >> Page 4.

>> Right Column.

   suggest adding q_i to equation (3)

>> Line 5 after Eq.(3). I recommend "... for each constraint equation. >> These L_i's are the Lagrange multipliers ...". >>

I suggest " The Lagrange multipliers, L_i, are introduced to be used for each constraint equation and are used to write the chi^2 equation for a set of constraint..."

>> Page 5. >> Left Column. >> Paragraph 3. >> Line 11. "K+ agreed very well between" This subject evaluation does not have any scientific value. You should either quantify the agreement with an objective measure or remove the "agreed very well" statement.

      line 13: suggest changing " as " to " used"

pargraph 5 line 1: insert "a" between "for" and "false"

  last sentence: change to "... was removed by requiring Pxy > 0.3 GeV as illustrated by the dashed line.:

>> Page 6. >> Left Column. >> Paragraph 1. >> Line 4. Use "P0 is for normalization".

       line 10: Suggest changing " an indicator of ...." to " an indicator of the signal to background kinematic fit contribution with the radiative..."

>> Right Column. >> Paragraph 1. >> Line 1. remove "now" >> Paragraph 2. >> Line 13. double quote missing on "recovered"

>> Page 9. > Right Column. >> Paragraph 3. >> Line 5. suggest changing ", the ratio of ..." to ", the A gamma to A pi decay ratio used as an input parameter for the Monte Carlo simulation"

>> Paragraph 4. >> Line 4. : P^b_gamma and P^b_gamma? >> Paragraph 6. >> Line 6. : Adding systematic errors is quadrature requires showing that they are uncorrelated.