UPDATE OF KLOE RULES FOR APPROVAL OF PRELIMINARY/FINAL RESULTS TO BE PRESENTED/PUBLISHED
(BLESSING PROCEDURE)

The following steps are to be followed:

I) PRELIMINARY RESULT

I-a) The Working group, led by the conveners, approves the initiation of the blessing procedure for a new result.
 
I-b) The author(s) of the analysis gives(give) a detailed presentation on the subject (seminar style) in an open meeting (*). One week before the presentation a written documentation (**) has to be circulated by posting on KLOE web and notifying KLOE all of its presence.
 
I-c) After the above presentation, the information should be transformed to a note (in conference style like, for example, the ones prepared for ICHEP-2004, KLOE notes n.195, 196) including figures and plots. This material is subjected to revision by the referees (nominated by the Policy Board) and then it is circulated for approval/comments to the whole collaboration.
 
I-d) After the approval the result become public as "KLOE preliminary result" and the document becomes a KLOE note (***). Any subsequent KLOE presentation to conference/seminar etc.. on the subject must refer to it, and only to it.

II) FINAL RESULT

II-a) The final result of the analysis is presented by the author(s) in an open meeting (*), with the corresponding updated written documentation (**) circulated one week prior.
 
II-b) After the presentation a note and paper, including final figures and plots, are prepared by the author(s). They are revised by the referees and then circulated for approval/comments to the whole collaboration.
 
II-c) After the approval the result become public as "KLOE final result" and the document becomes a new KLOE note (***). Any subsequent KLOE presentation to conference/seminar etc.. on the subject must refer to it, and only to it.
 
II-d) Submission of paper for publication by the author(s) follows regular procedures as all past KLOE papers (acknowledgements, Senior editors review, etc.).
 

 

(*) An open meeting is a KLOE general meeting (KGM), a KLOE physics workshop (KPW), or a specially invoked "blessing meeting". The meeting agenda should specify which presentations are to be blessed as preliminary or final results.
 
(**) a KLOE memo or, minimally, a good quality self-explanatory set of transparencies justifying the result.
 
(***) The responsibility of the correctness of the paper content lies with the author(s) and referees.
 

A.D.D. 6 Dec 2004