reports on ms EPJA 2220

Dear Author,

  in view of the two attached referee reports, your ms EPJA 2220
"Standard Model Masses..." is not suitbale for publication in the
European Physical Journal A.

 sincerely, Ulf Meissner

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Referee report on EPJA2220


The author reports on a coincidence between the masses
of doubly magic nuclei and the W,Z,H,t masses from the
standard model. The spectrum of heavy nuclei is almost 
continuous (see Fig. 1) and the idea that the W,Z,H,t 
fall in the neighborhood of this or that assigned 
magic number is likely (not unlikely). I agree with the
author statement "random numerological coincidence" 
since the underlying physical scales (strong and weak) 
naturally decouple the physics.

I do not recommend publication of this paper.


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Report on the paper
Standard model masses and models of nuclei


The author points out that nuclei with closed subshells
have similar masses as some fundamental standard model
bosons.There is however not a single convincing theoreti-
cal link between these two sorts of masses in the paper.
  On the other hand there are many theoretical arguments
against such links which are so trivial that I do not want
to write them down .The paper should be rejected.