CDF Run II Tracking Software

This page contains links to documents used by the CDF Run II Tracking Software Group, and information for users of tracking software. The conveners of the tracking group are Mircea Coca and Rainer Wallny.

Tracking meetings

• Every Wednesday, 1 pm to 3 pm, B0 Theater.
• Tracking Projects
• Meeting Minutes and Status Talks.

Tracking User Documentation

• Useful Links
• Current known tracking problems
• Other problems
• Tracking Performance
• How to use tracking
• TrackingUsageExample: Example program for various tasks (from Matt Herndon)
• Loop through track views: defTrack, defTracks with no cuts, COT tracks
• Refit tracks
• Calculate d0 with respect to beamline
• Used seeded Vxprim vertex finder
• General access to tracking reconstruction results: the CdfTrack object.
• Complete CdfTrack documentation.(from Rick Snider)
• Quality cuts for analysis that need higher quality tracks than defTracks.
• Track refitting
• Tracking calibration Pass tables - silicon alignment tables and beamlines
• Using L00 Hits
• Beam constraining COT tracks and a note on merits of beam constraining tracks vs. using silicon tracks.
• Matching reconstructed and simulated tracks
• Accessing raw tracking data
• Getting COT hits without re-tracking
• Using the track embedding code
• Less common tasks
• Ignoring COT hits in reconstruction
• Getting COT hits from inside CT pattern recognition
• Testing a COT alignment

General Tracking Documentation

• (Re)Running Tracking
• Silicon cluster-finding (from Rick Snider)
• COT Integrated tracking (from Paolo Gatti)
• Outside-In tracking (from Ken Bloom)
• Kalman Filter-based tracking: OI and Standalone
• IO, inside out tracking (from Chris Hays and Yimei Huang )
• Regional Tracking (from David Waters)
• PADTracks Collection 484, PADTracks Collection 510 and Tracking Algorithms i.e. defTracks(from Jason Nielsen and Matt Herndon)
• Post Tracking Primary Z vertex-finding 1 2(from Beate Heinemann)
• Primary vertex finding (Vxprim) (from Hartmut Stadie and Wolfgang Wagner)
• Primary vertex finding using ctvmft and using a beamline constraint (from Joao Guimaraes Costa )
• Alignment home page (from Ray Culbertson)
• Silicon comparator benchmarking code (from Patrizia Azzi and Antonio Sidoti)
• Silicon detector charge deposition model(from Matt Herndon)

and CDF notes

• The COT Pattern Recognition Algorithm and Offline Code
• Histogram Tracking in the COT
• CDFII Tracking system: thesis from Paolo Gatti
• Outside-In and OIZ tracking
• Kalman Filter-based tracking(OI and silicon standalone) and alignment package 1 2
• Inside-Out Tracking
• The COT Tracker
• CTC and VTX Tracking from Aseet
• SVX Tracking from Hans Wenzel
• Beamline Width from Stan Lai and update

Links to Detector/Physics Group Web Pages

• Silicon
  • Commissioning and Operations
  • SVXII
  • ISL
  • L00
  • Silicon Studies
  • Vertex and Beamlines
• COT
• Physics groups - subgroups
  • High Pt B-Tag Group
  • B Reconstruction and Flavor Tagging Subgroup Page
  • CDF B->Jpsi Working Group

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For questions or comments, please contact Mircea Coca.

Last updated: April 6, 2005