Useful References for Tracking & Vertexing & Alignment

root4star

• CHEP 2000, STAR offline framework,
• ROOT in STAR,
• V.Fine

Alignment

• " A New Method for the High-Precision Alignment of Track Detectors ", V. Blobel, C. Kleinwort; hep-ex/0208021,

General References

• Silicon Detectors
  • " D0 Silicon Microstrip Tracker from Run IIa ", E. Kajfasz, hep-ex/0112014
  • " A Pixel Vertex Tracker for the TESLA Detector ", M. Battaglia, et al; hep-ex/0102046
  • " Capacitance of Silicon Pixels ", G.Gorfine, M.Hoeferkamp, G.Santistevan, and S.Seidel; hep-ex/0003032
  • " The H1 Silicon Vertex Detector ", D. Pitzl, et al; hep-ex/0002044
  • " The DELPHI Silicon Tracker in the global pattern recognition ", M.Elsing; hep-ex/0001064
• STAR VPD
  • Vpd

Track Triggering

• " The CDF-II Online Silicon Vertex Tracker ", ICALEPCS2001; hep-ph/0112141
• " The BTeV Vertex Trigger System ", Snowmass; hep-ex/0110048
• " A Multifunctional Processing Board for the Fast Track Trigger of the H1 Experiment ", D. Meer, et al; hep-ex/0107010
• " A Fast High Resolution Track Trigger for the H1 Experimen ", A. Baird, et al, hep-ex/0104010

Track Finding

• Sti
• StiCA
• " Kalman Filter Track Fits and Track Breakpoint Analysis ", P.Astier, et al; physics/9912034
• " Track Fit Hypothesis Testing and Kink Selection using Sequential Correlations ", R. V. Kowalewski and P. D. Jackson; hep-ex/0004008

Kalman Filters

• C.D'Ambrosio and S.Qian, NIM A335, 341 (1993).
• P.Billoir and S.Qian, NIM A294, 219 (1990).
• P.Billoir and S.Qian, NIM A295, 492 (1990).
• P.Billoir, Comput. Phys. Commun 57, 390 (1989).

Track Fitting

• "Track and vertex reconstruction: From classical to adaptive methods", Are Strandlie and Rudolf FrühwirtRev.Mod.Phys. 82, 1419-1458 (2010)
• " Analytical and Numerical Flash-Algorithms for Track Fits ", M. Dima; hep-ex/0002021
• "Paul Avery's" collection
• "Propagation of Covariance Matrices of Track Parameters in Homogeneous Magnetic Fields in CMS" A. Strandlie, W. Wittek

Vertexing

• "Studies of Geometric and Kinematic Fits Related to D0, D*0(J) and D+(s1) Production", M.Jones, OPAL TN413 (1996)
• "Improving Vertex Position Determination by Using a Kinematic Fit", G.E.Forden and D.H.Saxon, NIM A248, 429 (1986).
• "Kinematical Analysis of Interaction Vertices from Bubble Chamber Data", J.P..Forden, F.T.Solmitz and H.D.Taft, Rev. Sci. Instrum. 32, 538 (1962?).
• "A Gaussian-sum filter for vertex reconstruction ",R. Frühwirtha and T. Speer, NIM 534A, Pages 217-221
• "Sensitivity of robust vertex fitting algorithms ",D'Hondt, J.; Fruhwirth, R.; Vanlaer, P.; Waltenberger, W.; Nuclear Science, IEEE Transactions on Volume 51, Issue 5, Oct. 2004 Page(s):2037 - 2044
• "Vertex reconstruction and track bundling at the LEP collider using robust algorithms ", R. Frühwirth, P. Kubinec1, W. Mitaroff and M. Regler Computer Physics Communications Volume 96, Issues 2-3 , 1 August 1996, Pages 189-208

B-Tagging

• "x[ Flavor Tagging and CP-Violation Measurements at the Tevatron ", S. Tkaczyk (CDF), hep-ex/9904021

Energy Loss

• "Ionization energy loss in very thin absorbers.", V.M. Grishin, V.K. Ermilova, S.K. Kotelnikov Nucl.Instrum.Meth.A309:476-484,1991
• "An implementation of ionisation energy loss in very thin absorbers for the GEANT4 simulation package", J. Apostolakisa, S. Giania, L. Urbanb, M. Mairec, A. V. Bagulyad and V. M. Grichine, Nucl.Instrum.Meth.A453:597-605,2000
• "A method to improve tracking and particle identification in TPC's and silicon detectors.", Hans Bichsel, Nucl.Instrum.Meth.A562:154-197,2006
• dE/dx, classical and with cluster counting

Useful Web Pages

• "ALTRO Setup for STAR TPC" Jeff Landgraf
• Performance studies with an ALICE TPC prototype, NIM A: 565, 15 September 2006, Pages 551-560 ,
• SSD alignment by Lilian Martin,
• SVT alignment by Spyridon Margetis,
• D0 silicon alignment,
• LHC detectors