Contents

• Introduction
  • CP violation
  • Physics Programme for Data Taking 2002/03
  • The Search for QGP
  • Strangeness production in a Quark Gluon Plasma
  
  
• The HERA-B experiment
  • The HERA Storage ring
  • Detector overview
  • Trigger
  
  
• The Inner Tracker System
  • Requirements
  • Used technology
    • MSGC, GEM, GEM-MSGC
    • GEM-MSGC at HERA-B
  • The Inner Tracker system
  • Infrastructure for Chamber Operation
  
  
• Pattern recognition
  • Introduction
  • Methods of Track Recognition
  • CATS Track Recognition Strategy
    • Association of Neighboring Hits into Clusters
    • Reconstruction of Space-Points
    • Reconstruction of Track Candidates
    • Track Competition for Clone and Ghost Removal
    • Left-Right Ambiguity Resolution
    • Track Fit by the Kalman Filter and Smoother
  • Performance Comparison
    • Reference Quantities
    • MC Study Results
    • OTR/ITR-CATS on Real Data
  • Conclusion
  
  
• Hit efficiency
  • Introduction
  • Masking Procedure
  • Track Selection
  • Efficiency of the Superlayer MS01
  • Efficiency of the PC Superlayers
  • Efficiency of the TC Superlayers
  • Test of the Algorithm with Monte Carlo
  • Summary
  
  
• $V_0$ Inclusive Production Cross Sections
  • Monte Carlo Generation
  • Event Reconstruction
  • $K^0_S ,\, \Lambda ,\, \bar \Lambda$ Selection
    • Event Selection
    • Selection Cuts
    • Armenteros-Podolanski Plot
    • Summary of Used Cuts
    • Detector Resolution
  • Acceptance
  • Luminosity Determination
  • MC and Data Comparison
    • ITR Contribution and Stability
  • $V_0$ signals
  • Cross Section
    • Systematic Errors
  • Summary
  
  
• Conclusion
• List of Tables
• List of Figures
• Runs used in the analysis