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Apr 1, 2000
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The BaBar Track Fitting Algorithm
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David Brown1,
Doug Roberts2,
Eric Charles3
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- University of Maryland
- University of Wisconsin, Madison
Speaker:
David Brown
We will present an update on the Kalman filter track fitting algorithm used
by BaBar, which was first presented at CHEP 97. The basic design of this algorithm, which maps
occurrences along a particle trajectory (hits, material interactions, ...) to C++ objects, will be
reviewed. We will describe our experience commissioning and running this track fitter on the
data produced in the BaBar engineering run (with around 1.5 fb^-1 of integrated luminosity and over
100 million tracks recorded). We will present preliminary results on its performance. We will
also describe extensions to this algorithm by which it is now used as a pattern recognition tool
and a detector alignment tool in BaBar.
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