Charged Particle Tracking

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Overview

This page gathers together links to the most up-to-date information on charged particle tracking in the GlueX detector. This information is put together in preparation of the Charged Tracking Review to be held at Jefferson Lab at the end of March, 2008.

Meetings

• Tracking Meetings
• Offline Software Meetings

Documentation

Here are the most recent documents relevant to charged particle tracking:

Hardware and Software Wiki Pages

• Offline Software wiki page
• Central Drift Chamber wiki page
• Forward Drift Chambers wiki page
• Barrel Calorimeter wiki page
• Forward Time-of-Flight wiki page

The Most Up-to-date Documents on Tracking and PID

• GlueX-doc-754 Forward Drift Chamber Technical Design Report
• GlueX-doc-855 Specification Document for FDC/CDC ADC (125 MSPS)
• GlueX-doc-866 Design goals for the Hall D detector and subsystems
• GlueX-doc-990 The GlueX Central Drift Chamber
• GlueX-doc-992 Start Counter Update
• GlueX-doc-994 TOF detector description for CDR
• GlueX-doc-995 Cable Characteristics for the Hall D FDC and CDC
• GlueX-doc-999 GlueX Physics and Detecor Performance Metrics

Software

• GlueX-doc-956 The Lorentz Effect: Simulation and Reconstruction
• GlueX-doc-853 GlueX Simulation Geometry Version 4.0
• GlueX-doc-1004 Track Finding and Fitting in GlueX: Development Report IV
• GlueX-doc-761 Track Fitting in GlueX: Development Report III

Electronics

• GlueX-doc-967 High Voltage Distribution for the Hall D CDC and FDC Detectors
• GlueX-doc-966 Low Voltage Distribution for the Hall D CDC and FDC Detectors
• GlueX-doc-855 Specification Document for FDC/CDC ADC (125 MSPS)

Talks for the Review

• Talk 8 GlueX-doc-996 DC and TOF Mechanical Design
• Talk 3 GlueX-doc-997 FDC Design
• Talk 5 GlueX-doc-998 Tracking & PID Electronics
• Talk 4 GlueX-doc-1000 Drift Chamber Simulation and Reconstruction for GlueX
• Talk 2 Preliminary http://www-meg.phys.cmu.edu/~yvhaarle/cdctalk.pdf CDC review talk
• Talk 6 GlueX-doc-1001 Time-of-flight measurements with the barrel calorimeter and the forward scintillators
• Talk 1GlueX-doc-1003 GlueX Physics and Detector Performance

Restricted

Motivating the tracking design parameters

Misc

• Comparison of March 2007 and March 2008 Resolutions
• Tracking Configuration Parameters
• Tracking resolution estimator (REZEST)
• Track Finding/Fitting 2006