USEFUL REFERENCES FOR TRACKING & VERTEXING

General References

• Tracking
  • "Data Analysis Techniques for High Energy Physics Experiments", R.K.Bock, Cambridge Univ. Press, (1990)
  • "Statistics for Nuclear and Particle Physicists ", L.Lyons, Cambridge Univ. Press, (1986)
• Silicon Detectors
  • " D0 Silicon Microstrip Tracker fro 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
  • " Vertex Detectors ", C.J.S.Damerell, RAL 86-077, July, 1986.
  • " Silicon Microstrip Detectors ", A.Peisert, in " Instrumentation in High Energy Physics ", F.Sauli (ed), World Scientific, (1992).
  • " Detectors for Particle Radiation (2nd Edition) ", K.Kleinknecht, Cambridge University Press, (1998).

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
• " All Hadronic B Decay Trigger with the CDF Silicon Vertex Tracker ", S. Donati, FNAL-CONF/99-238/E
• "A Silicon Track Trigger for the D0 Experiment in Run II", H.Evans, et al D0 note ?

Track Finding

• " 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
• " Analytical and Numerical Flash-Algorithms for Track Fits ", M. Dima; hep-ex/0002021
• " The Concurrent Track Evolution Algorithm: Extension for Track Finding in the Inhomogeneous Magnetic Field of the HERA-B Spectrometer ", R.Mankel, A.Spiridonov, hep-ex/9809021
• "Finding Tracks", D.Adams, D0 note 2958, CMS/TN96-062 (1996)

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

• " A New Method for the High-Precision Alignment of Track Detectors ", V. Blobel, C. Kleinwort; hep-ex/0208021
• " Analytical and Numerical Flash-Algorithms for Track Fits ", M. Dima; hep-ex/0002021
• "A collection of formulas useful in particle tracking", A.Weinstein, Cal Tech - Sept, 1990
• "Track Parameterization", Y.Ohnishi, Belle Note 148

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?).

B-Tagging

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

Useful Web Pages

• D0 Silicon Track Trigger Homepage
• D0 Silicon Detector Homepage
• CDF SVT Homepage