Noori Shirazi, Amir: Track reconstruction for InGrid chips for a Time Projection Chamber. 2018
Inhalt
- Abstract
- Zusammenfassung
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Foundation
- 2.1 The Standard Model
- 2.2 The International Linear Collider
- 2.3 Physics at the ILC
- 2.4 The International Large Detector
- 2.5 The Time Projection Chamber
- 2.5.1 Interaction of charged particles with matter
- 2.5.2 Ionization yield
- 2.5.3 Drift and Diffusion
- 2.5.4 Gas amplification
- 2.5.5 Momentum resolution
- 2.6 Software framework
- 2.7 The Timepix chip
- 2.8 The InGrid chip
- 3. Track reconstruction
- 4. Track finding for InGrid chips
- 4.1 Introduction
- 4.2 Hough Transform
- 4.3 Bivariate normal distribution (BND)
- 4.4 Ellipse equation and semi-major and semi-minor axes
- 4.5 Tracklet Parameters
- 4.6 The merging process
- 4.7 Recollection inliers
- 4.8 Processors in MarlinTPC
- 5. Simulation and optimization
- 5.1 Introduction
- 5.2 Simulation chain in MarlinTPC
- 5.3 Optimization of InGridBNDHoughTransformProcessor
- 6. Test beam experiment with 160 InGrid chips
- 7. Summary
- Appendix
- Appendix A - Covariance matrix for Karimäki fit
- Appendix B - The plots for the optimization
- Appendix C - Examples of the track reconstruction
- Bibliography