Kalman Filter Track Fits and Track Breakpoint Analysis

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1999-12-16

arxiv.org/abs/physics/9912034v1

Nucl.Instrum.Meth. A450 (2000) 138-154

Physics

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability

27 pages including 10 figures. To appear in NIM

Scientific paper

10.1016/S0168-9002(00)00154-6

We give an overview of track fitting using the Kalman filter method in the NOMAD detector at CERN, and emphasize how the wealth of by-product information can be used to analyze track breakpoints (discontinuities in track parameters caused by scattering, decay, etc.). After reviewing how this information has been previously exploited by others, we describe extensions which add power to breakpoint detection and characterization. We show how complete fits to the entire track, with breakpoint parameters added, can be easily obtained from the information from unbroken fits. Tests inspired by the Fisher F-test can then be used to judge breakpoints. Signed quantities (such as change in momentum at the breakpoint) can supplement unsigned quantities such as the various chisquares. We illustrate the method with electrons from real data, and with Monte Carlo simulations of pion decays.

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