diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index ca558e140a97513294d71fea0fc8c8e491fa16fa..e5006d97800e0a2dd50282e2d7dc814995938399 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -111,9 +111,16 @@ Artifacts can be browsed via the web interface, for example, the latest in recon "[Acts](https://acts.readthedocs.io/en/latest/) is an experiment-independent toolkit for (charged) particle track reconstruction in (high energy) physics experiments implemented in modern C++." +#### ACTS References: + #### The ACTS way of tracking -First, the geometry has to be constructed. Assuming this is already done, we describe the data processing. +First, the geometry has to be constructed. Currently the ACTS geometry is constructed and tested as part of the athena pipeline. +The tracking surfaces can be viewed in a cad program using the output `tracking_geometry.obj` file the reconstruction_benchmarks pipeline. + + + +Assuming this is already done, we describe the data processing. ##### Source Links and Measurements @@ -139,6 +146,8 @@ A Kalman filter needs a starting point and those are the `Initial Track Paramete Conceptually the process of determining these parameters begins with track seeding. +ACTS has a Combinatorial Kalman Filter (CKF) which does both track finding and fitting. + ### GenFit2 @@ -146,3 +155,4 @@ Conceptually the process of determining these parameters begins with track seedi + diff --git a/tracking_geometry.png b/tracking_geometry.png new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..cd649976d4bba4141d43eb975eb51f2d0ad39f84 Binary files /dev/null and b/tracking_geometry.png differ