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 "[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.
+
+![tracking geometry](tracking_geometry.png)
+
+Assuming this is already done, we describe the data processing.
 
 ##### Source Links and Measurements
 
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 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
 
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