sPHENIX tracking discussion

[Anthony Frawley <afrawley AT fsu.edu>]

Hello Michael,

Nice! The improvement in the number of clusters is particularly impressive.

I would not focus too much on the number of track seeds at this stage. PHTpcTracker also  produces a lot more seeds than there are actual tracks. We will have to clean them up after the fact. The top priority now is track finding efficiency, with the highest possible number of associated clusters.

Good news!

Tony

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From: sPHENIX-tracking-l <sphenix-tracking-l-bounces AT lists.bnl.gov> on behalf of Michael Joseph Peters via sPHENIX-tracking-l <sphenix-tracking-l AT lists.bnl.gov>
Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2021 8:12 PM
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Subject: [Sphenix-tracking-l] CA Seeding with Propagator Update

 

Hi all,

Yesterday I showed that the propagator was finally beginning to do more good than harm for some tracks, but at the time it still wasn't a uniform improvement. Since then, I believe I've finally found a propagator design that works; tuning is in progress, but here are the results so far:

The efficiency is now a little bit under 90% above 2 GeV (whereas with CA seeding alone it was around 80%). As for nhits:

There are a lot more tracks produced overall (the tuning is currently pretty inclusive right now, which exacerbates this), and the secondary peak at intermediate nhits is now gone. I'll continue working on optimizing the propagator, but it seems I've finally hit on a workable design.

Thanks,

Michael Peters