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HK: Fachverband Hadronen und Kerne

HK 67: Poster Session

HK 67.101: Poster

Thursday, March 19, 2009, 14:00–16:00, Audi-Max

A FPGA tracking algorithm for PANDA — •David Münchow — II. Physikalisches Institut, Heinrich-Buff-Ring 14, 35392 Gießen, Germany

The PANDA experiment at the future FAIR facility at GSI, Darmstadt, will investigate proton-antiproton collisions. The central detector might contain a straw tube tracker (STT) consisting of 15 double layers of straws. A tracking algorithm for the STT is being developed and will operate in several steps to (a) guarantee a good momentum resolution and (b) find tracks of an secondary vertex. Perpendicular to the beam direction the algorithm is using a conformal space transformation from circular tracks to straight lines. In order to find the tracks a Hough transformation and peak search are used. The algorithm will be implemented on an FPGA and be used as a trigger.