The results of the BTeV silicon pixel detector beam test carried out at Fermilab in 1999-2000 are reported. The pixel detector spatial resolution has been studied as a function of track inclination, sensor bias, and readout threshold.

The vertex detector currently in operation at the Cornell Electron-positron Storage Ring (CESR) will be upgraded with a new four-layer double-sided silicon vertex detector. I have designed a database to keep track of massive amounts of information on the status and quality of each of the 511 detector channels and the corresponding readout electronics.

D. Golubkov1, R. Karabowicz2, I. Kisel∗2,3, I. Rostovtseva1, and Yu. Zaitsev1 1ITEP, Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Russia; 2GSI, Darmstadt, Germany; 3KIP, University of Heidelberg, Germany The cellular automaton (CA) based track finder of the CBM experiment [1, 2] is a flexible algorithm operating on space-points which makes it maximally independent of the actual geometry ...

A microcomputer controlled scanning stage has been developed which greatly facilitates track counting. It has been designed specifically for the external detector method of fission-track dating, although the basic hardware could be used for a variety of different scanning requirements. With this system, the microscope stage is automatically controlled to move between corresponding points on the...

We present the design and performance analysis of a new integrated track reconstruction code developed for the STAR experiment at RHIC. The code is meant to replace multiple previous tracker codes written in FORTRAN many years ago, and to readily enable integration of new and varied detector components. The new tracker is written from the ground up in C++ using a strong object -oriented model. ...

Detector alignment is an essential step in the track reconstruction and analysis process. Alignment with tracks is the only possible strategy to estimate positions and orientations of components of a track detector with sufficiently high precision. We present a method for the estimation of alignment constants during track reconstruction in parallel with the estimation of the usual track paramet...