No. 43 (00150)

Family name : ZINCHENKO
Given name : Alexander
Affiliation : Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Moscow
              region, Russia
Abbreviation : JINR
E-mail address : Alexandre.Zintchenko@cern.ch
Title : Development of the Kalman filter for tracking in the forward
        muon spectrometer of ALICE experiment
Authors : G.Chabratova, V.Pismennaia, A.Vodopianov, A.Zinchenko
Abstract : 
A simultaneous track finding / fitting procedure based on Kalman
filtering approach has been developed for the forward muon spectrometer
of ALICE experiment. Its performance was evaluated for Monte Carlo
events of muon decays of heavy quarkonia produced in heavy ion
collisions at LHC.
   In order to improve the method performance in high-background
conditions the "canonical" Kalman filter has been modified and
supplemented by a "smoother" part. It is shown that the resulting
"extended" Kalman filter gives better tracking results and offers higher
flexibility.