Kalman Filtering Resources


Online Material       Software       Publications      Tracking       Multiple Scattering


E614 Talks:

Maher's Talk - collaboration metting (May 2000)

Online Material:

Kalman Example.

An Introduction to the Kalman Filter.

A Physicist's Guide to Kalman Filters.
Dissertation on Kalman Filtering.
Parameter Estimation Techniques.

Application of Kalman filters to gamma-ray reconstruction. (Dissertation 194 pages, PS)

CLEO Tracking Conventions (PS)

Billoir fitter for CLEO II (PS)

XKALMAN algorithm description (PS)

Kalman Filter Track Fits and Breakpoint Analysis (PS)

Kalman Filtering for the ATLAS detector (PS)


Software:

Kalman Filter Package in C++ (tar file).

Another Kalman Filter Package in C++.

Kalman Filter GLAST (Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope) code in C++ (tar file).

ALEPH code (F77):

Index of ALEPH routines.
UFTKAL.
UFTTRK.
CLEO II code (F77):
Tar file.



Publications:

Recent deveoplments in patter recognition with applications in high-energy physics.
                NIM A 419 (1998) 259-269.
Application of Kalman Filtring to Track Vertex Fitting.
                NIM A 262 (1987) 444-450.
Simulating Pattern Recognition and Track Fitting by the Kalman Filtering Method.
                NIM A 294 (1990) 219-228.
Further test for the simultaneous pattern recognition and track fitting by the Kalman filtering method.
                NIM A 295 (1990) 492-500.
Track finding and fitting in the H1 Forward Track Detector.
                NIM A 373 (1996) 227-260.

Tracking:

A collection of formulas useful in particle tracking (PS)
The Geometry and Algebra of Helical Tracks (PS)

Multiple Scattering: