Bach

The Bach Alignment Package

Bach is a common software-tool to align telescope-like detectors. It describes the complete analysis chain of a telescope detector, from simulation to reconstruction. It demonstrates the functionality of the MILLEPEDE alignment algorithm.

The user manual is available as an AIDA note

The source code is available via svn:

svn co https://svnsrv.desy.de/public/aidasoft/AIDAAlign/trunk/Tb Tb

Links

Methods

Millepede webpage

Methods based on kalman: method1, method2

Experiments using:

  • Methods based on Millepede: CDF, HERA-B, LHCb, CMS, ALICE, BELLE
  • Residual minimisation: DELPHI, NOMAD, CMS
  • Methods based on Kalman Filter: LHCb, CMS
  • Other methods: ALEPH, ATLAS, SLD, P238

LHC experiments' web page:

Alice

Alignment webpage

Atlas

ATLAS alignment webpage

CMS

Alignment webpage

Track Alignment twiki page and Millepede Algorithm twiki page

LHCb

VELO alignment

Twiki page

LHC Detector Alignment Workshop

3rd LHC Detector Alignment Workshop - 15-16 June 2009

2nd LHC Detector Alignment Workshop - 2, June 25-26, 2007

1st LHC Detector Alignment Workshop - 1, Sept 4-6 2006Proceedings

 

References

Methods

LHC experiments:

Alice

Atlas

  • ATLAS Collaboration, Study of alignment-related systematic effects on ATLAS Inner Detector tracking ,  ATLAS-CONF-2011-141

  • ATLAS Collaboration, Alignment of the ATLAS Inner Detector Tracking System with 2010 LHC proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s)= 7 TeV ,  ATLAS-CONF-2011-012

  • ATLAS Collaboration, Alignment Performance of the ATLAS Inner Detector Tracking System in 7 TeV proton-proton collisions at the LHC,  ATLAS-CONF-2010-067

  • Preprints

  • Other notes

CMS

LHCb

Other experiments:

SLD

P238

BABAR

CDF

  •   R. McNulty, T. Shears, A. Skiba, A procedure for the Software Alignment of the CDF Silicon System, CDF/DOC/TRACKING/GROUP/5700, 2001

   HERA-B

  •    I. Belotelov, A. Lanyov, G. Ososkov, Alignment of Hera-B Outer Tracker with simultaneous fit of track and alignment parameters, HERA-B 05-009,
  •    I. Belotelov, A. Lanyov, G. Ososkov, Data-driven alignment of the HERA-B outer tracker, Phys.Part.Nucl.Lett.3:335-339,2006.
  •   I.I. Belotelov, A.V. Lanyov, G.A. Ososkov, A study of the millepede alignment algorithm on the Monte Carlo model of the HERA-B outer tracker, Phys.Part.Nucl.Lett.3:261-272,2006.

   BELLE

  •    M. Ritter, Track-based Alignment for the Belle Vertex Detector Using the Millepede Approach,  MPP-2009-202

NOMAD

DELPHI

  • A. Andreazza and E. Piotto, The alignment of the DELPHI tracking detectors, DELPHI
    99-153, Oct 1999.
  • A. Andreazza et al., Results on the DELPHI microvertex alignment form a precise 3-D mapping, Nucl. Instr. and Meth. A312 (1992) 431-439
  • M. Caccia and A. Stocchi, The DELPHI vertex detector alignment: a pedagogical statistical exercise, INFN/AE- 90/16.

ALEPH