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Before combining track segments, we move their pivots to a common
point which can be arbitrarily chosen.
We should also correct the track parameters for energy loss and
multiple scattering beforehand
so that they represent the track parameters for the
original track.
Then the total
for the combined track is then
given by
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(22) |
where
and
is the track parameter vector for the original track,
is that determined by i-th tracking device,
and
is the corresponding error matrix.
Since this is quadratic in
, the minimization
of the
can be carried out
analytically by a single matrix inversion:
|  |
(23) |
The above formulae tell us that the track linking in the parameter space is a
simple averaging process
.
Keisuke Fujii
12/4/1998