The CDF Online Silicon Vertex Tracker reconstructs 2-D tracks by
linking hit positions measured by the Silicon Vertex Detector to the Central
Outer Chamber tracks found by the eXtremely Fast Tracker. The system has
been completely built and assembled and it is now being commissioned using
the first CDF run II data. The precision measurement of the track impact
parameter will allow triggering on B hadron decay vertices and thus
investigating important areas in the B sector, like CP violation and B_s
mixing. In this paper we briefly review the architecture and the tracking
algorithms implemented in the SVT and we report on the performance of the
system achieved in the early phase of CDF run II.
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Updated: Monday, 2001 October 01 11:52:06 CDT automatically from input from Carol Picciolo