The Online Silicon Vertex Tracker (SVT) is the new trigger
processor dedicated to the 2-D reconstruction of charged particle
trajectories at the Level 2 of the CDF trigger. The SVT links the digitized
pulse heights found within the Silicon Vertex detector to the tracks
reconstructed in the Center Outer Tracker by the Level 1 fast track finder.
Preliminary tests of the system took place during the October 2000
commissioning run of the Tevatron Collider. During the April-October 2001
data taking it was possible to evaluate the performance of the system. In
this paper we review the tracking algorithms implemented in the SVT and we
report on the performance achieved during the early phase of run II.
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