Modern particle accelerators and detectors like Belle II are complex machines that produce large amounts of data.
To enable the study of scattering events, particle tracks have to be composed and reconstructed from many individual measurements. The first part of this thesis covers the development of a toolkit for track fitting, Genfit. This open-source software can be easily adapted to various experiments, and is, among others, being used in the Belle II and panda experiments.
Reconstructed track parameters form the starting material for further analyses. In the second part of this thesis, the decay of neutral D mesons into four charged pions is studied. The decay occurs via many possible intermediary states, which interfere quantum-mechanically. With a partial wave analysis, the relative intensities and phases of the intermediary states can be determined. For that purpose, eligible events are extracted from the Belle data set. The decay with its possible intermediary states is modeled in the isobar formalism. The model parameters are determined with a fit to the data.
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Modern particle accelerators and detectors like Belle II are complex machines that produce large amounts of data.
To enable the study of scattering events, particle tracks have to be composed and reconstructed from many individual measurements. The first part of this thesis covers the development of a toolkit for track fitting, Genfit. This open-source software can be easily adapted to various experiments, and is, among others, being used in the Belle II and panda experiments.
Reconstructed tr...
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