Track significance

Track significance, in high energy collision experiments, is defined as the ratio between the impact parameter of a track (distance from the primary vertex) and the estimated error in it.[1][2]

Formula

[math]\displaystyle{ S= a_o/Error(a_o) }[/math]

## References

1. ↑ Abbott, B. (1999). "Measurement of W and Z boson production cross sections in pp collisions at √s = 1.8 TeV". Physical Review D 60 (5): 052003. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.60.052003. Bibcode: 1999PhRvD..60e2003A.p''+collisions+at+√''s''+=+1.8 TeV&rft.jtitle=Physical+Review+D&rft.aulast=Abbott&rft.aufirst=B.&rft.au=Abbott, B.&rft.date=1999&rft.volume=60&rft.issue=5&rft.pages=052003&rft_id=info:doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.60.052003&rft_id=info:bibcode/1999PhRvD..60e2003A&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikibooks.org:Physics:Track_significance">
2. ↑ Onishchuk, Yuriy (2010). "Production of heavy flavours at HERA" (in English). Nuclear Physics B: Proceedings Supplements 207: 383–386. doi:10.1016/j.nuclphysbps.2010.10.100. ISSN 0920-5632. Bibcode: 2010NuPhS.207..383O. http://inis.iaea.org/Search/search.aspx?orig_q=RN:42068844.

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