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Tracks and TrackStates should not use Tracking coordinates

Open tomeichlersmith opened this issue 3 months ago • 3 comments

The serialized objects should not use the tracking coordinate system which is specific only to Tracking and ACTS. In order to make the objects more usable by others in LDMX, the data should be stored in detector coordinates (like everything else) and the conversion to/from tracking coordinates should stay within the Tracking module.

tomeichlersmith avatar Sep 16 '25 18:09 tomeichlersmith

Is this not the case now?

bloodyyugo avatar Sep 22 '25 16:09 bloodyyugo

Nope! I was looking at some recoil tracks of beam electrons and observed that (on average) momentum = (8, 0, 0) from this I interpret that we are still in tracking coordinates and using GeV as the energy unit.

tomeichlersmith avatar Sep 22 '25 16:09 tomeichlersmith

Shoot...I'll fix this.

bloodyyugo avatar Sep 22 '25 16:09 bloodyyugo