A Track is mainly an object required to navigate to the following items:
- the representation of the trajectory a charged particle followed throughout the experiment
- the history of the algorithm(s) which contributed to the determination of the track
- references back to previous (intermediate) Tracks used to construct this track
- as the (intermediate) results are not neccesarily persisted, these references may not be availabe when reading back objects from the persistent store
- the object passed to various tools for purposes such as (but not limited to)
- extrapolation/intersection
- visualization
- ...
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GerhardRaven - 05 Apr 2005