Summer Student Project Report. Parallelization of the path reconstruction algorithm for the inner detector of the ATLAS experiment.

The inner detector of the ATLAS experiment has two types of silicon detectors used for tracking: Pixel Detector and SCT (semiconductor tracker). Once a proton-proton collision occurs, the result- ing particles pass through these detectors and these are recorded as hits on the detector surfaces. A medium to high energy particle passes through seven different surfaces of the two detectors, leaving seven hits, while lower energy particles can leave many more hits as they circle through the detector. For a typical event during the expected operational conditions, there are 30 000 hits in average recorded by the sensors. Only high energy particles are of interest for physics analysis and are taken into account for the path reconstruction; thus, a filtering process helps to discard the low energy particles produced in the collision. The following report presents a solution for increasing the speed of the filtering process in the path reconstruction algorithm.