Including time information in conformal tracking for future colliders

Precise track reconstruction is one of the most important ingredients to obtain optimal measurements for collider experiments such as for the proposed high energy electron--positron collider Compact Linear Collider (CLIC). Conformal tracking is a tracking strategy using a cellular automaton based reconstruction algorithm in a conformal mapped plane. The inclusion of timing information to particle track reconstruction can mitigate background and improve tracking performance. During the project a more realistic reconstructed hit time from simulated hits was developed and the use of single-hit time particle information was investigated for the conformal tracking software.