Conformal tracking is an innovative track finding strategy adopted for the
detector at the Compact Linear Collider (CLIC), a proposed future
electron-positron collider. It features a pattern recognition in a
conformal-mapped plane using the cellular automaton algorithm to reconstruct
the trajectory of charged particles in a magnetic field. The efficiency and
robustness of the algorithm are validated using full-simulation studies in the
challenging beam-induced background conditions expected for the 3 TeV stage of
the CLIC collider. The tracking performance requirements, set by the ambitious
CLIC physics programme, have been shown to be met. Moreover, thanks to its
flexibility and geometry-agnostic nature, this algorithm was also shown to be
easily adaptable to different detector designs and beam conditions.Comment: arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1908.0025