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A novel FPGA based online tracking algorithm for helix track reconstruction in a solenoidal field, developed for the PANDA spectrometer, is described. Employing the Straw Tube Tracker detector with 4636 straw tubes, the algorithm includes a complex track finder, and a track fitter. Implemented in VHDL, the algorithm is tested on a Xilinx Virtex-4 FX60 FPGA chip with different types of events, at different event rates. A processing time of 7 $\mu$s per event for an average of 6 charged tracks is obtained. The momentum resolution is about 3\% (4\%) for $p_t$ ($p_z$) at 1 GeV/c. Comparing to the algorithm running on a CPU chip (single core Intel Xeon E5520 at 2.26 GHz), an improvement of 3 orders of magnitude in processing time is obtained. The algorithm can handle severe overlapping of events which are typical for interaction rates above 10 MHz., Comment: 7 pages, 10 figures

Monte Carlo simulations for charmonium(-like) states at the planned PANDA experiment are presented, in particular the search for the $h_c'$, the search for the $^3F_4$ state and the search for the rare decay Y(4260)$\rightarrow$$e^+$$e^-$., Comment: to appear in the proceedings of The 6th International Workshop on Charm Physics (CHARM 2013)

Monte-Carlo simulations for a resonance scan of the charmonium-like state X(3872) at Panda are performed. Final state radiation hadronic background reactions are taken into account. The signal reconstruction uses a realistic pattern recognition (track finder and track fitter) and electron/pion discrimination., Comment: Conference Talk presented at MENU10, 12th International Conference on Meson-Nucleon Physics and the Structure of the Nucleon, 05/31-06/04, 2010, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia