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Undefined track indices in secondary vertex

I found a weird behaviour of the secondary vertices (SV). For some of them, the indices of the tracks are some ridiculous number while other parameters (while small) are defined. I don't know if it's a bug per se, but I think every SV should have a set of properly identified tracks. So maybe one solution would be to remove the SV if the tracks are undefined. Here are some examples coming from the minimum bias sample upgrade_mc_minbias_scifi_v5_000.mdf. I show 5 examples of badly defined SV and 1 example of a well defined SV.

Event number SV index trk1 trk2 p1 p2 doca
4319 78 1033490116 1016631570 0.098722 0.091006 0.080648
4343 33 1050544758 1036842758 0.163971 0.095338 0.084931
4405 47 1012691766 1093412331 0.029870 7.105389 0.105299
4444 0 1041083825 1026043605 4.852075 0.033044 0.011886
4677 5 995549666 998711489 0.165731 6.149944 5.206242
0 0 6 21 20339.230469 31352.421875 1.511394