DD4hep Developers Meeting

Thursday 29 Jun 2023, 15:30 → 16:00 Europe/Zurich

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Andre Sailer (CERN), Markus Frank (CERN)

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Present: F.Brieuc, M.Frank, T.Madlehner, A.Sailer, J.Smiesko

1) Pending problems

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1) ISSUE970:  Support for digitization in ddsim
                        ==> On hold
2) ISSUE 1010: Changing Geant4 physics flags
                        ==> To be finished by Andre
3) ISSUE 1031: SimHits versus RecHits
                        ==> Close due to inactivity ?           
4) ISSUE1072: Enhancement request: Allow etaMin, etaMax bounds in Geant4IsotropeGenerator and DDSim/Helper/Gun.py enhancement.
5) ISSUE1092: Toroidal magnetic field (ATLAS like)
6) ISSUE1101: ddsim: Adjust default output based on compiled format support
7) ISSUE1103:Allow isotrope generator to throw range around specified (reference) direction
Unhandled up to now:
8)   ISSUE 1114: Persist HepMC3 GenRunInfo attributes into metadata tree
9)  ISSUE1117:  New visualization by reference edits alpha value of referenced VisAttr.
                             ==> Suggestion would not solve what he wants to solve. Transparency through parent-daughter relationships)
10) ISSUE  1130: MacOS Ambiguous assignment operator in Geant4Output2EDM4hep.cpp on LCG macOS platforms
                              Fixed. ==> Wait for caller
11) PR1016:         OpticalSurface example: fix detector driver
                              ==> Pending since November

2)    Closed issues and fixed problems
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PR1133/ISSUE1104: root output of ddsim: how to change. Was traced down to a problem in ddsim. Fixed by Andre. Test added.
PR1132: Add shape TGeoPara conversion to Geant4 (Thomas)
PR1136: Fix to CLICSiD GDML examples (enhancement of PR1135) (Thomas, Markus)
PR1137: Fix of typos (Andre)
PR1138: Fix to DetElementCreator plugin (Thomas)
PR1134: Test for issue 1134.  Closes also ISSUE 1134, 1121
 

3) Round table
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Markus:        NTR
Andrei:         NTR
Brieuc:          (FCC) Struggling with twisted tubes. In case of problems come and see us.
Jurai:             NTR
Thomas:       Vertex endcap tracker from CLIC gave some trouble and questions. At the end traced down to the different handling of assemblies in Geant4.

4) AOB
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NTR
 

Next meeting:  13. July 2023
 

15:30 → 15:50 Around the table