DD4hep Developers Meeting

Thursday 21 Sept 2023, 15:30 → 16:00 Europe/Zurich

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Andre Sailer (CERN), Markus Frank (CERN)

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Present: A. Sailer, T. Madlener, M.Frank

1) Pending problems

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1) ISSUE970:  Support for digitization in ddsim
                       ==> On hold
2) ISSUE1103: Allow isotrope generator to throw range around specified (reference) direction: Waiting for user
3) ISSUE1117:  RE-OPENED: New visualization by reference edits alpha value of referenced VisAttr.
                       Apparently order of creating logical volumes affects visualization attributes
                       Changes in ROOT now present. Still requires update in DD4hep
                       See: PR1155
4) ISSUE1143: DetectorChecksum memory consumption scales with complexity (and maxes out...): Wait for user
5) ISSUE1163: materialScan is not adapted for USE_GEANT4_UNITS
6) ISSUE1168: Allow to give CAD files with relative paths similar to importing xml files (DDCAD)
7) ISSUE1167: Charge sharing across tracker segmentation  ---> DDDigi
8) PR1016:    OpticalSurface example: fix detector driver
                       ==> Pending since November
9) PR1172:   DetectorChecksum.cpp: fix a typo Problem: existing checksums get invalid!
10) PR1148: feat: convert several DDRec constructors to use const Detector& (work in progress)
11) PR1148:        RE-OPENED:  feat: convert several DDRec constructors to use const Detector&


2)    Closed issues and fixed problems
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1) ISSUE977: problem with geant4 visualization (non-issue)
2) ISSUE1164: problem accessing event number in SDAction
3) ISSUE1031: SimHits versus RecHits (non-issue)
4) PR 1170: Extend usage to asymmetric ranges. Improvement to B-field dump. (D.Gangadharan)
5) PR 1161: Added implementation for hexagonal segmentation and also staggered square segmentations.  (P.Sebouh)
6) PR1171: Evaluator: fix typo: systax -> syntax (D. Kalinkin)
7) PR1169: Check if the CLHEP target exists before creating it (cmake) (J.M.Carceller)
8) PR1168: fix: allow for ddsim running with uid without username (A.Sailer)
9) PR1165: HepMC3FileReader: fix loading of run info for RootTree HepMC3 input format (D. Kalinkin)
10) PR1162: WebDisplay: RGeomViewer is no longer experimental (A.Sailer)
11) PR1155: Implement correct volume transparency settings for ROOT>=6.29 (M.Frank)

3) Round table
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Markus:   NTR

Thomas:  NTR

Andre:     NTR
 

4) AOB
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Next meeting:   5th October 2023
 

15:30 → 15:50 Around the table