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SFT/Key4hep Meeting
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Attendees:  Carsten, Annika, Juan, Mateusz, Swathi, Andre, Leonhard,

Apologies:

Date: October 24, 2023

## News

* Call to sign up as a Science Gateway guide, apparently only 20% of shifts filled

* EP RnD Annual and Close out Report: contributions for 2023 see email for overleaf link

## Round The Table

#### Carsten

* New project student from Netzwerk Teilchenwelt: Annika
   * Cut based analysis for higgs to invisible with HZ->Z->MuMu
   * Have to add FastJet configuration, to be provided by Leonhard
* k4ProjectTemplate mentions the release, which is currently not working with


#### Juan

* Spack bump, solved somes with Geant4 and glib, 
   * some tests are failing now because environment variables are not "forward" populated
* On ubuntu the concretizer fails to concretize impossible requirements
* Start investigating builds with c++20, allowing some packages to be build with this standard
* Preparing new release of Key4hep stack, many open PRs in HEP-FCC, timeline for them to be understood 
* Digitisation algorithm DDPlanarDigi converted to Gaudi, using GaudiHistogram Service

* Next step: Overlay

* genGonf needed to be done at all?
   * What is genConf used for?

* multithreading in Gaudi: To be discussed with Marco

#### Mateusz

* Reading Gaudi source code

#### Swathi

* Trying to use the LAr digitiser with help from Juraj
* Started k4GaudiPandora, merged DDMarlinPandora to k4ProjectTemplate based repo
* Writing paper on lowPT gg to hadron generator with Mikael, Jenny (and Tim Barklow)

#### Andre

* NTR

#### Leonhard

* Fix for surfaces in OpenDataDetector
* CLDConfig: test with EDM4hep added, simulation test added
* CLDConfig: adding tracking only flag, disable clustering

* CLDConfig: using EDM4hep input, are relations between PFOs and clusters/tracks working ?
   * Good to know before we make the release

## AOB


### Key4hep Documentation

- [ ] Should remove references to starterkit


## Next Meeting
October 31, 2023

## TODO

* CLD Reco
   * [x] CLDConfig Repository
   * [x] Save history from ClicPerformance of FCCConfig
   * [x] Add test with EDM4hep input
 

There are minutes attached to this event. Show them.
    • 13:00 → 13:55
      Round The Table 55m
      Speakers: Andre Sailer (CERN), Benedikt Hegner (CERN), Juan Miguel Carceller (CERN), Leonhard Reichenbach (University of Bonn (DE)), Swathi Sasikumar (CERN)