DD4hep Developers Meeting

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Andre Sailer (CERN), Markus Frank (CERN)
Description

Please Join DD4hep developer's meeting via Zoom

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68917133930
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Andre Sailer
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DD4hep Meeting July 30th, 2026

Present:     Andre, Juan, Markus, Peter

Apologies: Thomas



Link to minutes of previous meeting

Merged PRs

  • PR1648:    feat: add region selection for G4HepEm plugin (Wouter)
  • PR1649:    g4PolarAngleScan (Andreas LC)
                    ===> Material scan in polar coordinates using python interface to Geant4
  • PR1651:    Speed up getting the magnetic field and the solenoid one in particular (Juan)
  • PR1652:    Use double for smartless since Geant4 also uses double               (Juan)
  • PR1653:    DetectorSensitives: assign sensitive detector to reflected object if (Andre)
                     ===> ISSUE1650: No hit produced when mirror reflection  (ybedfer)
  • PR1655:   Fix a compiler warning in Geant4Converter.cpp (Juan)
                    ===> See PR1652

Closed PRs, closed issues and fixed problems


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Pending Problems


  • ISSUE1335: Uniform random picking of points on detector surfaces for noise studies
                           This problem is linked to #1297 and #580.
  • ISSUE1458: Possible discrepancy between xml file and geometry converted into root file
  • ISSUE1501: Bug/Feature: Condense duplicated particle contributions in calorimeter question
  • ISSUE1568: Sim hits between two sensitive volumes (Alexander Tuna)
  • ISSUE1604: Question about random seed reproducibility when detector XML is modifiedquestion (Dr.Stubborn/Jiashen Luo)
  • ISSUE1633: Decouple DD4hep Readers/Writers into Separate Source and Injection/Build Stagesenhancement (Simon Gardner)
  • ISSUE1635: ddsim crashes when given a particle outside world volumebug (Andre)
  • ISSUE1643: Non-determinism in hit ordering when multiple detectors share readoutbug (Wouter)


Pending PR:

  • PR1240:   Add multithreading support to ddsim (Wouter) 
  • PR1606:   feat: AdePT physics list plugin for e+/e-/gamma offload to GPU [WIP] (Wouter)

  • PR1617:   Make EventSeeder run before primary generation (Andre)
  • PR1626:   feat: add support for python geometry plugins  (Wouter)

New:

  • None

Round Table


Andre:            New tag after multi-threading is merged.
Juan:              NTR
Markus:         NTR
Peter:             NTR
Thomas:        ------


Next meeting:   August 27th, 2026

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