DD4hep Developers Meeting

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Andre Sailer (CERN), Markus Frank (CERN)
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Please Join DD4hep developer's meeting via Zoom

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Andre Sailer
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DD4hep Meeting September 17th, 2026

Present:     Andre, Juan

Apologies: Markus



Link to minutes of previous meeting

Merged PRs

  • PR1663: Geant4Output2EDM4hep: get run from worker context (Andre)

            ISSUE1660: OutputAction and contexts bug (Andre/Thomas)
  • PR1666:   Modified FCC MDI Synchrotron Radiation Mask geometry (Who is neskongarr?)
  • PR1668: DDG4: catch primaries outside the world volume
  • PR1670: fix(Geant4UIManager): do not skip BeamOn when PreRunCommands are set
  • PR1674: ClientTests: add references for pseudotrap on gcc16
  • PR1675: EventSeeder Remove superfluous call the event seed double seed
  • PR1673: fix: rename RETURN template type to avoid macro clash on macOS-15
  • PR1669: fix(EventSeed): do not leak the run number from EventParameters between events

Closed PRs, closed issues and fixed problems


  • ISSUE1635: ddsim crashes when given a particle outside world volumebug (Andre)
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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)
  • ISSUE1633: Decouple DD4hep Readers/Writers into Separate Source and Injection/Build Stagesenhancement (Simon Gardner)
  • ISSUE1643: Non-determinism in hit ordering when multiple detectors share readoutbug (Wouter)


Pending PR:

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

  • PR1626:   feat: add support for python geometry plugins (Wouter)
  • PR1658:   [DRAFT POC] Add Arrow IPC stream writer for EDM4hep output (Wouter)
            ---> What is arrow IPC
  • PR1664:   feat: honor DD4HEP_LIBRARY_PATH for plugin search (Wouter)
            ---> MacOS is non-trivial!

New:

  • ISSUE1657:  DDG4 reduces the generator status to 16 bits and gives no warning (Marco Meyer-Conde)

Round Table


Andre:            New tag 1.38
Juan:              NTR


Next meeting:   October 1st, 2026

 

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