v02-07-MC

Released also on CentOStream 8

External software

• GEANT4 10.6.3-1.muonc (BTW Those packages have been built with special constraint (C++-17, MT, Qt-support) and cannot be used for other projects)
• Boost 1.7.3

New packages

•  ACTS library → v13.0.0-MCC : an experiment-independent toolkit for (charged) particle track reconstruction in (high energy) physics experiments implemented in modern C++.
  • A new marlin processor has been added to use this library: ACTSTracking → v1.0.0
• Added some new filters to MarlinTrkprocessor:

  • SplitCollectionByPolarAngle: the processor selects and saves the tracker hits with a polar angle within a certain range, defined by the lower and upper limits, along with the corresponding sim hits and the reco-sim relations.
    

  • FilterConeHits: the processor selects and saves the tracker hits that are included in a cone around the MC particle trajectory along with the corresponding sim hits and the reco-sim relations.
    

  • FilterTimeHits: filtering hits depending on their time corrected by the time of flight. Particle propagation at a speed<c is supported via the TargetBeta parameter.
• Add the new Crilin ECAL

Packages changes wrt. to v02-06-MC

• • ConformalTracking → v01-12-MC
    • Add the possibility to do a regional tracking inside a theta range

      • New configuration parameters:

        MaxHitAngle: Maximum polar angle of hits to be fitted [3.1415927]
        MinHitAngle: Minimum polar angle of hits to be fitted [0.0]

• • • Add cone-tracking algorithm 

      • It uses a collection of particles (jets): JetCaloCollection, iterates over it selecting only the hits inside a cone of ray: DeltaRCut around jet direction and does a separated tracking inside each cone. If JetCaloCollection is empty use default tracking.

        New configuration parameters:

        JetCaloCollection: name of the collection with the previously found jets (cone are created around its) [""]
        DeltaRCut: maximum angular distance between the hits and the particle direction [1.0]

  • MarlinTrkprocessor → v02-13-MC

    • Filter to split collection by polar angle

    • Cone filter
    • Time filter
  • Overlay → v00-23-MC
    
    • Fix Overlay when not preserving truth particles
      • Fix Overlay algorithm to reset tracker hit pointers to Overlay MC particles when those are not preserved. Keep momentum information anyway before setting the link to a null pointer.
      • Actually setting overlay flag in simulated tracker hit
      • Incompatibility issue Files created with previous releases, where MC particles are removed, are no more usable from this release.

  • detector-simulation → v01-02-MC

    • Added simple text description of the MuColl_v1 geometry 
    • Add new Crilin calorimeter
  • LCTuple → v01-14-MC
    • Implement dumping of individual tracker hits making the tracker clusters/measurements Relevant only if stored, which happens only if a realistic digitization is used.
    • Jet substructure observables added
  • DDMarlinPandora → v00-13-MC
    • The BIB subtraction in ECAL has been updated. Crilin ECAL can also be used as option
  • MuonCutil → v02-07-MC
    
    • In MuonCutil/releases/development/release-ilcsoft.cfg any references to mc branches have been removed, This is necessary since we have changed the usage policies for git
  • iLCInstall → v02-03-01-MC
    
    • It contains a module for ACTS and several fixes not yet available in the original iLCSoft code.

These packages have a new tag-release in the official repository and have been updated:

• • LCIO → v02-16-01-MC
    
    • https://github.com/iLCSoft/LCIO/releases/tag/v02-16
    • https://github.com/iLCSoft/LCIO/releases/tag/v02-16-01
  • MarlinUtil  → v01-16
    
    • https://github.com/iLCSoft/MarlinUtil/releases/tag/v01-16
  • MarlinReco → v01-31
    
    • https://github.com/iLCSoft/MarlinReco/releases/tag/v01-29
    • https://github.com/iLCSoft/MarlinReco/releases/tag/v01-30
    • https://github.com/iLCSoft/MarlinReco/releases/tag/v01-31
  • CEDViewer → v01-18
    
    • https://github.com/iLCSoft/CEDViewer/releases/tag/v01-18
  • SIO → v00-01
    
    • https://github.com/iLCSoft/SIO/releases/tag/v00-00-03
    • https://github.com/iLCSoft/SIO/releases/tag/v00-00-04
    • https://github.com/iLCSoft/SIO/releases/tag/v00-01

v02-06-MC

Recompile everything against c++17

External software

• Root 6.22.06-1 (built against C++17)
• HepMC3 3.2.3-1 (to fix bug: MC-3)

Packages changes wrt. to v02-05-MC

• DD4Hep → v01-16
  
  • See release note

v02-05-MC

External software

• Root 6.22.02-4 (Custom building for issue: MC-7)

Packages changes wrt. to v02-04-MC

• LCTuple → v01-13-MC
  
  • Add information for tracker 
    • Added track hits to the tracks branches
    • Added the number of track hits

• lcgeo → v00-16-08-MC

  • Yoke05_Barrel driver

    • Removed slices DetElement construction

    • Moved layer DetElement construction to external loop: fixes the DetElement hierarchy.

    • This fixes the access to the DetElement given a CellID in our reconstruction. Related issue: iLCSoft/ILDConfig#88

  • Add INSTALL_COMPACT_FILES option (default: OFF) to copy compact files to install area

  • python3 compatibility

  • For muoncollider:

    • Fixed double thickness in the negative side of TrackerEndcapSupport

    • Recovered the double thickness bug in TrackerEndcapSupport_o1_v01 for backward compatibility

• detector-simulation → v01-01-MC

  • Added v2 of the frozen geometry with fixed endcap tracker support asymmetry

• DDMarlinPandora → v00-12-MC

  • Added new processor (DDCaloDigi_BIB) for BIB subtraction in calorimeter cells, compatible with 1.5TeV BIB

v02-04-MC

External software

• Geant4 10.6.3

Packages changes wrt. to v02-03-MC

• Downgrade DD4Hep and DD4hepExamples to v01-13-01 as workaround for DD4Hep issue #759
• Add SIM.hepmc3.useHepMC3 = False to steering file for ddsim
  
• Remove version number from the geometry path: use /opt/ilcsoft/muonc/detector-simulation/geometries/MuColl_v0/MuColl_v0.xml

v02-03-MC

External software

• ROOT_version = "6.22.02-3"

Packages changed wrt. to v02-02-MC

• MarlinTrkProcessors → v02-12-MC
  • Double-layer filtering + Splitting by layers
    • Introduces a new FilterDoubleLayerHits processor for filtering of RecHits based on their angular alignment within a double-layer.
    • Updates the SplitCollectionByLayer processor to support custom layer combinations.
  • Extra quality cuts in Refitter
    • Minimal Chi2/NDF
    • Minimal number of hits in arbitrary combinations of tracker subdetectors
• detector-simulation→ v01-00-MC
  
  • Added a Python version of the MARS->SLCIO conversion script with configurable pdgIds
  • Included antineutrons in Ekin cut. Fixed bug with cutting on Ekin before reading the MARS values
  • Added reduced mod4 and mod5 geometries with Trackers only for faster simulation
  • Added mod5 geometry with 3.57T magnetic field and rearranged VTX endcaps

  • Added mod6 version of the geometry to be frozen for Snowmass → MuColl_v0: Copy of CLIC_o3_v14_mod4 with the MAP magnetic field

• ConformalTracking → v01-11-MC
  • Added timing histograms for each tracking step
  • Added support for excluding collections used for initial seed hit creation. Added per-step debug histograms
  • Separated step debugging plots with an own configuration parameter
• lcio →v02-15-04-MC
  • fix nan's in jet 4-momenta (delphes2lcio)
  • delphes: fix PDG in PID objects of neutral hadrons
  • add optional extra PFO collections in delphes2lcio
  • Python3 compatibility of Reader class

Know problems

1. The paths of the geometry in the MuonCutil/confile/* are wrongs.
   1. Use the correct ones: /opt/ilcsoft/v02-03-MC/detector-simulation/geometries/MuColl_v0/MuColl_v0.xml
2. Default value for ddsim is to use HepMC3 Helper reader which is not supported by now. 
   
   1. Use the command line option for ddsim: --hepmc3.useHepMC3 false or put SIM.hepmc3.useHepMC3 = False in your steering file
3. Using hepmc input file for ddsim produces a fatal exception likes this one: (see DD4Hep issue #759 in DD4Hep)
   

   G4DecayTable::SelectADecayChannel :: no possible DecayChannel mu+
   
   -------- EEEE ------- G4Exception-START -------- EEEE -------
   *** G4Exception : DECAY003
   issued by : G4Decay::DoIt
   Can not determine decay channel for mu+
   mass of dynamic particle: 0.00010566 (GEV)
   dacay table has 1 entries
   0: BR 1, IsOK? 0, --> e+ + nu_e + anti_nu_mu
   
   *** Fatal Exception *** core dump ***

   1. At the moment the only workaround is to downgrade the version of DD4Hep from v01-14 to v01-13-01

v02-02-MC

External software

• ROOT_version = "6.22.02"

• Boost_version = "1.69.0"

• Geant4 version = "10.6.1"

• clhep version = "2.4.1"

Official ILCSoft release v02-02 plus

• MarlinTrkProcessors → v02-11-MC
  
  • Added time smearing to the DDPlanarDigiProcessor
  • Changed histogram range suitable for picosecond-level time resolution
  • Introduced a time window for digitized hits in the DDPlanarDigiProcessor
  • Made TOF compensation persistent in the DDPlanarDigiProcessor to match the behaviour in DDCaloDigi
• lcgeo → v00-16-06-MC
  
  • Added a modified version of the Generic Cal Endcap without cutout
  • Added support of Z segmentation to ZPlanarTracker class
  • Revoked ZPlanarTracker. Implemented Z segmentation in a separate plugin: ZSegmentedPlanarTracker
• ConformalTracking → v01-10-MC
  
  • Add the possibility to do a regional tracking (define a theta range)
• LCTuple → v01-12-02-MC
  
  • Add branch for hit times
• Overlay → v00-22-02-MC
  
  • Added a flag disabling the merging of MCParticles
  • OverlayTiming: Skipping merging of collections that have no integration times configured
  • OverlayTimingGeneric: Added option to make integration times symmetric
  • Optimized merging for the BIB from Muon Collider
  • Added support for lower/upper integration time boundaries in OverlayTimingGeneric
• detector-simulation
  
  •  Added mod2 version of the CLIC geometry with reduced gap between ECAL Endcaps and nozzles
  • Added mod3 geometry with the vertex detector dimnesions similar to the MAP geometry
  • Added CLIC_o3_v14_mod4 geometry with VTXB segmented along Z
  • Adjusted the class of the Z-segmented VXD barrel in CLIC_o3_v14_mod4
  • Added a GDML version of the CLIC_o3_v14_mod4 geometry: nozzles + yoke