Releases notes

v02-08-MC → April 2023

Info

Released on AlmaLinux 9

External software

System software

Software	Version
Geant4	11.1.0-1
Boost	1.75.0-8
clhep	2.4.6-3
ROOT	6.28.02
GSL	2.6-7
eigen3	3.4.0-1
xerces-c	3.2.3-5
HepMC3	3.2.5-7

Compiled software

Software	Version
FastJet	3.4.0
FastJetcontrib	1.050
CED	01-09-04
ILCUTIL	01-07

New packages

MuonCVXDDigitiser → v00-01

A vertex digitiser processor for Muon Collider, it contains two processors:

• MuonCVXDDigitiser
• MuonCVXDRealDigitiser (experimental version)

Packages changes wrt. to v02-07-MC

• ACTSTracking → v1.1.0

  • Fix paths for running ACTSTracking outside of a release.
  • Remove dependance on custom ACTS by configuring layer detection envelope in ACTSProcBase.
  • Add subdetector hit numbers to Track object.
  • Expose "Maximum d0 of tracks to seed" as "SeedFinding_ImpactMax"
  • Add setting for out-side in tracking via "PropagateBackward"
  • Update ACTS library to version: v13.0.0

• DDMarlinPandora → v00-14-MC

  • Add updates from iLCSoft repository
    • Release v00-12

• iLCInstall → v02-05-MC

  • Add updates from iLCSoft repository
    • Release v02-03
    • Release v02-03-01
  • 2to3 fixes
  • Workaround for ACTS config
  • Add a new class for digitizer

• LCIO → v02-17-MC

  • Add updates from iLCSoft repository
    • Release v02-17
    • Release v02-17-01
    • Release v02-18
    • Release v02-19
    • Release v02-19-01
  • Adding number of holes to track class
  • Implemented anajob utility as a Python executable script with more flexible command-line parameters
    • Headers not printed by default to not clutter terminal with irrelevant information
    • Supports printing of just first few events for predictable execution time

• lcgeo → v00-18-01-MC

  • Add updates from key4hep repository
    • Release v00-16-07
    • Release v00-16-08
    • Release v00-17
    • Release v00-18
  • Added all MuColl compact geometries

• detector_simulation → Moved to lgceo package

  • default geometry is MuColl_v1/MuColl_v1.xml
  • Added script converting MARS/FLUKA output to SLCIO format
  • Added the missing PDG conversion file
  • Added script converting FLUKA binary output to LCIO
  • Added support for multiple input files in FLUKA->LCIO
  • Added missing particle types to PDG IDs table
  • Cleaning up of v1 geometry
    • removed unused subdetectors and constants
    • resolved overlaps of surfaces
    • fixed amount of passive materials in text descriptions

• LCTuple → v01-15-MC

  • Fix njet branch name
  • Some fixes for jet reconstruction
    • update values in LCTupleConf.h
    • add in TrackBranches track hit subdetector
    • add in TrackerHitBranches hit subdetector
    • fix a bug in JetBranches

• MarlinTrkprocessor → v02-15-MC

  • Move the cuts on the hits track before the refit to save time
  • Merge with iLCSoft repository
    • Release v02-12
    • Release v02-12-01
    • Release v02-12-02
  • Add FilterTracks processor to filter tracks
    • A processor that filters a track collection. The input and output collections are set via InputTrackCollectionName and OutputTrackCollectionName parameters. The track properties to filter on are:
      • number of hits in the detectors;
      • minimum transverse momentum;
      • spatial chi squared.
  • Improved efficiency of DoubleLayer filter
    • Marlin configuration files using this processor have to be adapted for the new format
    • Modified FilterDoubleLayerHits processor to configure cuts in the track-curvature direction using angular distance dPhi [mrad] instead of original dU [mm] distance in the sensor plane.
    • Introduced a configurable time-difference cut applied to hits before forming a stub candidate, in order to remain efficient with wider digitization time windows.
• Overlay → v00-24-MC
  • Add updates from iLCSoft repository
    • Release v00-22-01
    • Release v00-22-02
    • Release v00-22-03
    • Release v00-22-04

Packages which have a new tag-release in the official repository

• Marlin → v01-19

  • Release v01-18
  • Release v01-19

• MarlinReco → v01-33-01

  • Release v01-32
  • Release v01-32-01
  • hRelease v01-33
  • Release v01-33-01

• MarlinUtil → v01-17

  • Release v01-16-01
  • Release v01-16-02
  • Release v01-17

• DD4hep → v01-25-01 & MarlinDD4hep → v00-06-02

  • Release v01-16-01
  • Release tag/v01-17
  • Release v01-17-00
  • Release v01-18
  • Release v01-19
  • Release v01-20
  • Release v01-20-01
  • Release v01-20-02
  • Release v01-21
  • Release v01-22
  • Release v01-23
  • Release v01-24
  • Release v01-25
  • Release v01-25-01
  • Release v00-06-01
  • Release v00-06-02

• PandoraPFANew → v04-02-00

  • PandoraSDK: v03-04-01
  • PandoraMonitoring: v03-05-00
  • LArContent: v04_02_00
  • LCContent: v03-01-06
  • ExampleContent: v03-01-00

• LCFIPlus → v00-10-01

  • Release v00-10-01

• MarlinTrk → v02-09-01

  • Release v02-09
  • Release v02-09-01

• DDKalTest → v01-07

  • Release v01-07

• MarlinKinfit → v00-06-01 & MarlinKinfitProcessors → v00-05

  • Release v00-06-01
  • Release v00-05

• MarlinFastJet → v00-05-03

  • Release v00-05-03

• CEDViewer → v01-19-01

  • Release v01-19
  • Release v01-19-01

• GEAR → v01-09-01

  • Release v01-09-01

Removed Packages

• bbq
• Clupatra
• CondDBMySQL
• detector_simulation (moved to lcgeo)
• FCalClusterer
• ILDPerformance
• lccd
• LICH
• pathfinder
• Physsim

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v02-07-MC → November 2021

Info

Released also on CentOStream 8

External software

• Boost 1.7.3

• GEANT4 10.6.3-1.muonc

  Warning

  Those packages have been built with special constraint (C++-17, MT, Qt-support) and cannot be used for other projects

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.

Packages which have a new tag-release in the official repository

• LCIO → v02-16-01-MC
  • Release v02-16
  • Release v02-16-01
• MarlinUtil → v01-16
  • Release v01-16
• MarlinReco → v01-31
  • Release v01-29
  • Release v01-30
  • Release v01-31
• CEDViewer → v01-18
  • Release v01-18
• SIO → v00-01
  • Release v00-00-03
  • Release v00-00-04
  • Release v00-01

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v02-06-MC → March 2021

Info

Everything has been recompiled against c++17

External software

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

Packages changes wrt. to v02-05-MC

• DD4Hep → v01-16
  • Release v01-16

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v02-05-MC → December 2020

External software

• Root 6.22.02-4 (Custom building for issue with Minuit2)

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

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v02-04-MC → November 2020

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

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v02-03-MC → November 2020

External software

• ROOT_version = "6.22.02-3"

ackages 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.
   • 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.
   • 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 ***
   

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

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v02-02-MC → October 2020

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