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    <p>Folks,</p>
    <p>Please find the minutes <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://halldweb.jlab.org/wiki/index.php/HDGeant4_Meeting,_April_9,_2019#Minutes">here</a>
      and below.</p>
    <p>  -- Mark</p>
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          <h2 id="firstHeading" class="firstHeading" lang="en"><span
              dir="auto">HDGeant4 Meeting Minutes, April 9, 2019</span></h2>
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              <p>Present:
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              <ul>
                <li> <b>CMU: </b> Naomi Jarvis</li>
                <li> <b> Glasgow: </b> Peter Pauli</li>
                <li> <b> JLab: </b> Alex Austregesilo, Thomas Britton,
                  Mark Dalton, Stuart Fegan, Mark Ito (chair), Simon
                  Taylor, Beni Zihlmann</li>
              </ul>
              <p>There is <a rel="nofollow" class="external text"
                  href="https://bluejeans.com/s/5Ft48/">a recording of
                  this meeting</a> on the <a rel="nofollow"
                  class="external text"
                  href="https://jlab.bluejeans.com/">BlueJeans site</a>.
                Use your JLab credentials to access it.
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              <h3><span class="mw-headline"
                  id="Review_of_minutes_from_the_last_meeting">Review of
                  minutes from the last meeting</span></h3>
              <p>We went over <a
href="https://halldweb.jlab.org/wiki/index.php/HDGeant4_Meeting,_March_26,_2019#Minutes"
                  title="HDGeant4 Meeting, March 26, 2019">the minutes
                  from the March 26th meeting</a> without significant
                comment.
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              <h3><span class="mw-headline"
                  id="Do-over_on_comparison_studies">Do-over on
                  comparison studies</span></h3>
              <p>Simon is working on analysis of his particle gun
                simulations.
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              <h3><span class="mw-headline"
                  id="Geant3.2F4_comparisons_for_the_K-.2C_K.2B_and_p_particle_gun">Geant3/4
                  comparisons for the K-, K+ and p particle gun</span></h3>
              <p>Peter led us though <a rel="nofollow" class="external
                  text"
href="https://halldweb.jlab.org/doc-private/DocDB/ShowDocument?docid=3964">the
                  set of summary slides</a> from his particle gun
                studies. He chose protons and charged kaons because they
                are relevant to his analysis. Further he chose kinematic
                regions for each that match his reaction. He created
                monitoring plots for each species and had posted the
                complete set of plots for each as part of his GlueX
                Note.
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              <p>The summary alone runs to 72 slides and we went through
                them all in the course of about an hour. The secretary
                does not have detailed notes on each slide, but will
                record here some general remarks:
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              <ul>
                <li> Peter told us he chose plots that seemed
                  interesting, either because they showed good agreement
                  between GEANT and Geant4 or, more likely, because
                  there were puzzling differences.</li>
                <li> As a general guide, if two plots are shown on the
                  same pad, the blue is GEANT and the red is Geant4. If
                  there are two separate pads, then the top is GEANT,
                  the bottom is Geant4.</li>
                <li> He sees a charged particle reconstruction
                  efficiency for Geant4 that is about 10% lower than
                  that for GEANT. Alex noted that this is similar to
                  what he is seeing when he studies ρ<sup>0</sup>
                  events.</li>
                <li> Peter mentioned that the differences he picked out
                  are mostly of two broad classes: (1) energy or (2)
                  timing, in each case as measured by the calorimeters.</li>
                <li> We noted that since the z-position of charged
                  particles is not well measured for single particles,
                  some the the timing distributions may be hard to
                  understand. Still they should have similar features in
                  GEANT vs. Geant4.</li>
                <li> The versions of the code he used came before <a
                    rel="nofollow" class="external text"
                    href="https://github.com/JeffersonLab/HDGeant4/pull/100">Richard's
                    most recent pull request</a>, symmetrizing the
                  treatment of timing between the FCAL and BCAL. Some of
                  the differences may have lessened in the new code;
                  this should be checked.</li>
              </ul>
              <p>Please consult the recording if interested in a
                plot-by-plot discussion.
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              <h3><span class="mw-headline"
                  id="Issue_on_GitHub:_missing_thrown_events">Issue on
                  GitHub: missing thrown events</span></h3>
              <p>Thomas called our attention to <a rel="nofollow"
                  class="external text"
                  href="https://github.com/JeffersonLab/HDGeant4/issues/101">Issue
                  #101 on GitHub</a>, "Differences between G3 and G4 in
                eta.pi," submitted by Carlos Salgado. Carlos sees a
                completely different thrown momentum distribution for
                protons when using GEANT vs. Geant4 even though the
                generated events are identical in the two cases. Indeed
                they come from the same HDDM file.
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