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    <p>People,</p>
    <p>Please find the minutes <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://halldweb.jlab.org/wiki/index.php/HDGeant4_Meeting,_March_23,_2021#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, March 23, 2021, </span><span
              class="mw-headline" id="Minutes">Minutes</span></h2>
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              <p>Present: Alexander Austregesilo, Tegan Beattie, Sean
                Dobbs, Mark Ito (chair), Ital Jaegle, Richard Jones,
                Zisis Papandreou, Simon Taylor, Nilanga
                Wickramaarachchi, Beni Zihlmann
              </p>
              <p>There is a <a rel="nofollow" class="external text"
                  href="https://bluejeans.com/s/3XEXJKsLZrY/">recording
                  of this meeting</a> on the BlueJeans site. Log into
                the BlueJeans site first to gain access (use your JLab
                credentials).
              </p>
              <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 the <a
href="https://halldweb.jlab.org/wiki/index.php/HDGeant4_Meeting,_March_9,_2021#Minutes"
                  title="HDGeant4 Meeting, March 9, 2021">minutes from
                  the meeting on March 9</a>.
              </p>
              <h4><span class="mw-headline"
                  id="Incorrect_TAGH_counter_number_assignment">Incorrect
                  TAGH counter number assignment</span></h4>
              <p><a rel="nofollow" class="external text"
                  href="https://github.com/JeffersonLab/HDGeant4/issues/182">Issue
                  #182</a> is largely resolved now. All relevant pull
                requests from Richard have been merged onto the master
                branch. Two action items remain:
              </p>
              <ul>
                <li> Make patches to the legacy halld_recon versions
                  that were used to run reconstruction launches.</li>
                <li> Ask Andrew Smith to confirm that the changes
                  resolve his issue.</li>
              </ul>
              <h4><span class="mw-headline"
                  id="New_wiki_page:_Particle_Gun_Collection">New wiki
                  page: Particle Gun Collection</span></h4>
              <p>Richard has added content to the <a
                  href="https://halldweb.jlab.org/wiki/index.php/Particle_Gun_Collection"
                  title="Particle Gun Collection">Particle Gun
                  Collection</a> wiki page since the last meeting. He
                gave us a tour. Each "set" of simulations contains
                particle-gun simulation of various particles for a
                couple of momentum ranges using each of our standard
                simulation engines (G3/HADR1, G3/HADR4, G4). The user
                can choose to look at the control.in used, the standard
                output, and the standard error from the runs. For each
                combination the hdgeant(4) HDDM output, the smeared HDDM
                file, the resulting REST file, and the root file from
                the monitoring histogram plugin are available for
                download. In addition there is a built in plot browser
                to run root, in the browser, to look at the monitoring
                histograms.
              </p>
              <p>[Added in press: after the meeting, Richard found and
                fixed a problem that was causing a problem with the
                embedded webpage in Firefox during the meeting.]
              </p>
              <h4><span class="mw-headline"
                  id="Hits_in_both_CALs_from_the_same_track">Hits in
                  both CALs from the same track</span></h4>
              <p><a rel="nofollow" class="external text"
                  href="https://github.com/JeffersonLab/HDGeant4/issues/185">Issues
                  #185</a> has been identified as a reconstruction
                issue. It should now be closed as an HDGeant4 issue.
                Beni did comment that he was not able to reproduce
                Lubomir effect (work that he describes in the issue) but
                that may be because Beni is using a DSelector and
                Lubomir does not.
              </p>
              <h4><span class="mw-headline"
                  id="Proton_timing_in_the_BCAL">Proton timing in the
                  BCAL</span></h4>
              <p>On <a rel="nofollow" class="external text"
                  href="https://github.com/JeffersonLab/HDGeant4/issues/179">Issue
                  #179</a>, Tegan is waiting on a debug branch from
                Richard that will allow easy look up of parent particles
                before taking the next step in his studies.
              </p>
              <h4><span class="mw-headline"
                  id="G3.2FG4_Difference_in_FDC_wire_efficiency_at_the_cell_boundary">G3/G4
                  Difference in FDC wire efficiency at the cell boundary</span></h4>
              <p><a rel="nofollow" class="external text"
                  href="https://github.com/JeffersonLab/HDGeant4/issues/181">Issue
                  #181</a> has been cleared up, at least insofar as all
                simulation engines agree on the DOCA distribution in the
                FDC now. There was a bug in calculating DOCA in the FDC
                efficiency plugin and a bug in the hit generation for
                the FDC in HDGeant4. Both have been found and fixed, and
                the agreement verified by Alex. Richard has posted a
                pull request for HDGeant4. See the issue itself (linked
                above) for a detailed explanation of these problems.
              </p>
              <p>The next step is to look at the agreement with real
                data. Alex intends to do some studies.
              </p>
              <p>[Added in press: after the meeting Alex merged
                Richard's pull request.]
              </p>
              <h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Issues_on_GitHub">Issues
                  on GitHub</span></h3>
              <p>We looked at two issues, one new, one old:
              </p>
              <ul>
                <li> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text"
                    href="https://github.com/JeffersonLab/HDGeant4/issues/187">Issue
                    #187: unknown particle type 50 being generated
                    through interactions</a>. Cerenkov light seems to
                  have leaked from G3 to G4 via the FCAL.</li>
                <li> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text"
                    href="https://github.com/JeffersonLab/HDGeant4/issues/167">Issue
                    #167: G4 exceptions for certain run numbers</a>.
                  This one needs to get closed.</li>
              </ul>
              <h3><span class="mw-headline"
                  id="Charged_particle_energy_in_the_calorimeters">Charged
                  particle energy in the calorimeters</span></h3>
              <p>Sean suggested that we take this up as an issue at the
                next meeting, in particular, how to tune the energy
                response to match that of data.
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