PPS: direct simulation with xangle distributions

[jan-kaspar]

PR description:

This is a mostly technical change, making it easier to run the PPS "direct" simulation with realistic xangle distributions (extracted from data). For more details, please refer to this Proton POG presentation

PR validation:

The direct simulation is not included in any central workflows (neither in matrix tests). Therefore no changes are expected there.

Some validation plots are available in the above-linked POG presentation.

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Logs: https://cmssdt.cern.ch/SDT/code-checks/cms-sw-PR-31453/18342

• This PR adds an extra 24KB to repository

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A new Pull Request was created by @jan-kaspar for master.

It involves the following packages:

CalibPPS/ESProducers
Validation/CTPPS

@andrius-k, @kmaeshima, @christopheralanwest, @tocheng, @cmsbuild, @jfernan2, @fioriNTU, @tlampen, @pohsun can you please review it and eventually sign? Thanks.
@forthommel, @mmusich, @tocheng this is something you requested to watch as well.
@silviodonato, @dpiparo, @qliphy you are the release manager for this.

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[jfernan2]

please test

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• CMSSW_11_2_X_2020-09-13-2300/slc7_amd64_gcc820: https://cmssdt.cern.ch/jenkins/job/ib-run-pr-tests/9314/console Started: 2020/09/14 10:57

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Tested at: 74405c4
https://cmssdt.cern.ch/SDT/jenkins-artifacts/pull-request-integration/PR-187458/9314/summary.html
CMSSW: CMSSW_11_2_X_2020-09-13-2300
SCRAM_ARCH: slc7_amd64_gcc820

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Comparison is ready
https://cmssdt.cern.ch/SDT/jenkins-artifacts/pull-request-integration/PR-187458/9314/summary.html

Comparison Summary:

• No significant changes to the logs found
• Reco comparison results: 8 differences found in the comparisons
• DQMHistoTests: Total files compared: 35
• DQMHistoTests: Total histograms compared: 2620306
• DQMHistoTests: Total failures: 11
• DQMHistoTests: Total nulls: 1
• DQMHistoTests: Total successes: 2620272
• DQMHistoTests: Total skipped: 22
• DQMHistoTests: Total Missing objects: 0
• DQMHistoSizes: Histogram memory added: -0.004 KiB( 34 files compared)
• DQMHistoSizes: changed ( 10224.0 ): -0.004 KiB MessageLogger/Warnings
• Checked 149 log files, 22 edm output root files, 35 DQM output files

[jfernan2]

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[tlampen]

+alca

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This pull request is fully signed and it will be integrated in one of the next master IBs (tests are also fine). This pull request will now be reviewed by the release team before it's merged. @silviodonato, @dpiparo, @qliphy (and backports should be raised in the release meeting by the corresponding L2)

[qliphy]

+1