Recover lost hits-on-track at |eta|>1

[rovere]

Recover lost hits-on-track in the forward region.

See https://indico.cern.ch/event/314557/contribution/6/material/slides/0.pdf for further details.

[cmsbuild]

A new Pull Request was created by @rovere (Marco Rovere) for CMSSW_6_2_X_SLHC.

Recover lost hits-on-track at |eta|>1

It involves the following packages:

RecoTracker/MeasurementDet
RecoTracker/TkDetLayers

@nclopezo, @cmsbuild, @anton-a, @thspeer, @slava77, @Degano can you please review it and eventually sign? Thanks.
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@andersonjacob, @mark-grimes you are the release manager for this.
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Tests 10000, 10200, 10400, 11200, 11400, 12000, 12800, 13000, 13600 and 14600 pass all steps.
Tests 12200, 12400, 12600, 13800, 14000, 14200 and 14400 fail in step 2 with known errors.