Extended handling of geometry exceptions for SIM

[civanch]

PR description:

This fix should allow to kill stacked Geant4 tracks with low energy more safely.

PR validation:

private

if this PR is a backport please specify the original PR and why you need to backport that PR:

not needed so far

[cmsbuild]

+code-checks

Logs: https://cmssdt.cern.ch/SDT/code-checks/cms-sw-PR-37216/28816

• This PR adds an extra 12KB to repository

[cmsbuild]

A new Pull Request was created by @civanch (Vladimir Ivantchenko) for master.

It involves the following packages:

• SimG4Core/Application (simulation)

@cmsbuild, @civanch, @mdhildreth can you please review it and eventually sign? Thanks.
@makortel, @cvuosalo, @rovere, @bsunanda, @fabiocos, @slomeo this is something you requested to watch as well.
@perrotta, @dpiparo, @qliphy you are the release manager for this.

cms-bot commands are listed here

[civanch]

please test

[cmsbuild]

+1

Summary: https://cmssdt.cern.ch/SDT/jenkins-artifacts/pull-request-integration/PR-ca929e/23050/summary.html
COMMIT: 35e8145
CMSSW: CMSSW_12_4_X_2022-03-11-1100/slc7_amd64_gcc10
User test area: For local testing, you can use /cvmfs/cms-ci.cern.ch/week1/cms-sw/cmssw/37216/23050/install.sh to create a dev area with all the needed externals and cmssw changes.

Comparison Summary

Summary:

• No significant changes to the logs found
• Reco comparison results: 8 differences found in the comparisons
• DQMHistoTests: Total files compared: 49
• DQMHistoTests: Total histograms compared: 3695161
• DQMHistoTests: Total failures: 19
• DQMHistoTests: Total nulls: 1
• DQMHistoTests: Total successes: 3695119
• DQMHistoTests: Total skipped: 22
• DQMHistoTests: Total Missing objects: 0
• DQMHistoSizes: Histogram memory added: 0.004 KiB( 48 files compared)
• DQMHistoSizes: changed ( 312.0 ): 0.004 KiB MessageLogger/Warnings
• Checked 204 log files, 45 edm output root files, 49 DQM output files
• TriggerResults: no differences found

[civanch]

+1

[cmsbuild]

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. @perrotta, @dpiparo, @qliphy (and backports should be raised in the release meeting by the corresponding L2)

[perrotta]

+1