[12_4_X] Extend CMS protections in Geant4 exception handling

[civanch]

PR description:

It is a backport of #39032 for MC production. This PR should reduce rare crashes due to numerical problem in Geant4 tracking in field of low-energy e-.

PR validation:

the method itself is used for the long time in CMSSW.

[cmsbuild]

A new Pull Request was created by @civanch (Vladimir Ivantchenko) for CMSSW_12_4_X.

It involves the following packages:

• SimG4Core/Application (simulation)

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

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[civanch]

please test

[cmsbuild]

+1

Summary: https://cmssdt.cern.ch/SDT/jenkins-artifacts/pull-request-integration/PR-b59039/26762/summary.html
COMMIT: a7fea02
CMSSW: CMSSW_12_4_X_2022-08-11-1100/el8_amd64_gcc10
User test area: For local testing, you can use /cvmfs/cms-ci.cern.ch/week1/cms-sw/cmssw/39033/26762/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: 0 differences found in the comparisons
• DQMHistoTests: Total files compared: 50
• DQMHistoTests: Total histograms compared: 3677242
• DQMHistoTests: Total failures: 2
• DQMHistoTests: Total nulls: 0
• DQMHistoTests: Total successes: 3677218
• DQMHistoTests: Total skipped: 22
• DQMHistoTests: Total Missing objects: 0
• DQMHistoSizes: Histogram memory added: 0.0 KiB( 49 files compared)
• Checked 208 log files, 45 edm output root files, 50 DQM output files
• TriggerResults: no differences found

[civanch]

+1

this is a technical PR, which help to reduce problems in production and cannot affect results

[cmsbuild]

This pull request is fully signed and it will be integrated in one of the next CMSSW_12_4_X IBs (tests are also fine) and once validation in the development release cycle CMSSW_12_5_X is complete. This pull request will now be reviewed by the release team before it's merged. @perrotta, @dpiparo, @qliphy, @rappoccio (and backports should be raised in the release meeting by the corresponding L2)

[qliphy]

+1