Run3-hcx346 Fix the ieta=16 issue for HCAL simulation in the GEN-SIM step - backport of #42105

[bsunanda]

PR description:

Fix the ieta=16 issue for HCAL simulation in the GEN-SIM step - backport of #42105

PR validation:

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If this PR is a backport please specify the original PR and why you need to backport that PR. If this PR will be backported please specify to which release cycle the backport is meant for:

Partial backport of #42105

[cmsbuild]

A new Pull Request was created by @bsunanda (Sunanda Banerjee) for CMSSW_13_1_X.

It involves the following packages:

• Geometry/HcalCommonData (geometry)

@civanch, @Dr15Jones, @makortel, @mdhildreth, @cmsbuild, @bsunanda can you please review it and eventually sign? Thanks.
@fabiocos this is something you requested to watch as well.
@perrotta, @dpiparo, @rappoccio you are the release manager for this.

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• Backported from Run3-hcx345 Try to fix ieta=16 issue for HCAL simulation in the GEN-SIM step #42105

[bsunanda]

@cmsbuild Please test

[cmsbuild]

+1

Summary: https://cmssdt.cern.ch/SDT/jenkins-artifacts/pull-request-integration/PR-c0e912/33421/summary.html
COMMIT: 0dbcd28
CMSSW: CMSSW_13_1_X_2023-06-27-1100/el8_amd64_gcc11
User test area: For local testing, you can use /cvmfs/cms-ci.cern.ch/week1/cms-sw/cmssw/42112/33421/install.sh to create a dev area with all the needed externals and cmssw changes.

Comparison Summary

Summary:

• You potentially removed 30 lines from the logs
• Reco comparison results: 44057 differences found in the comparisons
• DQMHistoTests: Total files compared: 48
• DQMHistoTests: Total histograms compared: 3222811
• DQMHistoTests: Total failures: 59076
• DQMHistoTests: Total nulls: 80
• DQMHistoTests: Total successes: 3163633
• DQMHistoTests: Total skipped: 22
• DQMHistoTests: Total Missing objects: 0
• DQMHistoSizes: Histogram memory added: 0.34199999999999997 KiB( 47 files compared)
• DQMHistoSizes: changed ( 10224.0 ): -0.244 KiB SiStrip/MechanicalView
• DQMHistoSizes: changed ( 11834.0 ): 0.117 KiB SiStrip/MechanicalView
• DQMHistoSizes: changed ( 250202.181 ): 0.469 KiB SiStrip/MechanicalView
• Checked 207 log files, 159 edm output root files, 48 DQM output files
• TriggerResults: found differences in 8 / 46 workflows

[bsunanda]

+geometry

[cmsbuild]

This pull request is fully signed and it will be integrated in one of the next CMSSW_13_1_X IBs (tests are also fine) and once validation in the development release cycle CMSSW_13_2_X is complete. This pull request will now be reviewed by the release team before it's merged. @perrotta, @dpiparo, @rappoccio (and backports should be raised in the release meeting by the corresponding L2)

[perrotta]

backport of #42105

[perrotta]

+1