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Following on from the discussion from @ajentsch in the ePIC Physics, Software, and Computing Discussion it sounds like there is a desire to be able to keep truth MC particles and particles which have all beam effects other than the crossing angle applied in the input HepMC3 file.

HepMC Table 5 has particle status codes 11-200 available for generator use. So for instance,

4,14,24 for beam particles
1,11,21 for final state particles

could be used where 10 is added for MC truth and 20 for beam divergence effects.

A flag could be used to turn this on/off. At very least this could be used to easily verify the proposed "post-burner" in EICrecon.

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
No.

Describe the solution you'd like
Requesting the possibility to run abconv with specific choices of beam effects turned on.
Currently it's all or nothing.
For example: crossing angle on only, everything on except vertex smearing, ...

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
The lowest ep energy configuration is 5x41, while the lowest eAu configuration is 5x41 (corresponding to the ep configuration of 5x100). Does beam settings for eAu energy of 5x20 exist (corresponding to ep energy of 5x41)?

Is there a generic solution for eA collision energies with A=anything?

Thanks,
Michael

The project lacks a COPYING or a LICENSE file.

Please add the full list of beam effects considered in this program.
That is, please elaborate on the "etc" in the beam effects bullet of the readme.

Currently checks on the output of the afterburner are done manually and on an adhoc sample of events which will not represent the full range of event generators and settings which need afterburning.

I would like to have some checks set up to make sure any changes made do not inadvertently break a current workflow.