fix!: make material validity checks and construction explicit

[AJPfleger]

By having the validity check explicit and forbid construction with type conversation, we avoid common pitfalls for the user[1].

The AverageMaterials had to be reworked a bit, since we were doing a lot of implicit type conversions in there. On different compilers we got different results. Now it should be stable.

Thanks also to @paulgessinger for sending me in the correct direction.

[1] The user is me, trying to debug for hours why I get always vacuum material, which could have been caught earlier, by not allowing implicit conversions.

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📊: Physics performance monitoring for 08c7974

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physmon summary

• ✅ Particles fatras
• ✅ Particles geant4
• ✅ Particles ttbar
• ✅ Vertices ttbar
• ✅ Truth tracking (KF)
• ✅ Truth tracking (GSF)
• ✅ Truth tracking (GX2F)
• ✅ CKF | trackfinding | single muon | truth smeared seeding
• ✅ Track Summary CKF | trackfinding | single muon | truth smeared seeding
• ✅ Seeding trackfinding | single muon | truth estimated seeding
• ✅ CKF | trackfinding | single muon | truth estimated seeding
• ✅ Track Summary CKF | trackfinding | single muon | truth estimated seeding
• ✅ Seeding trackfinding | single muon | default seeding
• ✅ CKF | trackfinding | single muon | default seeding
• ✅ Track Summary CKF | trackfinding | single muon | default seeding
• ✅ Seeding trackfinding | single muon | orthogonal seeding
• ✅ CKF | trackfinding | single muon | orthogonal seeding
• ✅ Track Summary CKF | trackfinding | single muon | orthogonal seeding
• ✅ Seeding trackfinding | 4 muon x 50 vertices | default seeding
• ✅ CKF | trackfinding | 4 muon x 50 vertices | default seeding
• ✅ Track Summary CKF | trackfinding | 4 muon x 50 vertices | default seeding
• ✅ Ambisolver | trackfinding | 4 muon x 50 vertices | default seeding
• ✅ IVF notime | trackfinding | 4 muon x 50 vertices | default seeding
• ✅ AMVF gauss notime | trackfinding | 4 muon x 50 vertices | default seeding
• ✅ AMVF grid time | trackfinding | 4 muon x 50 vertices | default seeding
• ✅ Seeding trackfinding | ttbar with 200 pileup | default seeding
• ✅ CKF | trackfinding | ttbar with 200 pileup | default seeding
• ✅ Track Summary CKF | trackfinding | ttbar with 200 pileup | default seeding
• ✅ Ambisolver | trackfinding | ttbar with 200 pileup | default seeding
• ✅ AMVF gauss notime | trackfinding | ttbar with 200 pileup | default seeding
• ✅ AMVF grid time | trackfinding | ttbar with 200 pileup | default seeding

[andiwand]

I like

[paulgessinger]

There's a lot of static_casting going on now, do we need all of this? Does going to double consistently give other issues?

[AJPfleger]

There's a lot of static_casting going on now, do we need all of this? Does going to double consistently give other issues?

I think for this PR, I could be fine to remove the static_cast for the cases float->double and go back to the implicit conversion. But double->float I would love to have there explicitly.

[paulgessinger]

@AJPfleger Ok

[AJPfleger]

What should be the next steps in this PR?

[andiwand]

I think the current version classifies as breaking. As such we would have to wait for the next major version bump to bring this in. Alternative to this is to keep the existing functionality and mark it as deprecated

[sonarcloud]

Quality Gate passed

Issues
16 New issues
0 Accepted issues

Measures
0 Security Hotspots
90.2% Coverage on New Code
4.1% Duplication on New Code

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🔴 Athena integration test results [6091312]

🔴 Some tests have failed!

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[andiwand]

needs fixes in athena

[andiwand]

false alarm the failure seems to come from another PR