[14_0_X] Add option to sort candidates by pT in Unified Particle Transformer and PR 45689

[stahlleiton]

PR description:

Backport of: #45843 and #45689

PR validation:

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:

[cmsbuild]

A new Pull Request was created by @stahlleiton for CMSSW_14_0_X.

It involves the following packages:

• RecoBTag/FeatureTools (reconstruction)

@cmsbuild, @jfernan2, @mandrenguyen can you please review it and eventually sign? Thanks.
@AlexDeMoor, @Ming-Yan, @Senphy, @andrzejnovak, @castaned, @demuller, @hqucms, @missirol this is something you requested to watch as well.
@antoniovilela, @mandrenguyen, @rappoccio, @sextonkennedy you are the release manager for this.

cms-bot commands are listed here

[cmsbuild]

cms-bot internal usage

[jfernan2]

please test

[stahlleiton]

please test

why is the test still pending?

[cmsbuild]

-1

Failed Tests: UnitTests
Size: This PR adds an extra 12KB to repository
Summary: https://cmssdt.cern.ch/SDT/jenkins-artifacts/pull-request-integration/PR-857219/41234/summary.html
COMMIT: f9bbcef
CMSSW: CMSSW_14_0_X_2024-09-02-2300/el8_amd64_gcc12
User test area: For local testing, you can use /cvmfs/cms-ci.cern.ch/week1/cms-sw/cmssw/45847/41234/install.sh to create a dev area with all the needed externals and cmssw changes.

Unit Tests

I found 1 errors in the following unit tests:

---> test test-das-selected-lumis had ERRORS

Comparison Summary

Summary:

• You potentially removed 21 lines from the logs
• Reco comparison results: 58 differences found in the comparisons
• DQMHistoTests: Total files compared: 48
• DQMHistoTests: Total histograms compared: 3346637
• DQMHistoTests: Total failures: 1218
• DQMHistoTests: Total nulls: 0
• DQMHistoTests: Total successes: 3345399
• DQMHistoTests: Total skipped: 20
• DQMHistoTests: Total Missing objects: 0
• DQMHistoSizes: Histogram memory added: 0.0 KiB( 47 files compared)
• Checked 202 log files, 165 edm output root files, 48 DQM output files
• TriggerResults: no differences found

[jfernan2]

+1

[cmsbuild]

This pull request is fully signed and it will be integrated in one of the next CMSSW_14_0_X IBs (but tests are reportedly failing) and once validation in the development release cycle CMSSW_14_2_X is complete. This pull request will now be reviewed by the release team before it's merged. @sextonkennedy, @mandrenguyen, @rappoccio, @antoniovilela (and backports should be raised in the release meeting by the corresponding L2)

[jfernan2]

Test failure is unrelated

[mandrenguyen]

ignore tests-rejected with ib-failure

[mandrenguyen]

+1