Dear friends,

The version 1_3_2 of FAMOS is released, based on ORCA_8_9_4 and COBRA_8_5_1. It is mostly identical to FAMOS_1_3_2_pre5, with

1) One addition in the documentation (ExRootAnalysis, A. Giammanco and M. Galanti)

2) Two minor corrections in the Electron Candidate code and in the track RecHit's storage.

Modifications with respect to FAMOS_1_2_0 can be seen from release notes, from the FAMOS web page http://cmsdoc.cern.ch/FAMOS.

Those of you who want to install FAMOS_1_3_2 outside must be aware that they should take

1) the GeneratorInterface/HBookInterface, GeneratorInterface/RawHepMC, Utilities/CHBook4 and CARF/Event packages from the CERN Famos release area (before compiling); These modified libraries, automatically available in the CERN release, are needed to cope with PileUp event generation in FAMOS, with HepMC file reading, with very large CMKIN events that were exceeding the available HBOOK memory, and with the MC truth reading from DST's in FAMOS;

2) the MuonReco/MuonIsolation library from ORCA_8_9_2. This older library is needed to make the Muon Isolation work in FAMOS. Indeed, changes made in ORCA_8_9_3/8_9_4 in the Muon software were not propagated to FAMOS (i.e., have not been check to preserve FAMOS by the persons in charge of this software), and cause FAMOS to crash;

3) the .SCRAM/ToolCache.db file from the CERN release area if you boot with if they boot using "scram p -b config/boot". (You don't need to if you install an RPM based on the CERN release.). This is necessary to be able to read the default .orcarc file from COBRA and ORCA.

I realize that these additional burdens are not too pleasant, and I'll make a release of FAMOS_1_4_0 based on COBRA_8_5_3 and ORCA_8_13_1 as soon as the latter two are indeed available, which is expected for soon.

Best,

Patrick.