[14_2_X backport]: MTD reconstruction: save correct outermost hit position also for tracks w/o last hit in mtd

[martinamalberti]

PR description:

Exact backport to CMSSW_14_2_X of PR #46752

PR validation:

Code was developed and tested on 14_2_X, moved to 15_0_X during PR test.

[cmsbuild]

A new Pull Request was created by @martinamalberti for CMSSW_14_2_X.

It involves the following packages:

• RecoMTD/TrackExtender (upgrade, reconstruction)

@Moanwar, @cmsbuild, @jfernan2, @mandrenguyen, @srimanob, @subirsarkar can you please review it and eventually sign? Thanks.
@fabiocos, @missirol this is something you requested to watch as well.
@antoniovilela, @mandrenguyen, @rappoccio, @sextonkennedy you are the release manager for this.

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[cmsbuild]

cms-bot internal usage

[fabiocos]

please test

[cmsbuild]

+1

Size: This PR adds an extra 12KB to repository
Summary: https://cmssdt.cern.ch/SDT/jenkins-artifacts/pull-request-integration/PR-800189/43201/summary.html
COMMIT: 550e9be
CMSSW: CMSSW_14_2_X_2024-12-02-2300/el8_amd64_gcc12
User test area: For local testing, you can use /cvmfs/cms-ci.cern.ch/week0/cms-sw/cmssw/46849/43201/install.sh to create a dev area with all the needed externals and cmssw changes.

Comparison Summary

Summary:

• You potentially removed 3 lines from the logs
• Reco comparison results: 56 differences found in the comparisons
• DQMHistoTests: Total files compared: 46
• DQMHistoTests: Total histograms compared: 3483722
• DQMHistoTests: Total failures: 2215
• DQMHistoTests: Total nulls: 0
• DQMHistoTests: Total successes: 3481487
• DQMHistoTests: Total skipped: 20
• DQMHistoTests: Total Missing objects: 0
• DQMHistoSizes: Histogram memory added: 0.0 KiB( 45 files compared)
• Checked 202 log files, 172 edm output root files, 46 DQM output files
• TriggerResults: no differences found

[jfernan2]

+1

[Moanwar]

+Upgrade

[cmsbuild]

This pull request is fully signed and it will be integrated in one of the next CMSSW_14_2_X IBs (tests are also fine) and once validation in the development release cycle CMSSW_15_0_X is complete. This pull request will now be reviewed by the release team before it's merged. @rappoccio, @antoniovilela, @sextonkennedy, @mandrenguyen (and backports should be raised in the release meeting by the corresponding L2)