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Fixes for SDO creation during MC Overlay jobs

John Derek Chapman requested to merge jchapman/athena:ATLASSIM-7247_idea2_main into main

In ATLASSIM-7247 it was reported that on 10th July 2024 SDO creation began to fail in MC Overlay jobs run in the main nightlies - it works in 24.0 though.

As part of the barcode migration, !72174 (merged) updated the TrackRecordCollection to have a HepMcParticleLink dependency, so it now matters whether the CopyMcEventCollection algorithm is run before the CopyTrackRecordCollection algorithm.

!74146 (merged) added a similar dependency to CaloCalibrationHitContainer meaning that it now also ow matters whether the CopyMcEventCollection algorithm is run before the CopyCaloCalibrationHitContainer algorithm.

After these MRs if either CopyCaloCalibrationHitContainer or CopyTrackRecordCollection happen to run before CopyMcEventCollection in an MC Overlay job, all HepMcParticleLink objects will point at the Bkg_TruthEvent instance of McEventCollection rather than at the TruthEvent instance of McEventCollection (created by CopyMcEventCollection).

This merge request ensures that CopyMcEventCollection always runs before CopyCaloCalibrationHitContainer and CopyTrackRecordCollection in MT jobs.

This fixes ATLASSIM-7247 based on my local tests.

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