Synchronize master branch with 2024-patches

Includes:

• Update References for: Rec!3922 (merged), Moore!3479 (merged) based on lhcb-2024-patches-mr/673 (!460 (merged))
• Disable mep_real_data test on DetDesc platform (!441 (merged))
• Avoid slice splitting in mep_real_data test (!457 (merged))
• Ghost probability update (!451 (merged))
• Update veloMon to fix track master fitter call with clusters on track (!445 (merged))
• follows Allen!1461 (merged) (!337 (merged))
• Update References for: Allen!1461 (merged), !337 (merged) based on lhcb-2024-patches-mr/523 (!446 (merged))
• Limit number of HLT2 threads based on total RAM (!432 (merged))
• Update References for: Allen!1636 (merged) based on lhcb-2024-patches-mr/499 (!440 (merged))
• Change in events_per slize and output batch size AllenConfig.py (!437 (merged))
• HLT1 MEPProvider more cleanup on stop (!425 (merged))

Goes with: Detector!565 (merged) LHCb!4575 (merged) Lbcom!735 (merged) Rec!3943 (merged) Allen!1648 (merged) Moore!3504 (merged) DaVinci!1098 (merged) Alignment!510 (merged) Panoptes!351 (merged) !444 (merged) LHCbIntegrationTests!71 (merged)