RecoHGCal/TICL: linking and inference fixes

[felicepantaleo]

• TracksterLinkingbySkeletons: use abs(deltaPhi) in the phi window (was signed).
• LinkingAlgoByDirectionGeometric: wrap the phi difference (reco::deltaPhi) in the cut.
• GNNInterpretationAlgo: make the search window and squared distance cut consistent.
• TracksterInferenceByDNN: skip barrel clusters in the tensor fill (consistent with the selection loop); fix the miniBatchSize default (64).
• TrackstersProducer: run barrel inference on the produced tracksters, not the empty initialResult.

[felicepantaleo]

@cmsbuild please test

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[felicepantaleo]

@cmsbuild please test

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+code-checks

Logs: https://cmssdt.cern.ch/SDT/code-checks/cms-sw-PR-51342/49974

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A new Pull Request was created by @felicepantaleo for master.

It involves the following packages:

• RecoHGCal/TICL (reconstruction)

@Moanwar, @jfernan2, @mandrenguyen, @srimanob can you please review it and eventually sign? Thanks.
@apsallid, @denizsun, @hatakeyamak, @lecriste, @rovere, @salimcerci, @sameasy, @sobhatta this is something you requested to watch as well.
@ftenchini, @mandrenguyen, @sextonkennedy you are the release manager for this.

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[felicepantaleo]

type bugfix

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+1

Size: This PR adds an extra 44KB to repository
Summary: https://cmssdt.cern.ch/SDT/jenkins-artifacts/pull-request-integration/PR-4eace7/54333/summary.html
COMMIT: 3431e17
CMSSW: CMSSW_20_1_X_2026-06-28-0000/el9_amd64_gcc13
User test area: For local testing, you can use /cvmfs/cms-ci.cern.ch/week0/cms-sw/cmssw/51342/54333/install.sh to create a dev area with all the needed externals and cmssw changes.

Comparison Summary

Summary:

• You potentially added 3 lines to the logs
• Reco comparison results: 2555 differences found in the comparisons
• DQMHistoTests: Total files compared: 45
• DQMHistoTests: Total histograms compared: 3414477
• DQMHistoTests: Total failures: 1068
• DQMHistoTests: Total nulls: 0
• DQMHistoTests: Total successes: 3413391
• DQMHistoTests: Total skipped: 18
• DQMHistoTests: Total Missing objects: 0
• DQMHistoSizes: Histogram memory added: 0.0 KiB( 44 files compared)
• Checked 195 log files, 163 edm output root files, 45 DQM output files
• TriggerResults: found differences in 1 / 44 workflows

[felicepantaleo]

type ngt