John Allison

Contact Information

Positions

• Senior Lecturer in Physics (retired).
• Geant4 consultant.
• Director and Company Secretary of Geant4 Associates International Ltd., a not-for-profit company dedicated to the advancement of Geant4, offering consultancy services, educational services and application design contracts.

Research

• The OPAL experiment at CERN.
• The BaBar experiment at SLAC.
• The Geant4 Object Oriented Detector Simulation toolkit.

Recent Papers

• OPAL and BaBar papers.
• Geant4 general paper - Geant4 - a simulation toolkit, S. Agostinelli, J. Allison et al., Nuclear Instruments and Methods A 506 (2003) 250-303 (ps 5.6 MB, pdf 5.3 MB).
• Geant4 Developments and Applications, J. Allison et al., IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci. 53, Issue: 1, Part 2 (2006) 270-278 (pdf 0.6 MB).
• Geant4 - A Simulation Toolkit, J. Allison, Nuclear Physics News, Volume 17 Issue 2, 20. (An informal introduction to Geant4.)
• THE GEANT4 VISUALIZATION SYSTEM - A MULTI-DRIVER GRAPHICS SYSTEM, J. Allison et al., International Journal of Modeling, Simulation, and Scientific Computing, Vol. 4, Suppl. 1 (2013) 1340001 (19 pages).
• Recent developments in Geant4, J. Allison et al., Nuclear Instruments and Methods A 835 (2016) 186-225.
• The Juno Radiation Monitoring (RM) Investigation, H.N. Beccker et al., Space Science Reviews volume 213, 507-545 (2017).
• Photon quantum entanglement in the MeV regime and its application in PET imaging, D. Watts, J. Allison et al., NATURE COMMUNICATIONS 12, 2646 (2021).

Recent talks

• Geant4 Workshop, Lisbon, October 2006
  • Display by time
  • Making a movie
  • Sections and cutaways
• Manchester, December 2006
  • Geant4 - a simulation toolkit

Other Particle Physics References

• The UK Particle Physics Home Page.
• The Council for the Central Laboratory of the Research Councils, CCLRC.
• The Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, RAL, and its Particle Physics Division, PPD.

Undergraduate Teaching Courses and Projects

• Particle Physics Data Analysis
• PC2181E - Amplifiers and Feedback
• PC2762 - Computing Techniques
  
• PC3762 - Object Oriented Programming in C++.
  

Photographs

• At the Naruto Workshop, January 1997.
• At the Hebden Bridge Workshop, September 2007 and the excursion.
• CHEP97
• BaBar
• Sport

Movies

• Geant4 movies