AAAS | American Association for the Advancement of Science |
AD | antiproton decelerator |
AEGIS | Antihydrogen Experiment Gravity Interferometry Spectroscopy |
AGATA | Advanced Gamma Tracking Array |
AGS | Alternating Gradient Synchrotron |
ALICE | A Large Ion Collider Experiment |
ALTO | Accélérateur Linéaire auprès du Tandem d’Orsay (Linear Accelerator Near the Tandem of Orsay) |
AMS | accelerator mass spectrometry |
ANDES | Agua Negra Deep Experiment Site |
ANDESLab | Agua Negra Deep Experiment Site Lab |
ANL | Argonne National Laboratory |
APCTP | Asian Pacific Center for Theoretical Physics |
APPA | Atomic, Plasma Physics and Applications (collaboration) |
APS | American Physical Society |
ARIEL | Advanced Rare Isotope Laboratory |
ATLAS | Argonne Tandem Linear Accelerator System |
ATTA | atom trap trace analysis |
AURA | Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy |
AVF | azimuthal varying field |
BaBar | B and B-bar experiment |
BEC | Bose-Einstein condensate |
BEPCII | Beijing Electron Positron Collider II |
BES-III | Beijing Spectrometer III |
BGO | bismuth orthogermanate |
BNL | Brookhaven National Laboratory |
BPA | Board on Physics and Astronomy |
BRIF | Beijing Rare Ion Beam Facility |
BSI | Basic Science Institute |
CAREER | Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program (NSF) |
CBM | Compressed Baryonic Matter |
CEBAF | Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility |
CERN | Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire (European Organization for Nuclear Research) |
CEU | Conference Experience for Undergraduates |
CGC | color glass condensate |
CI | configuration interaction |
CKM | Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa |
CLEO | Short for “Cleopatra” (a general-purpose particle detector at the Cornell Electron Storage Ring |
CMS | Compact Muon Solenoid |
CNEA | Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica (National Atomic Energy Commission) |
COMPASS | Common Muon and Proton Apparatus for Structure and Spectroscopy |
COSY | Cooler Sychrotron facility (Germany) |
CP | combination of C-symmetry and P-symmetry |
CT | computed tomography |
CUORE | Cryogenic Underground Observatory for Rare Events |
CXC | Chandra X-Ray Observatory |
CZT | cadmium zinc telluride |
DANCE | Detector for Advanced Neutron Capture Experiments |
DESIR | Désintégration, Excitation et Stockage d’Ions Radioactifs (disintegration, excitation, and storage of radioactive ions) |
DESY | Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron (German Electron Synchrotron) |
DFT | density functional theory |
DNP | Division of Nuclear Physics |
DOE | Department of Energy |
DUSEL | Deep Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory |
EBIS | Electron Beam Ion Source |
ECT* | European Center for Nuclear Theory and Related Areas |
EDM | electric dipole moment |
EFT | effective field theory |
EIC | electron-ion collider |
ELENA | Extra Low Energy Antiproton Ring |
ELI-NP | Extreme Light Infrastructure |
ELSA | Electron Stretcher and Accelerator |
EMC | European Muon Collaboration |
EMMI | Extreme Matter Institute |
EOS | equation of state |
ESA | European Space Agency |
ESR | experimental storage ring |
EURISOL | European ISOL facility |
EXO | Enriched Xenon Observatory |
FACA | Federal Advisory Committee Act |
FAIR | Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research |
FDG | fluorodeoxyglucose |
FEL | free-electron laser |
FLAIR | Facility for Low-Energy Antiproton and Ion Research |
FNAL | Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory |
FNPB | Fundamental Neutron Physics Beamline |
FRIB | Facility for Rare Isotope Beams |
FUSTIPEN | French-U.S. Theory Institute for Physics with Exotic Nuclei |
GANIL | Grand Accélérateur National d’Ions Lourds (Large Heavy Ion National Accelerator) |
GlueX | gluon experiment at JLAB |
GRETA | Gamma Ray Energy Tracking Array |
GRETINA | Gamma Ray Energy Tracking In-Beam Nuclear Array |
GSFC | Goddard Space Flight Center |
GSI | Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung (Heavy Ion Research Center, now the GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research GmbH) |
HERA | Hadron-Elektron-Ring-Anlage |
HEU | highly enriched uranium |
HIE-ISOLDE | High Intensity and Energy ISOLDE |
HIGS | High Intensity Gamma Source |
HIRFL-CSR | Heavy Ion Research Facility in Lanzhou-Cooler Storage Ring |
HPGe | high-purity germanium |
HRIBF | Holifield Radioactive Ion Beam Facility |
HST | Hubble Space Telescope |
IAEA | International Atomic Energy Agency |
ICF | inertial confinement fusion |
IJMPE | International Journal of Modern Physics-E |
ILL | Institut Laue-Langevin |
INO | India-based Neutron Observatory |
INT | Institute for Nuclear Theory |
IR | infrared |
ISAC-I | Isotope Separator and Accelerator (part 1) |
ISAC-II | Isotope Separator and Accelerator (part 2) |
ISOL | Isotope Separator Online |
ISOLDE | Isotope Separator Online Detector |
ITER | International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor |
IUPAP | International Union for Pure and Applied Physics |
JILA | Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics |
JINA | Joint Institute for Nuclear Astrophysics |
JINR | Joint Institute for Nuclear Research |
JLAB | Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility |
J-PARC | Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex |
JPL | Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
JPS | Japanese Physical Society |
JSC | Jülich Supercomputing Center |
JUGENE | Jülich Blue Gene |
JUSEIPEN | Japan-U.S. Experimental Institute for Physics with Exotic Nuclei |
JUSTIPEN | Japan-U.S. Theory Institute for Physics with Exotic Nuclei |
KamLAND | KAMioka Liquid Scintillator Antineutrino Detector |
KamLAND-Xen | KAMioka Liquid Scintillator Antineutrino Detector-Xenon |
KATRIN | KArlsruhe TRItium Neutrino |
KEI or K | Japanese Supercomputer (named for word “kei,” meaning 10 quadrillion) |
KEK | Kō Enerugi Kasokukī Kenkyū Kikō (High Energy Accelerator Research Organization) |
KoRia | Korea Rare Isotope Accelerator |
LANL | Los Alamos National Laboratory |
LANSCE | Los Alamos Neutron Science Center |
LBNL | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory |
LHC | Large Hadron Collider |
LIGO | Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory |
LINAC | linear particle accelerator |
LLC | low-level counting |
LLNL | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |
LMA | large mixing angle |
LRP | long-range plan |
LSDS | Lead Slowing-Down Spectrometer |
LSO | lutetium orthosilicate |
LUNA | Laboratory for Underground Nuclear Physics |
MAMI | Mainz Microtron |
MAX-lab | Microtron Accelerator for X-ray Production (National |
Electron Accelerator Laboratory for Synchrotron Radiation | |
Research, Nuclear Physics, and Accelerator Physics) | |
MEGa-Ray | Mono-Energetic Gamma-Ray facility (LLNL) |
MERCOSUR | Mercado Común del Sur (Common Southern Market) |
MIT | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
MoNA | Modular Neutron Array |
MOX | mixed oxide fuel |
MRI | magnetic resonance image/imaging |
MSU | Michigan State University |
MTAS | Modular Total Absorption Spectrometer |
N | neutron number |
NASA | National Aeronautics and Space Administration |
NESR | new ESR |
NFS | Neutron for Science |
NIF | National Ignition Facility |
NIH | National Insitutes of Health |
NIST | National Institute of Standards and Technology |
NNSA | National Nuclear Security Administration |
NORDITA | Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics, aka Nordic Institute for Theoretical and Atomic Physics |
NPAC | nuclear, particle, astrophysics and cosmology |
NPT | Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty |
NRC | National Research Council |
NSAC | Nuclear Science Advisory Committee |
NSCL | National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory |
NSERC | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of |
Canada | |
NSF | National Science Foundation |
NSM | New Standard Model |
NuPECC | Nuclear Physics European Collaboration Committee |
NuSTAR | Nuclear Structure, Astrophysics and Reactions |
OECD | Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development |
ORNL | Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
ORRUBA | Oak RidgeRutgers University Barrel Array |
PANDA | Antiproton Annihilation at Darmstadt |
PET | positron emission tomography |
PHENIX | Pioneering High-Energy Nuclear Interaction Experiment |
PI | principal investigator |
PMT | photomultiplier tube |
POPA | Panel on Public Affairs |
PPC | p-type point contact |
PREX | Lead Radius Experiment |
PSI | Paul Scherrer Institut |
PV | parity violating |
QCD | quantum chromodynamics |
QCDOC | QCD on a chip |
QED | quantum electrodynamics |
QGP | quark-gluon plasma |
Qs | gluon momentum scale below which saturation is thought to arise |
RBRC | RIKEN-BNL Research Center |
RCNP | Research Center for Nuclear Physics |
REX-ISOLDE | Radioactive Beam Experiment at ISOLDE |
RHIC | Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider |
RIB | radioactive ion beam |
RIBF | Radioactive Ion Beam Facility |
RIBRAS | Radioactive Ion Beams in Brasil |
RIKEN | Rikagaku Kenkyujo (Institute of Physical and Chemical Research) |
RISAC | Rare Isotope Science Assessment Committee |
SCET | soft-collinear effective theory |
SciDAC | Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing |
S-DALINAC | Superconducting Darmstadt LINAC |
SEU | single event upset |
SIS (number) | Schwerionen Synchrotron [numbers following indicate magnetic rigidity in tesla-meters (T m)] |
SK | Super-Kamiokande |
SLAC | Stanford Linear Accelerator Center |
SNO | Sudbury Neutrino Observatory |
SNO+ | SNO experiment with liquid scintillator |
SNS | Spallation Neutron Source |
SPECT | Single-Photon Emission Computed Tomography |
SPIRAL | Système de Production d’Ions Radioactifs Accélérés en Ligne (System for Producing Online Accelerated Radioactive Ions) |
SPIRAL2 | new version of SPIRAL (in planning stages) |
SRF | superconducting radiofrequency |
SSAA | Stewardship Science Academic Alliance |
SSRF | Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility |
STAR | Solenoidal Tracker at RHIC |
STScI | Space Telescope Science Institute |
SURF | Sanford Underground Research Facility |
TAMU | Texas A&M University |
TANDAR | Tandem Accelerator |
TPC | time projection chamber |
TRIUMF | Tri-University Meson Facility |
TWINSOL | twin dual superconducting solenoid magnets |
UNILAC | Universal Linear Accelerator |
USAF | U.S. Air Force |
USQCD | U.S. lattice QCD |
VIRGO | Virtual Roentgen and Gamma Observatory |
WCU | world-class university |
WIMP | weakly interacting massive particle |
WIPP | Waste Isolation Pilot Plant |
WNSL | Wright Nuclear Structure Laboratory |
Z | proton number |