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Suggested Citation:"Appendix D: Acronyms." National Research Council. 2013. Nuclear Physics: Exploring the Heart of Matter. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13438.
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Acronyms

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
Suggested Citation:"Appendix D: Acronyms." National Research Council. 2013. Nuclear Physics: Exploring the Heart of Matter. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13438.
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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
Suggested Citation:"Appendix D: Acronyms." National Research Council. 2013. Nuclear Physics: Exploring the Heart of Matter. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13438.
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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
Suggested Citation:"Appendix D: Acronyms." National Research Council. 2013. Nuclear Physics: Exploring the Heart of Matter. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13438.
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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
                     
Suggested Citation:"Appendix D: Acronyms." National Research Council. 2013. Nuclear Physics: Exploring the Heart of Matter. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13438.
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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
Suggested Citation:"Appendix D: Acronyms." National Research Council. 2013. Nuclear Physics: Exploring the Heart of Matter. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13438.
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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 RidgeimageRutgers 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
                     
Suggested Citation:"Appendix D: Acronyms." National Research Council. 2013. Nuclear Physics: Exploring the Heart of Matter. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13438.
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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
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The principal goals of the study were to articulate the scientific rationale and objectives of the field and then to take a long-term strategic view of U.S. nuclear science in the global context for setting future directions for the field. Nuclear Physics: Exploring the Heart of Matter provides a long-term assessment of an outlook for nuclear physics.

The first phase of the report articulates the scientific rationale and objectives of the field, while the second phase provides a global context for the field and its long-term priorities and proposes a framework for progress through 2020 and beyond. In the second phase of the study, also developing a framework for progress through 2020 and beyond, the committee carefully considered the balance between universities and government facilities in terms of research and workforce development and the role of international collaborations in leveraging future investments.

Nuclear physics today is a diverse field, encompassing research that spans dimensions from a tiny fraction of the volume of the individual particles (neutrons and protons) in the atomic nucleus to the enormous scales of astrophysical objects in the cosmos. Nuclear Physics: Exploring the Heart of Matter explains the research objectives, which include the desire not only to better understand the nature of matter interacting at the nuclear level, but also to describe the state of the universe that existed at the big bang. This report explains how the universe can now be studied in the most advanced colliding-beam accelerators, where strong forces are the dominant interactions, as well as the nature of neutrinos.

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