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Acronyms
2D |
two dimensional |
3D |
three dimensional |
AAAS |
American Association for the Advancement of Science |
AGS |
alternating gradient synchrotron |
ALICE |
A Large Ion Collider Experiment |
APS |
American Physical Society |
ATLAS |
A Toroidal LHC Apparatus |
BNL |
Brookhaven National Laboratory |
BRAHMS |
Broad Range Hadron Magnetic Spectrometers Experiment |
Caltech |
California Institute of Technology |
CBETA |
Cornell-BNL ERL Test Accelerator |
CDR |
critical design review |
CEBAF |
Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility |
CeC |
coherent electron cooling |
CERN |
European Organization for Nuclear Research |
CHESS |
Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source |
CMS |
Compact Muon Solenoid |
COLDEX |
Cold Bore Experiment |
COMPASS |
Common Muon and Proton Apparatus for Structure and Spectroscopy |
CW |
continuous wave |
DESY |
Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (German Electron Synchrotron) |
DIS |
deep-inelastic scattering |
DOE |
Department of Energy |
EBIS |
Electron Beam Ionization Source |
EIC |
electron-ion collider |
EMC |
European Muon Collaboration |
EPS |
European Physics Society |
ERL |
energy recovery linac |
FAIR |
Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research in Europe |
FCC |
Future Circular Collider |
FEL |
free-electron laser |
FRIB |
Facility for Rare Isotope Beams |
GPD |
generalized parton distributions |
GSI |
GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung (formerly Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung) |
HE-LHC |
High-Energy Large Hadron Collider |
HEPL |
Hansen Experimental Physics Laboratory |
HEPP |
High Energy Particle Physics |
HERA |
Hadron-Electron Ring Accelerator |
HERMES |
HERA Measurement of Spin |
HIAF |
High Intensity Heavy-Ion Accelerator Facility |
HL-LHC |
High-Luminosity Large Hadron Collider |
IBS |
intra-beam scattering |
ILC |
International Linear Collider |
IP |
interaction point |
IPAC |
International Particle Accelerator Conference |
IR |
interaction region |
JINR |
Joint Institute for Nuclear Research |
JLab |
Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility |
JLEIC |
Jefferson Laboratory Electron Ion Collider |
J-PARC |
Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex |
KEK |
High Energy Accelerator Research Organization |
KEKB |
High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (B-factory) |
LBNL |
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory |
LEP |
Large Electron Positron Collider |
LHC |
Large Hadron Collider |
LHeC |
Large Hadron-Electron Collider |
LQCD |
lattice quantum chromodynamics |
MAPS |
monolithic active pixel sensor |
MBI |
microbunching instability |
MIT |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
MPD |
multipurpose detector |
MRI |
magnetic resonance imaging |
MSU |
Michigan State University |
NAS |
National Academy of Sciences |
NICA |
Nuclotron-Based Ion Collider Facility |
NS |
nonscaling |
NSAC |
Nuclear Science Advisory Committee |
NSF |
National Science Foundation |
NuPECC |
Nuclear Physics European Collaboration Committee |
ODU |
Old Dominion University |
PANDA |
Anti-Proton Annihilations at Darmstadt |
parton distribution function |
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PEP |
Positron Electron Project |
PHENIX |
Pioneering High Energy Nuclear Interaction Experiment |
PHOBOS |
One of two detectors at RHIC to measure Au ion collisions |
PID |
particle identification |
QCD |
quantum chromodynamics |
Q-WEAK |
Experiment to determine the weak charges of the quarks through parity violating electron scattering |
R&D |
research and development |
RF |
radio frequency |
RHIC |
Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider |
RIKEN |
Institute of Physical and Chemical Research, Japan |
SIDIS |
semi-inclusive deep-inelastic scattering |
SLAC |
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center |
SPS |
Super Proton Synchrotron |
SRF |
superconducting radio-frequency |
STAR |
Solenoidal Tracker at RHIC |
TMD |
transverse momentum-dependent distributions |
TPC |
time projection chamber |
USPAS |
U.S. Particle Accelerator School |
ZEUS |
Detector at HERA |