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Cooperative Stewardship Managing the Nation's Multidisciplinary User Facilities for Research with Synchrotron Radiation, Neutrons, and High Magnetic Fields (1999) / Chapter Skim
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Appendix E: Glossary, Acronyms, and Abbreviations
Pages 68-71

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... Especially useful in conducting research on the properties of soft matter, such as proteins or polymers. Core facility The section of a facility producing the basic commodity necessary to conduct experiments, such as the synchrotron radiation, neutron beam, or high magnetic field, but generally not accessed by users.
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... Partners may be federal agencies, state governments, universities, for-profit corporations, or nonprofit organizations. Reactor A type of neutron source that creates continuous neutron beams through controlled chain reactions involving nuclear fission of certain radioactive elements.
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... Department of Energy EMR electron magnetic resonance ENSA European Neutron Scattering Association ESRF European Synchrotron Radiation Facility FEL free electron laser FOB facility-operated beamline FRM-II Neutron Reactor at the Technische Universitat Munich, Germany HFBR High Flux Beam Reactor HEIR High Flux Isotope Reactor ICRMS ion cyclotron resonance mass spectroscopy IDT instrument development team ILL Institut Laue Langevin (France) IPNS Intense Pulsed Neutron Source ISIS Spallation Source at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Oxford, United Kingdom LANSCE Los Alamos Neutron Science Center MacCHESS Macromolecular Diffraction Facility at the Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source MURR Columbia Research Reactor Center at the University of Missouri NHMFL National High Magnetic Field Laboratory NIH National Institutes of Health NIST National Institute of Standards and Technology NMR nuclear magnetic resonance NRC National Research Council NSF National Science Foundation NSLS National Synchrotron Light Source OECD Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development OMB Office of Management and Budget ORNL Oak Ridge National Laboratory
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... A unit of magnetic flux density, equal to 10,000 gauss
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Key Terms

  • neutron source
  • magnetic field
  • phase matter
  • condensed phase
  • user facility

  • basic energy
  • core facility
  • synchrotron source
  • energy synchrotron
  • radiation facility

  • magnetic fields
  • energy sciences
  • neutron beam
  • reactor center
  • government body

  • creating radiation
  • own research
  • nuclear magnetic
  • pulsed neutron
  • chain reactions

  • involving nuclear
  • appleton laboratory
  • diffraction facility
  • perform experiments
  • resonance mass

  • research reactor
  • metal targets
  • alamos neutron
  • light source
  • european neutron


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