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AFM |
Atomic Force Microscopy |
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ALD |
Atomic Layer Deposition |
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AMC |
Advanced Mezzanine Card |
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AMC/RTM |
Advanced Mezzanine Card / Rear Transition Module |
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ANKA |
Ĺngström-Quelle Karlsruhe - a 2.5 GeV synchrotron radiation facility
http://ankaweb.fzk.de/ |
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ASIC |
Application Specific Integrated Circuit |
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ATCA |
Advanced Telecommunication Computing Architecture |
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β* |
minimum value of the amplitude optical function at the focal
point of the final quadrupoles in an accelerator lattice |
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BAM |
Beam Arrival-Time Monitor: optical synchronization device (PSI-XFEL) at the 20’s fs scale, clocked by a main pulsed laser. |
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BCP |
Buffered Chemical Polishing |
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BCS Theory |
theory developed to explain the properties of Type 1 superconductors by John Bardeen, Leon Cooper, and Robert Schrieffer. Key elements of the theory are Cooper Pairs of electrons. |
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BDS |
Beam Delivery System |
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BENE |
Beams for European Neutrino Experiments (FP6-CARE network) |
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BetaBeam |
refers to the acceleration of radioactive ions in a decay ring where the decays in the long straight sections give rise to well-collimated neutrino beams |
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BPM |
Beam Position Monitor |
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BSCCO |
Bismuth strontium calcium oxides superconducting around 100K. |
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CARE |
Coordinated Accelerator Research in Europe: FP6 I3 initiated by ESGARD
http://care.lal.in2p3.fr/ |
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CAS |
CERN Accelerator School http://cern.ch/cas/ |
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CERN |
European Organisation for Nuclear Research
http://cern.ch/ |
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CHECHIA |
RF cavity test stand at DESY |
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CHORUS |
CERN Hybrid Oscillation Research apparatus |
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CLIC |
study of a lepton “Compact Linear Collider” based on an innovative two-beam acceleration principle |
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CNGS |
CERN Neutrinos beam for Grand Sasso experimental detector |
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CTF3 |
“CLIC Test Facility 3” for the demonstration of the two-beam acceleration principle of CLIC: Drive beam accelerator, delay and combiner rings, two-beam acceleration section.
http://cern.ch/ctf3/New_parameters.htm |
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CW |
Continuous Wave |
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ECFA |
European Committee for Future Accelerators |
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EDS |
Electron Dispersive X-Ray Spectroscopy |
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EDX |
Energy Dispersive X-ray |
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EFE |
Enhanced Field Emission |
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ELBE |
radiation source “Electron Linac for beams with high Brilliance and low Emittance”, FZD Rossendorf
http://www.fzd.de/db/Cms?pNid=145 |
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ELFE |
Electron Laboratory For Europe |
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EMMA |
Electron Model for Many Applications, STFC-Daresbury, UK. proof of
principle electron circular accelerator ring to test the principle of non-scaling fixed-field alternating gradient accelerator |
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ERLP |
energy Recovery Linac Prototype |
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ESGARD |
European Steering Group for Accelerator R&D, founded in 2003 by the directors of CEA-DAPNIA, CERN, DESY, INFN-LNF, CNRS/IN2P3, PSI and STFC
http://www.esgard.org/. |
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EURISOL |
EURopean Ion Separation On-Line |
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EURONu |
High Intensity Neutrino Oscillation Facility in Europe |
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FAIR |
Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research, GSI
http://www.gsi.de/fair/index_e.html |
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FB |
Feedback |
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FEL |
Free Electron Laser |
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FESM |
Field Emission Scanning Microscope |
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FF |
Feed-Forward or Final Focus |
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FFAG |
Fixed Field Alternating Gradient |
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FINUDA |
Fisica Nucleare a DAΦNE |
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FLASH |
Free electron LASer in Hamburg http://flash.desy.de/ |
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Flux lattice |
magnetic flux lines in a superconductor arranged into a regular
lattice. |
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Flux pinning |
preventing the movement of flux lines within a superconductor. |
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FNAL |
Fermi National Laboratory (USA) |
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FPGA |
Field Programmable Gate Array |
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FRESCA |
Facility for the REception of Superconducting CAbles (CERN) |
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GENEPI |
Générateur de NEutrons Pulsé Intense |
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HA |
High Availability |
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HARP |
Hadron Production Experiment at the Proton Synchrotron (CERN) |
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HFM |
High Field Magnet |
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HGHG-FEL |
High-Gain Harmonic-Generation FEL |
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HHH |
High energy High intensity Hadron
beams (a networking activity in the framework of CARE) |
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HoBiCaT |
Horizontal Bi-Cavity Test facility (RF) |
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HOM |
Higher Order Mode |
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HPR |
High Pressure water Rinse |
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HPRF |
High Power Radio Frequency |
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HRSEM/EDX |
High Resolution Secondary Electron Microscope |
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HTS |
High Temperature Superconductor. Also known as HTC. |
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IC |
critical current - maximum current through a material that
allows it to remain in the superconducting state. |
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ICALEPCS |
International Conference on Accelerator and LEP Control Systems
http://www.icalepcs.org/
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ILC |
International Linear Collider
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IOT |
Inductive Output Tube (RF) |
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IR |
interaction region |
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ISIS |
not an acronym - Pulsed Neutron & Muon Source at STFC-RAL based on a 800 MeV proton synchrotron. |
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ITER |
International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor |
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KLOE |
experimental detector at DAΦNE,
INFN Frascati |
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LAGUNA |
Large Apparatus studying Grand Unification and Neutrino Astrophysics |
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LARP |
U.S. LHC Accelerator Research Program |
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LEPP |
Laboratory for Elementary Particle Physics, Cornell University
http://www.lns.cornell.edu/ |
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LHC |
Large Hadron Collider (CERN) |
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LINAC4 |
proton linac project (CERN) – front-end of SPL |
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LLRF |
low level RF |
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MICE |
Muon Ionisation Cooling Experiment - a dedicated instrumented
beam-line at ISIS, UK
http://hepunx.rl.ac.uk/uknf/mice/ |
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µTCA |
micro telecommunication computing architecture |
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MONALISA |
Interferometer system to monitor the relative motion between FF quad and Shintake monitor in ATF2. |
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Nb3Sn |
a superconductor - a compound of Niobium and Tin |
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Nb-Ti |
an alloy of Niobium and Titanium - a Type 2 superconductor NC
normal conducting |
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NED |
Next European Dipole: a JRA in FP6-CARE |
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NEG |
Non-Evaporable Getter |
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NuFACT |
refers to a series of workshops dedicated to Neutrino Factories and Superbeams |
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NuMI |
Neutrinos at the Main Injector (FNAL) |
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NUPEX |
Nuclear Physics Experience (database) |
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NWDA |
Northwest Development Agency |
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PETRA |
Positron-Elektron-Tandem-Ring-Anlage, "positron-electron tandem-ring facility" at DESY |
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Piwinski angle |
normalised crossing angle for colliding beams |
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PM |
Phase Monitor |
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POLFEL |
Polish Free Electron Laser |
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PS |
Proton Synchrotron (CERN) |
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QE |
Quantum Efficiency |
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QWR |
Quarter Wave Resonator |
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RF |
Radio Frequency |
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RHIC |
Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (Brookhaven, USA) |
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RRR |
Residual Resistivity Ratio (ratio of resistance at 293 K to the
resistance at 10K) |
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S-DALINAC |
Superconducting Darmstadt electron-linac |
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SC |
Superconducting |
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SEM |
Scanning Electron Microscope |
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SEM/AES |
Secondary Electron Microscope |
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SEY |
Secondary Emission Yield |
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Shintake monitor |
Nanometer scale electron beam size monitor in ATF2. It probes an electron beam by an interference fringe pattern formed by split laser beams. |
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SINS |
Soltan Institute for Nuclear Studies |
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SIS |
heavy Ion synchrotron (GSI) http://www.gsi.de/ |
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SLHC-PP |
Super LHC Preparatory Phase |
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SPARCX |
Sorgente Pulsata Auto-amplificata di Radiazione Coerente - SASE-FEL
based X-ray source |
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SPIRAL2 |
a facility to produce heavy exotic nuclei, rich in neutrons and protons |
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SPL |
Superconducting Proton Linac |
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SPS |
Super Proton Synchrotron (CERN) |
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SRF |
Superconducting RF |
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STFC |
Science and Technology Facilities Council, UK |
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T2K |
Tokai To Kamioka (next generation long baseline neutrino oscillation experiment, Japan) |
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TC |
critical temperature - maximum temperature at which a material
is superconducting. |
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TESLA |
TeV-Energy Superconducting Linear Accelerator (former project at DESY) |
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Tevatron |
Fermilab 1 TeV superconducting proton synchrotron (FNAL)
TTC |
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TESLA |
Technology Collaboration
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UFM |
Ultrasonic Force Microscopy |
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UHV |
Ultra High Vacuum |
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USPAS |
The US Particle Accelerator School
http://uspas.fnal.gov/ |
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VUV |
Vacuum Ultraviolet (FEL) |
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W7-X |
Wendelstein 7-X (stellarator) |
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WASA |
Wide Angle Shower Apparatus (Svedberg Lab) |
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XFEL |
X-ray Free Electron Laser |
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YBCO |
YBa2Cu3O7 : high temperature superconductor |
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