An Assessment of U.S.-Based Electron-Ion Collider Science (2018)
Chapter: Appendix C Acronyms
C
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 | |
| 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 |
