An Assessment of the Center for Neutron Research at the National Institute of Standards and Technology: Fiscal Year 2021 (2022)
Chapter: Appendix B: Acronyms
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Suggested Citation:
"Appendix B: Acronyms." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2022. An Assessment of the Center for Neutron Research at the National Institute of Standards and Technology: Fiscal Year 2021. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
doi: 10.17226/26418.
B
Acronyms
| AI/ML | artificial intelligence/machine learning |
| ANSTO | Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation |
| BIFROST | Not an acronym but a name for an extreme environment spectrometer at ESS |
| BTAC | Beam-Time Allocation Committee |
| CAMEA | Continuous Angle Multiple Energy Analysis |
| CANDoR | Chromatic Analysis Neutron Diffractometer or Reflector |
| CHRNS | Center for High Resolution Neutron Scattering |
| CMP | condensed matter physics |
| CNII | Cold Neutron Imaging Instrument |
| DANSE | Distributed Data Analysis for Neutron Scattering Experiments |
| DARTS | Double Axis Residual Stress Texture Single Crystal Spectrometer |
| DCS | Disk Chopper Spectrometer |
| DOE | Department of Energy |
| DOE EERE | Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (DOE) |
| DOE NP | Nuclear Physics (DOE) |
| ESS | European Spallation Source |
| FAIR | Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability, and Reuse of Digital Assets |
| HEU | high enriched uranium |
| HFBS | High-Flux Backscattering Spectrometer |
| HFIR | High-Flux Isotope Reactor |
| HOF | hydrogen-bonded organic framework |
| H-Refl | Horizontal Sample Reflector |
| IF | impact factor |
| ILL | Institut Laue-Langevin |
| IMS | Innovations in Measurement Science |
| LD2 | liquid deuterium |
| LEU | low enriched uranium |
| MACS | Multi-Axis Crystal Spectrometer |
| MAGIK | Multi-Angle Grazing Incidence K-Vector |
| MD | molecular dynamics |
Suggested Citation:
"Appendix B: Acronyms." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2022. An Assessment of the Center for Neutron Research at the National Institute of Standards and Technology: Fiscal Year 2021. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
doi: 10.17226/26418.
| MGI | Materials Genome Initiative |
| MML | Materials Measurement Laboratory (NIST) |
| MOF | microporous organic framework |
| MSRI | Mid-Scale Research Infrastructure Program (NSF) |
| NBS | National Bureau of Standards |
| NBSR | National Bureau of Standards Reactor |
| NCNR | NIST Center for Neutron Research |
| NeXT | Neutron and X-Ray Tomography |
| NG-5, 6, 7 | Neutron Guides 5, 6, and 7 |
| NIST | National Institute of Standards and Technology |
| NPG | Neutron Physics Group |
| NRC | Nuclear Regulatory Commission |
| NRU | National Research Universal Reactor |
| NSE | Neutron Spin-Echo Spectrometer |
| NSF | National Science Foundation |
| NPG | Neutron Physics Group |
| nSoft | Not an acronym but the name of an industrial consortium to deliver neutron scattering technology and expertise to industry in the development and manufacture of soft matter |
| PBR | Polarized Beam Reflectometer |
| PhAND | Photon Assisted Neutron Detector |
| PML | Physical Measurement Laboratory |
| PoLAR | Polarized Large Angle Resolution Spectrometer |
| PSI | Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland |
| R&D | research and development |
| RITA | Not an acronym but the name of the triple axis spectrometer for cold neutrons at PSI |
| RIXS | Resonant Inelastic X-Ray Scattering |
| SANS | Small-Angle Neutron Scattering |
| SAS | Small-Angle Scattering |
| SASSIE | Not an acronym but the name of a program suite of atomistic models of molecular systems to compare directly with experimental data |
| SASView | Visualization software in SASSIE |
| SAXS | Small-Angle X-Ray Scattering |
| SHIP | Summer High School Internship Program |
| SMM | single molecule magnet |
| SNS | Spallation Neutron Source |
| SPINS | Spin Polarized Inelastic Neutron Spectrometer |
| SRM | Standard Reference Material |
| STEM | science, technology, engineering, and mathematics |
| TAS | Triple Axis Spectrometer |
| TISANE | time-involved small-angle experiment |
| uSANS | Ultra Small Angle Neutron Scattering |
| vSANS | Very Small Angle Neutron Scattering |
| XSAS | X-Ray Small-Angle Scattering |
Suggested Citation:
"Appendix B: Acronyms." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2022. An Assessment of the Center for Neutron Research at the National Institute of Standards and Technology: Fiscal Year 2021. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
doi: 10.17226/26418.
Suggested Citation:
"Appendix B: Acronyms." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2022. An Assessment of the Center for Neutron Research at the National Institute of Standards and Technology: Fiscal Year 2021. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
doi: 10.17226/26418.
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