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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 |
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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 |
