Acronym Dictionary
Parton Distribution Function Sets
- CTEQ - either "The Coordinated Theoretical-Experimental
Project on QCD" or "The Project on Collaborative
Theoretical and Experimental Studies of QCD" or
The Coordinated Theoretical/Experimental
Project on Quantitative QCD Phenomenology and Tests of the Standard Model
(or make up your own)
- DFLM - Diemoz-Ferroni-Longo-Martinelli
- DO - Duke-Owens
- EHLQ - Eichten-Hinchliffe-Lane-Quigg
- GRV - Glück-Reya-Vogt
- HMRS - Harriman-Martin-Roberts-Stirling
- MRRS - Martin-Roberts-Ryskin-Stirling
- MRS - Martin-Roberts-Stirling
- MRST - Martin-Roberts-Stirling-Thorne
- MT - Morfín-Tung
High-Energy Particle Physics Acronyms
- 1PI - One Particle Irreducible
- ACOT - Aivazis-Collins-Olness-Tung
- sACOT - simplified Aivazis-Collins-Olness-Tung
- BFKL - Balitskii-Fadin-Kuraev-Lipatov
- CCFM - Ciafaloni-Catani-Fiorani-Marchesini
- DGLAP - Dokshitzer-Gribov-Lipatov-Altarelli-Parisi
- BPHZ - Bogoliubov-Parasuik-Hepp-Zimmerman
- BRST - Becchi-Rouet-Stora-Tyutin
- CKM - Cabibo-Kobayashi-Maskawa
- CP - Charge conjugation-Parity
- CPT - Charge conjugation-Parity-Time reversal
- DLA - Double Logarithm Approximation
- DY - Drell-Yan
- DIS - Deeply Inelastic Scattering
- MS - Minimal Subtraction
- MS-bar - Modified Minimal Subtraction
- GLS - Gross-Llewellyn-Smith
- GeV - Giga-electron-Volt (109 eV)
- TeV - Tera-electron-Volt (1012 eV)
- IR - Infrared
- KLN - Kinoshita-Lee-Nauenberg
- LLA - Leading Logarithm Approximation
- LSZ - Lehmann-Symanzik-Zimmerman
- LO - Leading Order
- NLO - Next to Leading Order
- NNLO - Next to Next to Leading Order
- PDF - Parton Distribution Function, Portable Document Format,
Pretty Darn Fast, etc.
- pQCD - perturbative QCD
- QCD - Quantum Chromodynamics
- QED - Quantum Electrodynamics
- SU(n) - Special Unitary group of n x n matrices
- SM - Standard Model
- SUSY - Supersymmetry
- MSSM - Minimally Supersymmetric Standard Model
- UV - Ultraviolet
- YM - Yang-Mills
Collaborations, Laboratories, and Machines
- BNL - Brookhaven National
Laboratory
- AGS - Alternating Gradient Synchrotron
- RHIC - Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider
- CERN - Conseil Europeen pour
la Recherche Nucleaire (European Organization for Nuclear Research)
- DESY - Deutsches
Elektronen-SYnchrotron
- HERA - Hadron Elektron Ring Anlage
- FNAL - Fermi National
Accelerator Laboratory
- BEBC - Big European Bubble Chamber
- CMOR -
- E#
- Experiment at Fermilab, BNL, or other laboratory
-
LSND - Liquid Scintillator Neutrino Detector (Los Alamos)
- NLC - Next Linear Collider
- SLAC
- Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
- SSC - Superconducting Supercollider
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