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

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  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

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  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)
  • ATLAS - A Toroidal LHC ApparatuS
  • BCDMS - Bologna-CERN-Dubna-Munich-Saclay
  • CDHS - CERN-Dormund-Heidelberg-Saclay
  • CDHSW - CERN-Dormund-Heidelberg-Saclay-Warsaw
  • CHARM - CERN-Hamburg-Amsterdam-Rome-Moscow
  • EMC - European Muon Collaboration
  • ISR - Intersecting Storage Ring
  • LEP - Large Electron Positron
  • LHC - Large Hadron Collider
  • NMC - New Muon Collaboration
  • PS - Proton Synchrotron
  • SPS - Super Proton Synchrotron
  • SMC - Spin Muon Collaboration
  • NA# - Experiment at CERN
  • UA# - Experiment at CERN
  • WA# - Experiment at CERN
• DESY - Deutsches Elektronen-SYnchrotron
  • HERA - Hadron Elektron Ring Anlage
• FNAL - Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
  • CCFR - Chicago-Columbia-Fermilab-Rochester
  • CCFRR - Chicago-Columbia-Fermilab-Rochester-Rockefeller
  • CDF - Collider Detector at Fermilab
  • KTEV - Kaons at the Tevatron
  • NuTeV - Neutrinos at the Tevatron
• 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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