List of common acronyms and abbreviations encountered in the CERN Environment
The list is compiled by Andrzej Charkiewicz, HR, who will appreciate any feedback - suggestions for improvements, modifications, corrections and most of all for additions.
Acronym/ Abbreviation | Definition |
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A&TB | Accelerator and Technology Board |
AA | Antiproton Accumulator |
AAC | Antiproton Accumulator Complex |
ACB | Automatic Call Back |
ACCU | Advisory Committee of CERN Users |
ACOL | Antiproton Collector |
ACP | Access Control Panel |
AD | Antiproton Decelerator |
ADI S.A. | Agencia de Inovacao S.A... (Portugal) |
ADS (PE-ADS) | PE Division Administrative and Social Services Group |
AF | Application Form |
AIPB | Administrative Informatics Priorities Board |
AIS | Advanced Information Systems |
AISMRB | AIS Management Review Board |
AIUIC | Administrative Informatics User Interface Committee |
ALEPH | Apparatus for LEP Physics (LEP Experiment) |
ALICE | A Large Ion Collider Experiment - Heavy Ion at LHC |
ALICE | CERN's Integrated Library System |
ALPHA | ALPHA |
ANPE | Agence Nationale pour l'Emploi (France) |
ANSTO | Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organization |
AS | Administrative Support Division |
ASACUSA | Atomic Spectroscopy And Collisions Using Slow Antiprotons |
ASCI | Accelerated Strategic Computing Initiative (US DOE programme) |
ASIC | Application Specific Integrated Circuits |
ASIFI (ASSICS) | l'Association pour la Securite et l'Independance des Fonnctionnaires Internationaux |
ASIS | Application Software Installation Server |
ASM | Administration Sector Meeting |
AT | Accelerator Technologies Division (present LHC Division) |
ATLAS | A Toroidal LHC Apparatus (LHC Collaboration) |
ATM | Asynchronous Transfer Mode |
ATRAP | Antihydrogen trap Experiment |
BEBC | Big European Bubble Chamber |
BH | Budget Holder |
BHT | Budget Holder's Toolkit |
BIT (ILO) | Bureau International du Travail |
BPG | Budget Planning Group |
BPRI | Budget Planning and Related Issues (Group) |
CAD (CAO) | Computer Aided Design |
CAM | Computer Aided Manufacturing |
CAO (CAD) | Conception Assistee par Ordinateur |
CAS | CERN Accelerator School |
CAS | Chinese Academy of Sciences |
CASS | Corresponding Associate |
CC | Committee of Council |
CCC | Computing Coordination Committee |
CCCR | Consulting and Coordination Committee for Research |
CCEC | Consultative Committee on Employment Conditions |
CCP (SCC) | Comite de Concertation Permanent |
CCR | Coordination Committee for Research |
CDTI | Centre for Technological and Industrial Development (Spain) |
CEA | Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique - Atomic Energy Agency (France) |
CESR | Cornell Electron Storage Ring |
CFDT | Confederation Francaise Democratique du Travail |
CGAS | Communaute Genevoise d'Action Syndicale |
CGJE | Comite de Gestion de Jardin d'Enfants |
CHEP | Computing for High Energy Physics |
CHISB | CERN Health Insurance Supervisory Board |
CHORUS | WA95 - Neutrino oscillation experiment |
CICERO | Control Information system Concepts based on Encapsulated Real-time Objects |
CLA | Comite de Liaison Administrative |
CLIC | CERN Linear Collider |
CMM | Capability Maturity Model |
CMS | Compact Muon Solenoid (LHC Experiment) |
CN | Computing and Networks Division (presently IT) |
CNC | Computer Numerical Controlled |
CNRS | Conseil National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR) |
CO | Coordinated Organizations |
CP | Career Path (MOAS) |
CP LEAR | Measurements of CP and T violation in the neutral kaon system and CPT tests |
CRC | "CERN Review Committee (""Abragam Committee"")" |
CSC | Cathode Strip Chambers |
CSIC | Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (ES) |
CSN | Cooperation Service Nationale |
CSR | Comite de Surveillance des Restaurants (Restaurant Surveillance Committee) |
CUG | Closed Users' Group for GSM |
CVI | Cost Variation Index |
DAI | Demande d'Achat Interne |
DAO | Divisional Administrative Officer |
DAQ | Data Acquisition |
DELPHI | "Detector with Lepton, Photon and Hadron Identification (LEP Experiment)" |
DESS | Diplome'dEtudes Superieures Specialisees |
DESY | Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron |
DFS | Distributed File System |
DG | Director General |
DI | CERN Directorate |
DM | Member of Directorate |
DOE | Department of Energy (USA) |
DPO | Divisional Planning Officer |
DRDC | Detector Research and Development Committee |
DRO | Divisional Radiation Officer |
DSA | Divisional Space Assistant |
DSM | Divisional Space Manager |
DSO | Divisional Safety Officer |
DSOC | Divisional Safety Officers' Committee |
DSP | Digital Signal Processor |
DSU | Directorate Services Unit |
DTF | Digital Tape Format |
DTF | Desktop Forum |
DTO | Divisional Training Officer |
DWG | Divisional Webmasters' Group |
EAZ | Exceptional Advancement Zone (MOAS) |
ECFA | European Committee for Future Accelerators |
ECP | Electronics and Computing for Physics Division |
ED | Electromagnetic Dissociation |
ED (PE-ED) | PE Division Education Services Group |
EDH | Electronic Document Handling |
EDH ADMIN | Electronic Document Handling for Administration |
EEB | Electronic Executive Board (ECP) |
EEO | Employment Enquiry Office (presently Recruitment Office) |
EHS | European Hybrid Spectrometer |
ELENA | Extra Low ENergy Antiproton |
EMBL | European Molecular Biology Laboratory |
EMC | European Muon Collaboration |
EPA | Exceptional Performance Award (MOAS) |
EPAC | Electronic Pool Advisory Committee |
EPFL | Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne |
EPICS | Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System |
EPO | European Patent Office |
EPS | European Physical Society |
EPSRC | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (UK) |
EPUF | Electronic Pools Users' Forum |
ESA | European Space Agency |
ESO | European Southern Observatory |
ESRF | European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (Grenoble) |
EST | Engineering Support and Technologies Division (ex-MT) |
ESTEC | "European Space Research Technical Centre (Noordwijk, Holland)" |
FAS | "Fellows, Associates and Students (PE)" |
FBLJA | Forward-Backward Lepton Jet Analyzer |
FC | Finance Committee |
FCC | Future Circular Collider Study |
FDL | Fast Data Link |
FE | First Employment (Contract) |
FEANI | Federation Europeenne d'Associations Nationales d'Ingenieurs |
FEP | First Employment Programme |
FERMI | Front-End Readout Microsystems |
FI | Finance Division |
FICSA | Federation of International Civil Servants Association |
FIPOI | Fondation des Immeubles pour les Organisations Internationales (CH) |
FSC | Fellowship Selection Committee |
FT | Fixed Term (Contract) |
FTE | Full-time equivalent |
GAC | Groupement des Anciens du CERN |
GB | Governing Board (of the CERN Pension Fund) |
GESLOC | Gestion de locaux |
GLIMOS | Group Leader in Matters of Safety |
GPRO | Guest Professor |
GSI A2 | "Gesellschaft fur Schwerionen-Forschung, Darmstadt (Heavy Ions)" |
GSM | Global System for Mobile Communications |
GTPA | Groupe de Travail Procedures Administratives |
HEP | High Energy Physics |
HISB | Health Insurance Supervisory Board (full correct acronym CHISB) |
HL-LHC | High-Luminosity Large Hadron Collider |
HMPID | High Momentum Particle Identification Detector |
HPC | High-density Projection Chamber |
HPCC | High Performance Computing and Communications (US programme) |
HPD | Hybrid Photo Diodes |
HPSS | High Performance Storage System |
HRM&P; | Human Resource Management and Payroll |
HRS (PE-HRS) | PE Division Human Resources Services Group |
HRT | Human Resources Toolkit |
HSC | Honeycomb Strip Chambers |
HSM | Harmonic Spin Matching |
HTC | High Throughput Computing |
HTML | HyperText Markup Language |
HTS | High Temperature Superconducting (ceramic) |
IAEA | International Atomic Energy Agency (Vienna) |
IAR | Indefinite Appointment Review (presently ICR) |
IARB | Indefinite Appointment Review Board (presently ICRB) |
ICC | International Computing Center (Geneva) |
ICEC | International Cryogenics Engineering Committee |
ICFA | International Committee for Future Accelerators |
ICR | Indefinite Contract Review (formerly IAR) |
ICRB | Indefinite Contract Review Board (ex-IARB) |
ICRP | International Commission on Radiological Protection |
IETF | Internet Engineering Task Force |
IHEP | "Institute of High Energy Physics (Serpukhov, Russia)" |
ILL | Institute Laue-Langevin |
ILO (at CERN) | Industrial Liaison Officer |
ILO (BIT) | Industrial Labour Organization (Office) |
ILOAT (TAOIT) | Administrative Tribunal of the International Labour Organization |
IN2P3 | National Institute for Nuclear Physics and Particle Physics (France) |
INFN | Instituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (Italy) |
IOSSP | Inter-Organization Study Section on Salaries and Prices |
IP | Internet Protocol |
ISC | ISOLDE Committee |
ISO | International Organization for Standardization |
ISOLDE | Isotope Separator On-line Detector |
ISR | Intersecting Storage Rings |
IT | Information Technology Division (ex-CN) |
ITC | Inner Tracking Chamber |
IUPAP | International Union for Pure and Applied Physics |
IUT | Institut Universitaire de Technologie |
IWG | Internal Working Group |
JARDB (CPCRI) | Joint Advisory Rehabilitation and Disability Board |
JIF | Job Information Form |
JINR | "Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (Dubna, Russia)" |
JRC | Joint Research Centre |
JRPE | Job-Relevant Professional Experience |
JTB | Joint Training Board |
KEK | National Laboratory for High Energy Physics - Japan |
L3 | LEP Experiment |
LAA | Lepton Asymmetry Analyzer (Project) |
LAC | Logistics Advisory Committee |
LAMal | Loi Federale sur l'Assurance Maladie (Swiss law on health insurance) |
LBL | Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (California) |
LD | Limited Duration (Contract) |
LDEF | Long Duration Exposure Facility |
LEAR | Low Energy Antiproton Ring (presently LEIR) |
LEIR | Low Energy Ion Ring (ex-LEAR) |
LEP | Large Electron-Positron Storage Ring |
LEPC | LEP Experiments Committee |
LFC | Lead/Scintillating Fibres Calorimetry |
LHC | Large Hadron Collider |
LHC-B | LHC Beauty |
LHCC | LHC Experiments Committee |
LIPS | LEP Injector Power Saver |
LTNO | Low Temperature Nuclear Orientation |
MB | Management Board |
MIS | Management Information System |
MIT | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
MOAS | Merit Oriented Advancement Scheme |
MS | Member State |
MSGC | Microstrip Gas Counters |
MSSM | Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model |
MT | Mechanical Technologies Division (presently EST) |
NA48 | The CP Violation experiment |
NMC | New Muon Collaboration |
NMS | Non-member State |
NOMAD | Neutrino Oscillation Magnetic Detector |
NSF | National Science Foundation (USA) |
ODMG | Object Database Management Group |
OFSP | Office Federal de la Sante Publique (CH) |
OO | Object-Oriented (software) |
OPAL | Omni Purpose Apparatus for LEP |
OPRI | Office de Protection contre les Rayonnements Ionisants (CH) |
ORIAC | CERN Accounting System |
OS | Operating System |
OSVC | Ordre de service valant commande ... |
PAA | Panstwowa Agencja Atomistyki (Polish National Atomic Energy Agency) |
PAF | Personnel Action Form |
PC | Personal Computer |
PC | Personnel Coordinator (CERN-PE-HRS) |
PDAS | Paid Associate |
PDSA | Paid Scientific Associates |
PE | Personnel Division |
PHASE | "Physique et Applications des Semi-Conductor (Strasbourg, France)" |
PJAS | Project Associates |
PL | Project Leader |
PLC | Programmable Logic Controllers |
PPA | Programme Project Activity |
PPARC | Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council (UK) |
PPC | Parallel Plate Chambers |
PPE | Particle Physics Experiments Division |
PPP | Purchasing Power Parities |
PS | Proton Synchrotron Division |
PSB | PS Booster |
PSP | Personal Software Process |
QCD | Quantum Chromo Dynamics (theory) |
QGP | Quark-Gluon Plasma |
RADHARD | Radiation Hardness |
RB | Research Board |
RES | Recruitment Service |
RESCO | Review of Employment and Social Conditions |
RF | Radio Frequency |
RICH | Ring Imaging Cherenkov (detectors) |
RO | Recruitment Office |
RP | Radiation Protection |
RPC | Radiation Protection Committee |
RPC | Resistive Plate Chambers |
RPC | Remote Procedure Call (computing) |
RSC | Restaurants Supervisory Committee |
RSOC | Radiation Safety Officers' Committee |
SAPOCO | Safety Policy Committee |
SCC (CCP) | Standing Concertation Committee |
SCF | Strategic Concertation Forum |
SCI | Scaleable Coherent Interface |
SDLT | Software Documentation Layout Templates |
SDT | Software Development Tool |
SERC | Science and Engineering Research Council (UK) |
SIG | Service Industriel de Geneve |
SIN | Schweizer Institut fur Nuklearforschung |
SIPB | Scientific Information Policy Board |
SIRIAC | CERN Commercial Purchasing System |
SL | SPS and LEP Division |
SLAC | Stanford Linear Accelerator Center |
SLC | SLAC Linear Collider |
SLD | Stanford Large Detector |
SLIMOS | Shift Leader in Matters of Safety |
SM | Standard Model |
SMC | Spin Muon Collaboration |
SMD | Silicone Microstrip Detector |
SMD | Surface Mounted Design |
SMSD | Superconducting Microstrip Detectors |
SOI-CMOS | "Silicone-On-Insulator, Complementary Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor" |
SPC | Scientific Policy Committee |
SPI | Software Process Improvement |
SPL | "Supplies, Procurement And Logistics Division" |
SPS | Super Proton Synchrotron |
SPSLC | SPS & Lear Committee |
SR&R; | Staff Rules and Regulations |
SSAC | Senior Staff Advancement Committee |
SSC | Superconducting Supercollider |
ST | Technical Support Division |
STIC | Scintillation Tile Calorimeter |
SUSY | Super Symetry |
TAOIT (ILOAT) | Tribunal Administratif de l'Organisation Internationale du Travail |
TCR | Technical Control Room |
TDR | Technical Design Report |
TDS | Technical Data Server |
TEACC | Technical Engineers and Administrative Careers Committee (ex-STAC) |
TEC | Training Executive Committee |
TECH | Technical Students |
TGT | Thin Gap Turbine |
TH | Theoretical Physics Division |
The NINE | Senior Staff Advisory Committee |
TID | Transaction InterDivisionnaire |
TIS | Technical Inspection and Safety Commission |
TL | Team Leader |
TOF | Time of Flight (Detector) |
TPC | Time Projection Chamber |
TRACE | Tripartite Advisory Committee on Conditions of Employment |
TRD | Transition Radiation Detector |
TREF | Tripartite Employment Conditions Forum |
TSC | Technical Students Selection Committee |
TSO | Territorial Safety Officer |
TTC | "Timing, Trigger and Control" |
UO | Users' Office |
UPAS | Unpaid Associate |
UPSA | Unpaid Scientific Associate |
USAS | Unpaid Associate with Subsistence Allowance |
USERREG | User Registration Interface |
USSA | Unpaid Scientific Associate with Subsistence Allowance |
VFCs | Very Forward Calorimeters |
VIP | Vacuum Image Pipeline |
VM | Virtual Machine |
VN | Vacancy Notice |
WG | Working Group |
WGRPPP | Working Group on the Review of Purchasing Policy and Procedures |
WWW | World Wide Web |
YORICS | Yearly Organizing Reunion of International Civil Servants |
Last modified
27 October, 2021