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| Acronym |
|---|
| AGN - Active Galactic Nucleus |
| ALICE - LHC experiment |
| AMS - Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (particle physics experiment in the ISS) |
| AEEF - Alphasat Environment and Effects Facility (ESA) |
| AHEAD - Integrated Activities for the High Energy Astrophysics Domain (H2020) |
| AI - Artificial intelligence |
| Alphasat - the largest European telecom satellite (ESA) |
| AMBER - Apparatus for Meson and Baryon Experimental (CERN) |
| AMEGO - All-sky Medium Energy Gamma-ray Observatory (NASA) |
| ANI - National Innovation Agency (Agência Nacional de Inovação) |
| ANIMEE - Associação Portuguesa das Empresas do Sector Elétrico e Eletrónico |
| APPEC - Astroparticle Physics European Consortium |
| ASIC - Application Specific Integrated Circuit |
| AT - Advanced Training |
| ATLAS - A Toroidal LHC ApparatuS (general-purpose experiment at the LHC |
| Auger - Pierre Auger Observatory (Argentina) |
| BEXUS - Balloon Experiments for University Students |
| BIN - Brain Imaging Network |
| biodata.pt - Portuguese distributed e-infrastructure for biological data |
| BioISI - Instituto de Biossistemas e Ciências Integrativas |
| BTL - Barrel Timing Layer (CMS) |
| BSM - Beyond the Standard Model |
| CBPF - Brazilian Centre for Research in Physics (Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Físicas) |
| CC - Competence Centre |
| CCMC - Monitoring and Control Competence Centre (LIP) |
| CEFITEC - Centre for Physics and Technological Research, NOVA (Centro de Física e Investigação Tecnológica) |
| CENTRA - Centre for Astrophysics and Gravitation |
| CERN- European Laboratory for Particle Physics, Geneva, Switzerland |
| CFTC - Centre for Theoretical and Computational Physics, FCUL (Centro de Física Teórica e Computacional) |
| CFTP - Centre for Theoretical Particle Physics, IST (Centro de Física Teórica de Partículas) |
| CHUC - Coimbra University Hospital Center (Centro Hospitalar e Universitário de Coimbra) |
| COMPASS - Common Muon and Proton Apparatus for Structure and spectroscopy (CERN experiment) |
| CMS - Compact Muon Solenoid (general-purpose experiment at the LHC) |
| CNAO - National Centre for Oncological Hadrontherapy, Italy (Centro Nazionale Adroterapia Oncologica) |
| CNC - Computer Numerical Control (refers to computer controlled machine or tool) |
| CNES - French Space Agency (Centre National d'Études Spatulas) |
| CoastNet - Portuguese Coastal Monitoring Network |
| COVID-19 - Disease caused by the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 |
| CP - Charge Parity (symmetry) |
| CPCA - FCT Call for Advanced Computing Projects (2020) |
| Copernicus - Satellite-based European Union's Earth Observation Programme |
| CR - Cosmic Rays |
| CS -Control System |
| CTA - Cherenkov Telescope Array |
| CTN - Nuclear Technology Campus, IST (Campus Tecnológico e Nuclear) |
| CTTB - Component Technology Test Bed |
| CV - Agência Ciência Viva |
| DAQ - Data Acquisition System |
| DCS - Detector Control System |
| DBD - Double Beta Decay |
| DELPHI - Detector with Electron, Photons and Hadron Identification, experiment at LEP (CERN) |
| DIAS - Data and Information Access Services |
| DIS - Deep Inelastic scattering |
| DL - Detectors Laboratory (LIP) |
| DQM - Data Quality Manager |
| DUNE - Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (CERN/FermiLab) |
| EC - European Council |
| ECAL - Electromagnetic Calorimeter (CMS) |
| ECFA - European Committee for Future Accelerators |
| ECO - Education, Communication and Outreach |
| ECOTOP - Ecology and Conservation of Top Predators group (MARE) |
| eCRLab - Cosmic Rays Electronics Laboratory (LIP) |
| EEE - Electronic and Electric Engineering |
| EFACEC - Portuguese company, operating in the energy and transportation sector |
| EGI - European Grid Infrastructure |
| EGI-ACE - European Open Science Cloud implementation project |
| EOSC - European Open Science Cloud |
| EPPCN - European Particle Physics Outreach Network |
| ERC - European Research Council |
| ESA - European Space Agency |
| ESFRI - European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures |
| ESPP - European Strategy for Particle Physics |
| ESPPU - European Strategy for Particle Physics Update |
| ESS - European Spallation Source |
| EU - European Union |
| EUDAT-CDI - European Collaborative Data Infrastructure |
| EURATOM - European Atomic Energy Community |
| EuroCC - H2020 EU project for HPC coordination |
| EuroHPC - European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking |
| eV - electron-Volt (unit of energy; the energy of an electron under 1 Volt; multiples are: keV, MeV, GeV, TeV, PeV, EeV) |
| EVOLEO - Portuguese company, operating in the electronic engineering sector |
| FAIR - Principles for Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability, and Reuse of digital assets |
| FAIR - Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research (GSI) |
| FARE - Fake News and Real People (ERC project at LIP) |
| FCC - Future Circular Collider |
| FAPESP - Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo |
| FCCN - Fundação para o Cálculo Científico Nacional (FCT) |
| FCT - Foundation for Science and Technology, Portugal (Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia) |
| FCUL - Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa |
| Fermilab - Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Illinois, USA |
| FD - Fluorescence Detector (in Auger) |
| FOV - Field of View |
| FPGA - Field-programmable gate array (integrated circuit) |
| GBIF - Global Biodiversity Network |
| GHIPOFG - Portuguese Institute of Oncology (Grupo Hospitalar Instituto Português de Oncologia Francisco Gentil) |
| GEO - Geostationary orbit |
| GPU - Graphics processing unit |
| GRB - Gamma-Ray Burst |
| GRD - Ground (electricity) |
| GSI - Helmholtz Centre for heavy ion research, in Darmstadt, Germany |
| GSTP - General Support Technology Programme, ESA |
| HEP - High Energy Physics (or Particle Physics) |
| HiRezBrainPET - Project for Brain imaging by high resolution PET (LIP participation) |
| HL-LHC - High-Luminosity LHC |
| Horizon 2020 - EC Framework Program for Research & Innovation 2014-2020 |
| HADES - High Acceptance Di-Electron Spectrometer (experiment at GSI) |
| Horizon Europe - EC Framework Program for Research & Innovation 2021-2027 |
| HPC - High Performance Computing |
| HR - Human Resources |
| HTC - High Throughput Computing |
| HV - High Voltage |
| Hyper-K - Hyper-Kamiokande (planned neutrino physics experiment in Japan) |
| IBEB - Institute for Biophysics and Biomedical Engineering, FCUL |
| IBERGRID - Iberian Computing Grid Infrastructure |
| ICNAS - Institute for Nuclear Sciences Applied to Health (Instituto de Ciências Nucleares Aplicadas à Saúde) |
| ICT - Information and Communications Technologies |
| IDPASC - International Doctorate Network on Particle Physics, Astrophysics and Cosmology |
| INAF - Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (Italy) |
| IGC - Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência |
| ILO - Industrial Liaisons Officer |
| IMEM - Istituto dei Materiali per l’Elettronica e il Magnetismo (Parma, Italy) |
| INCD - National Infrastructure for Distributed Computing (Infraestrutura Nacional de Computação Distribuída) |
| INCoDe2030 - National Initiative for Digital Competences, Portugal, (Iniciativa Nacional de Competências Digitais) |
| INESC - Institute for Systems and Computer Engineering (Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores) |
| INFN - Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (Italy) |
| INTERFACE - Portuguese government programme for KT and business innovation |
| IPC - Instituto Politécnico de Coimbra |
| IPPOG - International Particle Physics Outreach Collaboration |
| ISS - International Space Station |
| IST - Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa |
| IT - Information Technologies |
| ITN - Innovative Training Networks, a EU Marie Skłodowska-Curie action |
| ITQB - Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica (NOVA) |
| JUICE - Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (ESA) |
| KT - Knowledge Transfer |
| LAr - Liquid argon |
| LEO - Low Earth Orbit |
| LEP - Large electron positron collider (past CERN accelerator) |
| LCRM - Low-Cost Radiation Monitor |
| LHC - Large Hadron Collider (at CERN) |
| LHCb - LHC experiment |
| LHCC - LHC experiments Committee |
| LIP - Laboratory for Instrumentation and Particle Physics |
| LNEC - Laboratório Nacional de Engenharia Civil |
| LOMaC - Laboratório de Óptica e Materiais Cintilantes (Optics and Scintillating materials lab) |
| LUX - Large Underground Xenon (dark matter experiment, at SURF) |
| LXe - Liquid xenon |
| LZ - Dark Matter experiment at SURF (merge of LUX and ZEPLIN experiments) |
| MACC - Minho Advanced Computing Centre |
| MARE - Marine and Environmental Sciences Centre |
| MarsREM - Mars Radiation Environment Models |
| MFS - MultiFunctional Spectrometer |
| MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA |
| MIP - Minimum Ionizing Particle |
| ML - Machine Learning |
| MoU - Memorandum of Understanding |
| MSc - ‘Master of Science’ (M.Sc.) degree |
| MW - Mechanical Workshop (LIP) |
| M&O - Maintenance and Operations |
| NA38 - CERN SPS experiment |
| NA50 - CERN SPS experiment |
| NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration (USA) |
| NDBD - Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay |
| NEI - European Researchers Night (Noite Europeia dos Investigadores) |
| NEXT - Neutrino Experiment with a Xenon TPC |
| NOVA - Universidade Nova de Lisboa |
| NOVA SBE - School of Business and Economics at Universidade Nova de Lisboa |
| NPstrong - Nuclear Physics and strong interactions (LIP) |
| NREN - National Research and Educational Network |
| NP - New Physics |
| NUC-RIA - Nuclear reactions and Astrophysics experimental group (LIP) |
| O-PGI - Orthogonal Prompt-Gamma Imaging |
| OR-imaging - Ortogonal Ray imaging |
| Ortho-CT - Orthogonal Computer Tomography |
| PANDA - experiment at FAIR, GSI |
| PCB - Printed Circuit Board |
| PERIN - Portugal-Europe R&I Network (ANI) |
| PET - Positron Emission Tomography |
| PhD - ‘Doctor of Philosophy’ (Ph.D.) degree |
| Pheno - Phenomenology group (LIP) |
| PI - Principal Investigator |
| PIPS - Portuguese Interplanetary Particle Surveyor (ESA contract for Mercury mission) |
| PORBIOTA - Portuguese Infrastructure for Information and Research on Biodiversity |
| ProtoDUNE - Prototype of the DUNE detector, installed at CERN |
| PPS - Precision Proton Spectrometer |
| PQCD - Partons and QCD (LIP) |
| ProtoTera - Association for Proton Therapy and Advanced Technologies for the Prevention and Treatment of Cancer |
| PS - Proton Synchrotron (CERN) |
| PT Space - Portuguese Space Agency |
| QCD - Quantum Chromodynamics |
| QED - Quantum Electrodynamics |
| QGP - Quark Gluon Plasma |
| R3B - Reactions with Relativistic Radioactive Beams (GSI experiment) |
| RADEM - RADiation hard Electron Monitor for ESA’s JUICE mission |
| RD51 - CERN collaboration of detector R&D |
| RICA - Iberian Network for Advanced Computing (Rede Ibérica de Computação Avançada) |
| RICH - Ring Imaging Cherenkov detector |
| RIS3 - Research and Innovation Strategy for Smart Specialisation |
| RNCA - National Network for Advanced Computing (Rede Nacional de Computação Avançada) |
| RPC - Resistive Plate Chamber (gaseous detector) |
| RPC-TOF-FD - RPC TOF Forward Detector (HADES) |
| RPC-TOF-W - RPC TOF Wall (HADES) |
| R&D - Research and Development |
| R&I - Research and Innovation |
| SARS - Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome |
| SciCom - Science Communication |
| SD - Surface Detector (in Auger) |
| SHiP - Search for Hidden Particles (CERN) |
| SLB - Synchronization Link Board (CMS ECAL) |
| SM - Standard Model (of particle physics) |
| SND - Scattering and Neutrino Detector (SHiP) |
| SNO+ - Sudbury Neutrino Observatory, at SNOLAB. SNO+ is the successor of SNO |
| SNOLAB - Underground science laboratory, Ontario, Canada |
| SPAC - Social Physics and Complexity (LIP) |
| SPENVIS - Space Environment Information System (ESA) |
| SPF - Portuguese Physical Society |
| SPS - Super Proton Synchrotron |
| STEM - Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics |
| SURF - Sanford Underground Research Facility (USA) |
| SWGO - Southern Wide-field Gamma-ray Observatory |
| TA - Telescope Array |
| TACC - Texas Advanced Computing Center |
| TagusLIP - LIP laboratory at the Tagus Park business campus |
| TDAQ - Trigger and Data Acquisition System |
| TileCal - ATLAS Tile Calorimeter (ATLAS hadron calorimeter) |
| ToF - Time-of-Flight |
| TOF - Time-of-Flight |
| TPC - Time Projection Chamber (detector) |
| TRISTAN - name of a specific RPC-based detector |
| TT - Technology transfer |
| UC - Universidade de Coimbra |
| ULisboa - Universidade de Lisboa |
| UM - Universidade do Minho |
| WLCG - Worldwide LHC Computing Grid |
| WLS - Wavelength Shifter (referring to optical fibres) |
| ZEPLIN - Zoned Proportional scintillation in Liquid Noble gases, series of dark matter experiments (UK) |