APS Acronyms
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
ACIS Accelerator Access Control & Interlock System
ADD Associate Division Director
AES APS Engineering Support Division (ANL)
AES area emergency supervisor
AFM atomic force microscope
AIC Argonne Information Center
AIM Argonne Information Management System
ALARA as low as reasonably achievable
ALD Associate Laboratory Director
ALFF Argonne Linear FEL
AMOS Argonne Materials Ordering System
ANL Argonne National Laboratory
ANSI American National Standards Institute
APD avalanche
photodiode
APS Advanced Photon Source
APSUO Advanced
Photon Source Users Organization
APS RES Advanced
Photon Source research initiative
ASD Accelerator Systems Division (ANL)
ATLAS Argonne Tandem-Linac Accelerator System (ANL)
ATI Argonne Theory Institute (ANL)
BAC
Beam
Time Allocation Committee
BCM bent-crystal monochromator
BCTF Beamline Component Test Facility
BRC Beamline Review Committee
BCRRT Beamline Commissioning Readiness Review Team
BESSY Berliner Elektronenspeicherring-Gesellschaft fur Synchrotronstrahlung
BIO
Biosciences Division (ANL)
BLEPS beamline equipment protection system
BM bending magnet
BNL Brookhaven National Laboratory
BPM beam position monitor
CAT Collaborative Access Team
CBT computer-based training
CCD charge coupled device
CCST Coordination Council for Science and Technology
CDT Collaborative Development Team
CHM Chemistry Division (ANL)
CHESS Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source
CLO central laboratory/office (building)
CM configuration management
CMS chemical management system
CMB Center for Mechanistic Biology and Biotechnology (ANL)
CMT Chemical Engineering Division (ANL)
CNM Center for Nanoscale Materials Division (ANL)
COATS corrective action tracking
system
CPR cardiopulmonary resuscitation
CPU circularly polarized
undulator
CST coherent synchrotron radiation
CT compact tension
CVD chemical vapor deposition
DBPLD digitizing beam position limit detectors
DCC Document Control Center
DCM double-crystal monochromator
DD Deputy Director
DEC Digital Equipment Corporation
DEP Division of Educational Programs (ANL)
DESY Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron
DIS Decision and Information Sciences Division (ANL)
DIW deionized water
DMM double-multilayer monochromator
DOD U.S. Department of Defense
DOE U.S. Department of Energy
DOT U.S. Department of Transportation
DX Design Exchange
DXRL deep x-ray lithography
EAA experiment assembly area
EMW elliptical multipole wiggler
EPICS Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System
EPS equipment protection system
EQO ESH/QA Oversight Group
ES Energy Systems Division (ANL)
ESAF Experiment Safety Approval Form
ES&H environment, safety, and health
ESH-TR ESH Division, Training Section
ESRB Experimental Safety Review Board
ESRF European Synchrotron Radiation Facility
ETS equipment tracking system
FDR final design report
FE front end (beamline)
FEA finite element analysis
FEEPS front-end equipment protection system
FEL free-electron laser
FOE first optics enclosure
FV fast valve
FWHM full width half maximum
GERT General Employee Radiation Training
GFCI ground
fault circuit interrupter
GU General User
GUP General User Program
HazMats hazardous materials
HDF hierarchical data format
HEP High Energy Physics Division (HEP)
IAC Infrastructure Assurance Center (ANL)
ICMS integrated content management system
ID insertion device
IPNS Intense Pulsed Neutron Source Division (ANL)
IOC input/output controller
IR infra-red
ISI interlock systems and instrumentation
ISM integrated safety management
JHQ Job Hazard Questionnaire
LDAE laser doppler angular encoder
LDDM laser doppler displacement meter
LDRD Laboratory Directed Research & Development
LN2 liquid nitrogen
LNDS liquid nitrogen distribution system
LOI Letter of Intent
LOM laboratory/office module
LOTO lockout/tagout
LTP long trace profiler
LSO Laser Safety Officer
MCD magnetic circular dichroism
MCS Mathematics and Computer Science Division (ANL)
MCS magnetic compton scattering
MCR Main Control Room
MEMS micro-electromechanical systems
MOU memorandum of
understanding
MPS machine protection system
MSD Materials Science Division (ANL)
MSDS material safety data sheet
nbbpm narrow band beam position monitor
NE Nuclear Engineering Division (ANL)
NFPA National Fire Protection Association
OJT on-the-job training
ORPS Occurrence Reporting and
Processing System
OUI operator/user interface
PD position description
PDR preliminary design report
PHOENIX phonon excitation by nuclear inelastic absorption
of x-rays
PHY Physics Division (ANL)
PI principal investigator
PIN personal identification number
PLC programmable logic controller
PMMA Polymethylmethacrylate
PPE personal protective equipment
PRP general
user proposal review panels
PS1 photon shutter 1
PS2 photon shutter 2
PSD power spectral density function
PSS personnel safety system
PUC Partner
User Council
PUP Partner User Proposal
PZT piezoelectric transducer
QA quality assurance
QAP quality assurance plan
QAPP quality assurance program
plan
QAR quality assurance
representative
RBC red blood cells
R&D research & development
RSSC Radioactive Sample Safety Committee
RE rare earth
rf
radio frequency
RGA residual gas analyzer
RMD repair, modify, and develop system
rms root mean square
SAC Scientific
Advisory Committee
SAD safety assessment document
SASE self-amplified spontaneous emission
SBC Structural Biology Center (ANL)
SGM spherical grating monochromator
SI strategic initiative
SMART Safety Management Records
Tool
SOC Safety
Overview Committee
SPring-8 Super Photon Ring – 8 GeV
SRI synchrotron radiation instrumentation
SRO service request order
SSC structures, systems, and
components
SXM scanning x-ray microscope
T
TEY total electron yield
TIS Technical Information Services
TLD thermoluminescent dosimeter
TMS training management system
TTL transitor-transitor logic
TTRDC Transportation Technology R&D Center (ANL)
TTU topo test unit
TWG InterCAT Technical Workgroup
UA undulator A
UHV ultrahigh vacuum
URL uniform resource locator
UTIG User Technical Interface Group
VDOS vibrational density of states
VUV vacuum ultraviolet
XBPM x-ray beam position monitor
XFCS x-ray fluorescence correlation spectroscopy
XFT x-ray fluorescence tomography
XFM x-ray fluorescence microscopy
XIFS x-ray intensity fluctuation spectroscopy
XMD x-ray microdiffraction
XMDC x-ray magnetic circular dichroism
XMSAS x-ray microbeam small-angle scattering
XPS x-ray polarization and spectroscopy
XSD X-ray Science Division (ANL)