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