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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |