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Here is an ever growing list of acronyms that are used in connection with the Mu2e project and life at Fermilab. If you can't find an acronym in the table below, try the following very useful sites: A subset of the acronyms below are provided here with
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Corrections and/or suggested additions are very much appreciated. Please send either of these to Steve Werkema (werkema@fnal.gov).
Many of these acronyms have general applicability in the fields of science, engineering, administration, and project management.
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Acronym Meaning
AAP Advanced Acquisition Plan
AC Actual Cost (AC = ACWP)
ACNET Accelerator Controls NETwork
ACWP Actual Cost of Work Performed
AD Accelerator Division
ADC Analog to Digital Converter
A/E Architectural/Engineering
AHU Air Handling Unit
AIP Accelerator Improvement Project
ALARA As Low As Reasonably Achievable
ALD Atomic Layer Deposition
AMB Analog Mother Board
ANSI American National Standards Institute
AOC Acquisition Oversight Committee (Mu2e Solenoids)
AOC Accelerator Oversight Committee
APD Avalanch PhotoDiode
APM [DOE Office of] Acquisition and Project Management (formerly OECM)
AQD Analog Quench Detection
ARR Accelerator Readiness Review
ASAP As Soon As Possible
ASIC Application Specific Integrated Circuit
ASME American Association of Mechanical Engineers
AY $k Actual Year $k (kilo-dollars)
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BAC Budget At Completion
BAO (DOE) Batavia Area Office
BAT Best Available Technology
BBQ Base Band Tune (Q)
BCM Bugeted Cost Midrange
BCP Baseline Change Proposal
BCR Baseline Change Request
BCWP Bugeted Cost of Work Performed
BCWR Bugeted Cost of Work Remaining
BCWS Bugeted Cost of Work Scheduled
BER Bit Error Rate
BES Booster Extraction Sync
BKG BacKGround
BLM Beam Loss Monitor
BMP Best Management Practice
BO Beneficial Occupancy
BOD Beneficial Occupancy Date
BOD Basis of Design
BOE Basis Of Estimate
BOM Bill Of Materials
BPF Band Pass Filter
BPM Beam Position Monitor
B&R Budget & Reporting
BSM Beyond the Standard Model
BSS Business Services Section (Fermilab)
BSSB Beam Switch Sum Box
BTH Below The Hook
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CA Control Account
CA Compressed Air
CAD Computer Aided Design
CAM Control Account Manager
CAP Control Account Plan
CAR Corrective Action Request
CB Current Budget
CC Charged Current
CC Construction Coordinator
CCB Change Control Board
CD Computing Division (Fermilab)
CD Critical Decision
CDC Critical Device Controller
CDR Conceptual Design Report
CE Conversion Electron
CFD Computational Fluid Dynamics
CFO Clock Fan-Out
CFO Control (or Command) Fan-Out
CFR Code of Federal Regulations
CHW CHilled Water
CJP Complete Joint Penetration (weld)
CL Confidence Level
CLFV Charged Lepton Flavor Violation
CMB Counter Mother Board
CML Current Mode Logic
CM Construction Manager
CMM Coordinate Measuring Machine
CMPS Cold Mass Position Sensor
COB Close Of Business
COC Certificate of Conformance
COTS Commercial Off The Shelf
CP Compressed Air
CPI Cost Performance Index (CPI = BCWP/ACWP)
CPU Central Processing Unit
CR Change Request
CRAD Criteria Review and Approach Document
CPR Contract Performance Reports
CRR Construction Readiness Review
CRV Cosmic Ray Veto
CSS Common Site Support
C&SWG Computing & Software Working Group
CTC Chargeable Task Code
CTD Cost To Date
CTD Cumulative To Date
CTR Certified Test Report
CUB Central Utility Building
CV Cost Variance (CV = BCWP - ACWP)
CV% Cost Variance (CV% = CV/BCWP *100%)
CVD Chemical Vapor Deposition
CX Categorical eXclusion
CY Calendar Year
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DA Diagnostic Absorber
DAQ Data AcQuisition (system)
DCCT DC Current Transformer
DCS Detector Control System
D&D Decontamination & Decommissioning
3D BBQ Direct Diode Detection Base-Band Q (accelerator tune measurement instrumentation)
DDS Direct Digital Synthesizer
DHP Distribution High Power
DIF Decay In Flight
DIO Decay In Orbit
DIO Digital Input/Output
DiRAC Digital Readout Assembler Controler
DMA Direct Memory Access
DMB Digital Mother Board
DOE [US] Department Of Energy
DPA Displacements Per Atom
DQD Digital Quench Detection
DQM Data Quality Monitoring
DR Delivery Ring
DS Detector Solenoid
DSB [Mu2e] Detector Service Building
D/S/C [Fermilab] Division / Section / Center
DSE Detector Solenoid Enclosure
DSO Division Safety Officer
DTC Data Transfer Controller
DVM Digital Volt Meter
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EA Eviromental Assessment
EAC Estimate At Completion (ACWP + ETC)
EB Executive Board
EBD External Beams Delivery [AD Department]
ECMAG Extraction C-MAGnet
EDIA Engineering, Design, Inspection, Administration
EDM Electro-Discharge Machining
EIS Environmental Impact Statement
ELAM Extraction LAMbertson (magnet)
ELSA Emergency Life Support Apparatus
EMG Experiment Management Group
ENE Engaging Non-Experts
EOAT End of Arm Tooling (target handling)
EOB End Of Beam
ERA Engineering Risk Analysis
ESAAB Energy Systems Acquisition Advisory Board (DOE)
ESEP Extraction Septum
ES&H Environment, Safety & Health
ESS Electrical Safety System
ESS Electro-Static Septum
ETC Estimate to Completion
EU Estimate Uncertainty
EUF Estimate Uncertainty Factor
EV Earned Value (EV = BCWP)
EVMS Earned Value Management System
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FCC Fermi Construction Coordinator
FCC Feynman Computing Center
FEA Finite Element Analysis
FEB Front End Board
FEE Front End Electronics
FEM Fermilab Engineering Manual
FESHM Fermilab ES&H Manual
FESS Facilities Engineering Services Section (Fermilab)
FF Final Focus
FHiCL Fermilab Hierarchical Configuration Language
FMC FPGA Mezzanine Card
FMEA Failure Mode and Effects Analysis
FMS Field Mapping System
FOA Funding Opportunity Announcement
FONSI Finding Of No Significant Impact
FoV Field of View
FPD Federal Project Director
FPGA Field-Programmable Gate Array
FPT Functinal Performance Test
FRA Fermi Research Alliance
FRCM Fermilab Radiological Controls Manual
FRS Functional Requirements Specification
FSCS Fermilab Site Coordinate System
FSO Fermilab Site Office
FSP Full Scale Prototype
FTBF Fermilab Test Beam Facility
FTE Full Time Equivalent (1 FTE = 1768 hours/year)
FWHM Full Width at Half Maximum
FWP Field Work Proposal
FY Fiscal Year
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GA General Atomics
G&A General and Administrative
G&A Grief and Aggravation
GCC Grid Computing Center
GDML Graphical Display Markup Language
GD&T Geometric Dimensioning & Tolerancing
GFCI Ground Fault Circuit Interrupter
GHe Gaseous Helium
GMPS [Booster] Gradient Magnet Power Supply
GN Goods Not [received] (i.e. a service)
GPP General Plant Project
GR Goods Received
GSF Gross Square Feet
GW Ground Water
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HA Hazard Analysis
HAB Heavy Assembly Building
HAR Hazard Analysis Report
HAZ Heat Affected Zone (of a weld)
HAZCOM HAZard COMmunication
HDPE High Density PolyEthylene
HEPA High Efficiency Particulate Air [Filter]
HEPAP High Energy Physics Advisory Panel
HMI Human Machine Interface
HPC High Performance Computing
HPGe High Purity Germanium
HPI Human Performance Improvement
HPS Hard Processor System
HRM Hot-link Rack Monitor
HRS Heat and Radiation Shield
HTS High Temperature Superconducting
HV High Vacuum (10-3 - 10-7 torr)
HV High Voltage
HVAC Heating, Ventilation, Air Conditioning
HVFT High Voltage Feed-Through
HVSO High Voltage Stand-Off
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IARC Illinois Accelerator Research Center
IB Institutional Board
IBC International Building Code
ICB Industrial Center Building
ICD Interface Control Document
ICE Independent Cost Estimate
ICR Independent Cost Review
ICW Industrial Cooling Water
ID Inside Diameter
IDR Independent Design Review
IEAC Independent Estimate At Completion
IFB Instrumentation Feed-through Bulkhead
I&M Inspection & Maintenance
INA Internal Neutron Absorber
INFN Instituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare
IPA Inner Proton Absorber
IPM Ion Profile Monitor
IPR Independent Project Review
IPT Integrated Project Team
IR InfraRed
ISM Integrated Safety Management
ISMS Integrated Safety Management System
ITD Inception To Date
ITNA Individual Training Needs Assessment
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JSA Job Safety Analysis
JHA Job Hazard Analysis
J-PARC Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex
KPP Key Performance Parameter
KPI Key Performance Indicator
LDPE Low Density PolyEthylene
LDRD Laboratory Directed Research and Development
LED Light Emitting Diode
LEED Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design
LEL Lower Explosive Limit
LCW Low Conductivity Water
LHe Liquid Helium
LL Lower Limit
LLRF Low Level RF
LN2 Liquid Nitrogen
LOE Level Of Effort
LOI Letter Of Intent
LOI Line Of Inquiry
LOTO Lock Out Tag Out
LV Low Voltage
LVDS Low Voltage Data Signal
LUT Look Up Table
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M4DA M4 Diagnostic Absorber
MAD Mu2e Acronym Dictionary
MAD Methodical Accelerator Design
MAWP Maximum Allowable Working Pressure
MB Muon Beamline
MBL Muon Beam Line
MBS Muon Beam Stop
MC Muon Campus
MCR Main Control Room
M&D Mainenance & Development
MDAT Machine DATa
MDC Mock Data Challenge
MECO Muon to Electron COnversion
MERL Mobile Environmental Radiation Laboratory (Fermilab)
MHNOD Meeting Happened - No One Died
MI Main Injector
MIBS Main Injector Beam Sync
MIE Major Item of Equipment (Project)
MIL-STD Military Standard
MLI Multi-Layer Installation
M&O Management & Operations
MOA Memorandum Of Agreement
MOU Memorandum Of Understanding
MR Management Reserve
M&S Materials & Services
MSA Materials & Services Acquisition
MSDS Material Safety Data Sheet
MSS Master Sub-Station
MTBF Mean Time Between Failures
MTE Measuring and Test Equipment
MTF Magnet Test Facility
MTM Major Tool & Machine
MTTF Mean Time To Failure
MVA Multi Variate Analysis
MW Multi-Wire [chamber]
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NC Neutral Current
NCE Nuclear Counter Effect
NDE Non-Destructive Examination
NEC National Electric Code
NEPA National Environmental Policy Act
NIEL Non-Ionizing Energy Loss
NIST National Institute of Standards and Technology
NLU Nitrogen Let Up
NOνA NuMI Off-axis neutrino (ν) Appearance (experiment)
NP New Physics
NPDES National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System
NRTL Nationally Recognised Testing Laboratory
NuMI Neutrinos (Nu) at the Main Injector
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OAPM Office of Acquisition and Project Management (DOE - formerly OECM)
OBS Organizational Breakdown Structure
OCR Operational Readiness Clearance
ODC Other Direct Cost
OD Outside Diameter
ODH Oxygen Deficiency Hazard
OECM Office of Engineering & Construction Management (DOE - changed name to OAPM)
OEM Original Equipment Manufacturer
OFI Opportunity For Improvement
OGC Office of General Counsel
OH OverHead
OHAP Organization and Human Asset Plan
OHEP Office of High Energy Physics (DOE)
OJT On the Job Training
OOT Out Of Time
OOT Out Of Target
OPA Office of Project Assessment (DOE)
OPA Outer Proton Absorber
OPC Other Project Costs
OPC Open Platform Communications
OPTO Other Paid Time Off
OR Occurance Report
ORC Operational Readiness Clearance
ORR Operational Readiness Review
OSHA Occupational Safety and Health Administration
OSTI Office of Science and Technical Information (DOE)
OTS Off The Shelf
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P5 Particle Physics Project Prioritization Panel
PA Preliminary Assessment
PA Proton Absorber
PAAS Panel Assembly and Alignment System
PARS Project Assessment and Reporting System
PC Protection Collimator
PCB Printed Circuit Board
PCS Project Controls Specialist
PDF Probability Density Function
PDI Precision Digital Integrator
PDU Power Distribution Unit
PE Photo Electron(s)
PED Project Engineering and Design
PEMP Performance Evaluation and Measurement Plan
PEP Project Execution Plan
PHAR Preliminary Hazard Analysis Report
PHP Panel High Power
PID Particle IDentification
PID Proportional-Integral-Derivative
P&ID Piping & Instrumentation Diagram
PII Personally Identifiable Information
PIP Proton [Source] Improvement Project
PLC Phase Locked Clock
PLC Programable Logic Circuit (Controler)
PLL Phase Locked Loop
PMB Performance Measurement Baseline
PMG Project Management Group
PM Project Manager
PMP Project Management Plan
PMT Performance Measurement Type
PMT Photo Multiplier Tube
PO Purchace Order
POC Point of Contact
POG Performance Oversight Group
POT Proton(s) On Target
PP Planning Package
PPD Particle Physics Division
PPE Personal Protective Equipment
PRA Primavera Risk Analysis
PREP Physics Research Equipment Pool
PRR Production Readiness Review
PS Production Solenoid
PS Program Support
PSA Preliminary Shielding Assessment
PSE Power Source Equipment
PSE Production Solenoid Endcap
PSS Project Support Services (FNAL - formerly OPMO)
P&T Packaging & Transportation
PTPM Precision Time Profile Monitor
PV Price Variance
PV Principle Value (Integration)
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QA Quality Assurance
QAP Quality Assurance Plan
QAM Quality Assurance Manual
QBD Quantifiable Backup Data
QC Quality Control
QE Quantum Efficiency
QN Quality Notification
QPS Quench Protection System
RAL Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
RAM Responsibility Assignment Matrix
RAM Random Access Memory
RAW RadioActive Water (system)
RCM Regulation and Controls Modules (for beamline magnet power supplies)
RF Radio Frequency
RFC RF Cycles
RFKO RF KnockOut
RFI Request For Information
RFP Request For Proposal
RFQ Request For Quote
RGA Residual Gas Analyzer
RH [Target] Remote Handling
RHR Remote Handling Room
RIP Requisition In Process
RLS Resource Loaded Schedule
RMC Radiative Muon Capture
RMD Radiation Monitoring Devices (Inc.)
ROC Read-Out Controller
ROC Remote Operating Center (in Wilson Hall)
RPC Radiative Pion Capture
RPOS Radial POSition (of the beam)
RR Recycler Ring
RRA Roles, Responsibilities, and Authorities
RRBS Recycler Ring Beam Sync
RRR Residual Resistivity Ratio -- "Triple R"
RSO Radiation Safety Officer
RSS Radiation Safety System
RTD Resistance Temperature Detector
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SA Self Assessment
SA Shielding Assessment
SAMs Safety Alert Monitors
SBIR Small Business Innovation Research
SBC Single Board Computer
SAD Safety Assessment Document
SC (DOE Office of) SCience
SDF Spill Duty Factor
SEE Single Event Effect
SEM Secondary Emission Monitor
SERDES SERializer/DESerializer
SEU Single Event Upset
SEWS Site Emergency Warning System
SI Systéme International (Units)
SiC Silicon Carbide
SiPM Silicon PhotoMultiplier
SL-APD Super Lattice APD
SLR Short Lived Radionuclide
SLR Standard Labor Rate
SME Subject Matter Expert
SMR Spherically Mounted Retroreflector
SOC System On a Chip
SOM System On a Module
SOW Statement Of Work
SP&A Schedule, Performance & Actuals
SPI Schedule Performance Index (SPI = BCWP/BCWS)
SPIRES Standford Public Information REtrieval System
SPS Special Process Spares
SRS SSpill Regulation System
SRSO Senior Radiation Safety Officer
SS Simply Supported
SSO Senior Safety Officer
STEL Short-Term Exposure Limit
STFC Science & Technology Facilities Council (UK)
STM Stopping Target Monitor
SV Schedule Variance (SV = BCWP - BCWS)
SV% Schedule Variance (SV% = SV/BCWS *100%)
SVT Schedule Visibility Task
SVAR Security Vulnerability Assessment Report
SWF Salary, Wages & Fringe (or, Salary With Fringe)
SWAG Scientific Wild Ass Guess
SWIC Segmented Wire Ion Chamber
SWPPP Storm Water Pollution Protection Plan
SX Slow eXtraction
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TARs Tone Alert Receivers
TB Tech Board
TCLK Tevatron CLocK
TCMI Transverse Mode Coupling Instability
TCP/IP Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol
TD [Fermilab] Technical Division
TDAQ Trigger & Data AcQuisition
TDR Technical Design Report
TEC Total Estimated Cost
TGA ThermoGravimetric-Analysis
TID Total Integrated Dose
TLA Three Letter Acronym
TLD ThermoLuminescent Dosimeter
TLDR Too Long - Didn't Read
TLG Time Line Generator
TLM Total Loss Monitor
T&M Time and Material
TOF Time Of Flight
ToT Time over Threshold
TOT Transition to Operations Team
TPC Total Project Cost
TPG Thermal Pyrolytic Graphite
TPM Transverse Profile Monitor
TS Transport Solenoid
TSD Target Systems Department (in AD)
TSW Technical Scope of Work
TTD Task Transition Detail
TTO Transition To Operations
TV Total Value (TV = BAC)
TWA Time Weighted Average
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UB Undistributed Budget
UDL Uniformly Distributed Load
UEL Upper Explosive Limit
UEM Upstream Extinction Monitor
UHMW Ultra-High Molecular Weight
UHV Ultra-High Vacuum (< 10-7 torr)
UL Upper Limit
URA Universities Research Association
UTS Ultimate Tensile Strength
UV Ultra-Violet
UVa University of Virginia
VAC Variance At Completion (VAC = BAC - EAC)
VAR Variance Analysis Report
VE Value Engineering
VMTF Vertical Magnet Test Facility
VOF Vacation OPTO Fringe
VPSP Vacuum Pump Spool Piece
VPI Vacuum Pressure Impregnation
VSD Variable Speed Drive
VST Vertical Slice Test
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WAD Work Authorization Document
WAAF Workplace Activities Analysis Form
WAG Wild Ass Guess
WBS Work Breakdown Structure
WCM Wall Current Monitor
WD Waveform Digitizer
WIP Work In Progress
WLS Wave Length Shifting
WP Work Package
WPM Work Package Manager
WR Work Remaining (WR = BAC - BCWP)
WYE Work Year Equivalent (Same as FTE - usually applied to contractor work)
XRF X-Ray Fluorescence
YTD Year-To-Date
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