FCC Glossary
A glossary of HEP and FCC-specific terms and concepts.
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Summary of terms
- AP: Analysis Preservation
- AFS
- Bookkeeping
- BX: Bunch crossing
- Calo: Calorimeters
- CC7: CentOS CERN 7
- CCT magnet: Canted-Cosine-Theta magnet
- CDR: Conceptual Design Report
- CLD: CLIC-like Detector
- CVMFS: CERN Virtual Machine File System
- Condor: see HTCondor
- DIRAC: Distributed Infrastructure with Remote Agent Control
- DC: Drift chamber
- DCA: Distance Of Closest Approach
- ECAL: Electromagnetic Calorimeter
- eta
- EvtGen
- ERL: Energy Recovery Linac
- EDM: Event Data Model
- EDM4HEP
- FF quad: Final Focus quadropole
- FT: Flavour Tagging
- Gaudi
- Gauss
- GDML
- GEANT4: GEometry ANd Tracking 4
- GPD: General Purpose Detector
- Grid Certificate
- GuineaPig
- HCAL: Hadronic Calorimeter
- HEPPY
- HLT: High Level Trigger
- HOM: Higher Order Modes
- HS06
- HSF: HEP Software Foundation
- HTCondor
- IDEA
- IP: Interaction Point
- IPC: Incoherent Pair Creation
- IR: Interaction Region
- Kalman Filter
- Key4HEP
- LGAD: Low gain avalanche detectors
- LEP
- LEP3
- LHCb
- LHeC
- Luminosity Levelling (lumi levelling)
- MADX
- MDI: Machine-Detector Interface
- MDISim
- MoU: Memorandum of Understanding
- mu
- OT: Outer Tracker
- Panoramix
- PHOTOS
- PID: Particle identification
- Power cycle
- Productions
- Project (Software Project)
- Pseudorapidity
- PV: Primary Vertex
- Pythia
- RICH: Ring Imaging Cherenkov Detectors
- RTA: Real-Time Analysis
- SAD
- Scientific Linux CERN (SLC)
- Site (Grid)
- SR: Synchrotron Radiation
- SynRad+
- TDR: Technical Design Report
- Tier (Grid)
- Track
- UFO: Unidentified falling object
- VO: Virtual Organisation
- WLCG: Worldwide LHC Computing Grid
- X.509
- XRootD
- ZS: Zero Suppression