- I
- The physical symbol that indicates current flow in an
electrical circuit.
- I&C
- Instrumentation and Control. Obsolete. See CD.
- I/O
- Input/Output.
- IAB
- Internet Architecture Board. A technical advisory group of
the Internet Society, whose responsibilties include overseeing
the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and the Internet
Standards process, and publishing and managing Request for
Comments (RFCs).
- IACT
- The actual current in a magnet displayed by the computer at
the last update.
- IACT
- Imaging Air Cherenkov Telescopes.
- IAEA
- International Atomic Energy Agency.
- IARC
- International Agency for Research on Cancer.
- IATA
- International Air Transport Association.
- IBBH
- Intermediate Binary Black Hole
- IBFFM
- Interacting Boson-Fermion-Fermion Model
- IBM
- Interactive Boson Model
- IC
- Ionization Chamber. A device for detecting ionizing
radiation consisting of two high-voltage electrodes in a gas-
filled chamber. The current passing between these electrodes
through the ionized gas is proportional to the level of radiation
causing the ionization. It is often used in beam lines to detect
beam loss. Also a VAX primary.
- IC
- Integrated Circuit.
- IC
- Incident Commander.
- ICALEPCS
- International Conference on Accelerator and Large
Experimental Physics and Control Systems.
- ICAO
- International Civil Aviation Organization.
- ICARUS
- Imagining Cosmic and Rare Underground Signals (detector,
Gran Sasso, Italy)
- ICB
- International Collaboration Board (ILC).
- IceCube
- A neutrino detector currently under construction at the
South Pole .
- ICFA
- International Committee for Future Accelerators.
- ICHEP
- International Conference on High Energy Physics.
- ICLRT
- International Center for Lightning Research and Testing.(FL)
- ICM
- IntraCluster Media
- ICMP
- Internet Control Message Protocol. See PING.
- ICMP
- Internet Control Message Protocol (see PING)
- ICS
- Incident Command System.
- ICS
- Inverse Compton Scattering
- ICSC
- International Committee for Science Communication.
- ICSC
- International Centre for Scientific Culture.
- ICSU
- International Council for Science.
- IDA
- Institute for Defense Analysis.
- IDAG
- International Detector Advisory Group. (ILC)
- IDE
- Integrated Development Environment.
- IDIM
- Isolated Digital Input Module. A CAMAC module with 32
individuals status input bits.
- IDLH
- Immediately Dangerous to Life and Health. An atmospheric
level of a substance which will result in death or irreversible
illness to an individual exposed for more than 30 minutes.
- IDOM
- Isolated Digital Output Module. A CAMAC module with 32
channels of opto-isolated output incorporating full control and
read-back of output conditions.
- IEEE
- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
- IEPM
- Internet End-to-end Performance Monitoring.
- IETF
- Internet Engineering Task Force. One of the task forces of
the IAB. The IETF is responsible for solving short-term
engineering needs of the Internet.
- IFB
- Invitation For Bids.
- IFEFFIT
- An inteactive program for XAFS analysis. (Matt Newville,
CARS, Uni versity of Chicago).
- IFEL
- Inverse Free Electron Laser
- IFR
- Instrument/instrumented Flux Return.
- IFSH
- Institut fur Friedensfoschung und SicherHeitspolitik
(Universitat Hamburg). (Institute for Peace Research and Security
Policy).
- IGBT
- Insulateed Gate Bipolar Transistor.
- IGCC
- Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation.
- IGEC
- International Gravitational Event Collaboration (US, Italy,
CERN, Australia)
- IGES
- Initial Graphics Exchange Standard.
- IGM
- Inter-Galactic Medium
- Ignitable
- Capable of burning or causing a fire.
- IGP
- Interior Gateway Protocol. The generic term applied to any
protocol used to propagate network reachability and routing
information within an autonomous system.
- IGRT
- Image Guided RadioTherapy.
- IH
- Industrial Hygiene.
- IHEM
- In-House Energy Management.
- IHEP
- Institute for High Energy Physics (Protvino, Russia)
- IHEP
- Institute for High Energy Physics (Beijing, PRC)
- IISS
- International Institute for Strategic Studies.
- IKE
- Interactive Klystron Evaluation.
- ILC
- InterLaboratory Collaboration (for R&D towards TeV-scale
Electron-Positron Linear Colliders)
- ILC
- International Linear Collider.
- ILC-TRC
- International Linear Collider - Technical Review Committee.
- ILCSC
- International Linear Collider Steering Committee (ICFA).
- ILCSG
- International Linear Collider Steering Group.
- ILCTA
- International Linear Collider Test Accelerator (FermiLab).
- ILD
- International Large Detector concept (ILC).
- ILL
- Institut Laue Langevin. (France)
- IMAP
- Internet Message Access Protocol.
- IMB
- Irvine-Michigan-Brookhaven underground Cherenkov detector
experiment.
- IMB-3
- Irvine-Michigan-Brookhaven underground Cherenkov detector
experiment.
- IMCO
- Intergovernmental Maritime Consultative Organization.
- IMDG
- International Maritime Dangerous Goods Code. (49 CFR)
- IMF
- Intermediate Mass Fragment
- IMM
- Package providing other FSW systems with low-level memory
allocation routines.
Glast Category: FSW, package
- Immediately Dangerous to Life and Health level
- See IDLH.
- IMMO
- 1 min, 1 max, for operating conditions.
- IMO
- International Maritime Organization.
- IMP
- Institute for Modern Physics, of the Chinese Academy of
Sciences.
- Impoundment
- A body of water or sludge confined by a dam, dike,
floodgate, or other barrier.
- IMPT
- Intensity-Modulated Proton Treatment / Therapy.
- IMRT
- Intensity-Modulated Radiation Treatment.
- Incineration
- A treatment technology involving destruction of waste by
controlled burning at high temperatures, e.g., burning sludge to
remove the water and reduce the remaining residues to a safe,
non-burnable ash which can be disposed of safely on land, in some
waters, or in underground locations.
- Incineration
- Burning of certain types of solid, liquid, or gaseous
materials.
- Incinerator
- A furnace for burning wastes under controlled conditions.
- INDU
- magnetic INDUction.
- Indus-II
- Synchrotron light source at RRCAT. (India)
- Indus-1
- Electron storage ring, the first synchrotron radiation
source designed and developed in India.
- INEL
- Idaho National Engineering Laboratory (now Idaho National
Engineer ing and Environmental Laboratory (INEEL).
- Inert
- Exhibiting no chemical activity, totally unreactive.
- INFN
- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (The Italian National
Institute for Nuclear Physics, Frascati)
- INFN-CNAF
- Centro Nazionale per la Ricerca e Sviluppo nelle Tecnologie
Informatiche e Telematiche. (the INFN National Center for
Telematics and Informatics)
- InGrid
- An InteGrated micromegas.
- Initial Program Load
- See IPL.
- Inorganic Chemicals
- A large group of chemicals in which carbon atoms are
generally not included, includes oxides, acids, bases, and salts.
- INP
- Institute of Nuclear Problems, of the USSR Academy of
Sciences.
- INR
- Institute for Nuclear Research, of the russian academy of
sciences in moscow.
- INSPEC
- INformation Services for the Physics and Engineering
Communities.
- INTEGRAL
- INTERnational Gamma-Ray Astrophysics Laboratory (ESA).
- Integrated Services Digital Network
- See ISDN.
- Interaction Point
- See IP.
- Interim Status
- Allows owners and operators of TSDs that were in existence,
or for which construction had commenced, prior to November 19,
1980 to continue to operate without a permit after this date
pending final permit issuance. (from RCRA)
- Interior Gateway Protocol
- See IGP.
- International Organization for Standardization
- See ISO.
- Internet
- A decentralized, global network connecting millions of
computers worldwide. Each Internet computer, called a host, is
independent, and its operators can choose which Internet services
to use and which local services to make available to the global
Internet community.
- Internet Address
- A 32-bit address assigned to hosts using TCP/IP.
- Internet Number
- The dotted-quad address used to specify a certain system.
The Internet number for the site, cs.widener.edu, is:
147.31.254.130. A resolver is used to translate between hostnames
and Internet addresses.
- Interoperate
- The ability of multi-vendor computers to work together using
a common set of protocols.
- Interstitial Monitoring
- The continuous surveillance of the space between the walls
of an underground storage tank.
- Inventory
- TSCA inventory of chemicals produced pursuant to Section
8(b) of the Toxic Substances Control Act.
- Inverse barn
- A barn is a unit of area (10 to the minus 24 centimeters
squared) used to measure the chance that something will happen
when two par ticles collide. An inverse barn is the total number
of collisions in a given period of time. Also called integrated
luminosity.
- IN2P3
- Institut National de Physique Nucleaire et de Physique des
Particules (France).
- IOC
- Instrument Operation Center (GLAST).
- IOC
- |The are two IOCs for GLAST, the GBM Instrument Operations
Center (GIOC) and the LAT Instrument Science Operations Center
(ISOC). Also see LISOC.|
Glast Category: organization
- Ion Chamber
- See IC.
- Ion Gauge
- See Ionization Gauge.
- Ion Pump
- A type of vacuum pump in which ionized gas molecules are
attracted to a cathode by a high voltage where they remain
trapped.
- IONC
- See IC.
- Ionization
- Ionization is the process of removing electrons from neutral
atoms and thereby producing ions. Because radiation causes
ionization, this effect is often used to detect stray beams in
particle accelerators and particle detectors.
- Ionization Chamber
- See IC.
- Ionization Gauge
- A high-accuracy vacuum gauge consisting of a vacuum tube
whose emission current is proportional to the density of residual
ions in the volume in which the tube is immersed.
- Ionizing Radiation
- Radiation of sufficiently high energy to cause ionization of
the medium through which it passes. Ionizing radiation can cause
extensive damage to biological tissues.
- IP
- Interaction Point. The point where two beams collide.
- IP
- Internet Protocol. The network layer protocol for the
Internet protocol suite.
- IP
- Inflation Probe.
- IP Datagram
- The basic unit of information passed across the Internet. An
IP datagram is to the Internet as a hardware packet is to a
physical network. It contains a source and destination address
along with data. Large messages are broken down into a sequence
of IP datagrams.
- IPL
- Initial Program Load. A klystron CUD message indicating that
the klystron PIOP needs to be IPLed.
- IPL
- Initial Program Load. On VAX system, it is used to re-boot
or initialize a COW or other micro.
- IPLB
- Inverse Power Law.
- IPM
- Integrated Performance Management. (DOE)
- IPN
- Institut für die Pädagogik de Naturwissenschaften.
(the Leibniz Institute for Science Education at the University of
Kiel)
- IPNS
- Intense Pulse Neutron Source (Argonne)
- IPPP
- Institute for Particle Physics Phenomenology.(Durham)
- IPRV
- The last recorded current that was within tolerance.
- IPWA
- energy-Independent Partial-Wave Analysis
- IQHE
- Integer Quantum Hall Effect
- IR
- Interaction Region.
- IR
- InfraRed
- IRAS
- InfraRed Astronomical Satellite
- IRC
- Infrastructure Review Committee. (SLAC)
- IREN
- Intense Resonance Neutron Source.
- IRENG
- Interaction Region ENGineering design workshop (ILC).
- IRF
- IRFs describe LAT performance in terms of transformation
probability from a true physical quantity (i.e., energy and
direction of photons) to the corresponding measured quantity. It
is important to note that the IRFs depend not only on the
instrument itself, but also on the reconstruction algorithms, the
background rejection algorithm, and on the selection of events.
Glast Category: hardware
- IRFs
- Instrument Response Functions. (GLAST)
- IRG
- Institutional Reading Group (BaBar).
- Iris
- The holes on both sides of an accelerator section or RF
cavity.
- Iris
- An aperture in an optical system. Profile monitor cameras
have adjustable irises to regulate the light intensity.
- iRODS
- integrated rule based data management system for the data
grid.
- IRP
- Integrated Resource Plan (WAPA).
- IRTF
- Internet Research Task Force. One of the task forces of the
IAB. The group responsible for research and development of
Internet protocol suite.
- ISA
- Industry Standard Architecture.
- ISAC
- Isotope Separator and ACcelerator
- ISD
- Interim Status Document.
- ISDC
- Instrument Science Operations Center. (GLAST)
- ISDN
- Integrated Services Digital Network. An international
communication standard for sending voice, video, and data over
telephone lines.
- ISEMS
- Integrated Safety and Environmental Management System.
- ISF
- Israel Science Foundation.
- ISG
- International Study Group (NLC)
- ISGW
- Isgur-Scora-Grinstein-Wise
- ISI
- Initial State Intercation
- ISIS
- LAT interface simulator used by General Dynamics to test
LAT/Spacecraft interface.
Glast Category: hardware
- ISIS
- Spallation neutron source at the Rutherford Appleton
Laboratory (UK).
- ISM
- Inter-Stellar Matter.
- ISM
- Integrated Safety Management (the concept of the process).
- ISMS
- Integrated Safety Management System (DOE program).
- ISO
- International Organization for Standardization. Coordinator
of the main networking standards that are put into use today.
- ISO Layer
- One of the seven layers of the International Standards
Organization (ISO) Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) reference
model.
- ISOC
- Instrument Science Operations Center.(GLAST)
- ISOC
- Organization responsible for defining how the LAT is
operated, monitoring its health and safety, and maximizing its
science performance.
Glast Category: organization
URL: http://glast-isoc.slac.stanford.edu/
- ISODARCO
- International School On Disarmament And Research on
COnflicts (Italian Pugwash Group).
- ISOL
- Isotope Separator OnLine
- Isolated Digital Input Module
- See IDIM.
- Isolated Digital Output Module
- See IDOM.
- ISOLDE
- On-line radioactive beam source at CERN
- ISP
- Internet Service Provider.
- ISPA
- Imaging Silicon Pixel Array
- ISR
- see CERN ISR
- ISR
- Inital-State Radiation.
- ISSC
- International SKA Steering Committee.
- ISSP
- Institute for Solid State Physics.
- ITAR
- International Traffic in Arms Regulations.
- ITCAP
- International Technical Assistance and Cooperation.
- ITEP
- Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics (Moscow)
- ITER
- International fusion experiment aimed at demonstrating the
scientific and technological feasibility of fusion energy.
Project partners are China, the Euorpean Union, India, Japan,
Russia, South Korea and the United States. (Formerly interpreted
as International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor.)
- ITF
- Injector Test Facility.
- ITOS
- A satellite control and monitoring system.
Glast Category: software
URL: http://itos.gsfc.nasa.gov/
- ITRP
- International Technology Recommendation Panel (ICFA).
- ITRY
- A magnet parameter indicating the maximum allowed number of
tries (or attempts) to trim.
- IUCF
- Indiana University Cyclotron Facility.
- IUPAP
- International Union of Pure and Applied Physics.
- IV
- Isolation Valve (for vacuum).
- IVA
- A database polynomial to convert ADC volts to magnet
current.
- IVBD
- A function which converts magnet current to B field units
when the magnet is on the way down, or being powered down
(derived from magnetic measurements data).
- IVBU
- A function which converts magnet current to B field units
when the magnet is being powered up, or the field is increasing
(derived from magnetic measurements data).
- IW-BMP
- Industrial Wastewater - Best Management Plan.
- IWP
- Israel-Wilson-Perjes
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or propose new terms for SLACspeak.
