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n. o. s.
Not otherwise specified. (from 49 CFR)
N&S
Necessary and Sufficient (ES&H).
NA
Nucleon area
NA Code
North American Code. (from 49 CFR)
NAA
NonAttainment Area (from CAA). An area whose ambient air levels exceed federal or state standards.
NAAQS
National Ambient Air Quality Standards. (from CAA)
NACA
National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics.
NACE
National Association of Corrosion Engineers.
NAE
National Academy of Engineering
NAG
Numerical Algorithms Group
NAIAC
Nonproliferation, Arms Control and International Security Advisory Committee.
NAL
National Accelerator Laboratory (FermiLab). See also FNAL
NALCD
North American Linear Collider Detector
NALTA
North American Large-scale Time-coincidence Array.
Named Pipes
A reliable form of interprocess communication in which a direct link is established by a server for a client.
nanoPE
nanoporous PolyEthylene.
NAP
Non-proliferation Advisory Panel.
NARA
National Archives and Records Administration.
Narrow Pulse Generator
See NPG.
NAS
National Academy of Sciences.
NASA
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NASA
See NASA's GLAST website.
  Glast Category: organization
  URL: http://glast.gsfc.nasa.gov/
NASA/GSFC
National Aeronautics and Space Administration/Goddard Space Flight Center.
National Environmental Policy Act
See NEPA.
NA31
CERN NA31 Spectrometer-Calorimeter.
NB
Negative Binomial
NBD
Negative binomial distribution
NBS
National Bureau of Standards (US).
NC
Neutral Current
NCA
North Collider Arc.
NCA
Network Computing Architecture.
NCG
NonCommutative Geometry
NCI
National Cancer Institute.
NCI
Nuclear Control Institute (non-proliferation research), Washington D.C.
NCI
Nuclear Cities Initiative
NCM
NEPA Compliance Manager.
NCOS
NonCommutative Open String theory.
NCP
National Contingency Plan.
NCQFT
Non-Commutatitive Quantum Field Theories.
NCRP
National Council on Radiation Protection.
NCRR
National Center for Research Resources (National Institutes of Health).
NCS
National Communications System.
NCSA
National Center for Supercomputing Applications. A federally-funded organization whose mission is to develop and research high-technology resources for the scientific community. (Illinois).
NCSC
National Computer Security Center.
NCXT
National Center for X-ray Tomography (ALS).
NCYM
NonCommutative Yang-Mills.
ND
NaI detector at VEPP-2M, Novosibirsk.
NDA
Non-Disclosure Agreement.
NDE
Non-Destructive Examination.
NDIM
Negative Dimensional Integration Method
NDMS
National Disaster Medical System.
NDR
North Damping Ring.
NDR
Naive Dimensional Regularization
NDT
Non-Destructive Testing
NE
Nuclear Experiment.
NEA
Near-Earth Asteroid.
NEAC
Nuclear Energy Advisory Committee (DOE)
NEC
National Electrical Code.
NECA
National Electrical Code Association.
NEG
Non-Evaporable Getter (pump).
NEH
Near Experimental Hall. (LCLS)
NEHA
National Environmental Health Association. See also CHWS.
NEIC
National Enforcement Investigations Center. A subdivision of EPA.
NEMA
National Electrical Manufacturers Association.
NEO
New Employee Orientation. (SLAC)
NEO
Near-Earth Objects.
NEPA
National Environmental Policy Act. The 1969 federal act which created the requirement for an Environmental Impact Statement for projects involving federal funding.
NERAC
Nuclear Energy Research Advisory Committee (DOE). See NEAC.
NERSC
National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center. (DOE)
NESHAP
National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants. (from CAA)
NEST
Nuclear Emergency Search Team.
NESTOR
Neutrino Extended Submarine Telescope with Oceanographic Research. (Greece).
NetBEUI
NetBIOS Enhanced User Interface. An interprocess communications standard developed by IBM. NetBEUI provides network interfaces used by a network operating system (which operates at the presentation layer) to access the session layer of the ISO model. As defined by IBM,
NetBIOS
Network Basic Input/Output Subsystem. An interprocess communications standard developed by IBM. NetBIOS provides network interfaces used by a network operating system (which operates at the presentation layer) to access the session layer of the ISO model.
NetBIOS Enhanced User Interface
See NetBEUI.
NETC
National Emergency Training Center.
NETL
www.netl.doe.govTechnology Laboratory. (DOE)
NETL
www.netl.doe.govTechnology Laboratory. (DOE) INL Idaho National Laboratory. (DOE)
NETL
National Energy Technology Laboratory. (DOE)
Netscape
Netscape Communications Corporation, founded in 1994. Products include the popular Navigator Web browser, web servers, and tools for building intranets.
Network
A group of machines connected together so they can transmit information to one another. There are two kinds of networks: local networks and remote networks.
Network Address
1) The physical or hardware address of a network interface card. For Ethernet this 48-bit address might be 0260.8C00.7666. The hardware address is used to forward packets within a physical network. 2) The logical or Internet address is used to facilitate moving data between physical networks. The 32-bit Internet address is made up of a network number, a subnetwork number, and a host number. Each host computer on the Internet has a unique address. All Internet addresses at SLAC have a network number of 134.79. All Internet hosts have a numeric address and an English- style name. For example, the Internet address for SLAC's IBM 3480 is 134.79.17.41. Its Internet name is SLAC.Stanford.EDU.
Network Basic Input/Output Subsystem
See NetBIOS.
Network Operating System
See NOS.
NEUL
NEULand large-angle neutrino spectrometer.
neutron star
Extremely dense star formed from the collapsed remnant of a massive star that has experienced a stellar explosion known as a supernova. Rotation speed is exceptionally fast, varying from one seven-hundredth of a sec ond to thirty seconds. Gravitational fields, as measured by escape velocity, typically approach about half the speed of light.
  Glast Category: astronomy
NEXAFS
Near Edge X-ray Absorption Fine Structure.
nEXO
next-generation Enriched Xenon Observatory.
NFC
Natural Flavor Conserving
NFF
North Final Focus.
NFPA
National Fire Protection Association.
NFPA
No Fixed Point Automorphisms
NFPA
National Fire Protection Association.
NFS
Network File System. Protocols developed by Sun Microsystems to allow access to remote files as if they were local. Originally written for Unix but expanded to include PC, MAC and other systems. See also: AFS
NFS
National Facilities Survey.
NGC
New General Catalog of nebulae and star clusters. (Dreyer, Memoirs of the RAS V49, N.1)
NGLS
Next Generation Light Source. (LBNL)
NGS
Neutrino beam to Gran Sasso
NGST
Next Generation Space Telescope
NGT
Nonsymmetric Gravitational Theory
NHZ
Nominal Hazard Zone.
NIC
The Network Information Center. There are many NICs operated by local, regional, and national networks all over the world. Such centers provide user assistance, document service, and training.
NICADD
Northern Illinois Center for Accelerator and Detector Development.
NICE
Serpukhov nonmagnetic precision spectrometer.
NICER
Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer. (NASA)
NIEHS
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences.
NIF
National Ignition Facility (LLNL).
NIGMS
NIH Institute for General Medical Sciences.
NIH
National Institutes of Health.
Nikhef
Nationaal Instituut voor Kernfysica en Hoge-Energiefysica (Amsterdam). As of 1998, renamed National Institute for Subatomic Physics (Nikhef is no longer an acronym)
NIM
Nuclear Instrumentation Module. A backplane module crate system similar to the CAMAC system. The NIM system does not include a computer interface.
NIM
Normal Incidence Monochromator
NIOSH
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health.
NIRCam
Near InfraRed Camera. (JWST)
NIRNS
National Institute for Research in Nuclear Science.
NIRSpec
Near InfraRed Spectrograph. (JWST)
NIS
Network Information Service (Sun). Major components include the ypserv and ypbind daemons started at boot time in the /etc/rc.local script,these daemons handle NIS database communications for both servers and clients.
NIS
Network Information System. A database containing the user names, machine names, and directory names that a Network File System uses to track all machines on a network. Formerly called 'Yellow Pages' (yp).
NIST
National Institute of Standards and Technology.
NISUS
Near-Infrared Scalable Undulator System.
NIT
North Injection Tunnel. The electron transport line going from the BSY to PEP. Also: North Injection Transport.
NJL
Nambu-Jona-Lasinio
NLA
Next-to-leading Logarithmic Approximation.
NLC
Next Linear Collider.
NLCTA
Next Linear Collider Test Accelerator. A prototype of a short section of the NLC that is being built at SLAC.
NLDC
National Laboratory Directors' Council.
NLL
Next-to-leading Logarithmic Level
NLLA
Next-to-Leading Logarithmic Approximation
NLO
Next-to-Leading Order
NLS
Nonlinear Schrodinger
NLSP
Next Lightest Supersymmetric Particle
NLTR
North Linac To Ring.
NMC
New Muon Collaboration
NMC
Next Muon Collider
NMC
Nickel Manganese Cobalt oxide.
NMI
Non-Maskable Interrupt.
NMI
NSF Middleware Initiative.
NML
New Muon Lab (Fermilab)
NMR
Nuclear magnetic resonance.
NMS
Network Management Station. The system responsible for managing a portion of a network. The NMS talks to network management agents, which reside in the managed nodes, via a network managment protocol.
NMSSM
Next to Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model
NN-20
DOE/NN Office of Research and Development
NNAC
Nonproliferation and National Security Advisory Committee (DOE)
NNI
Nearest Neighbor Interaction
NNLL
Next-to-Next-to-Leading Logarithmic.
NNLO
Next-to-Next-to-Leading Order.
NNMI
National Network for Manufacturing and Innovation.
NNSA
National Nuclear Security Admininstration. (DOE)
NNSAC
Non-proliferation and National Security Advisory Committee. Also k nown as NNSA.
NO
NonOscillatory
No Observed Effect Level
See NOEL.
NOA
Notice Of Award. (Stanford)
NOAA
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
NOAEL
No Observed Adverse Effect Level.
NOAO
National Optical Astronomical Observatory. (NSF)
Node
Any computer, terminal or peripheral on a network. It is also called a host.
NOEL
No Observed Effect Level. The highest dose in an animal toxicity study for which no effect was observed.
NOI
Notice Of Intent or Inquiry.
Nomad
A relational database in use at SLAC for numerous accounting and business applications. Nomad has the unique ability to transform a flat file into a searchable database without any restructuring of the file.
NOMAD
Neutrino Oscillation MAgnetic Detector (CERN)
Non-ionizing Electromagnetic Radiation
Radiation that does not change the structure of atoms but does heat tissue and may cause harmful biological effects. Sources include laser light, microwaves, radio waves, and low- frequency electromagnetic fields from high-voltage transmission lines.
Non-Production Web Pages
Pages and directories used to develop files which will eventually be launched into production. This is often your own ~username directory, but is may also be somewhere else in your personal space not linked to the SLAC home page. See also: Production Web Pages.
Nonattainment Area
See NAA.
NOPR
Notice of Public Ruling.
NORM
Naturally Occuring Radioactive Material.
North Injection Tunnel
See NIT.
NOS
Network Operating System. An operating system specifically designed to manage and control a network or networks and related services.
NOvA
NuMi Off-axis ve (electron neutrino) Appearance experiment.
November Revolution
In physics, November 1974, when two separate experiments at SLAC and at Brookhaven independently discovered the first of a new set of particle states, the J/Psi particle. (See http://www.slac.stanford.edu/history/revolution.shtml.)
NOVO VEPP 2M
NOVOsibirsk VEPP-2M electron-positron storage ring (1.4 GeV Ecm).
NOVO VEPP 4
NOVOsibirsk VEPP-4 electron-positron storage ring (14 GeV Ecm).
NP
Noteworthy Practice.
NP
New Physics.
NPAC
Nuclear Program Advisory Committee.
NPACI
National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure.
NPAS
Nuclear Physics At SLAC.
NPDES
National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System. (from CWA)
NPG
Narrow Pulse Generator. A test module used to simulate beam pulses for diagnostic purposes.
NPI
Nuclear Physics Injector. An electron gun in the LINAC, located at Sector 25, that delivers high current beams at low energy, which is not possible using the entire linac. It is also used to generate electrons for low-energy running when the front end of the LINAC is down for maintenance or for some other reason.
NPL
National Priorities List. (from CERCLA)
NPO
Non-Purchase Order.
NPRCS
No-Permit-Required Confined Space.
NPS
See NPAS.
NPSS
Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society (IEEE).
NRAO
National Radio Astronomy Laboratory.
NRB
North Reverse Bend. See also RB.
NRC
Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
NRC
National Response Center.
NRC
National Research Council, in Washington D.C.
NRDC
Natural Resources Defense Council.
NREL
National Renewable Energy Laboratory. (DOE)
NREN
National Research and Education Network.
NREX
North Ring Extraction. See also NREX loops.
NREX Loops
North Ring Extraction Feedback Loops (Circuits).
NRL
Naval Research Laboratory (US)
NRL
US Navy and Marine Corps corporate research laboratory. See NRL website.
  Glast Category: organization
  URL: http://www.nrl.navy.mil/
NRO
National Reconnaissance Office.
NRQCD
NonRelativistic QCD
NRQED
NonRelativistic QED
NRT
National Response Team.
NRTL
North Ring to LINAC.
NRTL
Nationally Recognized Testing Laboratory.
NRY
North Research Yard.
ns
nanosecond
NS
Neveu-Schwarz
NSA
National Security Agency.
NSC
Nanoscience Safety Committee. (SLAC)
NSCL
National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory (Michigan State)
NSCY
A pair of numbers in the database. The first number represents the number of standardization cycles, and the second number represents the wait period before starting back down during a cycle in milliseconds (how long you wait at the top of the standardize).
NSF
National Sanitation Foundation.
NSF
National Science Foundation.
NSFNET
The national backbone network, funded by the National Science Foundation and operated by the Merit Corporation, used to interconnect regional networks such as WESTNET to one another.
NSLS
National Synchrotron Light Source (BNL).
NSNS
National Spallation Neutron Source (ORNL).
NSPS
New Source Performance Standards. (from CAA and CWA)
NSR
Neveu-Schwarz-Ramond
NSRC
National Synchrotron Research Centre. (Thailand)
NSRRC
National Synchrotron Radiation Research Center (Taiwan).
NSS
Neutron Spallation Source.
NSS
Nuclear Science Symposium.
NSVZ
Novikov-Shifman-Vainshtein-Zakharov.
NT
Windows NT is a 32-bit operating system that supports preemptive multitasking. There are two versions of Windows NT: a network server and a workstation.
NTF
No Trouble Found.
NTF
Neutron Therapy Facility
NTG
Neue Technologien GmbH. (German engineering company)
NTIA
National Telecommunications Information Administration.
NTIS
National Technical Information Service (U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Springfield, VA).
NTM
National Technical Means
nTOF
neutron Time-Of-Flight facility. (CERN)
NTP
National Toxicology Program. A part of USPHS.
NTP
Need To Proceed
NTS
Non-compliance Tracking System.
Nu
The Greek letter (n). See TUNE.
NUCHEP
Nippon-US Commission for HEP.
Nuclear Instrumentation Methods
See NIM.
Nuclear Physics Injector
See NPI.
NUFO
National Users Facilities Organization.
NuMI
NeUtrinos at the Main Injector. An experiment that fires neutrinos from the Main Injector at FermiLab toward an underground target 730 km (about 430 miles) away in Soudan, Minnesota.
NuPECC
Nuclear Physics European Collaboration Committee.
NuPNET
Nuclear Physics NETwork.
NuSAG
Neutrino Scientific Assessment Group.
NUST
National University of Sciences and Technology. (Pakistan)
NuSTAR
Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope ARray.
NUSX
Mont Blanc NUSEX underground detector.
NUT
Newman-Unti-Tamburino
NuTeV
NeUtrinos at the TEVatron experiment (FNAL).
NWPA
Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982.
NZE
Near Zero Emittance.

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