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January 5, 2009
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Neutrino Acronym and Abbreviation Dictionary

  • AMANDA - Antarctic Muon And Neutrino Detector Array
  • ANTARES - Astronomy with a Neutrino Telescope and Abyss environmental RESearch
  • BAND - Combined acronym for Baikal, Amanda, Nestor, Dumand, the present neutrino telescope collaborations
  • BOONE - BOOster Neutrino Experiment (Fermilab)
  • CERN - Conseil Europeen pour la Recherche Nucleaire; now called the European Laboratory for Particle Physics.
  • CHORUS - Cern Hybrid Oscillation Research apparatUS
  • COSMOS - COsmologically Significant Mass Oscillation Search (Fermilab E-803)
  • CUORE - Cryogenic Underground Observatory for Rare Events (TeO2 proposal at LNGS)
  • DONUT - Direct Observation of the NU Tau, (Fermilab E-872)
  • DUMAND - Deep Underwater Muon And Neutrino Detector
  • EXO - Enriched Xenon beta-beta decay Observatory
  • GALLEX - GALLium EXperiment (Gran Sasso)
  • GENIUS - GErmanium liquid NItrogen Underground Study
  • HELLAZ - HElium at Liquid AZzote temperature
  • ICARUS - Imaging Cosmic and Rare Underground Signals (Gran Sasso)
  • IGEX - International Germanium EXperiment (Spain)
  • IMB - Irvine, Michigan, Brookhaven (water Cerenkov experiment)
  • KamLAND - Kamioka Liquid scintillator Anti-Neutrino Detector
  • LENS - Low Energy Neutrino Spectroscopy (Solar nu experiment under study)
  • LVD - Large Volume Detector (at Gran Sasso)
  • K2K - Kek to (2) superKamiokande (also KEK E362)
  • KamiokaNDE - Kamioka Nucleon Decay Experiment
  • KARMEN - the KArlsruhe Rutherford interMediate Energy Neutrino experiment (Rutherford ISIS laboratory)
  • LSND - Liquid Scintillator Neutrino Detector (Los Alamos)
  • MACRO - Monopole, Astrophysics and Cosmic Ray Observatory (Gran Sasso)
  • MINOS - Main Injector Neutrino Oscillation Search (Fermilab E-875)
  • MUNU - MUNU is a transcription of greek letters `mu' and `nu', where `mu' stands for magnetic moment, and 'nu` for the neutrino.
  • NAUSICAA - a Neutrino ApparatUS with Improved CApAbilities for a short baseline neutrino oscillation search. (CERN) See CERN-PPE/95-177
  • NESS - Neutrinos at the European Spallation Source (ESS)
  • NGS - Neutrinos to Gran Sasso. (The CERN Neutrino beam to Gran Sasso)
  • NOE - Neutrino Oscillation Experiment (Gran Sasso)
  • NOMAD - Neutrino Oscillation MAgnetic Detector (CERN)
  • NuMI - Neutrinos at the Main Injector (Fermilab)
  • NuTeV - Neutrinos at the Tevatron (Fermilab E-815)
  • OMNIS - Observatory for Multiflavor NeutrInos from Supernovae (site not determined)
  • OPERA - Oscillation Project with Emulsion-tRacking Apparatus (CERN/Gran Sasso)
  • ORLaND - Oak Ridge Laboratory for Neutrino Detectors (Oak Ridge Neutron Source)
  • RAND - Radio Array Neutrino Detector (planning)
  • RICE - Radio Ice Cerenkov Experiment (planning)
  • SAGE - (Soviet) russian American Gallium Experiment (Baksan)
  • SNO - Sudbury Neutrino Observatory
  • SPY - Secondary Particle Yield (CERN)
  • THESEUS - THE Second Experiment Underground at Soudan (Soudan 2 as part of MINOS)

 


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