| abbreviation |
explanation |
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| ADAMO |
ALEPH Data MOdel |
| AMADEUS |
Interface to MC generators |
| ARIADNE |
MC using CDM for fragmentation |
| BAC |
BAcking Calorimeter |
| BCAL |
Barrel CALorimeter |
| BFKL |
Balitsky, Fadin, Kuraev, Lipatov - Re-summation model in logs of x |
| BMUI |
Barrel MUon detector Inside the iron yoke |
| BMUO |
Barrel MUon detector Outside the iron yoke |
| BMVD |
Barrel Micro Vertex Detector |
| BPC |
Beam Pipe Calorimeter |
| BPT |
Beam Pipe Tracker |
| C5 |
Beam monitor |
| CAL |
Uranium-scintillator sandwich calorimeter |
| CC |
Charged Current |
| CDAQ |
Central Data Acquisition |
| CDM |
Color Dipole Model |
| CFLT |
Calorimeter First Level Trigger |
| CFLTP |
Calorimeter First Level Trigger Processor |
| CTD |
Central Tracking Detector |
| CTEQ |
Coordinated Theoretical-Experimental project on QCD |
| Condensate |
Cluster of calorimeter cells |
| Corandcut |
Method to determine hadronic quantities. It uses cone islands, back-splash correction and energy corrections |
| CZAR |
Complete Zgana Analysis Routine, trigger simulation |
| DDL |
Data Definition Language |
| DGLAP |
Dokshitzer, Gribov, Lipatov, Altarelli, Parisi:QCD evolution equations |
| DIFF |
Diffraction and Vector Mesons group |
| DIS |
Deep Inelastic Scattering |
| DJANGO |
Monte Carlo generator that links HERACLES with LEPTO |
| DQM |
Data Quality Monitoring |
| DSP |
Digital Signal Processor |
| DST |
Data Summary Tape (triggerbits, reason why trigger selected event) |
| DVCS |
Deep Virtual Compton Scattering |
| EAZE |
Event Analysis for ZEUS |
| EFO |
Energy Flow Object |
| EM |
Electron finder |
| EMC |
Electro Magnetic Calorimeter |
| ENV |
Environmental Record, status information |
| EVB |
Event Builder |
| EVTake |
Routine to select all good physics events |
| EXO |
Exotics and Rare Phenomena group |
| FADC |
Flash Analogue-to-Digital Converter |
| FCAL |
Forward CALorimeter |
| FCLR |
Fast Clear |
| FCNC |
Flavour Changing Neutral Current |
| FDET |
Forward tracking DETector |
| FFN |
Fixed-Flavour Number scheme |
| FLT |
First Level Trigger |
| FMUI |
Forward MUon detector Inside the iron yoke |
| FMUO |
Forward MUon detector Outside the iron yoke |
| FMVD |
Forward Micro Vertex Detector |
| FNC |
Forward Neutron Calorimeter |
| FNT |
Forward Neutron Tracking |
| FPC |
Forward Plug Calorimeter |
| FRTD |
Forward and Rear Tracking Detector |
| FSR |
Final State Radiation |
| FUNNEL |
MC production facility (GRID) |
| GAF |
General ADAMO Format, mainly in Bologna scheme for Geant data structure |
| GEANT |
Detector description and simulation tool |
| GFLT |
Global First Level Trigger |
| GRV |
Gluck, Reya and Vogt - PDF fitters |
| GSLT |
Global Second Level Trigger |
| GTT |
Global Tracking Trigger |
| GVDM |
Generalized VDM |
| HECTOR |
Monte Carlo generator |
| HELIX128-v3.0 |
MVD readout chip |
| HERA |
Hadron Electron Ring Anlage |
| HERACLES |
Event generator for ep interactions at HERA including radiative processes |
| HERWIG |
Hadron Emission Reactions With Interfering Gluons, an MC generator |
| HES |
Hadron Electron Separator |
| HFL |
Heavy Flavour Physics group |
| HVQDIS |
HeaVy Quarks in DIS, Program that calculates in NLO the cross sections for heavy quarks production as a function of several observables |
| IP |
Interaction Point |
| ISR |
Initial State Radiation |
| Island |
Cluster of CAL cells. "Cell islands" are clusters of neighboring cells and "Cone islands" are clusters of cell islands |
| JETSET |
Monte Carlo generator |
| KT |
Intrinsic transverse momentum of partons |
| LEPTO |
The Lund Monte Carlo for deep inelastic lepton-nucleon scattering |
| LLA |
Leading Log Approximation |
| LPS |
Leading Proton Spectrometer |
| LUMI |
Small electromagnetic calorimeters at z = -34 m and z = -107 m measuring bremsstrahlung events to determine the luminosity |
| LUND-model |
Phenomenological model to describe the fragmentation of the interaction |
| MDST |
Mini DST, only reconstructed event information |
| MEPS |
Matrix Element Parton Shower |
| MOZART |
Monte Carlo for ZEUS Analysis, Reconstruction and Trigger |
| MRS |
Martin, Roberts, Stirling, Parton density fitters |
| MSSM |
Minimal Super Symmetric Model |
| MSbar |
Modified Minimal Subtraction renormalization scheme, Factorization scheme in contrary to DIS |
| MVD |
Micro Vertex Detector |
| NC |
Neutral Current |
| NLO |
Next to Leading Order |
| Ntuple |
Data storage format |
| ORANGE |
Overlying ROutine for Analysis Ntuple Generation |
| PDF |
Parton Density Functions |
| PGF |
Photon-Gluon Fusion |
| PHP |
PHoto Production |
| PMT |
Photo Multiplier |
| pQCD |
perturbative QCD |
| PRC |
Physics Research Committee |
| PRT |
Proton Remnant Tagger. Scintillator counter Installed round the beampipe at z = 5.1 m |
| PYTHIA |
Photoproduction event generator |
| Peterson-fragmentation |
Phenomenological model to describe the fragmentation of the interaction |
| Phantom |
Library of standard, stable utilities |
| QCD |
The theory describing the strong interactions between quark and gluons |
| QCD |
QCD/Hadronic Final States group |
| QED |
Quantum Electro Dynamics |
| RADFET |
Radiation-sensitive Field Effect Transistor |
| RCAL |
Rear CALorimeter |
| RCALCOR |
Correction routine for RCAL energy scale |
| RDST |
Raw DST, raw and reconstructed event information |
| RMUI |
Rear MUon detector Inside the iron yoke |
| RMUO |
Rear MUon detector Outside the iron yoke |
| ROOT |
An Object-Oriented Data Analysis Framework |
| RTD |
Rear Tracking Detector |
| SFEW |
Structure Functions and Electroweak Physics group |
| SINISTRA |
Neural network based electron finder |
| SLT |
Second Level Trigger |
| SRTD |
Small angle Rear Tracking Detector |
| STT |
Straw Tube Tracker |
| TLD |
Thermo Luminescent Dosimeter, belongs to the radiation protection system of the MVD |
| TLT |
Third Level Trigger |
| TP |
Transputer |
| TRD |
Transition Radiation Detector |
| UCAL |
Uranium-scintillator Calorimeter |
| UNO |
Uranium NOise |
| VCTRAK |
MVD  CTD Track reconstruction package |
| VDM |
Vector meson Dominance Model |
| VETO |
A scintillator hodoscope with an iron wall to reject beam-related background |
| WTDW |
What To Do When |
| ZENITH |
Successor of the ZARAH-farm. PC cluster for ZEUS analysis |
| ZEPHYR |
ZEUS PHYsics Reconstruction program |
| ZES |
Zeus Event Store |
| ZGANA |
Simulation of the ZEUS trigger system |
| ZM-VFN |
Zero Mass Variable-Flavour Number scheme |
| ZSMSM |
Zeus Scheme of Modern Software Management |
| ZUFO |
ZEUS Unidentified Flying Object, Cone island combined with a vertex track. Official name: EFO |