All those weird combinations of letters that everyone keeps saying…

Please add any other acronym you know / come across!

• SBN Short Baseline Neutrino (multi-detector physics program)
• SBND Short Baseline Near Detector
• ICARUS Imaging Cosmics And Rare Underground Signals
• FNAL Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Fermilab
• BNB Booster Neutrino Beam (the Fermilab neutrino beam on which SBN operates)
• NuMI Neutrinos at the Main Injector (a higher energy Fermilab beam which will also provide some off-axis data)
• TPC Time Projection Chamber
• PDS Photon Detection System
• CRT Cosmic Ray Taggers
• CI Continuous Integration (the system for testing code as we develop it)
• CAF Common Analysis Framework (a type of analysis file and the structure in which we analyse them)
• AV Active Volume (the entire volume of liquid argon which we can image with the TPC)
• FV Fiducial Volume (a cut down area of the active volume which we determine to properly contain events)
• PR Pull Request (a request to merge code into the develop branch)
• POMS Production Operations Management System (the system used to automise large amounts of the workload in producing large samples of events)
• MC Monte Carlo (simulated events)
• SAM Sequential Access via Metadata (the database system utilised by Fermilab to access and query files via their metadata)
• DAQ Data Acquisition
• LAr Liquid Argon
• PMT Process Management Tool (tricky, isn’t it? this term is used in artdaq, and it’s not a joke)