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Technical Terms

Please use the following standard technical terms.

Accelerators and Experimental Devices

  • RIBF
  • RIKEN Ring Cyclotron
  • RILAC
  • RRC
  • fRC
  • IRC
  • SRC
  • RILAC
  • RILAC2
  • SRILAC
  • SAMURAI
  • NEBULA
  • BDC
  • FDC1/FDC2
  • ICB/ICF
  • DALI/DALI2
  • CRYPTA
  • ESPRI
  • STQ25 (no space before the numbers)
  • ZD spectrometer ("ZDS" is not the official name)
  • SCRIT
  • SR2
  • ERIS
  • RTM
  • Rare RI Ring
  • CRIB
  • SHARAQ
  • KISS
  • EURICA
  • OROCHI
  • GARIS
  • GARIS-II
  • GARIS-III
  • ALICE
  • RHIC
  • PHENIX

Unit

  • N ion (a noun phrase)
  • N-ion (adjectival usage of a noun) N-ion bombardment
  • alpha particle (a noun phrase)
  • ion beams (a noun phrase)
  • heavy ion (a noun phrase)
  • heavy-ion (adjectival usage of a noun) heavy-ion beam, heavy-ion reaction
  • γ ray / gamma ray (a noun phrase)
  • γ-ray / gamma-ray (adjective usage of a noun) gamma-ray spectrum
  • γ-γ coincidence / gamma-gamma coincidence
  • X ray (a noun phrase)
  • X-ray (adjectival usage of a noun)
  • K shell (a noun phrase)
  • K-shell (adjectival usage of a noun) K-shell absorption edge
  • Ecm
  • mb/sr
  • MeV/nucleon
  • particle µA (p µA: not to be used)
  • solution concentration M ( mol/L: not to be used)
  • liquid volumes μL, mL, L(μl, ml, l: not to be used)
  • radioactivity Bq, kBq, MBq, GBq, TBq (Ci: not to be used)

Abbreviation of the Names of Meetings

  • ... th Ann. Meet. Phys. Soc. Jpn.
  • 2004 Autumn (Spring) Meet. Phys. Soc. Jpn.
  • ... th Spring Meet. Jpn. Soc. Appl. Phys. (and Related Societies)
  • 2004 Autumn Meet. Jpn. Soc. Appl. Phys.
  • 2004 Ann. Meet. Atomic Energy Soc.
  • 2004 Fall Meet. Atomic Energy Soc.
  • ... th National Meet. Chem. Soc. Jpn.(Spring)
  • ... th National Meet. Chem. Soc. Jpn.(Fall)
  • ... th Symp. Radiochemistry
  • ... th Conf. Radiation Chemistry
  • ... th Ann. Meet. Jpn. Radiat. Res. Soc.
  • ... th Ann. Meet. Agric. Chem. Soc. Jpn.
  • ... th Ann. Meet. Jpn. Cancer Assoc.
  • ... th General Meet. Jpn. Biochem. Soc.
  • ... th Ann. Meet. Genetics Soc. Jpn.
  • ... RIKEN Symp. on...

Other

  • Fig. 1 (In such cases, you should start the sentence with"Figure 1 shows...")
  • Table 1
  • Eq. 1 (In such cases, you should start the sentence with "Equation 1..")