Entries - B
B (byte) |
Doesn't need spelling out for the CERN Courier Read more |
Courier |
B decay, B factory, B hadron, B physics |
Use in the CERN Courier Read more |
Courier |
back up (verb), back-up (adj. and noun) |
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bail-out (noun), bail out (verb) |
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balance of payments (noun), balance-of-payments (adj.) |
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balance sheet (noun), balance-sheet (adj.) |
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bandwidth |
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barn |
Symbol b. A unit of area. A barn is 10−28 m2 (100 fm2), about the cross-sectional area of a uranium nucleus. A barn expresses the cross-section of any scattering process, which relates to the probability of interaction between small particles. Sample size at CERN is often expressed in femtobarns and luminosity is expressed in inverse femtobarns. Read more |
physics, style |
bars |
mbar = millibar, BaBar = keep as it is!, Kbar = a bar above the ‘K’, bbbar = a bar above the 2nd ‘b’ Read more |
Courier |
baryon |
Adjective: baryonic A subatomic particle, such as a nucleon or hyperon, that has a mass equal to or greater than that of a proton. Read more |
physics |
BASE |
Baryon Antibaryon Symmetry Experiment Read more |
abbreviations, acronyms, translation |
baseline |
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beam line |
Two words, except in the title of CERN's competition for high-school students, Beamline for Schools (BL4S) – capital "B" and capital "S". Read more |
grammar, spelling |
beam pipe |
Two words. See beam line Read more |
style |
beam-spin asymmetry |
use hyphen Read more |
Courier |
behaviour |
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Belle |
An experiment conducted at the High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK) in Japan from 1999 to 2010. Read more |
Courier |
benchmark |
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biannual |
twice a year Read more |
translation |
biennial |
every second year Read more |
translation |
Big Bang |
initial capital letters Read more |
physics, style |
bilateral |
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billion |
Means a thousand million, 109 See trillion Read more |
physics, style |
bimonthly |
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bio |
The prefix bio takes no hyphen. So, bioethics biomedicine biomedical Read more |
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bits per second |
bit/s, kbit/s, Mbit/s, Gbit/s Read more |
Courier, translation |
black hole |
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BNL |
Brookhaven National Laboratory Spell out in first use then use acronym for the CERN Courier Read more |
abbreviations, acronyms, Courier |
boilerplate text |
See footnotes Read more |
style |
bona fide |
no italics Read more |
translation |
book-keeping (adj. and noun) |
use hyphen Read more |
translation |
boson |
A subatomic particle, such as a photon, which has zero or integral spin and follows a statistical description given by SN Bose and Einstein. Read more |
physics |
bottleneck |
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brackets ( ) [ ] |
Follow OD's advice on brackets, copied here below: There are two main types of brackets. Round bracketsRound brackets (also called parentheses) are mainly used to separate off information that isn’t essential to the meaning of the rest of the sentence. If you removed the bracketed material the sentence would still make perfectly good sense. For example: Mount Everest (8848 metres) is the highest mountain in the world. Read more |
grammar, punctuation |
brand new |
not "brand-new" Read more |
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break-up (noun), break up (verb) |
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breakdown (noun), break down (verb) |
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breakthrough (noun), break through (verb) |
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broadband |
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Brout-Englert-Higgs (BEH) mechanism |
Not "Higgs mechanism" or "Higgs-Brout-Englert" mechanism. See Higgs boson Read more |
abbreviations, acronyms, style |
budget, budgeted |
but capitalise CERN Budget Read more |
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build-up (noun), build up (verb) |
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bureau, bureaux (pl.) |
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busbar |
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by-product |
use hyphen Read more |
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bypass (noun and verb) |
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