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Synchrocyclotron

Capital "S" when referring to CERN's first particle accelerator. Otherwise, lower case. 

A synchrocyclotron is a type of cyclotron in which the frequency of the driving radiofrequency-electric-field is varied to compensate for relativistic effects as particle velocity approaches the speed of light. This is in contrast to the classical cyclotron, where this frequency is constant.

synchrotron

Not "synchro-cyclotron" or other such historical derivations.

A synchrotron is a cyclotron in which the magnetic field strength increases with the energy of the particles to keep their orbital radius constant.

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Each piece of content on the CERN website should be tagged with up to five relevant tags.

Tags should be

  • Relevant to the piece of content
  • Lower case, except for acronyms (many experiments are therefore uppercase) and surnames
  • Do not use Christian names, only surnames, capitalised

Correct

ASACUSA, antimatter, Smith, engineering, positron

Incorrect

asacusa, Antimatter, James Smith, engineers, positrons

Use the Taxonomy Manager module on the CERN website to sort out the tags.

telephone numbers

Telephone numbers should be written in the following format

+XX YY ZZ ZZZ ZZ

Where (+XX) is the country code, (YY) the area code, and (ZZ ZZZ ZZ) the rest of the numbers.

The area code for Geneva is 22 and all CERN telephones start with 76. So most CERN numbers will be in the format

+41 22 76 ZZZ ZZ

CERN internal phone numbers are all five-digit numbers, all reachable directly from CERN.

Examples:

terabyte

Lower case. Not "Terabyte" or, worse, "TeraByte"

A unit of information equal to one million million (1012) or, strictly, 240 bytes.

There are an estimated one million terabytes of online information, and this amount is growing with every new web page that is posted.

tesla

The SI-derived unit of magnetic flux density. Though it has a lower-case "t" when spelled out in full, its symbol is an upper-case "T". 

So: 

The tesla (T) is the SI-derived unit of magnetic flux density.

time

Use 2pm, 3.30am (closed up) in a web context

Use 2 p.m. and 3.30 a.m. in official documents

Note: noon is 12pm, midnight is 12am. It may be clearer to say "noon" or "midnight"

Note: To configure the correct date format on a Drupal site, go to admin/config/regional/date-time/formats/40/edit. 

The PHP code you need to add in the Format string box is "j M Y, g.ia"

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