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K Kicker magnet.
K Wastes A federal waste category comprised of wastes from specific sources.
K3T K3 - Thurston
KAERI Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute.
KAM Kolmogorov-Arnold-Moser. A theorem stating that oscillatory motions in conservative dynamical systems persist through the addition of small perturbations to the system.
KAM2 KAMIOKANDE-II underground Cherenkov detector (Tokyo, Japan)
KAMI KAMIOKANDE underground Cherenkov detector (Tokyo, Japan)
KamiokaNDE Kamioka Nucleon Decay Experiment
KamLAND Kamioka Liquid-scintillator AntiNeutrino Detector, located in the Kamioka mine in Japan.
KARMEN Karsruch-Rutherford Medium Energy Neutrino Experiment
KASCADE KArlsruhe Shower Core and Array DEtector.
KAT Komitee für AstroTeilchenphysik. (Committee for Astroparticle Physics, in Germany)
KB Kirkpatrick Baez (mirror system).
k-Band Microwave frequency band extending from 11 GHz to 36 GHz.
Kbps Kilobits per second.
KDD Knowledge Discovery in Databases. (Data mining)
KDP Kemmer-Duffin-Petiau
KDPS Key Decision PointS
KdV Korteweg-de Vries
KEDR The Magnetic Spectrometer Experiment at VEPP-4M (Novosibirsk).
KEK Koo Energy Ken. The High Energy Accelerator Research Organization, Tsukuba, Japan. KEK consists of the Institute of Particle and Nuclear Studies and the Institute of Materials StructureScience.
KEK PF LINAC KEK electron linac (2.5 GeV) for Photon Factory and TRISTAN.
KEK PS KEK Proton Synchrotron (12 GeV/c Plab).
KEK TRISTAN KEK Tri Ring Intersecting STorage Accelerators at Nippon, an electron-positron storage ring (60 GeV Ecm).
KEKB KEK B-factory. See also B Factory.
Kerberos A network authentication system for use on physically insecure networks, based on the key distribution model presented by Needham and Schroeder. It allows entities communicating over networks to prove their identity to each other while preventing eavesdropping or replay attacks.
Kermit A communications protocol that can be used to transfer files or for terminal emulation.
KERN ECDS Surveying and alignment software.
Kernel The level of an operating system or networking system that contains the system-level commands or all of the functions hidden from the user. In a Unix system, the kernel is a program that contains the device drivers, the memory management routines, the scheduler, and system calls. This program is always running while the system is operating.
Keybank A chassis that holds eight PPS keys. Keybanks are located outside PPS gates and are used by operators to: A) monitor and control traffic at the gate, and B) preserve the area PPS status(status cannot be changed if the keybank is not complete).
KFTC Klystron Fast Time plot Condition.
KG KiloGram.
Kick Kicker magnet.
Kicker A pulsed bend magnet used to kick a beam from its normal path at a precisely predetermined time.
KICP Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics. (U of Chicago)
KIMS Korea Invisible Mass Search.
KIPAC Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology. (SLAC)
Kirk key A special type of key made by Brown Bavarian Kirk. Keys are used with keybanks for Personnel Protection System (PPS) purposes, or for Power Supply (PS) interlock.
KIT Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.
KK Kaluza-Klein Theory
KKW Keski-vakuri-Kraus-Wilczek.
Klixon A temperature sensor placed on a magnet to shut down the magnet's power supply when the temperature exceeds a given level. (Klixon is a brand name.)
KLN Kinoshita-Lee-Nauenberg
KLOE Experiment conducted at the Frascati National Laboratories (Italy) phi-meson factory DAFNE
KLT KLystron Temperature. A klystron summary display message indicating that the klystron temperature is out of tolerance.
KLV KLystron Vacuum. A klystron summary message indicating a fault with the internal klystron vacuum.
KLY See KMD.
KLY KLYstron.
Klystron An electron tube that amplifies microwaves by velocity modulation. A beam of electrons from a hot cathode is passed through a resonant cavity where it is modulated by high frequency radio waves. The electrons are bunched as they pass through a final cavity, where they induce RF with a higher gain. The RF from the klystrons is transmitted by rectangular waveguide to the DLWG of the LINAC.
klystron gallery The narrow building directly above SLAC's two mile linac. It houses the klystrons which power the linac.
Klystron Phase Requested See KPHR.
Klystron Reflected Energy See RE.
KM Kobayashi-Masakawa.
KM Knowledge Management.
KMB Klystron Magnetic Breaker. A klystron Summary Display message indicating a fault with the electromagnet circuit breaker that feeds power to the klystron focusing magnet power supply.
KMC Klystron Magnet Current.
KMC A klystron Summary Display indicating a fault with the klystron focusing magnet.
KMD Klystron and Microwave Department.
KMOD The normalized (to energy) field strength of a quadrupole. K stands for curvature and MOD for model. The KMOD is loaded from a model configuration or is calculated from BDES and the beam energy.
KMS Kubo-Martin-Schwinger
KMST K Minimum Spanning Tree.
KNN K Nearest Neighbor.
KNO Koba-Nielsen-Olesen
KOLR Kolar Gold Field underground detector (India)
Koo Energy Ken See KEK.
KOSEF Korean Science and Engineering Foundation.
KP Kadomtsev-Petviashvili
kPa kiloPascal. 1,000 Pascals.
KPHR Klystron PHase Requested. This is the value sent to the Fox Phase Shifter.
KPI Key Performance Indicator.
KPP Key Performance Parameters.
KPZ Knizhnik-Polyakov-Zamolodchikov
KRF Korean Research Fund.
KSC Kennedy Space Center.
KTIM A magnet parameter and database secondary indicating the last time a magnet was successfully standardized. See also Standardization.
KTL Klystron Test Lab. (SLAC)
KTLO Keep The Lights On.
kV kiloVolt.
KVI Kernfysisch Versneller Instituut, located in the Netherlands.
KZ Knizhnik-Zamolodchikov
KZB Knizhnik-Zamolodchikov-Bernard
