Bates: Not an acronym. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology Bates Linear Accelerator Center.

BINP: Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics in Novosibirsk, Russia.

BNL: The Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, Long Island.

CERN: Originally "Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire," now the European Laboratory for Particle Physics, in Geneva, Switzerland.

DESY: Deutches Elektronen SYnchrotron laboratory in Hamburg, Germany.

ESRF: The European Synchrotron Radiation Facility in Grenoble, France.

FNAL: The Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Illinois.

FZK: Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, a nonprofit basic science research center in Karlsruhe, Germany.

GSI: Gesellschaft für Schwerionen-forschung, a heavy-ion research center in Darmstadt, Germany.

HASYLAB: HAmburger SYnchrotronstrahlungsLABor, part of DESY.

IHEP: Institute of High Energy Physics in Beijing, China.

JINR: The Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna, Russia.

JLAB:The Department of Energy’s Thomas Jefferson Newport National Accelerator Facility, or Jefferson Lab, in Newport News, Va. Formerly CEBAF (Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility).

KEK: Koo Energy Ken. The High Energy Research Accelerator Organization in Tsukuba, Japan.

LAL:The Laboratoire de L’Accelerateur Lineaire at the University of Paris-Sud in Orsay, France.

LANL: The Department of Energy’s Los Alamos National Laboratory in Los Alamos, N.M.

LEPP: Laboratory for Elementary-Particle Physics at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. Formerly the Laboratory for Nuclear Studies (LNS).

LLNL: The Department of Energy’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, Calif.

LNF: Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, near Rome, Italy.

LNGS: Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, in L’Aquila, Italy. Usually referred to as “Gran Sasso.”

LNL: Laboratori Nazionali di Leganaro, in northern Italy.

LNS: Laboratori Nazionali del Sud, in southern Italy.

NUSEL: The National Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory. Proposed Sites are Soudan, MN, Homestake, SD, San Jacinto, CA, and Icicle Creek, WA.

ORNL: The Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Oak Ridge, Tenn.

PSI: Paul Scherrer Institut, a research facility in northern Switzerland.

SLAC: The Department of Energy's Stanford Linear Accelerator Center in Palo Alto, California.

SSRL: SLAC Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory.

TRIUMF: TRI-University Meson Facility. (Although now there are eight universities involved, TRIUMF started with three.) Located at the University of British Columbia in Canada.

WIPP: The Department of Energy’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, a nuclear waste center in New Mexico also being used as an underground laboratory.