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To add weight to the above move request, it should be noted that the workshop for the field, which previously went by the nomenclature FFAG<year> is, since last year, FFA<year> ([http://www.rri.kyoto-u.ac.jp/beam_physics_lab/ffag18/ FFAG18 website]).--[[User:Davidkelliher|Davidkelliher]] ([[User talk:Davidkelliher|talk]]) 08:57, 16 April 2019 (UTC)
The change in acronym has been taken up by the recent ICFA Beam Dynamics newsletter, #76, [http://www.icfa-bd.org/Newsletter76.pdf]. On page 10, they state: "Finally, the change of acronym to FFA (referring to Fixed-Field alternating gradient Accel- erators). The original acronym brought to mind a perjorative term used against members of the LGBT+ community. We have acknowledged this and followed organisations at SLAC and CERN and possibly elsewhere, that have changed their acronyms. Our Japanese colleagues have led the way in the accelerator world by labelling last year’s workshop FFA’18. I have accordingly tried to use “FFA” only throughout this Newsletter; of course, there should be no attempt to re-write history, so references to published works containing the old acronym remain unaltered. We have found it quite easy to make the change and if we can avoid causing offence at little or no cost to ourselves, there is no reason why we should not do it." <!-- Template:Unsigned --><small class="autosigned">— Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[User:Boazhsan|Boazhsan]] ([[User talk:Boazhsan#top|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Boazhsan|contribs]]) 03:35, 18 April 2019 (UTC)</small> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->
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