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gigaelectronvolt

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gigaelectronvolt [¦gig·ə·i′lek‚trän‚vōlt]
(physics)
A unit of energy, used primarily in high-energy physics, equal to 109electronvolts or approximately 11.602 × 10-10joule. Abbreviated GeV.


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The Tevatron results specify that the Higgs boson is very unlikely to have an energy between 160 and 170 gigaelectronvolts (GeV).
What's more, the signal peaked at 620 gigaelectronvolts and then rapidly declined to the background level.
The Earth-orbiting craft will detect gamma rays with energies up to 300 gigaelectronvolts (GeV), far beyond the 20 GeV energies that previous instruments in space have reached.
 
 
 
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