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gigaelectron volts

gigaelectron volts is the plural of gigaelectron volt.

Meaning of gigaelectron volt

Noun

gigaelectron volt (plural gigaelectron volts)

  1. One thousand million electron volts, abbreviated as GeV
    • The CMS team claimed they had seen a "bump" in their data corresponding to a particle weighing in at 125.3 gigaelectronvolts (GeV) - about 133 times heavier than the protons that lie at the heart of every atom.
      They claimed that by combining two data sets, they had attained a confidence level just...2012 July 4, Paul Rincon, “Higgs boson-like particle discovery claimed at LHC”, in bbc.co.uk

Questions about gigaelectron volts

What is gigaelectron volts the plural of?
Gigaelectron volts is the plural of gigaelectron volt.

Words near gigaelectron volts in the dictionary

  1. gigadalton
  2. gigadaltons
  3. gigadeath
  4. gigadeaths
  5. gigaelectron volt
  6. gigaelectron volts
  7. gigaelectronvolt
  8. gigaelectronvolts
  9. gigafactories
  10. gigafactory
  11. gigafire

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