gigaelectron volt

noun

One thousand million electron volts, abbreviated as GeV

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Meanings

noungigaelectron volt (plural gigaelectron volts)

plural gigaelectron volts

  1. One thousand million electron volts, abbreviated as GeV
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    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 at the "five-sigma" point - about a one-in-3.5 million chance that the signal they see would appear if there were no Higgs particle.

    2012 July 4, Paul Rincon, “Higgs boson-like particle discovery claimed at LHC”, in bbc.co.uk

Origin

From giga- + electronvolt.

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Translations

Italian gigaelettronvolt
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