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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- abbreviation giga-electron volt
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- initialism physics
giga -electron volt , 109eV . A unit used for measuring the energy ofsubatomic particles .
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At that time, the sizes of atomic nuclei were measured in Stanford by scattering electrons of energies up to 1 GeV from a 100 meter long linear accelerator.
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It takes a bit of “fine tuning” (basically uglifying the theory) to get the mass down to a few hundred GeV, which is where it needs to be for proper electroweak symmetry breaking.
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The lab's Melvyn Shochet told NEWSWEEK that the data aren't solid enough to claim the quarry, but they do rule out a top quark lighter than 108 of the units physicists use (called GeV).
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The Large Hadron Collider accelerates protons to an energy of 7000 GeV, which is pretty impressive.
Is That a Particle Accelerator in Your Pocket, Or Are You Just Happy to See Me? Sean 2006
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(A GeV is a billion electron volts; the energy in a single proton at rest, using E = mc2, is about 1 GeV.)
Is That a Particle Accelerator in Your Pocket, Or Are You Just Happy to See Me? Sean 2006
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(A GeV is a billion electron volts; the energy in a single proton at rest, using E = mc2, is about 1 GeV.)
LHC Factoids JoAnne 2006
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[…] The Large Hadron Collider accelerates protons to an energy of 7000 GeV, which is pretty impressive.
LHC Factoids JoAnne 2006
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This makes the most likely region for the Higgs mass to be between about 115 and 140 GeV, which is the range Tuesday's results should focus on, although in principle heavier Higgs boson masses are in contention too.
NYT > Home Page By DENNIS OVERBYE 2011
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This makes the most likely region for the Higgs mass to be between about 115 and 140 GeV, which is the range Tuesday's results should focus on, although in principle heavier Higgs boson masses are in contention too.
NYT > Home Page By DENNIS OVERBYE 2011
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This makes the most likely region for the Higgs mass to be between about 115 and 140 GeV, which is the range Tuesday's results should focus on, although in principle heavier Higgs boson masses are in contention too.
NYT > Home Page 2011
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