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GeV

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abbreviation

  1. Sometimes written (esp US and Canadian): BeV.  giga-electronvolts (10 9 electronvolts)

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Reheating to 100 GeV would also affect the universe's background of gravitational waves, shifting its spectrum toward higher frequencies.

From Science Daily • Dec. 7, 2025

Had it been completed, the SSC’s ring would have spanned 87 km around and smashed protons at 40,000 GeV.

From Scientific American • Aug. 28, 2023

They only need to be accelerated to a mere 30 megaelectronvolts, a much easier feat than the 10 GeV needed in a standard XFEL.

From Science Magazine • Mar. 22, 2023

However, 250 GeV is high enough to produce large numbers of Higgs bosons, which, the association said, could yield indirect signs of new physics through measurements of their interactions with other known particles. 

From Nature • Nov. 8, 2017

The value of the grand unification energy is not very well known, but it would probably have to be at least a thousand million million GeV.

From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking