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GeV

British  

abbreviation

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

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Using this approach, they tracked acceleration across collision energies ranging from 3.5 GeV to 2.76 TeV.

From Science Daily Aug. 3, 2026

This very high-energy component appears at the same phase intervals as the one observed in the GeV range.

From Science Daily Oct. 5, 2023

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

So, it will capture a bigger but messier harvest of neutrinos, with energies ranging from less than 1 giga-electron volt to more than 5 GeV.

From Science Magazine Sep. 28, 2022

Of course, the Planck energy is a very long way from the energies of around a hundred GeV, which are the most that we can produce in the laboratory at the present time.

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

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