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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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During its first 15 years, Fermi-LAT detected GeV emission from more than 20 novae, showing that these eruptions can produce gamma rays in our galaxy and pointing to their promise as multi-messenger sources.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 31, 2025

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

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

When physicists look for new heavy particles, they assume a fleeting lifetime—the hefty 125 GeV Higgs boson lives for less than a billionth of a trillionth of a second.

From Scientific American ● Apr. 27, 2022

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

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