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| BeV |
a unit of energy equal to one billion electron-volts. [1/2 definitions] |
| bevatron |
a synchrotron used to accelerate protons and other particles to a level of several billion electron-volts. |
| eV |
abbreviation of "electron-volt," or "electron-volts," a unit of energy equal to the energy of one electron accelerated by one volt, or equal to 1.602 times 10-12 erg. |
| keV |
a unit of energy equal to one thousand electron-volts; kiloelectron volt. |
| MeV |
a unit of energy equal to one million electron-volts. |
| proton synchrotron |
a ring-shaped synchrotron that is used to accelerate protons and other heavy particles to energies of billions of electron-volts. |
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