Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- abbreviation tera-electron volt
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- initialism physics
teraelectronvolt , 1012eV
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That smashing protons together at ~14 TeV is going to infect PCs the world over with a virus?
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(A TeV is a trillion electron volts, an energy equivalent to about a thousand proton masses.)
Final Pieces of the CMS Puzzle John 2008
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In the absence of extreme fine-tuning, the stability of the standard model demands that there be new physics not far above the weak scale - usually referred to as the TeV scale.
Identifying Dark Matter Mark 2006
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A TeV is a terraelectronvolt, not a trillion electric volts.
PC Authority 2009
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Paul Leyderman, Chicago, USA I applaud your story on Large Hadron Collider reaching the energy of 7 trillion electron volts (now I actually know what "TeV" stands for!).
RO.RSS 2010
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It soon eclipsed the next largest accelerator — the Tevatron at Fermilab near Chicago — pushing its energy to 1.18 trillion electron volts, or TeV.
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It soon eclipsed the next largest accelerator — the Tevatron at Fermilab near Chicago — pushing its energy to 1.18 trillion electron volts, or TeV.
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Their colleagues from around the world were tuning in by remote links to witness the new record, which surpasses the 2.36 TeV CERN recorded last year.
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Their colleagues from around the world were tuning in by remote links to witness the new record, which surpasses the 2.36 TeV CERN recorded last year.
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It soon eclipsed the next largest accelerator — the Tevatron at Fermilab near Chicago — pushing its energy to 1.18 trillion electron volts, or TeV.
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