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electronvolt
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noun
- a unit of energy equal to the work done on an electron accelerated through a potential difference of 1 volt. 1 electronvolt is equivalent to 1.602 × 10 –19joule eV
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They are relatively heavy — somewhere between 1 gigaÂelectronvolt, or roughly the mass of one proton, and 1 teraelectronvolt — and thus would be relatively slow, or ‘cold’.
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The main 6-gigaÂelectronvolt electron beam at Jefferson Lab has the right energy to probe the most likely mass range for a heavy photon.
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