- In physics, an
electronvolt (symbol eV), also
written electron-volt and
electron volt, is the
measure of an
amount of
kinetic energy gained by a single...
- from
electron beams from
particle accelerators,
reaching tens of
megaelectronvolts, can be
deeply penetrating. Conversely, megavolt-scale
beams can deposit...
-
energy range from a few
kiloelectronvolts (keV) to
approximately 8
megaelectronvolts (MeV),
corresponding to the
typical energy levels in
nuclei with reasonably...
- thermosphere. The ion and
electron energies can be as high as 4 and 1.2
megaelectronvolts, respectively. The
density of low-energy (below 1 kiloelectronvolt)...
-
expressed in
units of
kiloelectronvolts per
micrometre (keV/μm) or
megaelectronvolts per
centimetre (MeV/cm).
While medical physicists and radiobiologists...
-
kiloelectronvolts (keV) or
megaelectronvolts (MeV), and the
energy of
therapeutic electrons is on the
order of
megaelectronvolts. The beam is made up of...
- by slow
neutrons (238 U
nuclei require a
minimum energy of
about 1
megaelectronvolt (0.16 pJ)) and
because these slower neutrons are
produced by other...
-
particles from
alpha decay (so-called "long
range alphas" at ~16
megaelectronvolts (MeV)), plus helium-6 nuclei, and
tritons (the
nuclei of tritium)...
- used with
other specialised units used in
particular fields (e.g.,
megaelectronvolt, gigap****c, millibarn, kilodalton). In astronomy, geology, and palaeontology...
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extreme energies; the
energy distribution of
cosmic rays
peaks at 300
megaelectronvolts [MeV] (4.8×10−11 J).
After the
discovery of
radioactivity by Henri...
