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MeV

MeV

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A unit of energy equal to one million electron volts used in physics
  • noun
  • Specialized
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  • The solid red curve shows the Bragg peak of a 200-MeV monoenergetic proton beam.
  • energy of 0.8 MeV
  • 100 MeV
  • 1 MeV

And the E + E minus pairs have of course long since frozen out because KT is a lot less than half of an Mev.

Examples

  • COMPTEL detects gamma rays with energies from 1 to 30 MeV, which have been difficult to measure with previous detector technology.

    Academic text (1990)
  • It's sensitive to X-rays and gamma rays with energies from 8 keV to 40 MeV.

    Academic text (2012)
  • And this gives you a binding energy in MEV for a given nucleus.

  • In this case, a 12 MeV dose was administered over a 4 x 4 cm area.

    Academic text (1995)
  • When its energy is 1876.544 MeV, we can get a proton/antiproton pair... never a single proton.

    Blog text (12)
  • Therefore, their masses have intrinsic widths of tens, or even hundreds, of MeV.

    Academic text (2003)
  • The lower neck was also irradiated during this time, utilizing an anterior split 6 MeV beam.

    Academic text (1995)
  • First of all, it only takes a 2.2-MeV to produce a spurious deuteron breakup.

    Academic text (2001)
  • The ion beam is accelerated in LBNL's 88-inch cyclotron to 4.5 MeV per nucleon.

    Academic text (1995)
  • A MeV photon can penetrate materials that are opaque to visible light.

Synonyms

megaelectron volt
vsMeV
  • Specialized
5.5

A unit of energy equal to one million electron volts

is the abbreviated form used for the same energy unit

Surface Forms

MeV singular
MeVs plural

Etymology

MeV comes from the prefix mega ('million') and eV, which stands for electron volt ('a small unit of energy'). So a MeV is one million electron volts and is used to measure the energy of tiny particles in physics experiments.