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Electronvolt
Jumat, 2026-03-06 08:33:27

In physics, an electronvolt (symbol eV), also written as electron-volt and electron volt, is a unit of measurement equivalent to the amount of kinetic...

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Metric prefix
Selasa, 2026-06-02 07:06:14

used with other specialised units used in particular fields (e.g., megaelectronvolt, gigaparsec, millibarn, kilodalton). In astronomy, geology, and palaeontology...

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Thermonuclear weapon
Minggu, 2026-05-17 05:46:05

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...

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Tamper (nuclear weapon)
Selasa, 2026-04-28 21:43:35

yield. Uranium-238 will fission when struck by a neutron with 1.6 megaelectronvolts (0.26 pJ), and about half the neutrons produced by the fission of...

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Uranus
Jumat, 2026-05-22 04:04:08

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)...

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Proton
Kamis, 2026-05-21 09:07:25

thunderstorms can produce protons with energies of up to several tens of megaelectronvolt. Free protons exist in plasmas in which temperatures are too high to...

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Pelletron
Minggu, 2026-03-08 03:25:17

producing voltages up to 500 kilovolts (kV) and beam energies up to 1 megaelectronvolt (MeV) of kinetic energy, to the largest system, which has reached a...

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MEV
Selasa, 2025-05-20 13:49:14

submultiples of the electron volt unit, (eV), referring to: 1 MeV, 1 megaelectronvolt = 1,000,000 eV, and 1 meV, 1 millielectronvolt = 0.001 eV. Measles...

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Scintillation counter
Senin, 2026-04-20 20:05:42

high number of lower-energy photons, where the number of photons per megaelectronvolt of input energy is fairly constant. By measuring the intensity of the...

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Gamma ray
Sabtu, 2026-05-23 23:44:58

decay are in the energy range from ten kiloelectronvolts (keV) to 10 megaelectronvolts (MeV), corresponding to the typical energy levels in nuclei with reasonably...

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Radiation burn
Senin, 2026-03-23 09:18:11

from electron beams from particle accelerators, reaching tens of megaelectronvolts, can be deeply penetrating. Conversely, megavolt-scale beams can deposit...

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Alpha particle
Jumat, 2026-05-01 20:45:31

nuclei, but most alpha particles have energies of between 3 and 7 MeV (megaelectronvolt), corresponding to extremely long and extremely short half-lives of...

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Nuclear fission
Senin, 2026-05-25 09:33:29

particles from alpha decay (so-called "long range alphas" at ~16 megaelectronvolts (MeV)), plus helium-6 nuclei, and tritons (the nuclei of tritium)...

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Cosmic ray
Selasa, 2026-06-02 20:24:13

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...

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Discovery of nuclear fission
Minggu, 2026-04-05 00:31:10

the energy released by each disintegration was approximately 200 megaelectronvolts, and Frisch observed this. By analogy with the division of biological...

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Magnetosphere of Saturn
Minggu, 2026-01-11 13:06:53

radiation belts, which house particles with energy as high as tens of megaelectronvolts. The energetic particles have significant influence on the surfaces...

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B28 nuclear bomb
Sabtu, 2026-05-16 10:04:07

were accelerated into the deuterium target which fused, releasing 14 megaelectronvolts (2.2 pJ) neutrons. The Mk-28EX Mod 0 (external) and Mk-28IN Mod 0...

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Synchrotron light source
Kamis, 2026-05-21 15:45:17

of light at a desired energy/wavelength (sub-electronvolt up to the megaelectronvolt range) Pulsed light emission (pulse durations at or below one nanosecond...

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Australian National University
Jumat, 2026-06-05 09:07:16

the construction of a 500 megajoule homopolar generator and a 7.7 megaelectronvolts cyclotron in the 1950s. These devices were to be used as part of a...

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Bismuth germanate
Sabtu, 2026-04-11 23:35:52

and 650 nm, with peak at 480 nm it produces about 8500 photons per megaelectronvolt of the high energy radiation absorbed. It has good radiation hardness...

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Orders of magnitude (energy)
Jumat, 2026-06-05 05:31:47

2×10−14 J Rest mass–energy of an electron (0.511 MeV) 10−13 1.6×10−13 J 1 megaelectronvolt (MeV) 2.3×10−13 J Energy released by a single event of two protons...

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Linear energy transfer
Kamis, 2024-05-16 02:50:42

expressed in units of kiloelectronvolts per micrometre (keV/μm) or megaelectronvolts per centimetre (MeV/cm). While medical physicists and radiobiologists...

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Coulomb excitation
Kamis, 2026-05-28 13:36:30

low-energy Coulomb excitation (taking place at beam energies of a few megaelectronvolts per nucleon) the commonly adopted empirical criterion is that if the...

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Mass excess
Selasa, 2026-04-21 22:11:14

practical point with the theoretical relation E = mc2 makes the unit megaelectronvolt over the speed of light squared (MeV/c2) a convenient form in which...

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Radiation treatment planning
Minggu, 2025-10-05 04:30:31

(which may include photons, electrons and protons), energy (e.g. 6, 18 megaelectronvolt (MeV) photons) and physical arrangements. In brachytherapy planning...

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External beam radiotherapy
Selasa, 2026-05-19 11:34:24

kiloelectronvolts (keV) or megaelectronvolts (MeV), and the energy of therapeutic electrons is on the order of megaelectronvolts. The beam is made up of...

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ATLAS experiment
Senin, 2026-03-30 18:49:18

with a radius of just a few centimetres and a particle energy of 1 megaelectronvolt (MeV). Since then, accelerators have grown enormously in the quest...

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Neutron spectroscopy
Jumat, 2025-05-23 19:24:18

low as a few hundredths of an electronvolt to as high as tens of megaelectronvolts. Much current research focuses on expanding these capabilities to...

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Kamioka Liquid Scintillator Antineutrino Detector
Senin, 2026-03-09 16:20:11

antineutrinos from nuclear reactors that exceed the threshold energy of 1.8 megaelectronvolts (MeV) and thus produces a signal in the detector. If neutrinos have...

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Wale Oladipo
Selasa, 2026-04-14 06:15:08

J.P. Thomas; 1991; "Secondary Ion Emission from Cesium Salts under Megaelectronvolt Ion Bombardment: Comparative Study and Beam Secondary Effects";. B...

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MAUD Committee
Minggu, 2025-09-28 05:42:27

the energy released by each disintegration was approximately 200 megaelectronvolts [MeV] (32 pJ). By analogy with the division of biological cells, they...

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Magnetosphere of Jupiter
Kamis, 2026-04-30 01:08:13

ejects streams of high-energy electrons and ions (energy up to tens megaelectronvolts), which travel as far as Earth's orbit. These streams are highly collimated...

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MAX IV Laboratory
Jumat, 2026-04-24 21:08:44

called Ur-MAX, was constructed at KTH with an electron energy of 35 megaelectronvolts, MeV, and installed in 1953. It was used until 1962 when it was succeeded...

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List of acronyms: M
Kamis, 2025-11-06 02:27:34

U.S. Marine Expeditionary Unit Maximum Expected Utility MeV – (s) Megaelectronvolt MEV (i) Medical Evacuation Vehicle Musica Elettronica Viva MEX – (s)...

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Tests of relativistic energy and momentum
Senin, 2025-09-29 03:59:36

of protons have been conducted. Grove and Fox (1953) measured 385 megaelectronvolts (61.7 picojoules) protons moving at ~0.7 c. Determination of the angular...

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Lattice confinement fusion
Kamis, 2026-04-02 01:09:04

titanium deuteride or erbium deuteride. A gamma ray of about 2.2 megaelectronvolts (MeV) strikes a deuteron and splits it into proton and neutron. The...

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RaLa Experiment
Jumat, 2026-05-15 11:50:38

chosen because it emits gamma rays in the desired energy range (1.60 megaelectronvolts (MeV), with fraction of 0.49 MeV), and has very high specific activity...

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Colorado Inner Radiation Belt Experiment
Rabu, 2025-10-01 02:07:50

extremely high energy resolution, measuring electrons from 0.3 to 5.8 Megaelectronvolts (MeV) and protons from 6.8 to ≥40 MeV with a total of 120 energy channels...

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Susan McKenna-Lawlor
Minggu, 2026-05-31 04:50:07

capable of detecting energies between 30 kiloelectronvolts and several megaelectronvolts for the Soviet Union's Phobos spacecraft in 1988. The success of the...

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Ultrafast electron diffraction
Jumat, 2026-06-05 17:34:04

high energies, ranging from tens of kiloelectronvolts to several megaelectronvolts, using an electron gun. Generally, two methods are used in order to...

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Academic structure of the Australian National University
Senin, 2025-09-29 22:32:02

the construction of a 500 megajoule homopolar generator and a 7.7 megaelectronvolts cyclotron in the 1950s. The Marie Reay Teaching Centre is located...

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Colorado Student Space Weather Experiment
Rabu, 2025-07-16 01:44:20

fulfills the mission objectives by measuring electrons from 0.58 to >3.8 Megaelectronvolts (MeV) and protons from 8 to 40 MeV. Also on the CubeSat is an onboard...

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