GeV
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A gigaelectronvolt (GeV) is one billion (
) electronvolt. The mass of the proton and neutron is of the order of 1 GeV.
Many energy-like quantities (masses, energies, momenta) of interest at the Large Hadron Collider are conveniently measured in GeV.
