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It's hard to tell without referring to external sources. It could be either GeV or TeV.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billion

BeV would never mean TeV outside of the UK.

The long scale where "billion" means 1e12 is not that rare: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales#Long_sca...

But hasn't been used in the UK for at least a generation.

Confusing, yes. In this case, it's GeV.

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