Abstract

We have observed the Balmer series of antiprotonic hydrogen atoms formed in gaseous hydrogen at 4 atm. The yield of L X-rays was determined to be (6 ± 3)% per stopped antiproton. The 2P state is dominantly depopulated via pp annihilation and not by radiative transitions to the 1S state.

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