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Phys. Rev. 103, 751–752 (1956)

Electromagnetic Annihilation of Antiprotons

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Laurie M. Brown and Murray Peshkin
Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois

Received 27 December 1955; revised 1 May 1956; published in the issue dated August 1956

The familiar model of a nucleon as a Dirac particle with Pauli anomalous magnetic moment is used to obtain cross sections for antiproton annihilation into two photons, two electrons, or two muons. The two-photon lifetime of the n1S0 state of the proton-antiproton atom is 2×10-15n3 sec.

© 1956 The American Physical Society

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