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Re: Exotic Atom

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The header of the wikipedia article mentions that because the resulting particles are usually unstable, the exotic atoms typically have short lifetimes. If someone has the time to point to the research, the article would be massively improved by mentioning the typical lifetimes of each of the listed exotic atoms. A "short lifetime" could be nanoseconds or could be years when you compare it to the traditional lifetime…

The half-life of those exotic atoms are almost the same as the particles themselves, if not the exact same, so about 2.2us for the muonic atom.

Re: Exotic Atom

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think protons would like to have a word with you.

Proton decay has never been observed, afaik. Edit: that's still the case. Since protons can not decay in the standard model, actually observing it would be huge.

Free protons (protons outside of an atom) have never been observed to decay. Protons inside a nucleus can of course decay, see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positron_emission
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