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What would happen if a proton and an electron collide, has this been done before? I tried looking for an answer and all I've seen is what might happen.
For electron capture to occur, there needs to be a nucleus, what if it's a single proton and a single electron?
Would it form hydrogen? Or a neutron? Or form into a neutron and shortly after decays back into a proton and electron + anti-neutrino.
The nucleus of Hydrogen IS a proton. I'm guessing that electron capture can happen with it. I don't actually know if shooting an electron and proton at each other WOULD form a neutron, it simply inferred from other knowledge that is could, I could be wrong.
Attempting to smash a proton and electron together at high speeds wouldn't form Hydrogen for multiple reasons, one of which is that the velocities are too great to allow the proton to capture the electron in an orbital.
What would happen if a proton and an electron collide, has this been done before? I tried looking for an answer and all I've seen is what might happen.