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Recent simulations of the annihilation of antiprotons on the periphery of nuclei at the end of their cascade within antiprotonic atoms have highlighted the possibility of trapping (and cooling) the resulting fully stripped (highly charged) nuclear remnants. In addition to being a novel pathway for forming and trapping (even short-lived) radio-isotopes, these open the door to employing them as the starting point for a charge exchange process with Rydberg positronium or Rydberg atoms, and thus forming long-lived Rydberg states of single-electron highly charged ions (HCI's). Both transitions between Rydberg states and between the HFS sub-levels of the ground state that these ionic systems reach at the end of their cascade has the potential to test QED and search for BSM physics in a novel manner.
