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What happens if we shoot an antiproton at a heavy element atom?

Would we create an atom of the element below it in the periodic table or would the energy of the annihilation be enough to blow the nucleus into smaller bits?
gpt
There are a lot of possible outcomes, depending on the center-of-mass energy. It could annihilate with a proton, it could scatter off of the nucleus (elastically or inelastically), it could create new particles like mesons or other baryons, etc.